Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins

Tests: 0 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 300 of the books course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗

bro, what did the wife dig up in the dirt, like seriously?

1. the little lead toy from the old cellar — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. the pewter soldier — ✓ the right answer · score 8
3. the tin soldier with the broken rifle — score 2
4. the wooden doll — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 217, line 10: «What he sees: Amina and the ghoul dig up a corpse "buried that day" and sit on the edge of the grave to eat it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «dig up» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+3); the same doer «amina» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

so which thing did she wipe him with first, mate?

1. some soft moss — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a green leaf — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. his sleeve — no support
4. a wet cloth — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, who was super lonely back at the old house, innit?

1. the old man — ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. the blacksmith — no support
3. the gardener — no support
4. the old man who lived in the manor — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 298, line 4: «The story turns to an old house with a dragon spout, where a lonely old man lives across the street from a little boy.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+5); the same doer «lonely old man» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

ok but what did the hangings rhyme say, like proper?

1. Gold fades, leather stays. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The gilding decays, But hog's leather stays! — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Its gilt is gone, yet hog's leather still stays — no support
4. The gold is gone, but leather still stays here — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

bruv, did the soldier buy the rhyme or nah?

1. nah, he thought the rhyme was rubbish — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah he did — no support
3. nah, he didn't — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. he didn't buy it — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

fam, what do the snails eat, fr?

1. dock-leaves — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. dock-leaves and the sweet burdock stems — no support
3. whatever soft green leaves they find in the wet grass — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. rotten fruit — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 290, line 14: «Hungry suitors get "nothing whatever" to eat, and each thinks, "Let him look hungry".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «whatever» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

sorted, what's the biggest green leaf round here?

1. a plantain leaf — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a dock-leaf — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a sorrel leaf — no support
4. a huge burdock leaf by the old wall — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

lol, what did the old snails reckon the manor-house was for?

1. for cooking fine white snails — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. being boiled and laid on silver — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. being boiled, stewed and served on gold dishes at feasts — no support
4. being boiled and laid on silver with herbs — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

nah but what did the snails adopt, like a kid?

1. a plain brown worm — no support
2. an orphan little common snail from the lane — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. a little common snail — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. a small plain snail that nobody wanted — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 129, line 13: «Who: the wise Woman tells her to say "Little kid, milk Table, appear!" to get food.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1); the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, what did the ants say the queen had?

1. a hill with thousands of narrow tunnels — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a mound of many chambers — no support
3. a palace — no support
4. a palace with seven hundred passages — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

bro, who did Mother Snail send to find a wife?

1. the wood-lice — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. the flies — score 8
3. the white gnats — ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. the white gnats from the pond edge — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 161, line 7: «fact: What: the sultan's wife was found to have deceived him, so he ordered "the grand-vizir to put her to death".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+6); the same thing acted on «wife» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

mate, what was hitting the dock-leaves like a drum?

1. the cold drops of the summer storm — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the rain — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the sleet — no support
4. the heavy spring rain from the north — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

so the whole forest was planted for who, the posh snails?

1. the old snails — no support
2. the old grey garden toads — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. the two old white snails — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. two snails — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 1: «Just inside the garden, three gardeners shaped like playing cards are painting white roses red. They squabble and blame each other, and one of them, Two, expla…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which object did the young wife discover while digging in the garden soil?

1. the tin soldier of a long-dead boy — no support
2. the pewter soldier — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a small lead figure from the old well — no support
4. the wooden spoon — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 108, line 21: «Old word: "grubbing" means digging up roots from the ground; "turnips" are a round root vegetable.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «old word» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What did the hangings state concerning the durability of gilding and hog's leather?

1. The gold is gone but leather stays — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Its gilt is gone, yet the leather remains — no support
3. Gold fades, leather stays — no support
4. The gilding decays, but hog's leather stays — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

What opinion did Father Snail express regarding the quality of their present dwelling?

1. Ours is best — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nothing beats a dry hedge bank — no support
3. No place can be better than ours — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Our house is the finest of all — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner did the young husband describe the old man's circumstances to his wife?

1. as a man who had been very lonely for many years — score 2
2. as a man who had been very lonely — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. as a man who had been very poor — no support
4. as a man who had lost his wife — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 295, line 17: «The sailor went on "great voyages", and his wife wept, thinking he was "lying down in the deep waters".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «man» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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