Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 303 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 · ★ · right ✓
yo, so the dude's shadow just bailed on him at night, no cap?
- 1. yep, it ghosted him straight up — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yep, it ghosted him straight up while he was snoring — no support
- 3. nah, it stayed glued to his feet the whole night long — no support
- 4. yep, it bounced at midnight — 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
lowkey, why was the street so lit at night, fr?
- 1. cause everyone came out to chill — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. cause the shops were open late — no support
- 3. cause the city threw a huge party in the square — no support
- 4. cause the moon was super bright — 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, the house across the street was dead quiet, right?
- 1. nah, it was loud and the music was blasting through the walls all night — no support
- 2. yeah, but the flowers were still blooming — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. nah, the windows were full of noisy people — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. yeah, quiet as a tomb, and the flowers had all withered away — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 300, line 19: «Old word: a "manor-house" was a large country house where a lord lived with his land around it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
bro, what was the music like over there?
- 1. tiresome, like one song on repeat for the whole night long — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. boring, like a dull old song — no support
- 3. tiresome, like a whole band playing wrong notes forever and ever — no support
- 4. tiresome, like one song on repeat — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
so the shadow just went in the house like a snoop?
- 1. yep, through the half-open balcony door and up the stairs — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. yep, through the side gate nearby — no support
- 3. yep, through the half-open balcony door — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. yeah, out the back of the house — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 303, line 14: «The shadow's escape: he says "Be useful, and do me a service", and the shadow goes in through the half-open balcony door.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «open balcony door» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
ngl, did the man get sus about the maiden?
- 1. yeah, she was gone when he looked — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, he was really worried — no support
- 3. nah, he just felt curious — no support
- 4. yeah, but she came back and waved at him as he passed — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
the man said "Hem! hem!" to his shadow, did it work?
- 1. yeah, it nodded but stayed — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. nope, it was no use at all — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. yep, it worked fine and the shadow came straight back to him at once — score 6
- 4. nope, it was no use at all and the shadow only laughed — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 85, line 1: «Taffy finishes her picture, proud of it, and asks if the Stranger-man understands. He nods hard, but he is sure it means the great Chief is surrounded by enemi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «nod» (+4); the same doer «man» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
how long did he wait for a new shadow to show up?
- 1. eight days, then three weeks of waiting in the heat — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. five days, then three weeks — no support
- 3. eight days, then three weeks — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. seven days, then two weeks — 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 ✗
did the new shadow get bigger on the trip home?
- 1. nope, it just stayed right there — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. nah, it shrank — no support
- 3. nope, same size — no support
- 4. yep, it got super long and huge — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · right ✓
so the knock at the door, who was it?
- 1. a super skinny guy in fancy clothes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a super skinny guy in fancy clothes and fancy shoes too — no support
- 3. a super skinny guy in fancy clothes who said he was the man's shadow — no support
- 4. a round guy in plain clothes — 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 ✗
the dude said he was old shadow, was he joking?
- 1. nah, he was the shadow, now with a body and a fancy coat — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, he was just a guy messing around — no support
- 3. nah, he was the shadow, now with a body, and he was dead serious about it all — no support
- 4. nah, he was the shadow, now with a body — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · right ✓
what did the shadow say he has now, flesh and what?
- 1. clothes, and so much body — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. clothes, and so much body and a fancy silver cane — no support
- 3. clothes, and so much body, plus a hat and a long coat — no support
- 4. food and a little money — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which region did the learned man originally inhabit before visiting the hot lands?
- 1. The frozen north — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The snowy plains — no support
- 3. The cold lands — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The south — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What did the shadow do upon entering the opposite house?
- 1. It went in quietly — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. It crept up the stairs quietly — no support
- 3. It slipped through the gate — score 0
- 4. It passed through the half-open balcony door — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 301, line 2: «A poor old man wrapped in a horse-cloth comes in, and he is Death himself.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «come in» (+1). Against it: the same doer «poor old man» (-2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
How many days elapsed before the new shadow emerged?
- 1. Two days — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. A week — no support
- 3. Nine days — score 1
- 4. Eight days — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 178, line 17: «The boy's father hides him so that he can "fetch me out when the forty days have passed," meaning a set period of waiting.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
What was the appearance of the visitor who knocked at the door?
- 1. Extremely lean and finely attired — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Quite lean and roughly clothed — no support
- 3. Extremely lean and finely attired in black silk and gloves — no support
- 4. Extremely lean and finely attired, with a long pale face — 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
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