Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush
Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 758 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 ✗
Oi, did Elsie actually fall asleep in the corn instead of cutting it?
- 1. Yeah, she nodded off, innit — no support
- 2. Yeah, mate, she was out cold — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, mate, she was totally out cold in the corn all afternoon — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Yeah, mate, she was out cold and snoring loud in the middle of it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 758, line 7: «WHAT: Elsie "cooked herself some good broth" and then "lay down among the corn and fell asleep" instead of working.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «elsie» (+3); the same place «corn» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, why did Hans bell her up like a cat?
- 1. To make her get up fast — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. To wake her up proper — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. To wake her up proper, because she would not move — score 2
- 4. To wake her up quick — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 757, line 15: «old word: "to stipulate" means to insist on a condition before agreeing, so Hans makes cleverness the price of his promise.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «hans» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the servant get paid proper wages for three years?
- 1. Yeah, paid a lot, pretty fair — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, just threepence after all that work, which is totally unfair to him — no support
- 3. Nah, just threepence, that's dead harsh — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, just threepence for three years, that's dead harsh and well mean — 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
The dwarf gave him three wishes, innit? What did he pick first?
- 1. A wish that brings gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A bow that hits everything — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A fiddle — no support
- 4. A bow — 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 ✗
Was the miser well jel of the bird or just proper chilled?
- 1. Well jel, he wanted that thrush for himself badly — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Dead jel, wanted the bird — no support
- 3. Proper chilled, didn't care — no support
- 4. Well jel, he wanted that thrush — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
When the fiddle started, did the miser just stand there like a plank?
- 1. Nah, he was dancing like mad all round the bush — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he was dancing a bit — no support
- 3. Nah, he was jigging wild — no support
- 4. Nah, he was dancing like mad — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · right ✓
Did the judge sort it out with a proper result?
- 1. Yeah, he got the money back — no support
- 2. Yeah, he got the florins back and the miser went to the gallows — score 1
- 3. Nah, the miser kept it all — no support
- 4. Yeah, he got the florins back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 758, line 17: «At the scaffold, "judge, clerks, and jailer were in motion", and everyone dances until the judge promises to return the florins.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «judge» (+1); the same thing acted on «florins» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the servant's fiddle wicked or what?
- 1. Mad good, made people sing — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. Dead good, made everyone dance — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. Pretty decent — no support
- 4. Proper cool, got folks moving — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 77, line 18: «The Leopard remembers that "Giraffe is about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high" (he knows the Zebra's size well, because he used…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-2). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
What's Elsie's big mistake, like, in one word?
- 1. Dozing off — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Sleeping — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Falling asleep in the corn field — no support
- 4. Sleeping instead of cutting the corn — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the miser keep his money from the servant?
- 1. Nah, he'd cheated someone for it — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 2. Nah, he'd cheated someone for it and got caught out later — score -2
- 3. Nah, he gave it back right away — score 1
- 4. Yeah, he kept it, nobody knew — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 758, line 6: «WHO: Hans and his wife Elsie, a farmer and his servant, a little dwarf, and a miser who keeps his money tight.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same doer «miser» (+1); the same thing acted on «money» (+1). The right option, 1, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Elsie's door open when she got back?
- 1. Nah, it was shut, bruv, so she had to knock loud — score 4
- 2. Nah, it was shut, bruv — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Nah, it was locked, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Nah, it was shut tight and Hans had locked it, bruv — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 743, line 5: «The second time the door is locked, so Hansel scatters breadcrumbs, but birds eat them and the children are lost and hungry.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lock» (+4); the same thing acted on «door» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the miser get off the hook in the end?
- 1. Nah, he admitted he stole the florins and begged the judge for mercy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he admitted he stole it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, he got off scot-free — no support
- 4. Nah, he admitted he stole it and was left at the gallows — 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 of the following best describes the action of Hans in hanging bells upon his sleeping wife?
- 1. He hoped to cause a noisy quarrel with her gently — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. He meant to punish her for being lazy in the field — score -2
- 3. He contrived a stratagem to rouse her from her slumber — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He wanted to scare her — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 732, line 7: «WHAT: The sparrow answers every complaint with "Not wretch enough yet!", so she keeps making his trouble worse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same action «make» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following best states the nature of the bargain struck between the servant and the miser?
- 1. The servant surrendered his beloved fiddle and his three wishes in exchange for a sum of florins and a horse — no support
- 2. The servant surrendered his fiddle in exchange for a sum of florins — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The servant gave his fiddle to the miser for a hundred florins — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 4. The servant surrendered his fiddle to the miser in exchange for a large sum of florins and later regretted the bargain — score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 758, line 4: «A faithful servant, paid only threepence for three years, meets a dwarf who gives him three magic wishes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+1). Against it: the same doer «faithful servant» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following best accounts for the miser's eventual confession before the assembled court?
- 1. He was compelled by the compulsion of the fiddle to speak the truth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He was compelled by the compulsion of the fiddle to speak the truth and to confess his every crime — no support
- 3. He was moved by a guilty conscience after the dance — no support
- 4. He was overcome by remorse upon seeing the gallows — 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 ✗
Which of the following most accurately identifies the dwarf's role within the narrative of this passage?
- 1. He is the trickster who tests the miser's greed — no support
- 2. He is the benefactor who bestows three wishes upon the servant and later punishes the miser cruelly — no support
- 3. He is the benefactor who bestows three wishes upon the servant — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He is the villain who steals the servant's gifts — ← Mova's choice · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 698, line 13: «What: Sigurd sets the wood between them and the queen on fire, so she cannot follow them quickly.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «queen» (-1); 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
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