Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from the sea

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 799 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 ✗

wait, the beetle just bailed on his wife on day three, no cap?

1. nah, he only left for a bit — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. yeah, he ghosted her totally and never even looked back at the ditch where she waited for him — score 2
3. nah, he went back to her — no support
4. yeah, he ghosted her totally — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 799, line 1: «The beetle gets engaged and married to one of the beetle girls, but on the third day he runs off and leaves his wife behind.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same doer «beetle» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

how did the beetle even cross that ditch, like on what?

1. a cabbage leaf, bruv, which the girls had dropped in the water — no support
2. a bit of old wood, mate — no support
3. some kind of floating twig — no support
4. a cabbage leaf, bruv — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 799, line 2: «He crosses a ditch on a cabbage leaf, meets two boys who want to study him, and flies off into a warm hothouse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

lol who called the beetle a vagabond, the other beetles?

1. yeah, the emperor's fly — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. nah, the fly and the boy — score 5
3. yeah, the other beetles — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. nah, it was the emperor and the other beetles in the palace garden — score -2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 799, line 10: «Why the other beetles are cross: they call him "nothing but a complete vagabond" who left his wife on their hands.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same receiver «beetle» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

was the beetle's ship just a busted old clog, proper?

1. yeah, a rotten wooden plank — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nah, a sturdy metal bucket — no support
3. yeah, a knackered wooden shoe that had been tossed in the ditch by a farmer years ago — no support
4. yeah, a knackered wooden shoe — ✓ 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 ✗

the fly was like "beautiful weather" and the beetle was mad, why?

1. cos he was hungry — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. cos the fly wasn't stuck — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. cos it was free — no support
4. 'cos the fly was bored — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 396, line 5: «If they are swatted, hungrier flies will come and drink the last of his blood.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «hungrier flies» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

the girls saved him from the sea, yeah?

1. nah, they just watched him — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. yeah, they hauled him up — no support
3. yeah, they fished him out — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. yeah, they did — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 24, line 5: «Looking back over the whole book: a bored girl followed a White Rabbit down a hole, grew and shrank, cried a pool of tears, met creatures who argued, gave orde…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «follow» (+4); the same doer «bored girl» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, where did the beetle end up in the end?

1. on the mane of the emperor's favourite horse, right by the palace gates in town — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. on the emperor's fave horse — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. on the palace gate roof — no support
4. on the emperor's grey horse — 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 · ★ · right ✓

so the golden shoes thing was just a dream, was it?

1. yeah, the horse was dying in it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. nah, the shoes were real gold — no support
3. yeah, the scholar was asleep — no support
4. nah, the golden shoes were real and the horse was dying in the palace stables — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 799, line 12: «The dream: the emperor's horse is dying and leaves him "his golden shoes", with two more promised.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «die» (+4); the same doer «horse» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

the scholar wanted him as a specimen, that's sick, right?

1. nah, for a jar at home — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, for his study wall — no support
3. yeah, for a collection — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, he wanted him pinned up in a glass case for his collection at the museum — 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 ✗

was the boy's Latin thing actually wicked?

1. yeah, he translated the name — ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. nah, he just said it dumb — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. nah, he translated the name into Latin and then insulted the beetle's whole family — score 4
4. nah, he insulted the beetle — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 578, line 15: «Who: Uncle Remus says old man M'thoozlum would have told the boy the same thing, if he were still living.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «old man» (+1); the same thing acted on «same thing» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

that bell sound, you can hear it best out where?

1. out past the town, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. in the open fields, mate — no support
3. down by the river bank — no support
4. out past the town where the houses are fewer and the fields are wide open, mate — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

lol the beetle said the world was abominable, what's that mean?

1. it means kind of gross and sad — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. it means really horrible and rotten, like the whole world was a big mess to him — score -1
3. it means really horrible and rotten — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. it means really nice and clean — no support

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 798, line 17: «Old word: "accustomed" means used to something, so the beetle says he is "accustomed to better things," meaning he expects more.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). 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 beetle use in order to cross the ditch?

1. a piece of bark — ← Mova's choice · score -2
2. a wet bit of wood — no support
3. a twig — no support
4. a cabbage leaf — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 484, line 21: «Background: in Slavonic belief the thunder-god Ilya was a storm-god, and "the faithful ought not to cross themselves when the thunder peals."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «words» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

To what place did the beetle retreat for shelter after leaving the scholar?

1. an old stable with a half-open wooden door — no support
2. a heated glasshouse with a partly open sash — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a heated glasshouse with a partly open sash, where the gardener had left the windows ajar — no support
4. a damp cellar under a cold stone step — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 798, line 3: «A rainstorm soaks him, and he hides in damp linen, where two frogs happily praise the wet weather.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2). Against it: 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Why did the beetle regard the world as unjust?

1. he thought his wife had hidden the shoes — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. he believed he had been denied golden shoes — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. he thought he was never given shoes — score 2
4. he believed he had been denied golden shoes that the emperor promised to every beetle in the land — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 799, line 11: «Why he flies off from the scholar: "Our beetle considered this speech a great insult", so he flies out of his hand.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «consider» (+1); the same doer «beetle» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

What remark did the fly make upon finding the beetle bound to the mast?

1. "What beautiful weather," said the fly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. "What a sad sight," said the bee — no support
3. "What wonderful wind," said the wasp — no support
4. "Hello," said the fly — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 799, line 4: «A fly says it is lovely weather, but the beetle is stuck fast, until some young girls fish him out and he lands on the emperor's horse.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «fly» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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