Andersen's Tales, The Bird of Popular Song, part 13: the singer wakes the king's spirit, the Bird of Song flies out, and we arrive at Borglum

Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 802 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 ✓

Dude, did the dead king finally get his song?

1. Yeah, the singer played and he vanished like northern lights — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Nah, the singer stopped early and the king just wandered off back home — score 3
3. Nope, the king stayed put and ate some bread with the crew — no support
4. Yeah, the singer strummed his harp for hours and the king just faded into the mist like frost in the morning sun, dude — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 802, line 2: «A singer from a ship sings for a dead king on his grave, and the king's sad spirit rises, glows, and vanishes.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «vanish» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

So who's the singer dude, like a rapper?

1. Nah, bro, he's an old bard who came off a ship with a harp and a cloak full of tales — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Some sailor with a fiddle, fam — no support
3. Old bard with a harp, no cap — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Just a peddler, no big deal — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the bird never dies? Like, ever?

1. Kinda, it goes quiet in the snow, bro, lol — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Never, bro, it's the Bird of Popular Song, it flies over the moor and the castles and the sea, forever — no support
3. Never, fam, it just keeps singing forever, it's the Bird of Popular Song, no cap, trust me — no support
4. Never, fam, it's the Bird of Popular Song — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruh, what's a rune even?

1. Old carved letters, lowkey wild, used by the Vikings for magic and for marking graves, bro — no support
2. Like ancient writing on stones that the monks copied down for the convent library, fam, honestly — no support
3. A weird old coin from the north — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Old carved letters, lowkey wild — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 802, line 21: «Old word: "Runes" were carved letters of the old Northern peoples; today we write with a different alphabet.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the sparrows say anything useful?

1. Piep, piep, piep, mate, so the town's buried under snow and the bells are silent now — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, they just piep and fly off, mate — no support
3. Piep piep, they said, the church is gone — no support
4. Piep, piep, piep, mate, so the town's buried — ✓ 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 ✗

Were the ravens hungry, or what?

1. Dunno, they just sat there, mate — score 0
2. Nah, they cawed for scraps, bro, lol — no support
3. Grub, grub, they cried, straight up — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Yeah, super hungry, they kept screaming for food over the frozen buried town all day long — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 802, line 15: «In the snowy town, the sparrows pipe "piep! piep! piep!" and the ravens cry "Grub, grub!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sparrows pipe» (+5); the same action «cry» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Is the story set somewhere cold, innit?

1. Nah, it's down south by the sunny coast — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, Northern Jutland, on the wild moor, where the sea roars and the sheep wander over the hills, bro — no support
3. Northern Jutland, on the wild moor, proper cold, with wind howling across the heather all night long — no support
4. Northern Jutland, on the wild moor, proper — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, how's the sea at the convent?

1. Super loud, bro, the North Sea is roaring like a lion on the western coast, honestly — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. Roaring, the Wester-wow-wow, loud as anything, crashing on the sand dunes all through the night — no support
3. Still and flat, the sea is calm, mate — no support
4. Roaring, the Wester-wow-wow, loud as anything — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 802, line 18: «Why we hear the sea: the roar "Wester-wow-wow" is the North Sea breaking on the western coast of Jutland.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «western coast» (+3). Against it: the same doer «sea» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Is Borglum just a hill, or what?

1. A sand mountain with a convent on top — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, it's a huge sand mountain, bro, with a convent on top and lime trees growing in the walls — no support
3. A green valley with some sheep, mate — no support
4. A sand mountain with a convent on top, and the whole thing is built right over the sea, mate — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

What month is it when we arrive?

1. Midsummer, bro, the bright night that never really gets dark, and the birds are singing all night — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. March, the snow and frost, mate — no support
3. June, the bright night, no joke — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. June, the bright night, no joke, when the sun barely sets over the sea and the moor glows — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why'd the lime trees grow so big?

1. The soil's good, lol — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Sheltered from the wind by the walls, bro — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The sun was strong all summer, fam — no support
4. Warm weather, bro — 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 ✗

Did the bird fly over the snowy town?

1. Yeah, from the bell, over the snow, sick — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, it flew from the church bell over the frozen lake and the snowy hills, really sick, fam — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Yeah, from the bell tower, over the snow-covered roofs of the buried town, super sick, bro — score 5
4. Nah, it flew over the castle walls, fam — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 16: «The birds: "the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly» (+4); the same doer «birds» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's the Northern Light doing in the story?

1. Glancing, like the king's vanishing face, flickering over the north sky all night, bro, so cool — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Just like a torch in the dark, fam — no support
3. Super bright, like the king's face when he vanished into the grave, fam, and totally gone now — no support
4. Glancing, like the king's vanishing face — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 347, line 13: «LOST: on a stormy night the men on the "Hind" saw "the lights on board of the 'Squirrel' go out."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «lights» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which phrase in the text expresses the king's lament concerning the neglect of his deeds?

1. "No one has sung the deeds of my life; they are dead and forgotten." — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. The deeds are forgotten. — no support
3. No one sings my deeds. — score 3
4. His heirs have cursed him and his enemies have taken his castle. — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 802, line 9: «Why he is sad: "No one has sung the deeds of my life; they are dead and forgotten."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal function attributed to the Bird of Popular Song in the narrative.

1. To warn travellers of storms and of the sea's dangers in the north. — no support
2. To remind the king of his battles and bring him rest in his grave. — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. To preserve and transmit the deeds and songs of the land, and to guard the graves of all the kings who once ruled here. — score 2
4. To preserve and transmit the deeds and songs of the land. — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 393, line 1: «A Birdcatcher catches a bird, which begs to live by reminding him that it sings him to sleep and calls the other birds.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «remind» (+4); the same receiver «bird» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the geographical location in which the second narrative of this extract is situated.

1. Eastern Germany, beside the old river port. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Northern Jutland. — no support
3. Northern Jutland, upon the so-called wild moor. — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Northern Jutland, upon the so-called wild moor beside the convent and the sea. — 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 ✗

Explain the significance of the snow-bound town as presented in the concluding passage.

1. It depicts a forgotten community whose songs were lost to the snow and the wind. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It is a symbol of a buried life that spring and the Bird of Song will restore. — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A symbol of death. — no support
4. It shows the snow melting. — 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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