Andersen's Tales, The Daisy, part 22: a lark sings to a poor daisy while the proud flowers sulk

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 811 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, why's the daisy even chilling in a ditch, mate?

1. Cause it's happy in the sun and don't mind who sees it — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Cause it's happy in the sun, don't care nobody clocks it — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Cause it's happy in the sun, don't care nobody clocks it, and it's dead cool like that, innit — score 2
4. Cause the ditch is the best spot for sun, and the posh flowers can't see it anyway, mate, so whatever — no support

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 811, line 1: «A little daisy grows in a ditch by a farmhouse on the high road, and it is happy in the sun.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «daisy» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Did you see the lark swoop down, innit?

1. Yeah, it went straight for the daisy, not the posh flowers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Yeah, it dived for the daisy, not the fancy flowers, mate — score 2
3. Yeah, it swooped at the daisy and ignored the posh lot — score 3
4. Yeah, it swooped right down to the daisy in the ditch, not the posh flowers in the garden bed, and kissed it — score 3

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 811, line 14: «The lark praises the daisy: "what a lovely little flower with its golden heart and silver dress."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lark» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, so the daisy got kissed by a bird?

1. Yeah, with its beak, then it zoomed back up — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, with its beak — no support
3. Yeah, it kissed it with its beak and flew away — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Nah, it just sat on the fence for a bit — 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 489, line 16: «The maiden was taken away when she was nine, after her angry father cried "May devils fly away with you!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly away» (+4); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why were the tulips looking well mad?

1. Cause the lark ignored them and they were annoyed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cause the lark came down to the daisy instead and they were super vexed about it all day long — no support
3. Cause the lark ignored them completely and went straight to the little daisy in the ditch by the road — no support
4. Cause the lark ignored them and they were vexed — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

Ngl, the peonies were proper sulking, weren't they?

1. Nah, they were fine — no support
2. Nah, they were chill, bro, didn't mind the lark — no support
3. Yeah, they were, bro — no support
4. Yeah, they were sulky, bro, glad they couldn't talk — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 811, line 5: «The daisy is overjoyed, while the tulips are cross and the peonies are sulky.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «peonies» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

How long was the daisy in a daze after that?

1. Like half an hour, pretty long, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Ages, like ten minutes — no support
3. A few minutes, innit — no support
4. Over a quarter of an hour, so dead long — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

So it's Monday, right? Why's everyone at school?

1. Nah, it's Sunday, but the school opened anyway so all the kids are in class learning stuff — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It's Monday, so all the kids are in class — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Cause it's a school day, they're in — no support
4. It's Friday, so the kids are off today — 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 ✗

Did the lark reckon the daisy was rubbish?

1. Nah, it thought the daisy was lovely and even said it wanted to fly down and sing for the whole garden — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, it thought it was a dull little weed — no support
3. Nah, it said the daisy was a lovely little flower and that it was far better than the tulips and peonies — no support
4. Nah, it said the daisy was a lovely little flower — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who did the daisy look up to, though?

1. The tulips and peonies, the grand flowers in the garden bed by the wall — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The lark, the bird that can fly and sing — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The lark, the bird that can fly and sing, and the sun that gives it light — no support
4. The tulips, the proud flowers nearby — 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 ✗

Wait, so the daisy's centre looks like gold?

1. Yeah, golden heart and silver petals, it said — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, gold heart, silver dress, the lark said so, and the petals shine like silver in the sun — no support
3. Yeah, it's a gold heart with a silver dress, the lark said so, and the tulips never saw it at all — no support
4. Yeah, gold heart, silver dress, the lark said so — ✓ 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 ✗

What's the daisy thinking, like, deep down?

1. It's glad the lark came, and it's not jealous, cause it's happy with its own little lot in the ditch — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. It's glad the lark came, and it's not jealous — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It's glad the lark came and kissed it, and it's not jealous of the tulips or peonies one bit, innit — score 1
4. It's chuffed the lark came, and not jealous, innit — 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 811, line 1: «A little daisy grows in a ditch by a farmhouse on the high road, and it is happy in the sun.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «daisy» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

So the moral is don't be a diva, yeah?

1. Yeah, size and fancy colours don't make you better — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, size and fancy colours don't make you better, so the tulips and peonies should have been nicer to the daisy — no support
3. Yeah, being big don't make you better, mate — no support
4. Yeah, size and fancy colours don't make you better, and being small and humble is actually the best thing — 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 is the flower that the lark chose to visit in the garden?

1. The daisy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The little daisy growing in the grass by the ditch — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The proud peony growing in the garden bed — no support
4. The big tulip standing in the bed by the path — 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 ✗

Describe the manner in which the peonies and tulips received the attentions of the lark.

1. They took no notice of it and were sulky and vexed — ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. They just stood still and were sulky, vexed — score 4
3. They pretended not to see it and stayed upset — no support
4. They were sulky — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 811, line 17: «Why the peonies are sulky: "it was well that they could not speak, otherwise they would have given the daisy a good lecture."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «peonies» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

State the reason why the daisy did not feel envious of the lark or of the garden flowers.

1. It considered its own lot happy and was content to rejoice in the sun — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. It felt its own lot was fine and it was happy in the sun — no support
3. It considered its own lot happy and was content to rejoice in the sun while the lark sang to the others in the garden beds and the whole bed was sulky — score 6
4. It considered its own lot happy and was content to rejoice in the sun, because it did not want the tulips' fine colours or the peonies' size — score 6

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 811, line 15: «The daisy's joy is so great that it "did not know what to think," and it takes more than a quarter of an hour to recover.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «joy» (+4); the same doer «daisy» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the day upon which the events of this passage are described as taking place.

1. The Monday morning when all the children were at school and the lark flew down to the daisy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Monday, when the children went to school — no support
3. Monday, when all the children were at school — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Monday, when all the children were at school and the garden was empty of people for the whole day — 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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