Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, part 44: Inge is freed as a little bird, does good deeds all winter, and turns white

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

Lesson 833 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 ✗

Bro, did you actually read the Inge bit or just skim it?

1. Nah I only read the goblin part, the bird bit was super long and I skipped the whole thing — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Read it, obviously, the bird was lowkey sad — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Skimmed it a bit, the goblin bit — no support
4. Honestly skimmed it, the wall bit was boring — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the old lady cried in heaven for Inge, right?

1. Yeah, real tears, proper emotional, and she prayed for ages in heaven too — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yep, she was sobbing in heaven, lol — no support
3. Nah, she only sent a letter up — no support
4. Yeah, real tears, proper emotional — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, why couldn't the bird sing?

1. It was too cold to sing, bro — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cause it was shy — no support
3. Its throat was frozen, that's the thing — no support
4. It had no voice, that's the whole vibe — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did the bird just hang out in the wall doing nothing?

1. Nah, it found the air and moonlight dope, but it spent most of the winter hiding inside the old church tower — score 6
2. Nah, it liked the cold moon night — score 6
3. Nah, it found the air and moonlight dope, and it also flew out to see the sea every night — score 6
4. Nah, it found the air and moonlight dope — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 833, line 3: «The shy, voiceless bird hides in a ruined wall, but it discovers how lovely the air, moonlight and flowers are.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «discover» (+4); the same doer «bird» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Christmas morning, the bird fed everyone, right?

1. Yeah, that was its first good deed on Christmas morning, big W, and the whole village saw it fly — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Nah, it fed the huckster's cat that day — score 6
3. Yeah, that was its first good deed, big W, and it fed the children and the peasant too — score 6
4. Yeah, that was its first good deed, big W — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 20: «Old word: "reverence" meant a deep, respectful feeling, which the daisy has for the bird that can fly and sing.», 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 «bird» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

The bird only ate one crumb all winter?

1. Yeah, it gave the rest away to the sparrows — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Yeah, it gave the rest away to the sparrows and the pigeons and the cats in the village — score 2
3. Nope, it shared with the huckster's cat — score 3
4. Yeah, it gave the rest away to the sparrows, then flew off to the sea and ate fish — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 147, line 14: «The Shepherd "clipped its wings", which means he cut the flight feathers so the bird could not fly off again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly off» (+4); the same doer «bird» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why did the grey wings go white?

1. The sun made them white — no support
2. They turned white once the crumbs were gone for good — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. After the last crumb was given, that's the glow-up — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The moon painted them white at night — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 833, line 17: «What: Its grey wings become white when "the last bread-crumb had been found and given," and then they spread for flight.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same property (+2); the same doer «grey wings» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

The children thought it was a sea-gull, didn't they?

1. Yeah, they shouted a swan when it landed — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Yeah, they yelled it out when it dived, fam, and the huckster came out to see too — score 2
3. Yeah, they yelled it out when it dived, fam — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Yeah, they yelled it out when it dived, fam, and then ran down to the harbour to look — 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 832, line 19: «A song called "The girl who trod on a loaf" was sung everywhere, and children called her "wicked Inge".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same doer «children» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

The goblin lived with the huckster for jam, yeah?

1. Nope, he had a fat slice of pie, bro — no support
2. Yep, a big dish of jam at Christmas, sweet deal, and he also stole a spoon from the kitchen — no support
3. Nah, he lived on cheese and cold bread — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Yep, a big dish of jam at Christmas, sweet deal — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 822, line 17: «Who: the old goblin from Norway, "who lives in the ancient Dovre mountains", is a guest at the feast.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same doer «old goblin» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

The student just bought candles and cheese, nothing else?

1. Nope, he also got a fine wool coat — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, and then he saw the torn poetry book and the goblin in the attic corner — no support
3. Yeah, and then he saw the torn poetry book, which the huckster had wrapped his cheese in — no support
4. Yeah, and then he saw the torn poetry book — ✓ 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 ✗

Did the goblin really take the wife's tongue?

1. Nah, he just swapped her tongue, lol — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he nicked it while she slept, sneaky — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, he nicked it while she slept, sneaky, and the huckster never found out about it — no support
4. Yeah, he nicked it while she slept, sneaky, then he hid in the cask and laughed all night — 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 ✗

So the cask knew more about poetry than the student?

1. Nah, the student did — no support
2. Lol, the cask said it had more, but nah — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, the student wrote better stuff, bro — no support
4. Yeah, the student knew more, lol — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 610, line 16: «Bagheera admits, "He knows more than we," and says he would have "walked down his throat" if he had stayed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the goblin see when he peeped in?

1. A glowing moon and a sleeping cat — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A ray of light and music, mad glow — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Just a dark room — no support
4. Nothing, sorry — 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 ✗

Identify the principal agent of the spiritual transformation described in the passage, namely the young woman known as Inge, and state the precise nature of her transformed form.

1. Inge, transformed into a small bird of voiceless disposition — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. A young girl named Inge, transformed into a white bird with no voice — score 4
3. Inge, transformed into a small bird of voiceless disposition that lived in a ruined wall and fed the birds — score 3
4. Inge, turned into a grey bird with no song — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 832, line 2: «Rich people raise Inge and dress her so finely that she grows prouder, and she even turns her back on her poor mother on the road.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4); the same doer «inge» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Enumerate the charitable acts performed by the bird during the hard winter, and indicate the manner in which it conducted its own sustenance.

1. It collected grain and gave most of it to sparrows while eating very little — no support
2. It gathered crumbs, distributed them to other birds, consuming only a single crumb itself, and then flew to the sea to dive and sing — score 2
3. It gathered crumbs and distributed them to other birds, consuming only a single crumb itself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. It found bread and shared the crumbs with other birds, keeping just one for itself — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 833, line 4: «On Christmas morning it eats almost nothing and feeds the other birds, and all winter it gathers crumbs for the hungry.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «gather» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Describe the sequence by which the bird's grey plumage came to be white, and state the event that brought about this alteration.

1. The grey wings turned white once the last bread-crumb had been found and given away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Their colour changed once the final crust was shared with the sparrows — no support
3. The grey wings turned white once the last bread-crumb had been found and given away to all the hungry sparrows in the snowy village — score 5
4. The grey wings slowly turned white in the cold moonlight after the bird had given away every crumb it had gathered in the ruined wall — score 3

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 379, line 12: «What the Fox says: "you gave yourself away with that silly bray."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give away» (+4); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the individual who occupied the garret and the cause for which the goblin lingered in the huckster's household.

1. The huckster lived in the garret, the goblin stayed for the cheese — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The student occupied the garret, and the goblin remained for the Christmas jam and butter, and also to steal the wife's tongue — no support
3. The student occupied the garret, and the goblin remained for the Christmas jam and butter — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The student lived in the attic and the goblin stayed for cheese — 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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