Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 839 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, where did the watchman's soul bolt off to?
- 1. Straight up into the sky above the town and beyond the stars — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To the sea — no support
- 3. Off to the moon like a rocket right out the window — no support
- 4. To the moon — ✓ the right answer · 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Proper, what did the moon town look like?
- 1. Like a pearl in a pond — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Like snow — score 3
- 3. Like egg white in water — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Like cream on a lake — 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 674, line 6: «Who: the prince has left his castle and taken the name and work of a shepherd, going from town to town looking for a job.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «look» (+2); the same doer «town» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
What did the passenger do, dead rude, to the sleepy watchman?
- 1. Pulled his nose really hard and shouted in his sleepy ear — score 5
- 2. Grabbed the sleepy watchman by the collar and pulled his nose hard — score 5
- 3. Poked his cheek — no support
- 4. Pulled his nose — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 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 839, line 10: «What the passenger does: he asks "What is it o'clock, watchman?", gets no answer, and pulls the watchman's nose.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «passenger» (+2); the same thing acted on «nose» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
When the goloshes came off, what did the soul do, like, instantly?
- 1. Raced straight back down to the sleeping body lying in the watchbox at dawn — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Floated off over the rooftops — no support
- 3. Shot back into the body as soon as the goloshes were pulled off and dropped — no support
- 4. Raced straight back to the body — ✓ 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 ✓
What did the volunteer do, dead cheeky, at the railings?
- 1. Climbed over the wall — no support
- 2. Ran away — no support
- 3. Wished his head through — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Shouted loudly — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 839, line 5: «Next, a young volunteer puts on the goloshes, wishes his head through the railings, gets stuck, and only gets free when he wishes it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «volunteer» (+2); the same thing acted on «head» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why was he properly stuck, innit?
- 1. He was too tall — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He was lost — no support
- 3. He was too fat — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He was tired — 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 7 · ★ · right ✓
What did he finally say to get free, mate?
- 1. "I wish I were free" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. "I wish I was home" — no support
- 3. "Someone pull me free" — no support
- 4. "Let me go" — 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 ✓
Where did the volunteer nip off to the next night?
- 1. To the amateur theatre — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. To the old church hall — no support
- 3. To a crowded amateur theatre across the square to watch the show — no support
- 4. To the amateur theatre for a performance of a play about the moon — 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 ✗
Why were the goloshes dead handy, honest?
- 1. Because the streets were still mucky and he did not want to get his boots dirty — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The streets were still mucky — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The streets were still mucky from the rain and the carts from the night before — no support
- 4. The roads were full of mud — 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 · ★ · right ✓
What do the spectacles do to people in a crowd, like?
- 1. Make them look like cards — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Turn them into card houses — no support
- 3. Make the people in the crowd look like playing cards stacked in a deck — score 4
- 4. Make them look like flat cards with their hearts shown on the front — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 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 280, line 17: «His thought: he wants spectacles to look "into people's hearts," which he finds more interesting than the future.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «spectacles» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would the bloke love to see with the spectacles?
- 1. Their secrets — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Into people's hearts — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Into people's minds — no support
- 4. Into hearts — 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 · ★ · right ✓
What never shows itself, unlike the future, according to the narrator?
- 1. Events that are yet to come in the future — score 2
- 2. People's hearts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. The sea floor — no support
- 4. The inner thoughts of people's hearts — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 797, line 17: «Old word: "mourning" means wearing black clothes to show grief for a death.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «show» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the watchman reckon about that night, bruv?
- 1. It was the most dreadful night ever — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It was the most dreadful night ever and he will never forget it — no support
- 3. It was a wild and windy night — no support
- 4. He reckoned it was the most dreadful night of his entire working life — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 278, line 14: «Later, the watchman sees a pair of galoshes close to the door and thinks they belong to the lieutenant who lives over the way.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same doer «watchman» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which location is the watchman's soul transported to during its journey?
- 1. A broad plain of dark glass rock — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. A ring of hills near the sea — no support
- 3. The dark side — score 2
- 4. A circular range of lunar mountains — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 106, line 20: «Old word: "bier" meant a frame for carrying a dead body, and "bemoaned" meant mourned or wept over; we now say stretcher and grieved.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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 ✗
What is the principal reason the young volunteer remains fixed in the railings?
- 1. His body is too large to pass through the gaps while his head is outside — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. His body is too large to pass through — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. His belly is caught between two bars — no support
- 4. His body is far too large and heavy to pass through the narrow iron gap — 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
According to the narrator, what distinguishes future events from the hearts of people?
- 1. The former appear openly to the eye — no support
- 2. The former are inevitably revealed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Future events are shown to everyone — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 4. The former are inevitably revealed while the latter stay hidden from sight — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 839, line 17: «The narrator's thought: future events "would be sure to show themselves, but the hearts of people never."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «events» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Which statement most accurately describes the function of the goloshes in this episode?
- 1. They carry the soul away and return it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They help the soul travel to the moon — no support
- 3. They make the soul very heavy — no support
- 4. They are magical boots that carry the soul away and then bring it back safely — 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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