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Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle

Tests: 4 of 14 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 853 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 ✓

test: ok real talk, who got swallowed by the crack in the ice?

  • 1. the mum — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 2. the dog — score 2
  • 3. dad — score 2
  • 4. nan — score 2

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 650, line 18: «Old word: "clambering" means climbing slowly and awkwardly, the way the witch got down from her pedestal.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «get down» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

test: no cap, what was the Ice Maiden queen of?

  • 1. the valleys — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. the mountains — no support
  • 3. the glaciers — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. the glaciers and all the snow up top — 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 ✗

test: lowkey wild, how long did they wait for the ropes?

  • 1. a bit — ← Mova's choice · score 1
  • 2. almost two hours — score 1
  • 3. around three hours — score 1
  • 4. more than an hour — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 853, line 11: «fact: The rescuers wait "more than an hour" for ropes and poles from the nearest house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wait» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

test: bruh, what even is the Alpine glow?

  • 1. a blue light on the snow — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. the colour the peaks turn at the start of night — no support
  • 3. a cold blue light that shines on glaciers at dawn — no support
  • 4. sunset colour on the peaks — ✓ 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 ✓

test: which animal is the chatty old dog, Ajola?

  • 1. cat — score 3
  • 2. a goat — no support
  • 3. bird — no support
  • 4. a dog — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 852, line 20: «Word: "postilion" was a rider who guided the horses of a coach, a job that hardly exists today.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «word» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

test: what did the cat not want Rudy to see?

  • 1. Rudy's big red cap — ← Mova's choice · score 3
  • 2. tears in his eyes — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 3. a hole in the wall — score 3
  • 4. the dog — score 2

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 93, line 3: «The Woman throws Wild Dog a roast bone, and he wants more. She offers him as many bones as he needs if he helps the Man hunt by day and guards the Cave at nigh…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+2); the same doer «cat» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

test: wait, was the baby still alive after?

  • 1. yeah, the little boy — ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 2. yes, the baby lived — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 3. yeah, the little boy got pulled up alive — no support
  • 4. yeah, the boy lived — 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 853, line 3: «explain: After more than an hour the men pull out two bodies; the baby lives, but his mother is dead.», 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 «baby» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

test: wait so Rudy was like how old when he bounced to his uncle's?

  • 1. nine — no support
  • 2. seven — no support
  • 3. eight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. six — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 853, line 5: «explain: The Ice Maiden orders Vertigo to seize Rudy, but the sunbeam daughters sing against it, and at eight Rudy says goodbye to Ajola and the cat before lea…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «rudy» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

test: who even are the daughters of the sunbeam?

  • 1. kind forest sprites — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. good spirits of nature — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. sunbeam fairies — no support
  • 4. nature spirits — 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 ✗

test: what's Vertigo's whole deal?

  • 1. he makes everybody dizzy and then they fall down — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. making people sleep a lot — no support
  • 3. making people dizzy and fall — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. making people dizzy so they fall off cliffs — 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 ✗

test: the traveller's cloak blew off, so what happened to the man?

  • 1. the wind carried the cloak away over the edge — score 2
  • 2. the wind blew him right off the high cliff — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 3. the wind could not hold him — ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 4. the snow buried the man — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 813, line 2: «Two street boys find her, prick themselves on her, and stick her into an egg-shell that floats like a little boat.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «boys» (+4); the same doer «two street boys» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

test: lol which farmyard bird got its tail shot off?

  • 1. a turkey — no support
  • 2. a goose — no support
  • 3. a hen — ✓ the right answer · score 1
  • 4. the farm's big white goose — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 744, line 1: «Tired and lost, Hansel and Gretel fall asleep under a tree and wake to find a snow-white bird singing above them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «white bird» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

test: where's Rudy headed after grandad's?

  • 1. back to the big city down south — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. to a village in the next valley — no support
  • 3. his uncle's place over the mountain — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. his uncle's — 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 14 · ★ · right ✓

test: what did Rudy do with the cat before it ran off?

  • 1. he fed it — score 2
  • 2. he gave it some milk — score 2
  • 3. he petted it — score 2
  • 4. he took it in his arms — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 394, line 19: «Old word: "device" means a clever trick or plan, which is why the Cat needed one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «one» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

exam: In what manner were the child and the mother recovered from the crevasse?

  • 1. The child was lifted out alive, while the mother could never be recovered from the crevasse — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. Only the child was drawn up alive, after the mother had been lost in the depths of the crevasse — score 4
  • 3. The child was raised alive; the mother was not — ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 4. The child lived, and the mother died later — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 735, line 6: «Who: the old King and Queen wren, and their young children, who are so proud that they will not eat until the bear is punished.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «young children» (+2); the same thing acted on «young children» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

exam: Which phrase most accurately characterises the Ice Maiden?

  • 1. Lady of the frozen lakes — no support
  • 2. Cold queen who rules the glaciers of the Alps — no support
  • 3. Empress of the snowfields — no support
  • 4. Queen of the glaciers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 576, line 17: «"Sorter splimmy-splammy" is an old phrase that means "all in a muddle," and no one uses it today.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «old phrase» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

exam: What is the principal reason the uncle desires the boy's presence?

  • 1. To secure him a better education — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. To help on the farm — no support
  • 3. To keep him safe — no support
  • 4. Because he has no one else to help — ← 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 639, line 1: «Uncle James takes the Princess out in a cab to give the dragon a birthday present.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «uncle» (+1); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

exam: Which creature does Ajola describe as travelling inside a post-chaise?

  • 1. A little old dog that talks — no support
  • 2. A little dog — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
  • 3. A cat — score 1
  • 4. The postilion — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 853, line 18: «fact: Ajola says "Your father was the postilion, and I was the postilion's dog", so he knew Rudy's father.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ajola» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «dog» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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