Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 72: Rudy is jealous of the Englishman, Babette sends him away, and Rudy walks home alone over the mountains

Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 861 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 ✗

so Rudy was like totally gutted when Babette went all "I hate you" through the window, innit?

1. yeah, mate, he trudged all the way home over the mountains, proper gutted, and then cried in the snow for hours — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. nah, he just went to bed early, mate — no support
3. yeah, mate, he went home proper sad over the mountains — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. yeah, he was dead sad going home, innit — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 860, line 3: «At the miller's house in Bex, the furious eaglet glares from its basket, and Babette screams and backs away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «scream» (+4); the same doer «babette» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, that Englishman climbed a tree and did an owl noise? what a melt

1. yeah, the only bird he could copy, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, he climbed the tree like a monkey and then hooted like an owl and fell off the branch — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. nah, bruv, he didn't climb anything, he just stood in the garden and hooted at the moon for ages — score 2
4. yeah, it was a proper owl, mate, sound — 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 861, line 4: «That night the Englishman slips on the wet path, climbs the old linden-tree and hoots like an owl under Babette's window, so she sends him away and quarrels wi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «climb» (+4); the same doer «englishman» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

was Babette's godmother a dead grumpy old lady?

1. yeah, she was dead stern, face like a rock — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nah, she was thin — no support
3. nah, she was dead friendly with a round smiley face — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nah, she was kind, with a warm face — 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 ✗

ok but why was Rudy so raging about the golden whiskers bloke?

1. cos the miller had told him off in front of everyone and Babette laughed at it all night long — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. cos Babette was smiling at the Englishman — no support
3. cos the Englishman stole his hat — score -1
4. cos Babette was loving all his attention, innit — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 855, line 14: «Old word: "alpine staff" is a long walking stick, which Rudy used to hang his coat and hat on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «rudy» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

that flour sack joke from the miller was mint, wasn't it?

1. yeah, he looked like a flour sack with no flour, and the miller laughed so hard he dropped his pipe in the mill — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, it was a bit rubbish, mate — no support
3. yeah, he looked like a flour sack with no flour, sick — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nah, the flour sack joke was daft, he was just saying the Englishman was like a sack of nothing at all — 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 ✗

did Rudy's walk home feel like a dead long trek?

1. yeah, it was freezing and he was on his own, rough — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, it was dark and cold, mate — no support
3. nah, it wasn't far, he got home before the miller's dog even noticed he had gone out — score 5
4. yeah, it was freezing and dark and he was alone on the path with the snow falling all round him — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 861, line 5: «Rudy walks home alone along the snowy mountain path, cold and sad, while the Ice Maiden seems to rule the high places.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «snowy mountain path» (+4); the same property (+2); the same doer «rudy» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

was Babette chuffed about making Rudy jealous or nah?

1. nah, she felt guilty and cried into her pillow, then felt better after she had been to the lake — score 5
2. yeah, she was well pleased and laughed all the way to bed, but she wasn't going to tell anyone — score 5
3. yeah, she was well pleased, it was a laugh for her — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, she was dead chuffed, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 859, line 1: «Rudy promises the miller he will fetch a young eagle, so he can win Babette.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rudy» (+3); the same thing acted on «miller» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Chillon sounds proper creepy, what was in there?

1. just old stones — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. torture stuff, dungeons and rusty chains, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. loads of old prisoners and bones — no support
4. old bones and dark cells, mate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 583, line 21: «Old word: "strankle" means to choke or be strangled, which is a much more dangerous thing than it sounds.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

did the Englishman fall in the stream then?

1. nah, he didn't, mate, just stepped aside — no support
2. yeah, he fell right in the stream and got soaked head to toe and had to go back to the mill for dry clothes — no support
3. nah, he never got near the water, he sat on the bank with the miller and talked about the lake and the roses — score 1
4. nah, he nearly did, slipped on the path, got wet sleeves — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 861, line 4: «That night the Englishman slips on the wet path, climbs the old linden-tree and hoots like an owl under Babette's window, so she sends him away and quarrels wi…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «wet path» (+4); the same action «slip» (+2); the same doer «englishman» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

what's a fop when the miller's on about the bloke?

1. a type of lake fish that only swims in the deep cold water near Chillon castle at night — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a show-off who cares about his looks, like a total poser — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a show-off who cares about his looks and wears fine clothes, like a total poser from the city — no support
4. a fancy man who likes to talk loud — 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 · ★ · right ✓

so Babette's nineteen, yeah, and she still acts like a kid?

1. nah, she thinks before she acts, mate — score 3
2. yeah, she's still a silly girl, innit — no support
3. yeah, she didn't stop to think about what she did — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. nah, she's really sensible, mate, but she did flirt with the Englishman once when the miller was out — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 856, line 2: «He does not give up but decides to take a short cut across the mountain to Interlaken.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give up» (+4); the same doer «babette» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which character, having been rejected by Babette at the window, leaves the mill and walks home along the mountain path?

1. Miller — score -1
2. Rudy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. Babette — score 1
4. The Englishman in white — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 861, line 5: «Rudy walks home alone along the snowy mountain path, cold and sad, while the Ice Maiden seems to rule the high places.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «rudy» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner does Babette respond to the imitation of an owl beneath her window?

1. She blows out the lamp and closes the window in silence — no support
2. She extinguishes the light, bolts the door downstairs, goes to fetch her father and tells him everything about the Englishman's song — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. She extinguishes the light, secures the fastening, refuses to answer and then sits weeping at the table until the morning bell rings — score -3
4. She extinguishes the light, secures the fastening and refuses to answer — ✓ the right answer · score -3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 858, line 18: «Babette says little, but her eyes "spoke, and that was quite enough for Rudy."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «babette» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

With what emotion does the narrator describe Rudy's walk along the snowy path?

1. Hopeful and eager, marching quickly toward the mill through the moonlit valley and the deep snow drifts — no support
2. Cold and sorrowful, amidst the Ice Maiden's realm, with his heart heavy and his feet numb in the snow — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. Lonely and sad through the frozen pines — no support
4. Cold and sorrowful, amidst the Ice Maiden's realm — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 861, line 5: «Rudy walks home alone along the snowy mountain path, cold and sad, while the Ice Maiden seems to rule the high places.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following accurately describes the geography of the episode?

1. They walk around the lake — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They sail past Montreux and walk back to the mill — no support
3. The party sails across the lake past Chillon and walks from Bernex to Montreux — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The steamship stops at the island and then goes home — 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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