Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy climbs the mountain, meets the Ice Maiden, and loses his ring

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 862 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 ✗

Yo, is Rudy actually lost up that mountain or what?

1. Yeah mate, he's up there freezing and lost, bruv — no support
2. Nah mate, he's back home dry and fine, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. Yeah mate, he's knackered and soaked through — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he's up there in the storm, drenched and frozen after the ice maiden's kiss, proper gutted, bruv — 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 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the maiden's like proper creepy, innit?

1. Nah, she's fine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, her kiss is dead cold, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, bit odd — no support
4. Nah, she's just a farm girl, mate — 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 ✗

Did he actually lose his ring though?

1. Yeah, he dropped it, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Yeah, it's gone, he's gutted — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, he kept it safe, mate — score 4
4. Nah, he's got it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 779, line 7: «What: she ate a small piece from each little plate and drank a small drop from each glass, dropping her ring into the last one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drop» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why's Babette sat crying at the mill?

1. Cos Rudy's off up the mountain, mate — no support
2. Cos Rudy's been ghosting her six days — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Cos her godmother's been nagging her, mate — no support
4. Cos the cats said she's going to fall for a red-whiskered bloke down by the stream, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 862, line 19: «Back at the mill, Babette sits alone and weeps, because Rudy "had not been to see her for six days".», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rudy» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Rudy's gun wouldn't even fire, bare annoying right?

1. Nah, it's fine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, bad luck — no support
3. Yeah, total fail, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, it's sound, mate — 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 · ★ · right ✓

The cats are gassing about the lovers, yeah?

1. Yeah, they're on about a picnic, mate — no support
2. Yeah, they're chatting — no support
3. Yeah, they're on about wanting a fight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Nah mate, they're on about the wine, bruv — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. 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» (+4); the same doer «cat» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Is the wine like, actually nice though?

1. Yeah, it's proper warm and mint — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, it's proper warm and mint, but it tastes like it came from a ghost's cellar, bruv — no support
3. Nah, it's flat and bitter and gone off, but Rudy drank it anyway up on the mountain, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Nah, it's proper rough and sour — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 188, line 10: «Where: Comari is a place "where men drink no wine by an unalterable law", so Sindbad sails there to trade.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drink» (+4); the same doer «men» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Was Rudy like, the bad guy in this bit?

1. Yeah, he was in the wrong, bruv — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, he was just a bit daft, mate — no support
3. Nah, he's fine — no support
4. Yeah, he was a bit of a git, mate — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did the hut just stay put, or what?

1. Nah, it vanished into thin air right in front of Rudy, proper spooky, innit — score 3
2. Nah, it sank into the snow, mate — no support
3. Nah, it vanished into thin air — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Yeah, it fell in the snow, mate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 862, line 17: «The hut vanishes: "the sheltering hut was no more to be seen", and the powers of evil have played their game.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «vanish» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Is Rudy a proper hunter then?

1. Yeah, he knows the hills, innit — no support
2. Nah, he's not clocked the snow dangers — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, he's not got a clue, mate — no support
4. Nah, he's not clocked the snow dangers at all, and he went up the glacier without a guide, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 858, line 13: «Rudy refuses her help, saying "I do not yet require a woman to help me to climb," and walks off quickly.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «climb» (+3); the same doer «rudy» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the wine was from strangers, right?

1. Nah, it's from the village, mate — no support
2. Nah, the maiden brought it up from her cellar under the glacier ice, proper weird, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. Yeah, it's from the maiden, bruv — no support
4. Yeah, travellers left it, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 538, line 19: «fact: Old word: a "libation" was wine poured out as a gift for the gods, and today we might say "a toast" or "an offering".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fact» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Is the story about the powers of evil, then?

1. Nah, it's a sweet tale about a young hunter who falls in love and then returns home to the mill, bruv — score 2
2. Nah, it's about the mill and cats — no support
3. Yeah, the powers of evil play their cruel game on people who wander up the mountain alone, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Yeah, they play their game on us — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 862, line 17: «The hut vanishes: "the sheltering hut was no more to be seen", and the powers of evil have played their game.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «play» (+4); the same doer «powers» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal character who is portrayed as having lost a personal token of betrothal during the ascent of the mountain.

1. Rudy, the hunter — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Babette, the miller's girl — no support
3. The Ice Maiden, who kissed him on the high pass — no support
4. Rudy, the young hunter, who has lost the ring — ✓ 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

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the principal reason given in the text for Rudy's inability to discharge his firearm upon regaining consciousness.

1. The gun was dropped in the snow and the charge missed fire because of the storm and the cold wind — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The charge missed fire in the wet snow — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He had forgotten to load the gun properly before climbing and then the cold froze the lock solid — no support
4. The lock jammed in the frozen air — 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 · right ✓

Identify the means by which the Ice Maiden is shown to differ from the maiden Rudy first supposed her to be.

1. Her kiss is as cold as ice, and she vanishes into the mist along with the hut and the goats — score 5
2. Her kiss is cold as ice and she vanishes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Her goats are white and she sings — no support
4. She has no footprints in the snow, her voice is like wind, and she laughs as she disappears on the glacier — 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 858, line 4: «On the mountain a strange maiden with icy fingers walks beside him, laughs, and vanishes into snow and mocking laughter, but he refuses her help.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «vanish» (+4); the same doer «strange maiden» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Indicate the sentiment expressed by Babette toward Rudy at the close of the passage, as recorded in the narration.

1. She hates him for leaving her alone at home — score 2
2. She weeps bitterly and wishes Rudy would come back to her at the mill with the ring and the wine — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. She weeps and still loves him with her whole heart — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. She is angry but still cares for him deeply — 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 862, line 19: «Back at the mill, Babette sits alone and weeps, because Rudy "had not been to see her for six days".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «weep» (+4); the same doer «babette» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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