Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 872 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 ✗

Mate, who was the one who got the letter in the rain?

1. the boy with the wooden cart — no support
2. the girl with the dust-bin — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the girl who was standing by the gate in the rain — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. the old woman who lived across the street from the postman — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 843, line 12: «The mother has stood in the water "six hours," so she needs something to warm her up.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «water» (+4); the same action «stand» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, what did the stick turn into, innit?

1. a neighing horse — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a golden carriage with six white horses and a driver — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. a barking dog — no support
4. a fierce dragon with glowing red eyes — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 51, line 5: «Drifting home, both feel strangely tired; the Rat hears the wind in the reeds turn into words, a song about helping and then forgetting, and falls asleep smili…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4); the same doer «reeds» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same place «words» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, where was the sailor at, like?

1. the tropics — no support
2. the frozen north — no support
3. the hot countries — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. the cold mountains — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 872, line 9: «Where: the sailor was staying in "the hot countries, where the coffee grows", far away from the rainy street.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sailor» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same place «hot countries» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, how many kids did the couple have?

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

Wait, what day were they celebrating, fam?

1. golden wedding day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. New Year — no support
3. the anniversary day — no support
4. birthday — 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 ✗

Proper, what were they having for the feast?

1. pies — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. bread — no support
3. hot potatoes — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. baked beans — 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 7 · ★ · right ✓

Lol, what did she plant in the garden, like?

1. elder-blossoms — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
2. tulips — score -1
3. potato plants — score -1
4. roses — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 485, line 7: «Where: the witches lived in a village of the old Chernigof Government, a Russian province now in Ukraine.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same place «village» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted, where did the boy say they'd ride to?

1. the merchant's house — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. the bishop's palace — score 5
3. the nobleman's estate — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. the castle — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 858, line 17: «A young Englishman offers Rudy "a whole handful of gold" for a young eagle, but Rudy says "The eagle could not be taken."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «rudy» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Init, what colour was the sailor's hanky?

1. orange — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. tan — no support
3. red — no support
4. yellow — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead right, what was the snow like in winter?

1. as thick as a warm woolly blanket — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a soft white blanket covering the fields — no support
3. like new boots — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. white flour — 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 ✗

Sick, what sort of tree was the mum-tree living in?

1. the ash — no support
2. the beech-tree — ← Mova's choice · score -4
3. the elder-tree — ✓ the right answer · score -4
4. the oak — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 729, line 19: «Old word: a "livelihood" meant the way you earn your food and keep, and today we would say an income or a living.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «way» (-2). The right option, 3, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Honest, what did the girl turn into?

1. a beautiful grown woman — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. a tall young woman in a silver dress — score 5
3. a charming young girl — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. a shining spirit of the old elder tree — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 828, line 3: «The paper cries "Ugh" as it burns, then its words turn to fire and it shouts that it is mounting up to the sun.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4); the same doer «words» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Real talk, what flag was waving in the wind at the end?

1. a red flag with a yellow lion on it — score 3
2. red with a white cross — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. white with a red star — score 4
4. a white star — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 671, line 10: «The king of the Magyars saves him, with "a white flag waving out of the window" of his golden coach.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wave» (+3); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Prior to her marriage, in what capacity was the narrator employed?

1. a kitchen helper — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a farm labourer — no support
3. a maid — no support
4. a domestic servant — ✓ 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 · right ✓

With reference to the passage, what was the duration of the couple's marriage?

1. fifty years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. six years — no support
3. ten years — no support
4. forty years — 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 ✗

From which tree does the elder-tree mother's spirit derive?

1. the beech — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the elder — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. oak — no support
4. the ash — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

In the concluding passage, what is the eventual destination of the youth?

1. the islands where sugar is made — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the places where tea is grown — no support
3. the countries where coffee grows — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the far countries where the cocoa and spices grow in the sun — 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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