Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a grandmother at the Louvre, a boy's death on the throne, and the people by the sea

Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 902 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 ✗

bruh, the grandma in the Louvre, why was she kneeling on that carpet?

1. She was mourning the king — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She was at the spot her grandson died — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. She was at the spot where her grandson died, and wanted to touch it — no support
4. She was looking for a coin — 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 2 · ★ · right ✓

lowkey who was the kid the moon said got stabbed?

1. A half-grown boy in a ragged blouse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A tall guard in silver armor — no support
3. A grown soldier in a blue coat — no support
4. A young prince — 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 · ★ · right ✓

wait, so where did they lay him after he got hit?

1. On the royal couch — no support
2. On the throne of France — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. On a litter carried down the long hall to the chapel — no support
4. On the throne of France, under a canopy of velvet — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 902, line 3: «The Moon tells how a half-grown boy was wounded and laid on the throne, and his blood soaked the velvet.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lay» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same place «throne» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

ngl the Uppsala hill sounds wild, how did people leave their names?

1. They cut the grass off to show letters carved into the earth — score 4
2. They carved the names in stone — score 2
3. They painted names on turf — score 4
4. They cut the grass off to show letters — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 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 829, line 12: «What: the matches decide "They were only common people after all", which shows how proud they are.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+3); the same doer «common people» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

who was the dude with the mead horn anyway?

1. A poet who whispered a secret name — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. A poet who whispered a secret name over the mead horn — score 6
3. A painter who drank mead — no support
4. A poet who whispered a secret name to the moon at night — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 902, line 17: «A poet drinks from a mead horn, an old drinking vessel with a broad silver rim, and murmurs a name he does not speak aloud, because "a count's coronet sparkles…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «poet» (+3); the same thing acted on «name» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

so why'd that poet keep the name hush hush?

1. A count's crown sat right above it, so he feared the nobles — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. A count's crown sat right above it — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. A bishop's mitre hung above it — no support
4. A count's crown sat right above it, and the name was sacred — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 902, line 4: «At Uppsala, visitors cut their names into the turf over old graves, and a poet whispers a name he is too proud to say.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «poet» (+5). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

bro, what were those two rich landowners even into?

1. Firewood, ten loads in each tree, and gold coins in the hollows — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Firewood, ten loads in each tree — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Timber, twenty loads in each oak — no support
4. Firewood and timber, ten loads in each tree on the ridge — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

the coachman steered by the trees, why was that?

1. To find the road in snow — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. To keep the horses calm — no support
3. To avoid the sea when snow hid the road — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. To avoid the sea when snow hid the road and the wind rose — 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 ✗

what was the painter doing while the nightingales sang?

1. Telling them to hold their tongues while he sketched the sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Asking them to sing softly — no support
3. Telling them to hold their tongues — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Chasing them from the tree — 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 ✗

which tune was the painter whistling, do you know?

1. A march by Verdi — no support
2. A march by Rossini that he had heard at the opera house — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. A march by Rossini — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A waltz by Chopin — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 902, line 20: «The coachman steers by the trees in deep snow so as "not to drive into the sea," and the painter whistles "a march of Rossini," as Rossini was an Italian compo…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

what did the poor girl do when she sat on the grave?

1. Knelt, prayed, and sighed — score 0
2. Listened, gazed, and prayed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Listened, gazed at the sea, and prayed for her brother — score 3
4. Sang, gazed, and wept — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 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 682, line 18: «Why the housekeeper is kind: "The girl had heard how he had saved her master's life", so she tells him what to ask for.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «girl» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

so is the girl's minute gonna get forgotten?

1. No, it stays in her memory for years, as the Moon promised — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, it stays in her memory for years — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. No, it is written down — no support
4. Yes, it will be painted — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓

wait, what was growing on the Hun's Grave?

1. Sloe and blackthorn bushes tangled with wild briars — no support
2. Sloe and blackthorn bushes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Wild roses, sloe and blackthorn bushes crowding the mound — no support
4. Heather and gorse bushes — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 461, line 2: «Her lover wakes but lives only three days, so she dies of grief too, and two willows grow over their graves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+3); the same place «graves» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which place is identified in the passage as the site where the wounded youth was laid?

1. The grand hall of the palace — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. The throne-room of the palace, beside the great staircase — score 1
3. The throne-room of the palace, where the king's guards stood — no support
4. The throne-room of the palace — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 86, line 15: «The poem names real places in Surrey: Merrow Down, Guildford, the river Wey, Broadstone brook, Bramley, Shere and Shamley; it says the Wey «Was more than six t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «name» (+3); the same thing acted on «real places» (+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

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Which figure in the passage is described as responding to the seashore scenery with genuine feeling?

1. The painter — no support
2. The young nobleman at the shore — no support
3. The miller's Christine on the path — no support
4. The poor girl seated upon the Hun's Grave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 568, line 2: «Brer Rabbit comes hopping down the road, sassy as a jay-bird, and greets the Tar-Baby, who never answers a word.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which practice of the Uppsala visitors is described in the narrative?

1. Removing turf to expose names that had been inscribed long ago — score 4
2. Removing turf to expose inscribed names — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Cutting bark from trees — no support
4. Digging for buried coins — 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 895, line 12: «Old word: "ineffable" means so great that it cannot be described in words.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which cause is given in the narrative for the poet's silence concerning the name he murmured?

1. The coronet of a count surmounting the name — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. The coronet of a count surmounting the name and the poet's shame — score 7
3. The mitre of a bishop above it — no support
4. The coronet of a count surmounting the name, which he feared to speak — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 902, line 17: «A poet drinks from a mead horn, an old drinking vessel with a broad silver rim, and murmurs a name he does not speak aloud, because "a count's coronet sparkles…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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