Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree

Tests: 8 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 906 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 was the actor, like, totally booed off the stage?

1. Yes, booed by the crowd — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yes, the audience threw stones and he fled the theatre in shame — no support
3. No, he left on his own — no support
4. Yes, hissed off by the crowd — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruh, what did the little Roman girl drop on the steps?

1. Her linen cloth — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Her earthen pitcher — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. The little girl's earthen pitcher of water — score 2
4. Her heavy earthen pitcher full of water from the well — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 832, line 4: «She sinks with the loaf into the Marsh Woman's brewery, then stands as a stone statue in a place of misery, starving, with a snake, toads and wingless flies ar…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sink» (+1); the same doer «inge» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, who was the only one at the funeral, fam?

1. Just the driver of the hearse and the sexton's two daughters — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Only the bearded clerk and a dog — no support
3. Just the driver of the hearse — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The driver of the hearse, a priest, and three mourners from the theatre — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Lowkey, where did the caravan roast its meat?

1. By a fire at the well — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. Near the old ruined well, far from the walls of the town — no support
3. By a small fire at the well beside the dunes after dark — score 1
4. Under the mimosa tree — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 569, line 12: «Brer Fox says he will "'bobby-cue you dis day, sho.'" A bobby-cue is a barbecue, meat cooked over a fire.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «meat» (+2). Against it: the same place «fire» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, what was the bride doing before her husband left?

1. Riding a camel round the walls — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Writing a letter at home — no support
3. Waving a silk veil from the tower while her maids cried — no support
4. Riding a camel round the walls of the palace all morning — 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 ✓

Be honest, does the girl in the tree leave her doll?

1. No, she leaves — score 3
2. Yes, she climbs down — score 3
3. No, she stays with it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. No, she drops it — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 883, line 19: «Old word: "decayed wood" means wood that has rotted; here Tiny uses it as her lantern.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «old word» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, so the brothers hung the doll high up where?

1. On the roof of a hut — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Under the stone steps — score 7
3. Hanging from the top of a palm tree by the gate — no support
4. In the branches of a tree — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 133, line 1: «A hungry Fox sees bunches of grapes hanging high on a vine.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hang» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Was the actor's weeping, like, a good sign?

1. Yes, he did not kill himself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. No, because he wept and then drank poison from the vial beside him — no support
3. Yes, he sang to the crowd — no support
4. Yes, because he chose to live and went back to the theatre — 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 ✓

Nah, which bit is about the Koran?

1. The passage where the caravan kneels to pray before the rising sun — no support
2. The prayer of the eldest — no support
3. The square drawn in the sand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. The eldest's prayer facing the holy city after the square was drawn — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 906, line 14: «Where: the desert near Fezzan, where the men draw a square in the sand and write "a few words out of the Koran".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «sand» (+4); the same action «draw» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Real talk, which plant grows in the palace wall?

1. The olive bush — no support
2. The wild grape — no support
3. A thorny mimosa growing from the broken marble — score -2
4. The wild fig tree — ← 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 -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 893, line 8: «Where: the way grows so thick that it becomes "a trackless wilderness", and the spring turns into "a marsh".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Gonna guess, what did the Moon call the keyhole?

1. Her turret window — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Her golden window — score 2
3. The bell — score 2
4. The stair — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 504, line 4: «Helios and Hecate hear her cries but cannot help, so Demeter searches for nine days with torches lit at Mount Etna.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cry» (+1); the same doer «hecate» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, what does the old word "sexton" mean?

1. The churchyard caretaker who digs graves — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A church priest — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. A servant who ran the theatre stage — no support
4. A hired mourner who sings at funerals and weeps for pay — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 899, line 14: «Old word: "lamented" means cried out in sorrow, so Madame's wife "lamented" while the boy wept.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, were the spectres dancing or sleeping?

1. Dancing along the long walk — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Singing near the old well — no support
3. Pointing at the sleeping men — no support
4. Sleeping — 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 1 · formal language · right ✓

Pursuant to the narrative, by what means did the vanquished actor contemplate ending his existence?

1. By drowning in the river — no support
2. He weighed the blade and the rope while sitting alone by the fire — score 1
3. He chose the sword — score 1
4. He considered hanging or poison, examining his face in the glass — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 906, line 1: «The Moon tells of a shabby actor who was booed off stage and went home thinking of death.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Subsequent to the actor's second performance, what disposition was made of his corpse?

1. It was thrown into the Tiber river — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It was burned — no support
3. It was interred in a corner of the churchyard — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It was left unburied in the open street square — 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 ✗

Which object did the Roman child lose upon the marble steps?

1. A doll — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. A golden crescent — no support
3. A wooden bowl — score 1
4. An earthen pitcher — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 895, line 13: «Old word: "benumbed" means numb, when your limbs have lost their feeling.», 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, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner did the young merchant proceed upon his journey?

1. Walking alone — no support
2. Riding quietly at the back — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Marching with the camels in silence — no support
4. Riding pensively with the caravan — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 769, line 10: «Why: Lily says "the word you have given must be kept", so she keeps her promise to her father.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «keep» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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