Andersen's Tales, Old Anthony, part 127: Anthony lies awake in his cold booth and remembers his childhood with Molly

Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 916 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, where's old Anthony from, innit?

1. Dresden — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Hamburg — no support
3. Bremen — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Bonn — 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 ✓

Bruv, why's he always getting up in the night?

1. cause he's scared the whole street will burn tonight — no support
2. to check the fire-pan — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. because his old bones hurt and he can't sleep right — no support
4. to tend the lamp wick — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 916, line 2: «On long, cold nights he keeps getting up to check the fire-pan and the shutters, then creeping back to bed.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «fire pan» (+3); the same action «check» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what's the flower-pot thing with the apple?

1. the apple tree the two kids grew from a pip — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a pip the children planted that sprouted two green leaves — no support
3. a bulb that bloomed red — no support
4. a pip that grew leaves — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who was the proper bold one, Molly or Anthony?

1. Ann — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Anthony — no support
3. Tom — no support
4. Molly — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was Anthony actually brave at the mountain, fam?

1. yes, he knocked twice — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. no, he ran away — no support
3. no, he didn't knock — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yes — 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 ✗

Who was the girl who kept giving him kisses?

1. Ann — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the mayor's daughter from the next street — no support
3. Hanna — no support
4. Molly — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · right ✓

Is the Venus Mountain near Eisenach, or nah?

1. yes, it is near Bremen — no support
2. yes, it is near Eisenach — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. not really — no support
4. no — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 916, line 14: «The mountain: the Venus Mountain is near Eisenach, and people there say the goddess keeps house inside it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «eisenach» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «venus mountain» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Peak, what did the leaves stand for?

1. Anthony's hands — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Molly and me — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. two kids — no support
4. the apples — 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 ✗

Who got Tannhauser to the mountain, though?

1. the mayor — score -6
2. Lady Halle — ✓ the right answer · score -6
3. Molly — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Venus — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, against -6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 916, line 5: «Then he remembers the Venus Mountain, where Molly dared him to knock and call Lady Halle, and how bold she was.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 2, scored -6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mad, what does he do to stop the tears, like?

1. he dries them with his nightcap — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. he wipes them — no support
3. he dries them with a towel — no support
4. he hides them under the bed — ← Mova's choice · score -3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 561, line 18: «Odysseus is so shocked at his father's looks that he "turned aside to conceal his tears".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «tears» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Is it sus that Anthony hates being kissed?

1. no, he likes it — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, he did — no support
3. yeah, he pushed the girls away — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. no, he kissed every girl there — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lowkey, what's the old tree thing?

1. the willow by the river — no support
2. the old oak — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. a pear tree — no support
4. the apple-tree from the pip — ✓ 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 73, line 12: «When the younger animals cried «Toad! Speech! Speech from Toad! Song! Mr. Toad's song!», Toad shook his head, raised one paw in mild protest, and offered them…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who was the pious princess, bare saint vibes?

1. Saint Elizabeth — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the princess who gave all her wealth to the poor — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. Saint Gertrude — no support
4. the saint of Thuringia who founded the hospital — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 665, line 1: «The prince rides out with his hussars, beats the enemy, and goes home with the princesses' gifts.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «gift» (+4); the same doer «princesses» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following best describes the circumstances under which Anthony is first introduced to the reader in the passage?

1. He is a retired sailor who lives in an inn near the harbour quay — no support
2. He is an elderly clerk residing alone in a booth on Hauschen Street — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. An old clerk alone at night — score 0
4. He is a clerk in a booth — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 283, line 6: «Who: the copying-clerk, first turned into a lark by two schoolboys who now own him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «copying clerk» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the object which the two children plant, and state the principal manner in which Molly instructs the boy to tend it.

1. A cherry stone, which must be watered each morning to help it grow — score 1
2. An apple pip that the children set in a clay pot, which Molly orders the boy never to pull out and inspect for roots by lifting it — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. An apple pip, which must not be removed to test whether it has taken root — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A small apple pip, which must never be dug up or removed from the flower-pot until the leaves have grown fully and the roots show — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 698, line 11: «Why: Sigurd dreams that his father comes "in dripping clothes", which tells the children that he is dead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same receiver «children» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Describe the nature of the dare which Molly offers Anthony at the Venus Mountain, and state whether he accepts it.

1. He is challenged by Molly to knock on the mountain door three times and call out the goddess's name, and he refuses outright — score 6
2. Molly dares him to climb the rocky face of the hill, enter the cave, and summon Lady Halle loudly, and he flatly declines — score 6
3. He is asked to ring a bell and call out, and he agrees to do so — no support
4. He is asked to knock and call Lady Halle, and he declines to do so — ← 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 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 916, line 5: «Then he remembers the Venus Mountain, where Molly dared him to knock and call Lady Halle, and how bold she was.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «lady» (+4); the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «molly» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Explain the function of the single tear within the passage, and identify the two persons whose childhood it reflects.

1. It reveals his own hidden grief at the loss of his youth, mirroring the children at play and the boy Anthony who was once so happy — no support
2. It reflects the two young girls who dance together in the square — no support
3. It mirrors the children at play, namely the boy Anthony and the girl Molly — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It reflects the cold booth on Hauschen Street, the tears on his face, and the two children at play who once lived there together long ago — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 855, line 11: «Old word: "cretin" was a hard, unkind word for a person with a serious illness that affected his mind and body.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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