Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony dies alone, and his tears are found in a nightcap

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 918 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 ✗

Dude, did Anthony really die alone in bed?

1. Yeah, nobody came for weeks — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, nobody came for two days — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, his wife came at dusk — no support
4. Nope, the mayor came in the morning and found him already cold in bed — 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 ✗

So why couldn't he get water, bruh?

1. The well was frozen over — no support
2. It was dry — no support
3. The jug was empty by then — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. No water left — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 892, line 14: «Where: the loosened roots of an old oak tangle round her feet, and a bubbling spring nearby gives him water to sprinkle on her.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «water» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the snowstorm lowkey terrible?

1. Yes, the roads were closed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, not really — no support
3. Yes, nobody went outside — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yes, a bit — 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 ✗

Did the mayor get salty about the cap?

1. He ripped it off in a panic — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. He wore it proudly to the town hall the next morning — no support
3. He called the priest to bless it before he dared touch it at all — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. He threw it into the fire — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 843, line 2: «The mayor leans out of his window and calls to a poor boy, the son of a washer-woman.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same doer «mayor» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who's the saint with the roses, fam?

1. Saint Anne — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary — no support
3. Saint Catherine of Siena — no support
4. Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, what was in the basket?

1. Cheese turned into gold coins — no support
2. A cloth full of roses that had once been the wine and some apples — no support
3. Apples turned into wine — no support
4. Wine and bread, turned into roses — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · 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 918, line 3: «He thinks of Saint Elizabeth, whose basket of bread and wine turned into roses, and of the apple tree he planted with Molly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Anthony ever marry, no cap?

1. Nope, he was widowed twice — no support
2. Nope, he never married, but he loved a woman in the village for many years — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. Nope, never, that was the rule — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yes, he married Molly after the merchant of Bremen released him from his promise — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 918, line 8: «Why he is far away: the merchant sent him there "on condition that he should never marry."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «marry» (+4); the same doer «anthony» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Is the nightcap thing real or sus?

1. It's just a story they tell — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Some say it happened once — no support
3. It really happened in a town near Copenhagen a hundred years ago — no support
4. They say the cap is still hanging in the mayor's house today — 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 the tears in the cap, bro?

1. Pearls, from old Anthony's eyes — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Pearls from the mayor — no support
3. Tears from the sad saint — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. Diamonds from the mayor's wife — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 899, line 6: «Who: the boy, a poor child who once lived on hard stones, now works for a glovemaker and his wife in Florence.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «poor child» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's the moral, lol?

1. Never trust a cap that pleads for tears when the moon is full and the wind blows — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Never wish for a bachelor's bed — no support
3. Be careful what you wish for when you lie down to sleep in an unfamiliar house — no support
4. Don't wish for a bachelor's nightcap — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the tree doing well at first?

1. Nope, it was cut down early — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Nope, it was forsaken by a hedge — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nope, it was forsaken by a hedge, but later the whole town came to admire its fruit — no support
4. Yes, it was thriving in the sun beside the church and the great road — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 700, line 12: «What the crow points out: the fox "has neither axe nor knife," so he could never cut down the tree.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cut down» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where's the story set, though?

1. Copenhagen, in Hauschen Street — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. In the old merchant town of Copenhagen, on a narrow street near the harbor — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Copenhagen, in the quiet street where the mayor kept his grand house — no support
4. Copenhagen, by the old church — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 915, line 17: «Old word: "physiognomy" meant the look or face of a person.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+1); the same property (+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 ✓

Lowkey, what does he see before dying?

1. Roses and apple tree branches — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. Roses and apple tree branches blooming over his bed in a sunlit garden — no support
3. Snow and a dark hedge — no support
4. Stars and a bright moon — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 909, line 21: «The roses see themselves in the water, and they are beautiful but "did not know it, for no one had told them".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «roses» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which location is designated as the residence of the protagonist Anthony during the narrative?

1. Hauschen Street, Copenhagen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Copenhagen, Market Square — no support
3. The narrow house on Hauschen Street in the old quarter of Copenhagen — no support
4. The merchant district of Copenhagen near the harbor and the castle — 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

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What condition was attached to Anthony's employment by the merchant of Bremen?

1. That he would serve for ten years — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No wine — no support
3. That he should never marry — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Stay home — 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 ✗

By what means did the mayor first become aware of the nature of the nightcap?

1. A bird told him about it — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Pearls fell out — no support
3. Pearls rolled out upon its removal — ✓ the right answer · score -2
4. He read it in a book — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 845, line 15: «The mayor says the money is "to be paid with discretion," meaning it is handed out as the payer chooses, in large or small sums.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+5). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what condition did Anthony describe the apple tree as standing?

1. Forsaken and forgotten, growing alone at the edge of a field by a hedge — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Forsaken and broken, by a road — no support
3. Forsaken and forgotten, by a hedge — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Tall and proud, but forsaken and forgotten, standing in a garden near the house — 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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