Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old grave-stone is remembered, and a new tale begins with an old house and a leaking dragon gutter

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 920 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, what was that big old stone in the yard even for?

1. Sitting on — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Drying the copper pans — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Scrubbing the cooking pots — no support
4. Drying the linen cloths — no support

Why: It could not read the question into a frame, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, so the kids were always climbing on it, right?

1. Yeah, they climbed on it and jumped off it every single day — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, they played hide and seek around it until the maids yelled — no support
3. Yeah, they played on it — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yes, they hid under it — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, which names could you actually read on it?

1. Preben and Martha — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. Martha — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. Preben — score 1
4. Peter and Anna — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 677, line 7: «What: the old woman says she can find the maiden, and the eldest herald agrees because "the emperor's orders are clear".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, was the grandpa dude sad about his wife?

1. Yeah, he cried a lot — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yes, he was very sad — no support
3. Yeah, he got all teary — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he sobbed by the bench for ages under the linden tree — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Hold up, how'd the old couple treat the poor kids?

1. They sheltered them well — no support
2. They fed and clothed them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. They gave them bread — score 2
4. They fed them — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 362, line 2: «At sunset he finds himself alone and runs bleating across the field, where the Wolf is waiting by a clump of trees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «kid» (+2); the same doer «kid» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

So who kicked the bucket first, the lady or the guy?

1. Her husband Preben, the old man, who died much later — score -2
2. The man, Preben — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. The lady, Martha, died first, years before her husband — no support
4. The lady, Martha — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, against -2 for the next best. 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «few words» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «men» (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the old couple have heaps of money in the end?

1. Yes, they left a huge fortune to the poor of the whole town — no support
2. Yes, they had quite a lot indeed — no support
3. Nope, way less than people thought — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, there was a big hidden treasure in the cellar that nobody found — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 203, line 5: «He digs out a cave of gold dust, and he and the gardener share the treasure, though the gardener does not want it.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «camaralzaman» (+3); the same thing acted on «treasure» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ok, so what happened to their house?

1. The road workers came and tore the whole old house down — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. The city council decided to sell it and the new owners tore it down — no support
3. The council sold the land — no support
4. The road guys tore it down — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 709, line 20: «Old word: a "kennel" is the small wooden house where a dog sleeps; we still use the word for a dog's shelter.», 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, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, what did the spooky voice say to the little boy?

1. Guard the seed carefully because it will grow into something great one day — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Hide the seed under the stone and never tell anyone about it — no support
3. Keep the seed safe always — no support
4. Guard the seed, it will grow — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

Haha, what's that old house's dragon doing wrong?

1. Rain pours out of its mouth — no support
2. It spits fire — score 3
3. Its water leaks from its tail — no support
4. Its rain leaks out of its body — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 920, line 20: «The Old House is "nearly three hundred years old," and its dragon's rain runs out of "his body" because of a hole.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «rain» (+4); the same doer «dragon» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruh, how old is that house with the carved beams?

1. Fifty years — score 1
2. Almost two hundred years — score 1
3. Nearly four centuries old — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. Almost three hundred years — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 709, line 20: «Old word: a "kennel" is the small wooden house where a dog sleeps; we still use the word for a dog's shelter.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «small wooden house» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Ok, what kind of tree was next to the bench?

1. A linden tree — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. A tall weeping willow beside the pond in the yard — score -3
3. A birch tree — score 1
4. A large old apple tree growing near the garden wall — no support

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 919, line 19: «Old word: "tolled" meant the bell was rung slowly and sadly, usually for a death. Today we say a bell "tolls" the same way.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, was the story saying everything gets forgotten?

1. Nope, the old man denied it — score 2
2. Yeah, the old man said it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Yes, the story says even the grave-stone will be forgotten one day — score 6
4. No, not really — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 826, line 2: «The fat man tells the story of Humpty Dumpty, and the fir-tree dreams that it might marry a princess too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «fat man» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, state the purpose for which the household employed the old grave-stone in the courtyard.

1. It was placed there so that the household could rest their washing and dry the copper saucepans in the sunny yard — no support
2. It served to dry copper saucepans in the sun — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It helped the maids to wash the saucepans — score 1
4. The maids used it to lay out and dry the heavy copper saucepans every single morning in the bright sun — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 920, line 2: «In a courtyard, a family talks about an old grave-stone that the maids use to dry their copper pans.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same action «use» (+2); the same doer «maids» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, identify the name that remains legible upon the stone after rain or washing.

1. The name Preben and the year of death are legible upon the stone after a heavy rain or washing — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. The name Preben is still visible on the front — no support
3. The name Martha is legible upon the stone — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. Both the names of the couple are legible upon the stone and the date is also faintly visible after washing — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 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 right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

With reference to the passage, explain why the road-inspectors caused the old house of the couple to be demolished.

1. The house was judged too old and rotten to stand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It was too old — no support
3. The inspectors wanted the land for the new road — no support
4. The authorities declared the old timbers unsafe for living — 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 ✗

With reference to the passage, describe the advice which the invisible spirit gave to the youngest boy regarding the seed.

1. The spirit told him to water the seed every single day — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. The spirit bade him preserve the seed carefully and guard it well — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. The invisible voice commanded the boy to take the seed to the convent and bury it under the old grave-stone for ever — no support
4. The spirit urged him to carefully protect the seed from all harm and to sow it only when the time was right — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 884, line 15: «The flower spirit says "Tiny" is an ugly name, so she is called Maia, and her wings came from a large white fly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «flower spirit» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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