Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 932 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 ✗

Wait, so the flies were basically the cheap seats up top, right?

1. nah, down by the orchestra — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, up above the stage with the scenery and the lights — no support
3. yeah, up above the stage — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, way up in the flies above the stage where the sandbags hang — 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 ✗

Bro, did the old agent Fabs really fall asleep up there?

1. yeah, he dozed and was shut in — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nah, he was fine, he climbed down the ladder and walked home — no support
3. yeah, he dozed off up there and the staff locked the door behind him — no support
4. yeah, he snoozed and got locked in — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

No way, a sausage fell into a dungeon scene?

1. nah, it fell onto the stage and the actors ate it during the scene — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. yeah, and the whole crowd lost it, the play stopped for ten minutes — no support
3. yeah, and the crowd laughed loudly — no support
4. yeah, and the whole crowd lost it — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 932, line 10: «Once three apples, bread and sausage "fell down right into the dungeon of Ugolino," and the audience laughed.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall down» (+2); the same doer «bread» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the painter had to climb his own painted stairs to get into heaven?

1. nah, he just forgot the steps — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nah, he climbed a real ladder that the stagehands had set up for him — no support
3. yeah, cause he messed up the perspective — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, he was late — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the fire thing actually real, or was aunt making it up?

1. it was real, smoke and everything — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. it was real, smoke and everything, and the whole house nearly ran — score 3
3. it was real, with real smoke — score 3
4. nah, aunt made it up, there was no smoke, just a bit of dust from the painted scenes — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 64, line 14: «His new song: «The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, / As it raced along the road. / Who was it steered it into a pond? / Ingenious Mr. Toad!» (ingenious = very c…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «invent» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why was she stuck like that, on the partition with one leg out?

1. the door jammed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the people slammed the door on her — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the crowd closed it on her leg — no support
4. the people shut the door on her — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, a giant fur boot hanging out of a box, that's so random

1. it was weird — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. it was odd, and she was rescued — no support
3. it was wild, and she was saved — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. very funny — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did the little kid really play the lion's back legs for a whole guilder?

1. yeah, the back legs paid a full guilder — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. yeah, a dime — no support
3. nah, the front legs got it — no support
4. yeah, the hind legs got a guilder — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 932, line 16: «Aunt's little helper played the lion's hind leg, which paid a whole guilder, while the fore-feet paid only half a guilder.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+3); the same thing acted on «whole guilder» (+2); the same doer «hind leg» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

So the front legs only got half a guilder?

1. yeah, half, while the back got a whole one — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, half, and the back got a full one — no support
3. nah, a whole one — no support
4. nah, the front got a whole one too — 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 ✓

Five hundred dollars, that's a lot of cash, right?

1. nah, it was a modest sum — no support
2. nah, that was not much at all, she left only a few coins and her boots — no support
3. yeah, the aunt left a fat sum — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. nah, pretty small — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 932, line 18: «Aunt left about five hundred dollars, and its interest of twenty dollars paid for a yearly seat for a worthy old spinster.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same doer «aunt» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the interest was twenty dollars, and the seat was for her?

1. yeah, a spinster gets that seat — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. nah, a child does — no support
3. nah, a married man gets it — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. yeah, a single lady gets that seat — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 821, line 20: «Old word: "arbor" means a shady seat under trees or climbing plants, a garden bower that people still use today.», 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, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the will say she had to be thinking of aunt every Saturday?

1. yep, one rule — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nope, there were two rules — no support
3. yep, that was the only rule — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nope, no rule — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, she died in her bed, not in the theatre?

1. yeah, she died respectably in bed — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. yeah, she passed away respectably at home in her bed, not in the theatre — score 5
3. yeah, she passed away respectably at home — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. nah, she died in the flies, after falling asleep and being locked in overnight — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 731, line 3: «A hedge of thorns grows around the castle, and many princes die trying to cut through it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «die» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which place did spectators occupy in the theatre flies, according to the narrator's account?

1. the rooms behind the stage — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the seats in the upper gallery at the back of the house — no support
3. the space above the stage — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the area beneath the stage — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the nature of the legacy bequeathed by the narrator's aunt upon her death?

1. a monthly subscription for a box — no support
2. a yearly subscription for a seat in the second tier, bequeathed for Saturdays — no support
3. a yearly subscription for a seat — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a yearly subscription for a seat, with the condition that the heir remember the aunt weekly — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 932, line 4: «One winter night a cry of "Fire!" sent everyone rushing out, and aunt was left stuck in her box, one leg over the partition.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «aunt» (-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 · wrong ✗

Why did the narrator's aunt remain in her box during the alarm of fire?

1. the people ahead had locked the box — no support
2. the people before her closed the door — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. the crowd before her shut the door — no support
4. the people before her closed the door and she could not leave the box in time — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 429, line 12: «Why the silver turns black: Ivan's silver snuff-box, left with his brothers-in-law, tells them that "the evil is accomplished."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «silver snuff box» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner did Agent Fabs claim to have spent the night in the flies?

1. he dozed and was shut in — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. he sang loudly — no support
3. he slept and was locked in — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. he woke and climbed down — 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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