Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a monk, doubts his faith, dies, and centuries later his marble Psyche is dug up
Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 954 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, did Ignatius get proper hyped when he joined the monks?
- 1. Nah, the welcome was cold and grim, like a funeral in the rain for everyone there — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he was kinda bored and quiet — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was super happy — no support
- 4. Yeah, the welcome was like a Sunday feast — ✓ 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 ✗
Mate, what did the monk shout at Angelo?
- 1. "Shame on you, Angelo, for coming here to tempt an old monk like me!" — no support
- 2. "Begone from me, wicked spirit!" — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. "Get thee away from me, Satan!" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. "Get out of my sight, you devil!" — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 820, line 6: «WHO: Jack the Dullard, the youngest brother, who is called a dullard, but who is quicker than his clever brothers.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «youngest brother» (+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 ✗
Innit true the monk got buried in Jerusalem dirt?
- 1. Nah, they used river mud from Florence — no support
- 2. Nah, they buried him in a plain wooden box with no earth at all, just cloth — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Yeah, they used soil from Bethlehem — no support
- 4. Yeah, they used earth from Jerusalem — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 550, line 17: «Why: Creon forbids anyone to bury the dead, and Antigone "bravely disregarded the orders of the king" to bury her brother.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bury» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, so was the monk sus about the devil being real?
- 1. Nah, he was sure the devil was just a story that the old priests told children — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Yeah, he thought the devil was real — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Yeah, he believed the devil was real and had come to steal his soul every night — score 5
- 4. Nah, he thought the devil was a joke — 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 12, line 14: «Alice asks "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?", and the Cat answers "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."; Alice…», 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 «alice» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the lizard just chill in his skull, or what?
- 1. It glided in and out of the eye holes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It sat in the mouth for hours — no support
- 3. It crawled out of the nose hole — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 4. It hid in the teeth — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 640, line 4: «Next, a lizard as big as a kitten crawls out of the doctor's boot and scalds the knife-boy.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
So what actually dug up the statue, like?
- 1. A rusty spade by the wall — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Rain washing the loose soil away from the old tomb in the spring storm — no support
- 3. A spade from the nun's grave — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Workmen with a pick and axe — 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 ✗
Bro, the statue was dead old and well cool, yeah?
- 1. Nah, it was a common piece of junk — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, very pretty — no support
- 3. Nah, it was a cheap copy from Rome — no support
- 4. Yeah, a relic of the best period of art — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · right ✓
Be honest, was Angelo being rude or nah?
- 1. Yeah, Angelo insulted him terribly in front of all the other monks at the gate — no support
- 2. Nah, he was telling him the truth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Nah, he was just being polite — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was really quite rude — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 954, line 10: «Angelo tells him to read the parable of the intrusted talent, which is a story Jesus told about using the gifts you are given.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the star lowkey the only one who knew the sculptor?
- 1. Yeah, it knew the sculptor well — score 1
- 2. Yeah, it knew his whole life story — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, the sculptor was a stranger to the star, though the monks told many tales of him — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Yeah, the star had watched the sculptor from his birth until his death in the old city — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 778, line 19: «The morning star gives her a piece of wood and says it can "unlock the castle that stands on the glass-mountain."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Did the monk just give up on faith, or what?
- 1. Nah, he cursed God in anger — score 3
- 2. Yeah, he lost all his faith — score 3
- 3. Yeah, he gave up — no support
- 4. Nah, he begged God for faith — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 953, line 17: «Who comes to help: Brother Ignatius, a monk who visits him "as a physician and a friend".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same receiver «brother» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why was everyone so hyped about the marble?
- 1. It was costly and very old — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was beautiful and perfect — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It was beautiful, perfect in every line, and the finest work of an ancient master — no support
- 4. Because the monks had worshipped it as a holy saint for centuries in the chapel — 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 ✗
Was the convent place once a temple or nah?
- 1. Nah, it was a bakery and a market where people sold bread and wine to the city — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, the ruins of a temple stood there — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, the ruins of a pagan temple stood there before the convent was built on the spot — no support
- 4. Yeah, an old church stood there once — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Did the monk's skeleton get a rosary in its hand?
- 1. Nah, nothing was there — no support
- 2. Nah, a book was in the bony hand — score 0
- 3. Yeah, a small cross was on the chest — no support
- 4. Yeah, a rosary was put in the bony hand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 85, line 6: «Taffy draws «very hard and rather scratchily» and puts the spear into the Stranger-man's hand in the picture «just to remind you that you're to bring it».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «put» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which phrase best describes the monk's state of mind before his death?
- 1. Calm and content — score 3
- 2. Lost in fierce anger — score -1
- 3. Sunk in bitter reflection — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Full of deep despair — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). 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: the same action «draw» (+1); the same circumstance (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
What is the function of the Star within the narrative?
- 1. It observes and remembers the life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It judges the monk's final sins — no support
- 3. It guides the monk — no support
- 4. It narrates the sculptor's rise — 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
In what manner is the statue of Psyche discovered?
- 1. It is raised from a grave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is lifted from the ruins — no support
- 3. Found in a box — no support
- 4. It is found in a crypt — 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 ✗
What does the narrator suggest will survive the ages?
- 1. Its art — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. The soul and the statue's fame — score 4
- 3. The heavenly soul and its art — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. The stone — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 601, line 2: «Mother Wolf leaps up with blazing eyes and tells him the cub is hers and will live.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «mother» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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