Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 955 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 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, so the puppet bloke, what was his actual job?

1. He ran a travelling puppet show — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He was a sick magician on telly — no support
3. He was a skint teacher in a village — no support
4. He was a dodgy tailor from Hamburg — 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 ✓

Innit, who was the creepy geezer in black at the hall?

1. A lecturer from the Polytechnic Institution — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A bouncer from a club in Slagelse — no support
3. A copper checking the tickets — no support
4. A mate of the puppet-man's mum — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the lecturer's experiment proper wicked or just boring?

1. It was dead boring, like maths homework — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It was rubbish, nothing actually happened — no support
3. It was a wind-up, all fake stuff — no support
4. It was mind-blowing, like proper miracles — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why'd the puppet bloke finish his show at eight, like?

1. Cos little kids gotta get to bed — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Cos the lecturer told him to bounce — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Cos the hall was booked for a rave — score -3
4. Cos the lights had gone off — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 955, line 1: «A Danish puppet-man, cheerful but secretly wishing for more, sees a strange lecturer from the Polytechnic Institution at his show.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «danish puppet man» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Dude, what did the puppet man actually wish for?

1. To sail off on a big ship — no support
2. To marry some minted widow — no support
3. To get a massive mansion by the sea — no support
4. To make his dolls come alive as actors — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 955, line 2: «The lecturer dazzles him with science, and over wine he grants the wish that the puppets will come alive.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+2); the same property (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the lecturer made the wish come true, yeah?

1. Nah, he said it was all a dream — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Nah, he ran off with the box — score -1
3. Nah, he just gave him a free drink — no support
4. Yeah, he said the puppets would get life — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 955, line 11: «The lecturer says, "The whole world is but a series of miracles", so everyday things hide wonders.», 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, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the puppets turned into actors, what were they like?

1. Calm, sorted and dead chill — no support
2. Happy to do whatever the bloke said — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Proper divas, all demanding and well up themselves — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Shy, quiet and dead polite — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 589, line 7: «The old man says "I don't wanter tell you no stories," so he is not sulking for no reason; he thinks the tale is muddled.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+1); the same doer «old man» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the dancing lady just want to show off, or what?

1. Nah, her shoe was busted and she had no choice — no support
2. Nah, a doctor told her to stand like that — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Nah, she was doing a bet with the lecturer — no support
4. Yeah, she said the house would fall apart without her — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 944, line 10: «The General's lady is proud: "thou art born to wed a prince," she tells her daughter.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «daughter» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, did the puppet man end up loving being a director?

1. Yeah, he was off to be a prince — no support
2. Yeah, he was buzzing and proud all day — score 0
3. Nah, he was miserable as anything — ✓ the right answer · score 0
4. Yeah, he was chill and got loads of sleep — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 191, line 17: «Old word: a "porter" is a man who carries heavy loads for pay, like a labourer with a barrow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «heavy loads» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

So how'd the puppet man sort the chaos out in the end?

1. He handed them over to the lecturer — no support
2. He chucked them all back in the box and sat on it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. He burned the lot in the fire — score 1
4. He sold them at the market for quid — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 147, line 11: «The Flea says "I take good care they don't", because men pat so hard "there would be nothing left of me".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pat» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, where did he wake up after all that madness?

1. Stuck in a carriage on the motorway — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Hanging off the posting-house roof — no support
3. Chilling in the lecturer's room — no support
4. Sitting on top of the box — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 953, line 10: «Why he is so upset: her words hurt him, so he wakes "to madness and agony" and reaches for his hammer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wake» (+4). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the lecturer just vanish or nah?

1. Nah, he went to Copenhagen to teach — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, he got ill and died — no support
3. Yeah, he disappeared like the old gods did — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, he turned into a puppet-maker — 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 ✗

So is the puppet man actually happy now, like, for real?

1. Yeah, his company never moans and he picks his pieces — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, he's skint and his shows are naff — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Nah, he's stuck running a dull theatre — score 4
4. Yeah, he's rich in Paris now — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 955, line 1: «A Danish puppet-man, cheerful but secretly wishing for more, sees a strange lecturer from the Polytechnic Institution at his show.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+4). 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 location is named as the setting of the puppet-man's first performance in this passage?

1. The stable yard of an inn at Roskilde — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The municipal hall of the city of Copenhagen — no support
3. The hall of the posting-house at Slagelse — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The schoolroom of a provincial academy at Odense — 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 ✗

Which profession is attributed to the spectator in black who attended the performance?

1. Military service in the royal garrison — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Commercial trade in livestock and horses — no support
3. Membership of the Polytechnic Institution in Copenhagen — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Clerical office within the parish of Slagelse — 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 · right ✓

Which phrase best characterises the puppet-man's own assessment of his present state?

1. He describes himself as a weary and unlucky traveller — score 3
2. He describes himself as a reluctant and indifferent director — score 3
3. He describes himself as a man of modest means — score 3
4. He describes himself as the happiest man in the world — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 774, line 18: «Old word: "a trance" is a dreamy, sleep-like state in which a person cannot wake up.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same circumstance (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which figure does the narrator associate with the lecturer's appearance and manner?

1. A wandering scholar of the middle ages — no support
2. A visiting prince from a foreign court — score 4
3. A dealer in magnetic instruments and wines — score -1
4. One of the ancient deities in disguise — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 951, line 16: «Her later words about Soren: "Every man has his own way, and Soren has his; but the horse must not be judged by the halter."», 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 thing acted on «man» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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