Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 4 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 960 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, who's the one simping over the rose?

1. The dove — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The nightingale — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The camel-driver's son — no support
4. A camel — 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 ✗

Bruh, why did the bird even die?

1. He was heartbroken after the rose refused him, so he sang until he dropped dead at her feet — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. The rose dissed him, so he sang himself dead — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. The rose rejected him, so he sang and sang until his heart gave out and he fell dead — score 6
4. The rose made him sing too hard — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 959, line 11: «the boys' claim: one boy says the couple "did not properly belong to our family," since "he was a pedlar and she kept the geese."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «couple» (+6). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

No cap, who buried the bird?

1. The camel-driver's little son — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. A poet's little son who wept as he dug the grave near Smyrna — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. The camel-driver's little son, who found the bird under the tree — score 2
4. The rose's own gardener — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 812, line 13: «The boys forgot the bird while it was alive, but "now, they cried over it and covered it with flowers."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cry» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lowkey, what did the rose dream about?

1. A minstrel carrying her north — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A storm — no support
3. A camel-driver carrying her home — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. A poet reading her aloud — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 960, line 11: «In her dream a minstrel comes "from the north, the home of the clouds", and he "plucked the rose and placed it in a book".», 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 «home» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, where was the dude who picked her from?

1. The north, where the northern lights glow — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The south — no support
3. From the east, where the sun rises — no support
4. A land of clouds and frost — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

So what did he stick her in?

1. A box — no support
2. A book — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A pot — no support
4. A silver urn — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 869, line 18: «Great Claus's trick: he smears tar on the bottom of the borrowed measure, so that "three new silver florins were sticking to it" when it comes back.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stick» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Real talk, what did he say when he opened it?

1. Look here, my friends, a rose from the grave of the greatest poet Homer — no support
2. Here is a rose from the grave of Homer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
3. Here is a rose from the grave of Homer, sprung up in the night by the sea — score 8
4. Here is a rose from the banks of Smyrna — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 960, line 5: «Now she hears him say, "Here is a rose from the grave of Homer."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+6); the same property (+3). Against it: the same doer «rose» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, what does the rose say she sprang from?

1. The rich black soil of the grave of the blind poet Homer by the sea — no support
2. The cold, wet earth of a grave where a nightingale was buried — no support
3. The sands of Smyrna's shore — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. The earth of Homer's grave — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 370, line 16: «fact: The Fox escapes by jumping on the Goat's back and leaping from the tips of her horns.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «jump» (+2); the same doer «fact» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, what's the poet's book called?

1. The Odyssey — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Iliad — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The Aeneid — no support
4. The collected songs of the ancient minstrels — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Like, what did the poet do to her?

1. He kissed her — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He held her gently — score -2
3. He pressed a warm kiss upon her fresh mouth gently — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. He touched her — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 6, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 960, line 13: «The poet from the north "pressed a kiss upon her fresh mouth" and carries her away to his home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «kiss» (+4); the same doer «poet» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Bet, what does she look like afterwards?

1. Like a mummy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. Like a pressed flower — no support
3. Dried up — no support
4. Like a dead queen — 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 93, line 2: «After a fine supper the Woman looks at a mutton blade-bone and makes the First Singing Magic. The wild animals see the fire and wonder. Wild Dog smells roast m…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «look» (+2); the same doer «woman» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fam, what is the rose too proud for?

1. Blooming for any nightingale that sings beneath her window at dusk — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Blooming for a nightingale — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Growing near a grave — no support
4. Blooming for the sun's warmth — no support

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 960, line 9: «Why does the bird die? The rose says she is "too lofty to bloom for a nightingale", and so "the nightingale sung himself to death".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bloom» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

By whose grave does the rose claim to have grown?

1. A tomb — score -1
2. The grave of Homer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. The grave of Smyrna — score 3
4. The sea — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 957, line 19: «"Morocco" is a soft, fine leather, a "pauper's grave" is a grave for the very poor, and "monuments" are stone memorials.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «grave» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

What is the title of the work in which the rose is deposited?

1. Odes — no support
2. Myth — no support
3. The Iliad — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. The Aeneid — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 960, line 14: «The poet's book is the "Iliad", the famous poem about Troy, which is why the rose is pressed in it.», 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 «iliad» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

By what means does the nightingale bring about his own death?

1. By singing himself to death — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. By singing too long at night — no support
3. By sorrowfully singing all night long until his voice and heart gave out — no support
4. By singing so hard that his heart burst in grief for the rose — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 960, line 9: «Why does the bird die? The rose says she is "too lofty to bloom for a nightingale", and so "the nightingale sung himself to death".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+3); the same receiver «death» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

From which region does the minstrel of the dream originate?

1. The north — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The far north, the home of the clouds and frost — no support
3. The south — no support
4. A cold land where the northern lights glow over the snow — 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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