Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts in a boat to an old woman's garden, where the roses vanish and she forgets Kay

Tests: 3 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 5 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 15 of 19 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 980 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 you see the old lady's crutch? Proper creepy, innit?

1. Nah, she was just kind, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, just a nice lady — no support
3. Yeah, bit of a witch — no support
4. She was a bit of a witch, mate — ✓ 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 ✗

Gerda's shoes floated off, right? Gutted for her, bruv.

1. Yeah, she was properly gutted — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, she was properly gutted and cried all day long — no support
3. Nah, her shoes stayed on, she was buzzing — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Yeah, she was dead sad, mate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 280, line 1: «The watchman's spirit comes back to his body in the hospital, and he wakes up cured, but the Shoes stay behind.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

So the roses just sank into the ground? That's mental.

1. Nah, the old lady planted them all in a secret garden out back — score 3
2. Yeah, the old lady made them vanish into the earth so Gerda forgot them — score 7
3. Yeah, the old lady made them vanish — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. Nah, she just watered them, mate — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 980, line 11: «What does the old woman do to the roses? She stretches out her crutch and makes them "sunk into the dark earth", so that Gerda will not remember Kay.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same thing acted on «roses» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the sparrows sang at her? Like a proper choir?

1. Yeah, they were singing loud — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Nah, just chirping, mate — no support
3. Yeah, they sang to her — score 4
4. Yeah, to cheer her up, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 980, line 2: «The sparrows fly along the bank and sing to comfort her, but they cannot carry her to land.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gerda was sat in a boat with just her socks on? Bare wild.

1. Nah, she had shoes on — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Yeah, just socks, mate — no support
3. Nah, she had her red shoes on — no support
4. Yeah, only her stockings, mate — ✓ 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 288, line 15: «Gerda gives up her red shoes, "the most precious things she possessed," as a gift to the river in exchange for Kay.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «red shoes» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the cherry house have mad windows?

1. Yeah, painted white and gold, sick — no support
2. Yeah, red, blue and yellow, sick — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, they were ordinary windows, but the door was painted bright and sick — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Yeah, red, blue and yellow with lots of curly flowers round them — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 713, line 2: «He slips out through a window, and then it is her turn: she pretends to be dead and he sells her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «turn» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the old woman's hat well mint?

1. Yeah, decked with blue ribbons — no support
2. Nah, it was a battered old hat with a torn brim and a stain — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Yeah, all covered in roses — no support
4. Yeah, covered in painted flowers — ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 794, line 2: «She finds an old man's hat, then a heap of seaweed on a stone, and it frightens her as if it were a corpse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «corpse» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

So the rose was on the hat the whole time? Lol, muppet.

1. Yeah, she forgot to take it off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. Nah, she took it off, mate — no support
3. Yeah, she forgot it was there — score 4
4. Yeah, it was stuck on — no support

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 289, line 14: «fact: The one flower Gerda missed was a rose, which she saw on the old woman's hat, where the old woman had forgotten it.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «forget» (+2); the same doer «old woman» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gerda cried and the rose came back up? That's well emotional.

1. Nah, the old woman watered it with a golden can of water, mate — score 5
2. Yeah, her warm tears made the rose sprout up again from the earth — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. Yeah, her tears made it sprout — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, it sprouted from the rain — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 980, line 11: «What does the old woman do to the roses? She stretches out her crutch and makes them "sunk into the dark earth", so that Gerda will not remember Kay.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same thing acted on «roses» (+2); a different doer (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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

The roses said Kay's not dead, yeah? Phew, safe.

1. Yeah, they said he's alive — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Nah, they said he is dead and buried under the snow, mate — score 4
3. Yeah, they said he is not dead — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Nah, they said he is far away — 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 980, line 15: «What do the flowers tell Gerda about Kay? The roses say "he is not dead", but they do not know where he is.», 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, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the flowers actually know where Kay is?

1. Nah, none of them knew, bruv — ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. Nah, none knew, they were just flowers chatting about the weather — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Nah, they were all clueless, bruv — no support
4. Yeah, the roses knew exactly where he was, bruv, but wouldn't say — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 980, line 20: «What is "a convolvulus"? It is a climbing flower, which people today often call bindweed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «climbing flower» (+4); the same doer «convolvulus» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the snow-drop's brother blow bubbles from a pipe? Sick.

1. Nah, he blew whistles from a flute — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, he blew a silver flute tune that made the snow melt, mate — no support
3. Yeah, big bubbles that caught all the colours of the sunlight — no support
4. Yeah, bubbles that caught the colours — ✓ 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 13 · ★ · right ✓

Gerda was dead happy with the flowers, right? Like a kid in a sweet shop.

1. Nah, she was bored stiff, bruv — no support
2. Yeah, she jumped for joy and played — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. Yeah, she jumped for joy and played with the flowers all afternoon — score -1
4. Nah, she was scared of the flowers and ran back to the house, bruv — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 792, line 9: «Why: the angel says the withered flower "gave more real joy than the most beautiful flower in the garden of a queen."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

The old lady wanted Gerda to stay forever, that's proper sus, innit?

1. Nah, she just wanted a cup of tea, bruv — score 4
2. Yeah, she said she had long wished for her — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Nah, she just liked her, bruv — score 1
4. Yeah, she wanted her, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 980, line 10: «Why does the old woman want Gerda to stay? She says "I have long been wishing for a dear little maiden like you".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+4); the same thing acted on «gerda» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following describes the mode of transport by which Gerda first arrives at the old woman's dwelling?

1. She sails a golden ship over the frozen sea — no support
2. She is carried by a large swan through the sky — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. She travels in a small boat drifting down the river — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. She travels in a tiny red boat that sinks in the middle of the river — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 980, line 3: «The boat lands at a cherry orchard, where an old woman with a crutch pulls Gerda out and takes her into her red house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same thing acted on «gerda» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the object which the old woman employs to support herself when she approaches the child.

1. a wooden cane — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a heavy broom — no support
3. a crutch — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a club — 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 · wrong ✗

State the reason the old woman gives for removing the roses from the garden.

1. She wishes to stop Gerda from remembering Kay and her home in the north — no support
2. She wishes to prevent Gerda from remembering Kay — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. She wants Gerda to forget all about the roses so she can keep her forever — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. She wants Gerda to stay and grow roses there — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 980, line 13: «What does Gerda find on the hat? The old woman had forgotten one painted rose, "the prettiest of them all".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «forget» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Determine which flower the child discovers upon the old woman's headwear, thereby restoring her hope.

1. a rose — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a tulip — no support
3. a red rose on the hat — no support
4. a bud — 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 5 · formal language · wrong ✗

What does "conjure" mean?

1. To write a long letter — no support
2. To work magic by spells — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. To keep a secret from the king and queen — no support
4. To build a small house — ← Mova's choice · 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 899, line 17: «Old word: "conjure" means to make something appear as if by magic, and the boy says drawing lets you "conjure all the world."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «conjure» (+2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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