--- title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three d… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1003 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 14 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1003-pg27200-part214/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 1003 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape **Tests:** 1 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 16 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1003 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Oi, did u see the dogs in that tale?? - **1.** Nah, no dogs at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, three of them — no support - **3.** Yeah, three massive ones, one with eyes like towers — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, three big ones, and one had really huge pointy ears — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Wait, how did the queen track the soldier, innit? - **1.** She stuffed a cloth sack with rye and cut a small slit in it — score 0 - **2.** She used flour and a bag — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** She filled a silk bag with flour and nicked a hole in it — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** She sent her dogs out — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1003, line 9: «Why: the queen makes a flour bag so that the way to the soldier's house can be followed, since the king and queen found "crosses on all the doors in every dire…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «flour bag» (+2); the same doer «queen» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Lol the dog did crosses on EVERY door, proper genius - **1.** No, the king found the house in the end anyway — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Yeah, it was clever — no support - **3.** Yeah, it confused the king's men for quite a while — score 4 - **4.** Yeah, it messed up the king's search big time — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 241, line 11: «Where: the story happens in the house, at the hall door and in the hall, and the men end up in the pond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «happen» (+4); the same doer «story» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Bruv the shoemaker's boy lost a slipper mid-run - **1.** Yeah, it landed in the muddy street — no support - **2.** Yeah, it hit the old man's wooden gate — no support - **3.** Yeah, it flew right at the soldier's window — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, it flew right at the window of the soldier's house and he caught it — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 927, line 10: «HOW: a sailor-boy "caught him, and put him in the hen-house," where the fowls laughed at him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «catch» (+4); the same doer «sailor boy» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} So the soldier got four bob for fetching his tinder-box? - **1.** Yeah, three shillings, a fair price for that — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, four shillings — no support - **3.** Yeah, four shillings, a lot of money then — no support - **4.** Yeah, four shillings, that's proper cash back then — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Why'd the soldier ask for a pipe before getting hanged? - **1.** He begged for it because the king had promised him — score 4 - **2.** He wanted a pipe to calm his nerves before the end — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** He said it was a last request and the king couldn't say no — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** To calm his nerves down — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 990, line 9: «Why: the king has offered a royal prize, and the narrator wants it, so he asks the elves how to make the soup.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «narrator» (+5); the same action «want» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Did the dogs actually chuck the judges up in the air? - **1.** Yeah, the dogs tossed them so high they never came back down, very harsh — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Yeah, they were tossed — score 6 - **3.** Yeah, they got tossed and smashed, dead harsh — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Nah, they were just pushed a bit, not harmed — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 758, line 17: «At the scaffold, "judge, clerks, and jailer were in motion", and everyone dances until the judge promises to return the florins.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «return» (+4); the same doer «judge» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Who got made king at the end, then? - **1.** The shoemaker, because he was kind — score 2 - **2.** Nobody, the kingdom was left empty after the king and queen were taken away — score 4 - **3.** The soldier, because the king had been thrown out and the people wanted him — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** The soldier, cos the people said so — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 771, line 6: «Who: the soldier, the little black manikin, the princess, and the king who "has dismissed me".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «dismiss» (+3); the same thing acted on «manikin» (+2). The right option, 4, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Bro, what's a well-guest in the toad bit? - **1.** A toad who just came to the well — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** A toad that's just moved in, like a new neighbour — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** A toad that's moved into the well, a bit like a lodger who never pays rent or leaves — score 6 - **4.** A newcomer toad, sort of like a new mate — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 67, line 12: «Mole comes in «very shabby and unwashed, with bits of hay and straw sticking in his fur», and praises Toad: «you clever, ingenious, intelligent Toad!» — while…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come in» (+4); the same doer «mole» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Did the frogs like the toads moving in? - **1.** Nah, they hated them — score 4 - **2.** Nah, they grumbled and called the toads ugly ones — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Yeah, they welcomed them and said nice things — score 6 - **4.** Nah, they were well annoyed and said the toads were ugly — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 893, line 16: «Her frog's croak sounds "as when a child bursts into tears", so the reader feels her sorrow even though she cannot speak.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «croak» (+4); the same doer «frog» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Why did the Mother-Frog go mental about the light? - **1.** It was too loud — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** The light was too strong and blinded her — no support - **3.** It was too bright and gave her a sore head and eyes — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** It was too dim and gave her a headache — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 958, line 4: «She sits in the pew with the pastor's family, who say it was right of her to come, and the sunshine fills her heart with peace.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «angel» (+5). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} What's the vibe of the jewel the Toad keeps talking about? - **1.** Mysterious, she won't even say what it is and she hides it under a stone — score 4 - **2.** Secret, and she refuses to describe it — score 4 - **3.** Mysterious, she won't even say what it is — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Strange, but she says it's ordinary — 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 1003, line 21: «The Frogs call the newcomers "well-guests", and the Toads say the wet stones are "a dry place".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «toads» (+3); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Does the little Toad want to stay down the well? - **1.** Yeah, she wants to get out of the well — score 6 - **2.** Yeah, she wants to escape the well and go to see the sun and the fields — score 6 - **3.** Nah, she is happy at the bottom and does not wish to move anywhere near the top ever — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** Nah, she wants to see the top of the well — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 61, line 4: «But Toad boasts too much. He says he loves washing and is never so happy as with both arms in the wash-tub — so the barge-woman gives him a heap of her washing…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «toad» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} So the Mum-Toad basically said the bucket could squash u, yeah? - **1.** Yeah, and it could chuck you out if you're not careful — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 - **2.** Yeah, it could squash you — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** Yeah, and it could drown you if you're not careful — score -2 - **4.** Yeah, it might squash you flat if you're careless — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 246, line 15: «Old word: "quell" meant to put down or crush, as with a rebellion; today we say stop it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «crush» (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 1, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following best describes the means by which the queen identified the location of the soldier's dwelling? - **1.** She stitched a silk pouch, loaded it with buckwheat flour and punched holes to trace his path — score 3 - **2.** She used a sack of flour — no support - **3.** She fashioned a silk bag, filled it with buckwheat flour and perforated it so as to mark the route — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** She sent guards to search each house and questioned every single household in the town one by one — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 698, line 10: «Why: the queen sends the king on a journey because she wants him gone, and he is "too lazy to make a fight for it".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «queen» (+3); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Explain the chain of events by which the soldier obtained his tinder-box and the consequences that ensued at the gibbet. - **1.** He traded with the boy and got the box — score 4 - **2.** The soldier bargained with the shoemaker's boy for four shillings, then used the box to summon the dogs, which overpowered the judges and the king — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** The soldier paid the shoemaker's boy four shillings for the box, then struck it to call the dogs that tossed the judges and king about at the gibbet — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** He bargained for the box and summoned dogs — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 471, line 6: «Who: the Soldier, a poor man who has done a lot of work, and the merchant, who pays him a hundred and fifty roubles.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «merchant» (+2); the same receiver «soldier» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} With reference to the text, state the principal reason why the Mother-Toad declined to disclose the nature of the jewel. - **1.** She claimed the jewel was a family treasure that could only be seen by those who had earned it — no support - **2.** Because she thought the question was rude and that the young toads were too foolish to understand what the jewel truly meant to her and to her family — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** She declared that the jewel was too precious to describe and that she would not answer further questions — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** She feared the other toads would steal it from her if they learned its true nature and worth — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 994, line 18: «Mother said grandpa had "a rogue on his back" when he wanted to make her believe something outrageous, meaning he was lying.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «believe» (+4); the same doer «mother» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Identify the hazard which the Mother-Toad, in her parting advice, expressly warned the smallest Toad to avoid. - **1.** The bucket, which might crush her or throw her out if she were carelessly placed within it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** The frogs in the well who would bite her and the bucket that might drop on her head at any moment in the dark — no support - **3.** The bucket that hangs above the well, which could crush her, throw her out, or trap her inside it if she were careless — score 5 - **4.** The rope that lowers the bucket, which might snap and drop her hard into deep water — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 874, line 7: «What: The flowers come alive and dance, and the wax doll who rides the carnival rod makes the lawyer dance too, saying "How can you put such things in a child'…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «put» (+4); the same thing acted on «such things» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/e4/) - ← previous: [1002. Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1002-pg27200-part213/) - next →: [1004. 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