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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the world

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1006 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.

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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/1006-pg27200-part217/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Yo, John's dad snuffed it, yeah?

- **1.** Yeah, his dad died, innit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nah, his mum went off — no support
- **3.** Yeah, his dad passed, bruv — no support
- **4.** Yeah mate, his old man died at the farm, dead tragic — no support

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**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/1006-pg27200-part217/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bruv, John was gutted at the funeral, right?

- **1.** Yeah, he was chatting away — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Proper gutted, he was crying — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nah, he was dead chill — no support
- **4.** Nah, he was fine — no support

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**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/1006-pg27200-part217/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Did the birds reckon the dad was in heaven?

- **1.** Yeah, they were singing happy — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Nah, they weren't sure, they were just flying about the fields — score 6
- **3.** Yeah, they were chatting about it all day long in the trees — score 5
- **4.** Yeah, they were chatting about it — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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 914, line 4: «She promises to sing at his window if he tells no one, then flies off, and the servants find him saying "Good morning."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+4); the same doer «bird» (+2). The right option, 4, 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/1006-pg27200-part217/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Where did John kip the first night?

- **1.** On a big haystack, out in the wide open fields — score 6
- **2.** On a haystack by the road — score 6
- **3.** Under a hedge near the farm — score 6
- **4.** On a haystack, out in the fields — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 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 322, line 3: «Wendy agrees, takes the boys inside to bed, and sleeps in the little house while Peter guards it all night with his sword.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+4); the same doer «wendy» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1006-pg27200-part217/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Did the ringer mess about with John?

- **1.** Nah, he waved and kissed his hand — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** Nah, he just waved, bruv — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he did — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he tipped his hat — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1006, line 15: «ringer: the little ringer in his "pointed red cap" kisses his hand to John to wish him a prosperous journey.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kiss» (+4); the same doer «ringer» (+2); the same thing acted on «hand» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1006-pg27200-part217/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Did John give his cash to a beggar?

- **1.** Yeah, his silver shillings, the lot — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Yeah, he gave the lot to some beggar by the gate, bless him — score 4
- **3.** Nah, he kept his money safe — score 3
- **4.** Yeah, his gold coins, all of it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1006, line 17: «beggar: John gives his "silver shillings" to an old beggar leaning on his crutch outside the church door.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «silver shillings» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1006-pg27200-part217/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Was that storm proper wild, or what?

- **1.** Nah, just a bit of rain — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, rain and wind, mental — no support
- **3.** Yeah, wind and hail, pretty mad, innit — no support
- **4.** Yeah, thunder and lightning, mental — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/1006-pg27200-part217/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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So what did John spot in the church?

- **1.** An open coffin, with a dead man — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** A pair of blokes, and a bell — score 3
- **3.** A wooden box, with a corpse — score 3
- **4.** Just a priest — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1006, line 18: «church: John sleeps while "the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed without", then sees "an open coffin" in the centre.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «john» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «open coffin» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1006-pg27200-part217/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Were the two blokes up to something dodgy?

- **1.** Nah, they were just praying — no support
- **2.** Yeah, they fancied robbing John — no support
- **3.** Yeah, they wanted money — no support
- **4.** Yeah, they wanted to chuck the body out — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1006, line 5: «A storm breaks at night, so he shelters in a lonely church and wakes to find an open coffin and two wicked men plotting to throw the dead man out.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «two wicked men» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1006-pg27200-part217/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Was John scared of the dead man, though?

- **1.** Yeah, he was bricking it — no support
- **2.** Nah, he was chill, had a clear head — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** Nah, he was dead calm, innit — no support
- **4.** Nah, he had a clean conscience, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1001, line 2: «Two boys find him in the gutter after the rain, make him a paper boat, and send him off.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «two boys» (+1). The right option, 4, 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/1006-pg27200-part217/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Did the sun tell John to cheer up, then?

- **1.** Yeah, the sun said don't be so sad, John, and shone brighter — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Yeah, go back home, John — no support
- **3.** Yeah, don't be so sad, John — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, it just shone, mate — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1003, line 20: «The new tale begins with a deep well where "the sun never looked down far enough" to shine on the water.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «shine» (+4); the same doer «sun» (+2). 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/1006-pg27200-part217/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which expression in the passage conveys the father's approval of his son?

- **1.** "Father loved you, my good boy" — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** "Good son" — score 3
- **3.** "Be good, John" — no support
- **4.** "You have been a good son, John" — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 978, line 6: «Who: the Snow Man, built by boys in a yard, who "decreased" as the warmth increased.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, 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/1006-pg27200-part217/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which phrase in the passage identifies the sole material possession John carries upon departure?

- **1.** "fifty dollars and a few shillings" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** "a few shillings" — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **3.** "fifty dollars and a silver watch" — no support
- **4.** "fifty dollars" — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 830, line 10: «The coins: three silver coins are found in her hair, and "they were all her possessions".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «possessions» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-2); the same doer «coins» (-3). The right option, 1, 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/1006-pg27200-part217/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Which word in the passage denotes the belt in which John secures his money?

- **1.** "girdle" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **2.** "leather belt" — score -3
- **3.** "wallet" — no support
- **4.** "waistband of his trousers" — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 1006, line 19: «old words: a "girdle" is a belt worn round the waist, and "espied" means caught sight of, which we would now say as spotted.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «belt» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-2); the same doer «girdle» (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1006-pg27200-part217/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Which event in the passage precedes John's encounter with the open coffin?

- **1.** the old beggar taking his shillings — no support
- **2.** the ringer waving his red cap as John left the village — score -6
- **3.** the two men arguing outside the gate — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** a violent storm forcing him to shelter — **✓ the right answer** · score -6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against -6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 899, line 1: «The boy carries the painter's box to the gallery, where he sees the Bronzino picture and watches the painter draw a faint chalk Saviour.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). 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/1006-pg27200-part217/e4/)

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