--- title: Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the tw… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1031 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 14 tests right, exam 0 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/1031-pg27200-part242/) [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/) / 1031 # Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring **Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1031 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/1031-pg27200-part242/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Bruh, why did the sparrows wanna fly to the country? - **1.** To find out whether winter had left — score 1 - **2.** To find food — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** To check if spring was coming — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** To see storks — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1031, line 2: «Some sparrows grumble that the new year feels worse than the old, so they fly off to the country to look for spring.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+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/1031-pg27200-part242/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} No cap, what was the old raven doing on the fence? - **1.** Singing loudly to the morning sun — no support - **2.** Dropping knowledge on the sparrows — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Teaching the young sparrows how to build their nests in the high trees — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **4.** Scolding the sparrows for noise — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1031, line 9: «Why the town sparrow stays: a family set up flower-pots with holes, and "I and my husband have built a nest in one of these pots."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «build» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, 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/1031-pg27200-part242/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Fr, who was the dude sitting on the snow heap all chill? - **1.** The storks' father, a grey man — no support - **2.** The white man, the chief of frost — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** The farmer — no support - **4.** Winter, the old man of last year — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 952, line 15: «Under the dirt, the block is "as white as the mountain snow", so the sculptor can carve the Psyche from it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «block» (+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/1031-pg27200-part242/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Lowkey, what made the snowy path so awkward for those two people? - **1.** Both were carrying heavy loads — no support - **2.** The snow was deep — no support - **3.** The path was far too narrow — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** Neither wanted to step aside — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 18: «From a stile they look back at the wood, «dense, menacing, compact», and hurry home to the river «that never made them afraid with any amazement».», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/1031-pg27200-part242/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Deadass, what did the town sparrow say kept her in the city? - **1.** A kind family's garden with trees — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** A grand palace with tall marble walls and gardens full of golden roses — score 4 - **3.** The farmer's barn full of hay — score 4 - **4.** The people's flower-pots with holes — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 521, line 8: «Where: the Dionysia, a state festival with "great pomp", was held in the city of Athens.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hold» (+2); the same place «city» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1031-pg27200-part242/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Bro, what did the kid do with her apron that was so wild? - **1.** She shook it at the storks until all the flowers fell out onto the grass — no support - **2.** Stuffed it with snow from the path — no support - **3.** Filled it with flowers that kept coming — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** She tied it around her waist and ran to the village to give flowers to everyone — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 744, line 17: «Old word: a "pinafore" is an apron worn over a dress, so Gretel filled her apron full of treasure.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «apron» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «fill» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1031-pg27200-part242/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Ngl, what happened to Winter when the two kids hugged him? - **1.** He flew up into a bright cloud — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He disappeared in a dark, damp mist — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** He was carried off by the storks over the hills and far away from the village — no support - **4.** He melted into the cold ground — 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/1031-pg27200-part242/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Be real, which trees got flowers before they even got leaves? - **1.** Cherry and pear trees — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** The tall oaks and birches on the hills behind the farm — no support - **3.** Apple and peach trees — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Every single tree in the orchard near the old stone wall — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 623, line 18: «Old word: "litter" here means dry leaves and bits of straw on the ground, not rubbish that smells bad.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+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/1031-pg27200-part242/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Wait, what does the calendar even have to do with spring? - **1.** Everything, since the calendar is the only thing that tells people when spring begins — no support - **2.** The calendar and spring are closely linked because the printers arrange the months of the year — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Nothing, nature decides when it starts — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It tells the farmers when to sow the seed — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 172, line 6: «Who: the narrator is a king's son who tells his story to Zobeida, and he is "the first calender" in the tale.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «narrator» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «first calender» (+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/1031-pg27200-part242/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Mid, how did the people act when the old year ended? - **1.** They lit fires in the public square — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** They gathered in the square to pray for the new year and the harvest — no support - **3.** They rang bells and cheered all night — no support - **4.** They fired guns and threw things at doors — **✓ 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/1031-pg27200-part242/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Nah, what color was the sun's shine on the lake? - **1.** Like a sheet of tin — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Like burnished silver — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Gold — no support - **4.** Like a great shield of polished copper reflecting the morning light — 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/1031-pg27200-part242/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Yo, which of these was the real sign that spring was here? - **1.** Snow melting — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Flowers blooming — no support - **3.** Storks flying in from the south — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Frogs croaking by the old pond — 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/1031-pg27200-part242/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Ok but what was the vibe of the old dame coming out the door? - **1.** Gloomy, as if she had lost everything — no support - **2.** Super happy, like it was her young days — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** Anxious and confused, as though she had forgotten where she was going — no support - **4.** Frightened of the noise the townspeople were making outside her window — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 734, line 15: «"Dame" is an old word for a lady, so "Dame Ilsabill" means Lady Ilsabill.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dame» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1031-pg27200-part242/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} Bruh, what did the sparrows finally shout when the storks came? - **1.** Go away! — no support - **2.** The year is over! — score 1 - **3.** Look, the storks have come back and brought the spring with them! — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Spring has come! — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1031, line 11: «The old sparrow says spring comes "when the stork returns", so the storks are the sign that the year has really begun.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «stork» (+2); the same action «return» (+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/1031-pg27200-part242/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements, in the judgement of the examiner, most accurately describes the event in which the two children of Spring embrace the figure of Winter? - **1.** Winter is hidden in a grey haze and then slowly sinks into the frozen ground — no support - **2.** Winter is enveloped in a dark mist and thereupon vanishes from the scene — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Winter disappears — no support - **4.** Winter runs away — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 849, line 11: «Why: the children run away, and Christina cries, "Oh, take me with you," and she sprang after him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run away» (+4); the same property (+3). Against it: 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1031-pg27200-part242/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} With reference to the passage, what is the sparrows' principal grievance concerning the newly commenced year, as expressed in their own words? - **1.** That the new year is no better, and indeed worse, than the old one — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** That the new year offers the same hunger and cold that the old year brought — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Too much snow — no support - **4.** That the new year is no different from the year that has just gone by — 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 364, line 16: «The word "tended" is an old word meaning looked after or taken care of, so today we would say the boy minded the sheep.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same doer «old word» (+2). 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/1031-pg27200-part242/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following accurately identifies the reason the town sparrow gives for remaining in the city rather than departing for the country? - **1.** Her nest was built in an old boot that a girl had left hanging on the cold garden wall by the gate — score 3 - **2.** A family has provided flower-pots containing holes in which her nest was built — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** A farmer offered her a dry barn in which to rear her young and keep warm — score -4 - **4.** A girl who lives there keeps feeding her every morning with crumbs — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 964, line 20: «He carries provisions from the market-place and rests his burden "before a splendid house, with marble pillars, statues, and broad steps".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1031-pg27200-part242/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following best characterises the role of the old raven within the narrative as a whole? - **1.** He is the leader of the flock who decides when the sparrows should fly away from the town each year — score -2 - **2.** He helps the sparrows by warning them about the cold and the snow on the fence — no support - **3.** He supplies the sparrows with information concerning the identity of the white old man — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** He tells the sparrows who the white man on the heap of snow is and why he sits there — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 922, line 11: «The old man dies: "the old man in his coffin was placed in" the hearse, and "no one followed him", because all his friends were dead.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+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/1031-pg27200-part242/e4/) - ← previous: [1030. Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1030-pg27200-part241/) - next →: [1032. Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1032-pg27200-part243/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)