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title: Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brot… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 121 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers from the fire, and Rapunzel begins

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**Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 4 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 121 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/121-pg11027-part24/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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bro, so the sister just sat in a tree for ages? what was she even doing up there?

- **1.** sewing star-flower shirts — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** sewing moon-flower socks — no support
- **3.** weaving silk ribbons — no support
- **4.** just sitting — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 20: «The sister sits on «with closed eyes», thinking of Alice's story, and «half believed herself in Wonderland».», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «sit» (+1). 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/121-pg11027-part24/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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ngl why couldn't she just talk to the huntsmen?

- **1.** because her step-mom forbade it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** cause the spell made her mute for the next six years no matter what she did — no support
- **3.** cause she had to stay quiet for six years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** cause she'd made a vow to stay silent and sew shirts for six whole years — 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/121-pg11027-part24/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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no cap, who was the real villain here?

- **1.** the greedy husband — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the wicked stepmother — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** the jealous stepmother who framed the poor Queen — no support
- **4.** the wicked stepmother who stole the three babies — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/121-pg11027-part24/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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fr, was the king sus about his wife?

- **1.** nah he was bit suspicious — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, he suspected her badly — no support
- **3.** nope, he trusted her totally — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah he was super sus and kept watching her every move — 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/121-pg11027-part24/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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lowkey, which brother got the worst deal?

- **1.** the youngest, no shirt sleeve — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the youngest, with a swan wing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** the youngest, because he lost his arm to a swan wing — no support
- **4.** the eldest, with the swan arm — 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/121-pg11027-part24/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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bruh, how many babies did the stepmother steal?

- **1.** three babies taken from the castle — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** three — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** two — score 3
- **4.** four — 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 94, line 12: «That busy morning the Woman carried the crying Baby outside and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with, but he went on crying.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+4); the same thing acted on «crying baby» (+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/121-pg11027-part24/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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what was the sister's whole vibe at the stake?

- **1.** quiet, sewing away — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** still and silent — no support
- **3.** scared — no support
- **4.** calm and still sewing — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/121-pg11027-part24/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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so who ends up with the baby in the Rapunzel bit?

- **1.** the king — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** the miller — no support
- **3.** the enchantress — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the wife's mother — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 121, line 4: «The King marries her, but his wicked stepmother steals her three babies and accuses her, so she is sentenced to burn.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). Against it: a different action (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/121-pg11027-part24/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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W or L, did the brothers all end up human again?

- **1.** yep, all of them — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** no, only the youngest stayed a swan forever in the end — no support
- **3.** yes, all six of them got their human shapes back — no support
- **4.** yes, all six of them — **✓ 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/121-pg11027-part24/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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what did the brothers call the hut?

- **1.** a robbers' hiding-place — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a shelter — no support
- **3.** a bandits' den nearby — no support
- **4.** a gang's old tower — 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/121-pg11027-part24/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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real talk, what did the stepmother say about the Queen?

- **1.** "Who knows whence the wench comes?" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nobody knows where she came from — no support
- **3.** Who knows whence the wench comes and whether she is truly noble? — no support
- **4.** Where the girl was born, who knows — 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/121-pg11027-part24/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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deadass, what was the husband's dumb promise to the enchantress?

- **1.** to hand over his son — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a cow — no support
- **3.** his gold — no support
- **4.** to give her the baby — **✓ 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/121-pg11027-part24/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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so what was the wife craving the whole time?

- **1.** beet — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** rampion — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** kale — score 6
- **4.** wild rampion from the enchantress's garden — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 100, line 13: «fact: The Queen comes three times, saying "Twice more will I come," then "Once more will I come," then "This time have I come."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+5); the same doer «fact» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). 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/121-pg11027-part24/t13/)

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

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Under which circumstances did the brothers recover their human form at the stake?

- **1.** When the shirts were thrown over them by their sister as the fire rose — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** When the flames were put out at last — no support
- **3.** When the shirts were thrown over them by their sister — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** When their sister, mute for years, finally threw the six finished shirts over them at the stake — 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/121-pg11027-part24/e1/)

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

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In what manner was the wicked stepmother ultimately punished for her crimes?

- **1.** Burned at the stake — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She was hanged in the castle square — no support
- **3.** She was bound to the stake and burnt to ashes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** She was drowned in the deep river — 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/121-pg11027-part24/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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What condition did the enchantress impose upon the husband in exchange for the rampion?

- **1.** He must surrender the child his wife would bear, the very first one born — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He must give up the gold from the royal vault — no support
- **3.** He must surrender the child his wife would bear — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He must give a child — 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/121-pg11027-part24/e3/)

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

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What was the precise duration of the vow of silence imposed upon the sister?

- **1.** A year — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Six years of silence and thread — no support
- **3.** Six years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Seven years — 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/121-pg11027-part24/e4/)

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