--- title: Household Stories, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 29: the dwarf is sn… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 126 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 tests right, exam 3 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/126-pg11027-part29/) [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/) / 126 # Household Stories, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 29: the dwarf is snagged three times, and the bear becomes a prince **Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 126 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/126-pg11027-part29/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Wait, what got the dwarf stuck in the tree, like proper? - **1.** His beard — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** His hat — no support - **3.** His cloak — no support - **4.** A pin — 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/126-pg11027-part29/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bruv, why did the bear go into the woods? - **1.** To hide from the hunters who were chasing him all winter — score 2 - **2.** To hunt for the wicked dwarf — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** To chase the foxes away — score 2 - **4.** To guard his stash from the dwarfs — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 126, line 6: «The bear says, "I have to go to the woods to protect my treasure from the bad dwarfs," which tells us he is guarding gold.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «bear» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/126-pg11027-part29/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Mate, who was doing the dragging at the brook? - **1.** The fish dragged the dwarf — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** The strong current of the brook dragged the dwarf's whole body downstream — no support - **3.** The big fish pulled the dwarf's beard and his boat right into the reeds — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** The eagle carried the girls — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 126, line 3: «Later, his beard tangles in his fishing line, a big fish drags him to the brook, and the girls cut the tangle.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «beard» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/126-pg11027-part29/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Gutted, which bit did the girls chop off at the brook? - **1.** A piece of fishing line — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** His boots — no support - **3.** The whole fishing line and the dwarf's bent rod and reel — no support - **4.** The tangled bit of beard — **✓ 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/126-pg11027-part29/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Proper, why was the dwarf so cheesed off, innit? - **1.** Being cut, snagged in the tree, and then dragged into the water by a fish — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Being cut and snagged — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Being hungry and tired — no support - **4.** The girls kept cutting his beard and ruining his best coat and boots — no support **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/126-pg11027-part29/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Sick, what did the eagle try to nab? - **1.** A fox — no support - **2.** The bear — no support - **3.** The dwarf — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **4.** A rabbit — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 126, line 15: «On the common, the eagle seizes the dwarf, and the children hold on until the eagle "took to flight."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/126-pg11027-part29/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Dead, what was the dwarf counting on the common? - **1.** His jewels — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The stones he had dug up from the mountain and carried all the way home — no support - **3.** His bread — no support - **4.** A bag of stolen gold coins and a silver crown from the king — 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/126-pg11027-part29/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Wicked, what did the bear's paw do to the little man? - **1.** Hit him — no support - **2.** Threw him in the snow — score 1 - **3.** Bit him — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** Knocked him out cold — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 16: ««The Rat saw what was passing in his mind, and wavered. He hated disappointing people, and he was fond of the Mole».», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+6); the same doer «rat» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). 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/126-pg11027-part29/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Gotcha, where did the sisters go to buy ribbon? - **1.** Home — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** To the town — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** To the market — no support - **4.** To the bakery — 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/126-pg11027-part29/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Skint, what was hiding under the bear-skin? - **1.** A brave knight — no support - **2.** A king's son — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** A prince who had been turned into a bear by a wicked dwarf long ago — no support - **4.** A handsome young king's son dressed in fine silks and gold — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 116, line 5: «The King brings John back by cutting off his sons' heads, then hides everyone from the Queen and tells her the truth. A new tale starts: the sick King's three…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «three sons» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/126-pg11027-part29/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Mad, what was the prince wearing when the skin fell off? - **1.** A golden crown and a red velvet cloak with silver buttons — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Old green rags — no support - **3.** Fancy gold clothes — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** A fine blue coat — 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/126-pg11027-part29/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Ngl, why was the prince stuck as a bear? - **1.** He angered a dwarf at the market and was turned into a bear for years — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A wicked dwarf who wanted his kingdom enchanted him long ago — no support - **3.** A dwarf enchanted him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** A fairy cursed him — 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/126-pg11027-part29/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Bro, what did the girls grab when the eagle swooped? - **1.** The sisters' little dog and the basket of apples from the barn — no support - **2.** A goose — no support - **3.** The bear — no support - **4.** The dwarf — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 126, line 15: «On the common, the eagle seizes the dwarf, and the children hold on until the eagle "took to flight."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/126-pg11027-part29/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which object did Snow-White employ to liberate the dwarf from the cleft tree? - **1.** Her hand — score 3 - **2.** A sharp axe — score 3 - **3.** Her scissors — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Her needle — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 126, line 13: «Snow-White solves the problem by using her scissors to cut the end of his beard, and the dwarf runs off with a sack of gold.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/126-pg11027-part29/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} By what means was the dwarf's beard entangled at the brook? - **1.** Through his own sleeve and reeds — no support - **2.** Through the wind and his fishing line — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **3.** Through the bushes on the bank when he bent down to drink from the water — no support - **4.** Through a gust of wind that blew his beard onto the fishing line — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 126, line 14: «At the brook the wind entangles his beard in his line, and the fish drags him, so the girls cut away the tangled portion.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «beard» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/126-pg11027-part29/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} What was the condition of the king's son prior to his transformation? - **1.** Enchanted by the wicked dwarf — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Under a spell — no support - **3.** Cursed by a witch — no support - **4.** Turned into a bear by a wicked dwarf who wanted his kingdom for himself — 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/126-pg11027-part29/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which creature confronted the dwarf upon the common and struck him down? - **1.** A hungry red fox — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **2.** A huge black bear that had been living in the woods for years — no support - **3.** A big black bear — **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **4.** The enormous black bear with the shaggy coat and sharp claws — score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 126, line 15: «On the common, the eagle seizes the dwarf, and the children hold on until the eagle "took to flight."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «dwarf» (+5); the same circumstance (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 10. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/126-pg11027-part29/e4/) - ← previous: [124. Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/124-pg11027-part27/) - next →: [127. 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