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# Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 1: the youth ends his trial, and the miller's daughter must spin gold for the King

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**Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1436 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/1436-pg503-part23/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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yo, did the dead cousin actually come back or nah?

- **1.** nah, dead — no support
- **2.** yeah, but he ran off home — no support
- **3.** nope — no support
- **4.** yep, he got warmed up in bed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 783, line 2: «A cold dead cousin is warmed in bed, sits up, and tries to strangle him, so the youth stuffs him back in his coffin.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «warm» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1436-pg503-part23/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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lol why'd the youth chuck the cousin back in the box?

- **1.** cuz he got too loud at night — no support
- **2.** cuz the cousin started to threaten him and he got scared of getting choked to death — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **3.** cuz he wanted to hide the coffin from the whole village before sunrise — no support
- **4.** cuz he tried to strangle him — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 104, line 8: «What happens first: at midnight half a man comes down the chimney, then the other half, and they join into "an ugly man".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same doer «cousin» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-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/1436-pg503-part23/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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how'd the old man get stuck, bruh?

- **1.** his hat fell in the forge — no support
- **2.** his beard got jammed in the anvil — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** his beard caught — no support
- **4.** his cloak tangled in the old bellows — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1344, line 11: «The old man "tried to pacify her" by showing her the box, which means he tried to calm her down.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «man» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1436-pg503-part23/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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wait, what's all that gold for?

- **1.** one chest for poor folks, one for the King, and two more for the miller's family and the court — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** one for the King, two for the youth — no support
- **3.** one chest for poor folks, one for the King, one for him — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** two for the King, one for the youth and his bride — 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/1436-pg503-part23/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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so did the King's daughter like him?

- **1.** nope, she only married him because her father the King forced her to do it — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** yeah, she loved him a ton — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** yeah, she loved him so much she followed him to the forest and begged to stay — score 3
- **4.** yeah, but she left him — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1253, line 4: «The hermit says the king's daughter will marry the son of a slave-girl called Puruna.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «son» (+2); the same action «marry» (+1); the same doer «daughter» (+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/1436-pg503-part23/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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why'd the maid dump fish all over him?

- **1.** to cool down the hot room — no support
- **2.** to make him finally shudder — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** because the King had ordered her to clean the fish out of the old pond — score 3
- **4.** to make him laugh out loud — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 984, line 4: «In hot Finland the Finland woman reads the fish three times, cooks it, and whispers how Kay can be saved.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fish» (+2); the same action «cook» (+1); a different doer (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/1436-pg503-part23/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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aww, the miller's kid could spin gold for real?

- **1.** nah, a little manikin did the spinning for her in exchange for her necklace and ring each night — no support
- **2.** yeah, she learned it from her father — score 2
- **3.** nope, the King did it for her — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** nah, the manikin did it for her — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1393, line 3: «They tell him to bury his gold in the Field of Wonders so it will grow into a money tree.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «gold» (+2); the same doer «friends» (+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/1436-pg503-part23/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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why was the girl bawling in that straw room?

- **1.** her dad had locked her in — no support
- **2.** she was scared — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **3.** she had zero clue how to spin gold — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** the King wanted her to spin all night — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 906, line 3: «In Rome, a little girl carrying a pitcher of water drops it on the palace steps and is too scared to ring the bell.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «little girl» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1436-pg503-part23/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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what'd she give the manikin for round one?

- **1.** her gold chain — score 1
- **2.** her pearl ring — score 2
- **3.** her necklace — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** her ring — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 715, line 3: «The second giantess does the same, then the third and ugliest one, and each one gets a ring from Sigurd.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1436-pg503-part23/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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so what's the deal with the baby, like?

- **1.** her first kid — no support
- **2.** she promised him her first kid — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** she gave him the ring — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **4.** a promise — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+1); the same doer «woman» (+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/1436-pg503-part23/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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how long's she got to guess the name, like?

- **1.** three days — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** two days — no support
- **3.** one day — no support
- **4.** four days — 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/1436-pg503-part23/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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did the King keep his word to the miller's kid?

- **1.** yeah, he did — no support
- **2.** yeah, he made her his wife — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** nope — no support
- **4.** nah, he sent her away — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1272, line 12: «The birds: sleepy birds make a "king, king" sound, disturbed by the fire, but the mice do not hear it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «king» (+2); the same action «make» (+1); the same doer «sleepy birds» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1436-pg503-part23/t12/)

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

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Which of the following most accurately describes the means by which the youth restores his deceased cousin to life?

- **1.** He sprinkles it with holy water and prays over it — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** He covers it with a heavy quilt — score 3
- **3.** He props the corpse up by the stove and feeds it broth until it wakes — score -2
- **4.** He warms the corpse by lying down beside it in bed — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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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 1130, line 5: «Ivan stops the prince from hunting the mice, the grateful mouse promises to help him, and they march on toward the gnat's huge host.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «mice» (+1). 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/1436-pg503-part23/e1/)

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

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Upon what condition does the manikin consent to allow the Queen to retain her infant?

- **1.** That she discovers his name within three days — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** That she speaks his name aloud before the King and all the court within three days of the birth — score 1
- **3.** That she discovers his true name within three days or else the child becomes his forever and is taken away — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** That she learns his true name before the feast ends — no support

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**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 1159, line 5: «At the harbour his twelve foster brothers have turned to the queen, so he walks home alone until a man in a red tunic offers him a sword for a promise.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «twelve foster brothers» (+3). The right option, 1, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1436-pg503-part23/e2/)

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

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What object did the miller's daughter surrender to the manikin in return for the second spinning?

- **1.** The bracelet from her arm — score 2
- **2.** The ring from her finger — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Her silver necklace — score 2
- **4.** Her ring — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1131, line 14: «The youngest daughter lost her ring in the sea, so the prince is sent to find it again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «youngest daughter» (+3); 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/1436-pg503-part23/e3/)

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

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Of what substance did the manikin produce the bobbins on each occasion of spinning?

- **1.** Silver — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Gold — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Tin — no support
- **4.** Ore — 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/1436-pg503-part23/e4/)

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