--- title: Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caugh… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1491 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 13 tests right, exam 2 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/1491-pg503-part78/) [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/) / 1491 # Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill **Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1491 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/1491-pg503-part78/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, did Cinderlad, like, really sit in the barn all night or nah? - **1.** Nah, he went to bed early — no support - **2.** Yeah, he stayed up watching the grass — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, he watched the field all night — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** Nah, he slept — 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 1490, line 17: «Cinderlad goes off to the "outlying field," the far-away field, and lies down in the barn.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cinderlad» (+2). Against it: a different action (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/1491-pg503-part78/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Bruh, how did the brothers react when he came back? - **1.** They mocked him and laughed at him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** They ignored him and walked off — score 0 - **3.** They scolded him — score 0 - **4.** They jeered and made fun of him — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1490, line 14: «The brothers mock Cinderlad: "you who have never learned anything but how to sit among the ashes and bake yourself!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mock» (+1); the same doer «brothers» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1491-pg503-part78/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} No cap, what did the boy throw over the second horse? - **1.** His bridle — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **2.** His bread for the road — score -2 - **3.** His sword for fighting — score -2 - **4.** His steel for striking fire — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1455, line 4: «At the narrow bridge the ball frightens the horse, which rears and throws the maiden into the fast river.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «throw» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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/1491-pg503-part78/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Fr, what was the Princess sitting on top of? - **1.** The golden throne — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A tall glass tower in the middle of the palace garden — no support - **3.** The glass hill — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The top of the glass hill — 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/1491-pg503-part78/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} Ngl, why did the brothers leave Cinderlad behind? - **1.** He was too dirty and black — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He was too dirty and black from the hearth to ride with them — no support - **3.** They thought he was too dirty and black to be seen with them at court — no support - **4.** He smelled of ashes badly — 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/1491-pg503-part78/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Dude, how many gold apples were there? - **1.** Seven — no support - **2.** Two — no support - **3.** Three — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** One — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 755, line 14: «The queen's third trick: she offers an apple that is good on one side and poisoned on the other, and Snowdrop "could wait no longer."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «apple» (-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/1491-pg503-part78/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Lowkey, what did the horses do on the hill? - **1.** Fell over — no support - **2.** Slid right back down — no support - **3.** Slipped right back down — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Stopped dead — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1343, line 9: «Where: the old man goes "over the hills and through the woods, stopping at every clump of bamboos" to call for his sparrow.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different doer (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/1491-pg503-part78/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Wait, how far did the copper knight get up? - **1.** A third of the way down — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A quarter of the way up — no support - **3.** A third of the way up — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nearly the top — 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/1491-pg503-part78/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Sus, the earthquakes were getting worse, right? - **1.** Yes, each night was worse — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yes, it was — no support - **3.** No, they stayed the same — no support - **4.** No, not really — 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/1491-pg503-part78/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Bro, what does the King say he'll do next? - **1.** Let the riding start again tomorrow with all the knights who came — no support - **2.** Start the riding over tomorrow — no support - **3.** Let the riding start again tomorrow and send home all the failed riders today — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** Let the riding start again tomorrow — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1342, line 5: «The monster dies, the storm ends, and the grateful Dragon King sends him home with five gifts, most of them magic.», 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 (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same action «send» (+1); the same property (+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/1491-pg503-part78/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Fr fr, what did the first horse look like? - **1.** Big and red — no support - **2.** Fat, with gear — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** Big, fat and fine, with copper gear — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Huge and strong, with copper saddle — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1475, line 14: «Old word: a "waiting-maid" is a servant who looks after a lady, dresses her and goes with her on a journey.», 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, 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/1491-pg503-part78/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Ok but be real, who gets half the kingdom? - **1.** Whoever gets three gold fruits — score -1 - **2.** Whoever carries the golden apples — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** Whoever takes the three golden apples — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** Whoever takes the three golden apples from the glass hill's top — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1491, line 13: «Whoever rides up and takes the apples will marry her and "have half the kingdom."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2). Against it: the same doer «whoever» (-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/1491-pg503-part78/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Lol, what did the boy say when he found the second horse? - **1.** Ha! — no support - **2.** Oh — no support - **3.** "Ho, ho!" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** Hey, hey! — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1473, line 7: «What: when they wake in the dark, they find "no crumbs," because the birds "had picked them all up."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+2). Against it: the same doer «children» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1491-pg503-part78/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} At what point did the knight in copper armour cease his ascent of the glass hill? - **1.** At a point approximately one third of the way up, before sliding all the way back down — no support - **2.** After climbing roughly a third of the slope — no support - **3.** At a point approximately one third of the way up — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** At a spot about a third up the slope — **← Mova's choice** · score -6 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1491, line 17: «Old word: "ajar" means partly open, which is why the barn door is "slightly ajar" for the boy to slip through.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); a different action (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/1491-pg503-part78/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What action did Cinderlad perform upon the second horse? - **1.** He threw his steel for fire across its back — **← Mova's choice** · score -3 - **2.** He threw his steel for striking fire over its mane — **✓ the right answer** · score -3 - **3.** He tossed his fire-steel over its mane — score -3 - **4.** He threw his steel for striking fire over its mane and stroked its neck gently — score -3 **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 1306, line 1: «fact: The landlady gossips that the son rode off to Miguel's daughter, and the father, red with rage, orders his son out of his sight.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «son» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). 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/1491-pg503-part78/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which reward was offered to whoever ascended the glass hill? - **1.** The hand of the Princess and half the kingdom along with her father's crown — no support - **2.** The hand of the Princess and half the kingdom — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** Marriage to the Princess and her gold — no support - **4.** The hand of the Princess in marriage and half of the whole kingdom's riches — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 246, line 9: «Why: the King offered "a great reward and the hand of his daughter" to whoever rid the land of the giants.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «offer» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «great reward» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1491-pg503-part78/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} How did the brothers respond to Cinderlad's account of the night's events? - **1.** They expressed scepticism and derided him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** They expressed scepticism and derided him loudly in front of the whole court — score 3 - **3.** They were amused and disbelieving — no support - **4.** They expressed deep scepticism and derided him and his tale of the field all evening — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1491, line 14: «The brothers refuse to take Cinderlad to the hill and call him "such an oaf," so he goes all alone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «cinderlad» (+2); the same doer «brothers» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1491-pg503-part78/e4/) - ← previous: [1490. Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1490-pg503-part77/) - next →: [1492. Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1492-pg503-part79/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)