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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is carried off… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1625 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is carried off by the Snow-queen, and Gerda finds the witch's garden

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**Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 15 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1625 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/1625-pg5615-part14/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Kay was proper mardy, innit? Why'd he rip the roses up?

- **1.** Cos he reckoned they were minging — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Cos his nan said he could do what he wanted with the garden lot — no support
- **3.** Cos he thought they were rubbish — no support
- **4.** Cos he reckoned they were minging and wanted them gone from the garden — **← Mova's choice** · score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 961, line 2: «Years pass, the snail and the rose tree both turn back into earth, and new roses and snails take their place in the garden.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same place «garden» (-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/1625-pg5615-part14/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Did Kay like Grandma's voice thing?

- **1.** Yeah, he were dead chuffed with it — score 1
- **2.** Nah, he took the mick out of her — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Nah, he just ignored it, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** Nah, he took the mick out of her in front of the whole family — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1308, line 10: «The father says "I have no herds of cattle to leave you", so the children inherit only a few things from the house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «children» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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What's the Snow-queen's whole vibe, then?

- **1.** Proper nice — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bit sad and lonely — no support
- **3.** Dead cold and posh — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Dead kind — 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/1625-pg5615-part14/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Could Kay just jump off the big sledge?

- **1.** Nah, it stuck on like glue and he couldn't even shout — score 4
- **2.** Nah, it stuck on like glue — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah he could've, but he were too scared to try it, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Yeah, he jumped off fine — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 979, line 13: «The snow falls so thick that Kay cannot see "a hand's breadth before him," and he tries to say a prayer but remembers only the multiplication table.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «try» (+3); the same doer «kay» (+2). 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/1625-pg5615-part14/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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What did her kiss feel like?

- **1.** Warm, mate — no support
- **2.** Cold as ice, mate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **3.** Soft, mate — no support
- **4.** Like a warm hug — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1625, line 12: «The Snow-queen's kiss is "cold as ice" and reaches down to his heart, which is already half ice.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «kiss» (-1); the same property (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Gerda was gutted when Kay didn't come back, yeah?

- **1.** Nah, she laughed about it — no support
- **2.** Yeah, she cried loads — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Yeah, she cried loads and then went off looking for him — score 5
- **4.** Yeah, she were right upset — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1624, line 19: «In summer Kay cries out, "something has stung my heart", after a splinter of the magic glass gets into him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cry out» (+3); the same doer «kay» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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How did Gerda go off looking for Kay?

- **1.** By the road — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Along the road on a horse — score 4
- **3.** On her bike — score 4
- **4.** Down the river in a boat — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 981, line 4: «The narcissus gossips about a dancing girl washing her dress, and Gerda runs off without much interest in it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «gerda» (+3); the same action «run off» (+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/1625-pg5615-part14/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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What was the old woman's stick for?

- **1.** Holding her up when she walked through the garden — score 1
- **2.** Holding her up — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** Scaring the birds — score -3
- **4.** Digging the soil — no support

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**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 1625, line 20: «Old word: "enchanted" meant put under a magic spell, and it is a "witch, but not a wicked witch" in the text.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «word» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «witch» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Was the old woman a proper baddie?

- **1.** Nah, a witch but not wicked — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Nah, a witch but not wicked, she just wanted Gerda to stay — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Yeah, dead wicked — no support
- **4.** Nah, she were just a bit grumpy — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1116, line 9: «Why: the old woman screeches, "How can such a slut become the consort of the Tsar's son?", because she wants her own girl chosen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+3); the same doer «woman» (+2). 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/1625-pg5615-part14/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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What did she do to the roses?

- **1.** Watered them — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Pulled them up and burned them all — score 5
- **3.** Cut them down — no support
- **4.** Made them vanish under the earth — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 100, line 11: «fact: Her daughter is "as ugly as night, and had but one eye", so the witch turns her "upon that side where there was no eye".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+3); the same thing acted on «fact» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Where did Gerda find the one rose left?

- **1.** Under the bench — score 6
- **2.** By the door — score 6
- **3.** On the sun-hat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** In the old well — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1625, line 17: «What: Gerda finds one rose on the sun-hat, which the witch "had forgotten to make that vanish."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+3); the same doer «gerda» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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What made the rose come back, innit?

- **1.** Her tears — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** Rain — score 8
- **3.** Warm sun — score 8
- **4.** Her warm tears falling on the soil — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 759, line 9: «fact: The stepsisters say, "they who would eat bread should first earn it; away with the kitchen-maid!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «fact» (+4); the same action «earn» (+3); 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/1625-pg5615-part14/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which phrase describes the Snow-queen's kiss?

- **1.** As cold as ice — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Like a hot bath — no support
- **3.** Like sun — no support
- **4.** Very warm — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1625, line 12: «The Snow-queen's kiss is "cold as ice" and reaches down to his heart, which is already half ice.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: 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/1625-pg5615-part14/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Why did the old woman keep Gerda in her garden?

- **1.** She wished to keep Gerda with her so she could never leave — score 0
- **2.** She liked Gerda's singing — no support
- **3.** She missed her own daughter — no support
- **4.** She wished to keep Gerda with her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 289, line 12: «fact: She wanted to keep Gerda, so she made the roses vanish, because she feared Gerda "would remember little Kay".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «gerda» (+1). Against it: 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/1625-pg5615-part14/e2/)

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

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What is said of the old woman's character?

- **1.** She was wicked — no support
- **2.** She was cruel and very sly — no support
- **3.** She was a witch but not wicked — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** She was a kind old friend — **← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1412, line 15: «Why does Pinocchio send them away? He says, "You cheated me once, but you will never catch me again," and quotes "Stolen money never bears fruit."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «pinocchio» (-1); 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/1625-pg5615-part14/e3/)

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

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What does Gerda find on the old woman's hat?

- **1.** A rose that was overlooked — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **2.** A gold sun over the path — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** A ribbon — score 2
- **4.** A rose left by the wall — score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 980, line 13: «What does Gerda find on the hat? The old woman had forgotten one painted rose, "the prettiest of them all".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «gerda» (+1); the same place «hat» (+1). The right option, 1, scored -4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/e4/)

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