--- title: Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, three lost sa… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1638 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 15 tests right, exam 1 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/1638-pg5615-part27/) [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/) / 1638 # Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, three lost sacks, one lesson he never learns **Tests:** 4 of 15 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 19 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1638 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/1638-pg5615-part27/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} test: ngl that old man is so sus, he kept running back to check on a cow - **1.** yeah, he kept losing the cash over and over — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** fr, and he lost the money every single time — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** fr, and he lost the money every single time he went back home — no support - **4.** fr fr, and the thief kept grabbing it every single time he turned around — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1638, line 17: «fact: Old word: "to calve" means a cow giving birth to a calf, which is why the old man keeps running home to check.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same doer «old man» (+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/1638-pg5615-part27/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} test: wait, why did the troll bonk his head on a beam? - **1.** to make broth without buying beef — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** to hide a cow — no support - **3.** to get some fish for the stew — no support - **4.** to fix the pot — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1638, line 1: «The old man visits his youngest daughter inside a mound, and when the troll comes home he knocks pieces off his own head on an iron spike to make broth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «broth» (+3); the same doer «troll» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1638-pg5615-part27/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} test: did the dude really stick his hand in the fire? - **1.** yeah, and it did not burn him at all — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nah, it burned him pretty bad — no support - **3.** yeah, and it did not burn him at all, not even a little bit — no support - **4.** yeah, and it never burned him once — 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/1638-pg5615-part27/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} test: what's the vibe with the dough trough boat? - **1.** it was a lake trip for fish and the wife wanted the catch — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** it was just a trip to fish — no support - **3.** it was a lake trip for fish — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** it was a trip to the lake — 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/1638-pg5615-part27/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} test: why did the old man jump in the lake at the end? - **1.** he wanted to get fish fast — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** he wanted to be like troll — no support - **3.** he was bored — no support - **4.** he wanted to copy the troll — **✓ 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/1638-pg5615-part27/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} test: how many sacks did he carry from the youngest daughter? - **1.** just one sack of coins — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **2.** just one sack of money, not the two he had said — no support - **3.** just one sack of money — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 - **4.** just one sack of money that he dragged all the way home — score -3 **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 1565, line 20: «Old word: a "sceptre" is a rod carried by a king as a sign of power, and a "spit" is a metal bar for roasting meat.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2); the same circumstance (-3). 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/1638-pg5615-part27/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} test: what did he say every time he messed up? - **1.** i know what i got back — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** i know what i have learned from the trolls and the lake — no support - **3.** i know what i have lost — no support - **4.** i know what i have learned — **✓ 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/1638-pg5615-part27/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} test: did the wife believe him about the sacks? - **1.** she half believed him, somehow — score 4 - **2.** not really, she thought he was lying but went along to see — score 4 - **3.** not really, but she went out with him to look anyway — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** not really, but she went anyway — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1638, line 12: «fact: The wife doubts him: "She did not believe him very much, but she humoured him, and went out with him."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «go out» (+3); the same property (+2); the same doer «wife» (+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/1638-pg5615-part27/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} test: what's up with the wooden shoes on the money? - **1.** he put them there because he thought nobody would dare to take it — score 4 - **2.** he hoped nobody would find it — score 4 - **3.** he thought nobody would ever take it from the spot where he left it — score 4 - **4.** he thought nobody would take it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1445, line 20: «Old word: "bushels" were old measures for grain, about 35 litres each, so the bailiff's sack held a great deal of money.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «deal» (+2); the same thing acted on «money» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1638-pg5615-part27/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} test: where did the second daughter's mound sit? - **1.** near the path to the mill — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** beside the road to home — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** beside the road to home, near the old stone wall — no support - **4.** beside the road to home where the thief could find it easily — 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/1638-pg5615-part27/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} test: what did the old man want to show at the end? - **1.** the fish he caught in the lake — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** what he had learned from the trolls and his wife's cow — no support - **3.** what he had learned from the trolls — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** what he had learned at the lake — 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/1638-pg5615-part27/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} test: wait, so did the old man ever get rich? - **1.** nope, the thief always got the money in the end anyway — score 4 - **2.** nope, the troll kept the money — no support - **3.** nope, the thief always got the money — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** yes, the thief gave it back — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 45, line 18: «The Badger: «you've gone on squandering the money your father left you (squander = waste), and you're getting us animals a bad name in the district by your fur…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «father» (+2); the same thing acted on «money» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1638-pg5615-part27/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} test: what's the deal with the cow not calving? - **1.** it was only a reason to go home — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** it was a lie to get home — no support - **3.** it was just an excuse he made up to run home quickly — no support - **4.** it was just an excuse to run home — **✓ 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/1638-pg5615-part27/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} test: how did the troll's wife feel about the trolls' tricks? - **1.** she thought the trick was nonsense — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** she was like, what nonsense is this — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** she was like, what nonsense is this, and she was not amused at all — score 4 - **4.** she was like, what nonsense is this, why would he do that? — no support **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 1334, line 5: «The wives trick their husbands: one makes hers think he is dead, one says he is not her husband, and one sends hers running naked to a burial.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+3); the same action «think» (+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/1638-pg5615-part27/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15} test: did the troll ever burn his fingers in the fire? - **1.** nope, they lit up and burned — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** nope, they lit up without burning at all, not even a bit — score 4 - **3.** nope, they lit up without burning — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** nope, they just lit up without burning, like magic from the fire — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1638, line 11: «fact: The troll's light trick: "he dipped his fingers into the fire, and they then gave light without being burned in the least".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «burn» (+3); the same doer «fingers» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1638-pg5615-part27/t15/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} exam: In the tale, which action does the old man perform immediately after laying down the sack of money? - **1.** He runs home immediately to enquire after the cow and the calf — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He runs home to enquire after the cow — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** He rushes back to see the cattle — no support - **4.** He runs home at once to enquire after the cow in the barn — 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/1638-pg5615-part27/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} exam: Which object does the troll's wife instruct her husband to bring back from the lake? - **1.** Trout, which he gets with a wooden hook — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Fish, which the troll obtains with a ladle from the lake's edge — no support - **3.** Fish, which the troll obtains with a ladle and a long rope tied to the trough — no support - **4.** Fish, which the troll obtains with a ladle — **✓ 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/1638-pg5615-part27/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} exam: Identify the reason the old man's wife accompanies him to the spot where the money was left. - **1.** She goes out with him to humour him and to see the money herself — score 8 - **2.** She goes out with him to humour him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** She wants to see whether he is lying — score 4 - **4.** She goes to check the cow with him — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1637, line 19: «Old word: a "harrow" was a farm tool with teeth, dragged over ploughed soil to break it up.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «old word» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1638-pg5615-part27/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} exam: State the outcome of the old man's final attempt to imitate the troll's method at the lake. - **1.** He sinks down to the bottom alone — no support - **2.** He is trapped in the cold water — no support - **3.** He is left in the water with the fishes — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** He is left in the water with the fishes and cannot get out — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1581, line 12: «Why the brothers gave up: after a beating they said they would never go out to seek a place again, and the second son only got leave to go "after a long, long…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same action «go out» (+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/1638-pg5615-part27/e4/) - ← previous: [1637. Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1637-pg5615-part26/) - next →: [1639. Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemak…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1639-pg5615-part28/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)