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# Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet

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**Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1658 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/1658-pg5615-part47/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Mate, what was the witch's pet bird?

- **1.** a dove — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a golden-feathered parrot from the south — no support
- **3.** a magpie — no support
- **4.** a raven — 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/1658-pg5615-part47/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Wicked, what did the king want next?

- **1.** a coverlet — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a lamp that glows in seven kingdoms — no support
- **3.** a horse that runs over seven hills — no support
- **4.** a lamp that shines over seven kingdoms — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1658-pg5615-part47/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Innit, how much salt went in the porridge?

- **1.** a whole bushel — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a whole bushel and the entire barrel of brine — no support
- **3.** half a bushel — no support
- **4.** a whole bushel, poured straight into the pot — 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/1658-pg5615-part47/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Proper gutted, what did the brothers give Esben?

- **1.** no thanks at all — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **2.** a pat on the head and a long lecture about the cold — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** a sharp slap — score 1
- **4.** a rude word — score 1

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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 1124, line 17: «The brothers pay for prayers, and the "sorokoust" is forty days of prayers said for the dead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brothers» (+4). Against it: the same action «pay» (-3). The right option, 1, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1658-pg5615-part47/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Oi, what did Esben fly on, then?

- **1.** his little white stick, which he had found in the forest — score -11
- **2.** a little wooden horse — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **3.** his little white stick — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** a broomstick the witch had left by the door, enchanted and white — no support

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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 1658, line 1: «Esben fetches a sack of malt, flies on his little white stick to the witch's yard, and takes the boar with golden and silver bristles.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/1658-pg5615-part47/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Lol, what did the witch's daughter fall into?

- **1.** a pond — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** the river — score 6
- **3.** the cold stream — score 6
- **4.** the well — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1615, line 9: «Why: the eldest and second daughters fall into the cellar because they "did not think of the beasts," and the old man lets them fall.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «second daughters» (+5); the same action «fall» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1658-pg5615-part47/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Massive question, who was jealous the whole time?

- **1.** Sir Red — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Esben — no support
- **3.** Sir Grey — no support
- **4.** Ned — 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/1658-pg5615-part47/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Dead simple, how many brothers were there?

- **1.** twelve brothers and eleven sisters in all — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** eleven — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** eleven brothers, all older than Esben — score 4
- **4.** nine — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1632, line 12: «At the gate the carts are stuck "for the stone which lay in the gap", and Hans asks, "can twelve men not move that stone?"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «twelve men» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1658-pg5615-part47/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Bro, what was the last errand?

- **1.** a pot that sings over eight kingdoms — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a bell that rings over seven kingdoms — no support
- **3.** a lamp — no support
- **4.** a coverlet that sounds over eight kingdoms — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1658-pg5615-part47/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Oi, how long did the king give them?

- **1.** until the harvest was done at the end of autumn — no support
- **2.** three days — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** three weeks — no support
- **4.** three days, but no more than three — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 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 1654, line 9: «Why: the witch refuses to give him the princess, saying, "you can't get any other princess!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); 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/1658-pg5615-part47/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Hang on, where did Esben try to sleep?

- **1.** in the hay loft — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** in the baking-oven — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** in the bed — no support
- **4.** by the fire — 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/1658-pg5615-part47/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Cheers, what did the witch yell out?

- **1.** "Esben!" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** "Who's there?" — no support
- **3.** "Hey! is that you, Esben?" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** "Hey! was that Esben?" — 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/1658-pg5615-part47/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Dead bored, what did the witch's daughter fetch?

- **1.** wood for the fire — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** water from the well — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** water from the well for her mother's porridge pot — score 1
- **4.** fresh water from the deep well behind the dark stable — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1227, line 12: «The mother says her daughter should never marry "a mere rat," because she thinks her own family is finer than others.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «daughter» (+4). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «mere rat» (-2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1658-pg5615-part47/t13/)

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

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Which object did Esben employ to transport himself across the stream on his second visit to the witch's courtyard?

- **1.** the little white stick — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** a sturdy wooden boat with two oars and a sail — score 0
- **3.** the little white stick that he had found in the wood — score -5
- **4.** a wooden plank bridge — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1658, line 1: «Esben fetches a sack of malt, flies on his little white stick to the witch's yard, and takes the boar with golden and silver bristles.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «esben» (+4). Against it: the same property (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1658-pg5615-part47/e1/)

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

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What quantity of salt did Esben introduce into the witch's porridge pot?

- **1.** a cup — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a handful — no support
- **3.** a pinch — no support
- **4.** a bushel — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1658-pg5615-part47/e2/)

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

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To which location did the witch's daughter proceed, carrying the lamp, in order to obtain water?

- **1.** the deep well at the far end of the yard — score 0
- **2.** the stable — score 0
- **3.** the well — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** the river — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1533, line 4: «The witch's daughter keeps getting hurt by mistake under the table, and the witch lies about it at home.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1658-pg5615-part47/e3/)

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

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What was the king's stated consequence should the brothers fail to procure the coverlet?

- **1.** the loss of their land — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the loss of their lives and all their father's wealth — no support
- **3.** the loss of their gold — no support
- **4.** the loss of their lives — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1658-pg5615-part47/e4/)

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