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title: Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged letters and… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1666 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged letters and the flight to the hut

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**Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1666 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/1666-pg5615-part55/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Dude, why was the stepmother so mad at the queen?

- **1.** She hated the queen's good luck — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** She wanted the crown back — score 3
- **3.** Because the queen had once insulted her in front of all the court and the king — score 2
- **4.** Because the queen had refused to help her with the sewing and chores — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1662, line 6: «Who: the princess Minon-Minette, who is given "the hardest and dirtiest work" and only a little black bread to eat.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1666-pg5615-part55/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Like, which letter tricked the king, though?

- **1.** The letter that said the whelps and queen should be burned at dawn — score 0
- **2.** The letter that ordered the queen's death — score -1
- **3.** The one about the sheep — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** The one saying the whelps get burned — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1434, line 3: «The sexton tricks him at midnight in the belfry, but the boy knocks the white figure down the stairs.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «tale» (+3); the same action «trick» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1666-pg5615-part55/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Was the retainer a total softie, or what?

- **1.** Yeah, he just couldn't bring himself to burn the poor little kids — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **2.** Yeah, he couldn't burn the kids — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **3.** Yeah, he wouldn't hurt them — no support
- **4.** Yeah, honestly he felt so bad for those kids he let them go free — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1666, line 11: «What the retainer burns: "a sheep and two lambs," so that people believe the king's orders were carried out.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different thing acted on (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/1666-pg5615-part55/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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What'd he burn instead, innit?

- **1.** A cow and a pig — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** A big fat sheep and two lambs from the farm — score 2
- **3.** A sheep and two lambs — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** The sheep and both of the lambs from the flock — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1666, line 3: «The faithful retainer burns a sheep and two lambs instead, and the queen hides in the castle.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «burn» (+2); the same property (+2). 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/1666-pg5615-part55/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Where'd the queen crash after running off?

- **1.** By the river bank south — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** At the old mill nearby — no support
- **3.** At Peter's hut in the forest — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** At a hut in the forest where the spirits lived — 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/1666-pg5615-part55/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Was Peter, like, a bad dude?

- **1.** Yeah, he used to be a bad dude who stole from people — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He used to be, till he quit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, he robbed travellers — no support
- **4.** Nah, he was always a good man who never did wrong — 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/1666-pg5615-part55/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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What were the bloody shirts about, fam?

- **1.** Spirits whipping Peter every day — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Peter's cursed blood spilled — no support
- **3.** Blood stains — no support
- **4.** Spirits hunting the queen — 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/1666-pg5615-part55/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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How many nuts did she crack, like, total?

- **1.** She cracked three nuts in the forest — score 0
- **2.** Three apples — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Four nuts — score 0
- **4.** Three nuts — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1666, line 15: «The queen takes "three nuts" from beside her mother's grave and cracks one at each visit to the spirits.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the number the lesson gave for it (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1666-pg5615-part55/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Where'd she grab those nuts from, mate?

- **1.** The old oak tree — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** A pouch nearby — score 7
- **3.** The shop — score 7
- **4.** Her mum's grave — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 849, line 5: «On a hill they find a clear lake and hazel nuts, and a gypsy woman gives Ib three wishing nuts.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «three wishing nuts» (+4); the same doer «gypsy woman» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1666-pg5615-part55/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Did the spirits give up the contract easy?

- **1.** Yes, they handed it over quick — no support
- **2.** Yeah, easy — no support
- **3.** Nah, they howled and fought first — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nope, they stalled for ages — **← Mova's choice** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1185, line 5: «The old man rewards him with his sister, praises his good deeds, and reveals that he is the Spirit of Age.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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/1666-pg5615-part55/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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What was the king's first question back home?

- **1.** Where's the queen and the whelps — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Where are the queen and sons — no support
- **3.** Where is she? — no support
- **4.** Where's the queen? — 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/1666-pg5615-part55/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Was the king chill about the whelps thing?

- **1.** Yes, he stayed calm, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, he turned pale and angry, shouting at all the attendants there — no support
- **3.** Nah, he went pale and angry — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, he went really pale and then got super angry at everyone — 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/1666-pg5615-part55/t12/)

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

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By what means did the stepmother authenticate the spurious communication addressed to the monarch?

- **1.** By his signet — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** With the queen's seal, resembling the king's — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** With the chancellor's wax seal, imitating the court — no support
- **4.** By a copied signet ring of the royal household — 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/1666-pg5615-part55/e1/)

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

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What number of livestock did the faithful retainer incinerate in substitution for the princes?

- **1.** Three pigs and a cow — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two goats and one kid — no support
- **3.** One sheep and two lambs — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** One lamb — 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/1666-pg5615-part55/e2/)

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

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Upon what condition did the spirits surrender the contract after the third nut was cracked?

- **1.** Once she offered a golden coin — score -5
- **2.** Upon her payment of a golden ring to them — score -5
- **3.** Upon its delivery at the end of a branch — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Once the spirits received the sheep and lambs — **← Mova's choice** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1136, line 5: «The spirits of his fathers order Makoma to go alone and find five-headed Sakatirina, so he walks west to his enemy.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same action «find» (-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/1666-pg5615-part55/e3/)

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

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Into what creature had the monarch been transformed prior to his release by the queen?

- **1.** A lindorm, for twenty long years under a cruel enchantment — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A serpent for twelve years — no support
- **3.** A great winged dragon, for a hundred years beneath the mountain — no support
- **4.** A lindorm, for twenty years — **✓ 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/1666-pg5615-part55/e4/)

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