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title: Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws,… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1704 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 14 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws, cuts the eagle's feet, and wins the Princess

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**Tests:** 5 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 15 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1704 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/1704-pg640-part28/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Oi, who was the lad who finally got up that Glass Mountain, like, in the end?

- **1.** A schoolboy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A swallow — no support
- **3.** The youngest son of a merchant who had heard about the Princess — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** A poor boy from a small village at the edge of the kingdom — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1466, line 16: «What do the couriers do? They carry news, and the King "sent most carefully" for it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+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/1704-pg640-part28/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Mate, did the eagle actually nab him, or did he just get lucky?

- **1.** He cut its feet with a knife while it was flying above the mountain — no support
- **2.** He got lucky when the bird tripped over a rock on the glass — no support
- **3.** He stabbed its wing — no support
- **4.** He grabbed its feet — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1704, line 4: «He grabs the eagle's feet, is carried over the castle tower, cuts off the bird's feet with his knife, and lands on the apple-tree, where a golden peel heals hi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grab» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «feet» (-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/1704-pg640-part28/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Proper gutted for that knight, right, when his horse got bashed in the eye?

- **1.** The rider got hurt — no support
- **2.** Got bashed — no support
- **3.** The horse got hit — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** It fell — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1704, line 7: «What: the eagle hits the golden knight's horse "in the eye", and both the rider and the horse fall down the steep mountain side.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall down» (+2). 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/1704-pg640-part28/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Wait, so why did the lad sleep up there, was he well knackered?

- **1.** He was totally wiped out — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** He was hungry — no support
- **3.** He was really scared — no support
- **4.** He was so tired from climbing that he dropped asleep on the glass — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1279, line 7: «Who: the Shifty Lad is a bold, impudent thief who wants to dance with the king's daughter.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «shifty lad» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1704-pg640-part28/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Bruv, how did the golden apple peel fix his hands so quick?

- **1.** It healed the wound instantly — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** It was made from the apples that grew in the king's garden far away from the castle — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** The golden peel had magic that closed up every wound the eagle had left on his skin — score 1
- **4.** It fixed the hurt straight off — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1021, line 15: «God makes the wild apples grow so that Eliza can eat; she takes her "noonday repast" beneath a bough loaded with fruit.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wild apples» (+4); the same action «grow» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1704-pg640-part28/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Was the Princess well happy to see him or what, like proper buzzing?

- **1.** She ran straight to him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** She rushed right over — score 1
- **3.** She hugged the youth — score -1
- **4.** She was so overjoyed that she ran down the castle steps and kissed him at the gate — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1609, line 13: «The Princess cries "Don't chase me!" because if she runs "I may fall down and break myself."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1704-pg640-part28/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Did the dragon just do one when he chucked an apple, innit?

- **1.** It ran away — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** It flew off the wall — no support
- **3.** It vanished into thin air — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** It disappeared at once — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 655, line 9: «Why: the Prince wants a prize, but the dragon does not run away as a quarry should.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run away» (+1); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/1704-pg640-part28/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Mad that the eagle died after losing its feet, yeah?

- **1.** Yeah, it could not fly anymore — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** Yeah, without its feet it could no longer lift the heavy gold up off the mountain — score 1
- **3.** Yeah, it was very sad and sorry, but it could never fly the treasure home again — score 1
- **4.** Yeah, it couldn't carry the gold — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1570, line 4: «The Eagle flies him to Farmer Weatherbeard's, where he sneaks out three bits of bread and plucks feathers from the snoring household.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly» (+1). 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/1704-pg640-part28/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Why did the lad not go home to earth after all that, like, gutted?

- **1.** The lynx had run off with the gold — score 0
- **2.** The swallow was too small to carry him — score -1
- **3.** The eagle was the only one who could carry gold — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** He wanted to stay in the golden castle and marry the Princess who had been waiting for him — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 1254, line 5: «The king, who once left this baby to die, makes him a soldier, and then a dog dies after eating his scraps.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1704-pg640-part28/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Did the swallow actually go down and find out what was going on?

- **1.** Yeah, it went and came back — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, it sat on a branch for a long time and only pretended to fly down to look — no support
- **3.** Yeah, it zipped down and came back — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes, it flew down and returned — 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/1704-pg640-part28/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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So wait, what was up with the people down below, then?

- **1.** They had been asleep all along and had now been woken up by the eagle's blood — no support
- **2.** They were brought back to life — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** They were healed at last — no support
- **4.** They had been turned to stone by the dragon and now were free to walk again home — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 930, line 3: «The fifth glass brings Prince Carnival, and the sixth brings a smooth demon who walks you home with a lantern.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «walk» (+2); the same property (+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/1704-pg640-part28/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Did any of those knights make it up before him, or what?

- **1.** No, they each fell from the glass and did not survive the long drop down the mountain — no support
- **2.** No, they all fell and died — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** No, every single knight tried and failed, and they fell back down to the ground — **← Mova's choice** · score -4
- **4.** No, they all fell off — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1589, line 20: «Old word: "resolved" means decided firmly; Dorothy "resolved not to turn back" means she made up her mind.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same circumstance (-1); 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/1704-pg640-part28/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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Honestly, was the cloud just taking the mick, sailing past him like that?

- **1.** It drifted slowly past him in the sky and gave him not even one little drop of water — score 0
- **2.** It drifted past with no rain — score 1
- **3.** It sailed past without a drop — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** It floated by and rained on the people below instead, while he was left parched — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1704, line 11: «When the black cloud sails past, "not as much as a drop of dew moistened his dry lips", so the boy is still dying of thirst.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sail» (+1); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1704-pg640-part28/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Lush, so what did the boy use to cling on, like, his special trainers?

- **1.** Iron nails in boots — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Lynx fur on hands and feet — no support
- **3.** Lynx claws on hands and feet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Lynx claws strapped firmly onto his hands, feet, and both knees for extra grip — 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/1704-pg640-part28/t14/)

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

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Which of the following did the youth employ, in order to ascend the Glass Mountain, to secure his hold upon its surface?

- **1.** The sharp claws of a lynx that he had caught earlier in the forest, fastened to his hands and feet with leather straps — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** A pair of iron-tipped gloves and boots that he had forged himself from metal found near the lake, to grip the glass — no support
- **3.** The sharp claws of a lynx fastened to his hands and feet — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** The stiff claws of a bear fastened to his hands — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1698, line 10: «Why the Prince is trapped: his hands are fastened, so he cannot use the stone that could hide him.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «fasten» (+2); the same circumstance (+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/1704-pg640-part28/e1/)

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

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By what means did the youth restore his injured limbs after the eagle had been dispatched?

- **1.** By wrapping the cut in the eagle's feathers — no support
- **2.** By applying the peel of one of the golden apples to the wound — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** By pressing a cloth to the wound and waiting — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** With golden peel — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1656, line 1: «The youth remembers the troll's magic words at dawn and turns from a fish back into a man.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «magic words» (+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/1704-pg640-part28/e2/)

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

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What was the consequence of the eagle's blood upon the inhabitants gathered beneath the mountain?

- **1.** The blood turned them all into living statues of gold which then slowly began to breathe again and move about — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They were revived and rose from the ground — no support
- **3.** They were restored to life and awoke as if from a sleep — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** They were brought back to life and rose up as though they had merely been sleeping for a long time in the valley below — 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/1704-pg640-part28/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Which creature did the youth overcome in order to enter the golden castle, and by what means was it dispatched?

- **1.** The dragon, which vanished when an apple was thrown at it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **2.** The lynx, which fled when a stone was hurled — score -3
- **3.** The knight, who fell when an arrow hit him — no support
- **4.** The eagle, which was struck down with a knife and fell from the sky in the forest near the gate of the golden castle — score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1704, line 5: «He enters the castle, where a dragon vanishes at an apple, and the enchanted Princess greets him as her husband; later the people below wake up because of the…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «vanish» (+1). Against it: the same doer «dragon» (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1704-pg640-part28/e4/)

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