--- title: Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1785 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 14 tests right, exam 2 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/1785-pg641-part36/) [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/) / 1785 # Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain **Tests:** 4 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1785 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/1785-pg641-part36/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, did Jesper actually get the ants to sort all that grain? - **1.** Yeah, Jesper did it all, fr — no support - **2.** Nah, the ants got bored and left, so he didn't win anything, no cap though — no support - **3.** Yeah, the ants did it, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **4.** Yeah, the ants did it all, no cap, they sorted every single grain — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1785, line 5: «Jesper calls the King of the Ants, who brings a stream of ants that sort the grain into heaps.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sort» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «grain» (-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/1785-pg641-part36/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bruh, why did the king lock Jesper in the barn? - **1.** To stop cheating — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** So nobody could help him cheat — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** To keep him from winning — score 4 - **4.** So he could test him alone — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1723, line 5: «The comrade with the bundle of wood raises a mighty army, the King gives up, and the wedding is held.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give up» (+2); the same doer «king» (+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/1785-pg641-part36/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Wait, what did Peter say was in his basket? - **1.** Cinders, obviously, lol, the most worthless junk ever — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cinders, obviously, lol, what else would be in my basket though — no support - **3.** Pearls, obviously, lol — no support - **4.** Cinders, obviously, lol — **✓ 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/1785-pg641-part36/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Dude, what did Paul get for telling the old woman cinders? - **1.** His pearls turned to cinders too — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** He got his pearls back, then they turned to cinders right in front of the king — score 2 - **3.** His gold turned to dust too — no support - **4.** His pearls turned to cinders too, and he got sent home without a reward — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 167, line 5: «In the palace kitchen a damsel steps out of the wall, scolds the fish, and turns them to cinders, so the cook cries and the fisherman must fish again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+2); the same place «cinders» (+2); 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/1785-pg641-part36/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Did Jesper actually help the ants or nah? - **1.** Yeah, he helped the beetles — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Yeah, he helped them, fr, the ants came when he called them — score 2 - **3.** Nah, he didn't — no support - **4.** Yeah, he helped them, fr — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1785, line 9: «Why: Jesper helps the ants because he had "always heard the ants spoken of as clever and industrious little creatures."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «help» (+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/1785-pg641-part36/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Real talk, what did Jesper give the old woman? - **1.** His last bread roll — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** His whole lunch, bro — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** His whole lunch, bro, even the apple he saved for later — no support - **4.** His whole lunch and his favorite knife, bro, because he was hungry — 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/1785-pg641-part36/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Yo, what does the whistle do? - **1.** Finds lost things — score 1 - **2.** Calls back lost stuff — score 1 - **3.** Returns things you lost — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Brings back stuff you lost — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 1785, line 11: «Why: the whistle is given for his lunch, and it brings back "anything that you have lost or that has been taken from you."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «whistle» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1785-pg641-part36/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Wait, why did the queen want to get rid of Jesper? - **1.** He was a mere nobody — no support - **2.** He was just a fisher-lad and the queen thought he was beneath her — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** He was just a fisher-lad who had bragged about winning the princess's hand in marriage — no support - **4.** He was just a fisher-lad — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1767, line 13: «WHERE: the queen keeps the egg "in her bosom, which was the warmest place she could think of".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same doer «queen» (+2). 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/1785-pg641-part36/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Bro, what did the king call Jesper's pearls at first? - **1.** Worthless junk, deadass — no support - **2.** The finest ever, deadass — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Trash, deadass — no support - **4.** Just cinders, deadass — **← Mova's choice** · score -5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1785, line 7: «What: Peter and Paul both answer "Cinders" to the old woman, and their pearls turn to cinders before the court.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «cinders» (-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/1785-pg641-part36/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Did the ants have a big army left after the fight? - **1.** Nah, they were all gone — no support - **2.** Nah, they were way smaller — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **3.** Nah, they were way smaller, the beetles had wiped out most of the army — score -1 - **4.** Yeah, huge — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1126, line 4: «The mouse's ants climb the trees and bite the feathers off the birds' wings, so the birds fall to the ground and are torn to bits.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «trees» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1785-pg641-part36/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Hold up, how many grains did the king say there were? - **1.** Four kinds — score 2 - **2.** Three kinds, one sack each — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Four kinds, one sack each — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** Four sacks, all of wheat — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1636, line 11: «The fox promised three grains of gold for the princess, and again for the bird Grip.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1); the number the lesson gave for it (+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/1785-pg641-part36/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Yo, how long did Jesper have to finish the sorting? - **1.** Until sunset — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Till an hour before sunset — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Till an hour after dawn — no support - **4.** Until the bells ring noon — 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/1785-pg641-part36/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Bruh, what did the King of the Ants say he would do? - **1.** Help Jesper whenever he calls, even if it is the middle of the night — score 1 - **2.** Aid Jesper when he needs it — no support - **3.** Help Jesper whenever he calls, and also march the army into the palace — score 1 - **4.** Help Jesper whenever he calls — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 1762, line 15: «The king is angry and says "See what sort of a wife I have," because he thinks she did nothing to help him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «help» (+2). Against it: the same doer «wife» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1785-pg641-part36/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14} Lowkey, why did Jesper hate the beetles' side? - **1.** He never heard anyone praise them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He never heard anyone praise them, so he thought they were not worth helping at all — no support - **3.** He never heard anyone praise them, and the beetles had insulted him and his family many times — no support - **4.** He thought beetles were rude and loud — 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/1785-pg641-part36/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which statement correctly describes the outcome of Jesper's first task at the palace? - **1.** The king gave Jesper the princess after he sorted all the grain — score 3 - **2.** The grain was sorted into four heaps by the army of ants — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** The grain was not sorted — score 1 - **4.** The ants finished the sorting of the grain before the set time — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1785, line 5: «Jesper calls the King of the Ants, who brings a stream of ants that sort the grain into heaps.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sort» (+3); the same place «heaps» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1785-pg641-part36/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the reason the King of the Ants gave for requesting Jesper's assistance in the battle. - **1.** He said the beetles were winning the war and the ants were tired and hungry — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** He stated the ants were losing and the beetles were too big, and that the king would be blamed if the ants were defeated by the beetles — score 2 - **3.** He stated the ants were losing and the beetles were too big — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** He said the ants were losing ground and the beetles' army was too big — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1765, line 14: «The master wants the prince to give him his hand, and the maiden says "He means to eat you", so the shovel must be red hot.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+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/1785-pg641-part36/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} State the object that the old woman bestowed upon Jesper in exchange for his provisions. - **1.** A whistle capable of recovering lost possessions — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A whistle that finds stolen gold coins — no support - **3.** A whistle capable of recovering lost possessions and also summoning any animal in the forest — no support - **4.** A silver ring that makes lost property reappear — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 791, line 9: «Why: the dead woman tells the pastor, "Learn to know mankind!", because his hard words made her come to him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2). 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/1785-pg641-part36/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Determine the consequence which Peter and Paul each experienced after presenting their pearls before the king. - **1.** Their pearls transformed into cinders before the assembled court, which laughed at them loudly and long — score 5 - **2.** Their pearls transformed into cinders before the assembled court — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Their pearls were changed to cinders by the old woman's spell — score 2 - **4.** Their pearls transformed into cinders before the assembled court, and both were sent home in shame by the king — score 4 **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 1785, line 7: «What: Peter and Paul both answer "Cinders" to the old woman, and their pearls turn to cinders before the court.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «cinders» (+3); the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1785-pg641-part36/e4/) - ← previous: [1784. Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tame…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1784-pg641-part35/) - next →: [1786. Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1786-pg641-part37/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)