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title: Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1800 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 12 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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# Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and finds the hidden treasure

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**Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1800 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/1800-pg641-part51/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, did Hans really sleep in the middle of the wood, like no fear at all?

- **1.** Nah, he was chill as a cat by a fire — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he snoozed like a log under his tree — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nope, he was scared — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he crashed out under a big oak tree — 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/1800-pg641-part51/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Dude, why was the minister so salty about his cash?

- **1.** He thought Hans stole his stuff — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cause Hans grabbed his purse while he was asleep and then ran off down the road — no support
- **3.** Hans got richer while he was snoozing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Cause Hans found the stash, bro — 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/1800-pg641-part51/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bro, what's the deal with those headless dwarfs, lol?

- **1.** They're the ones who helped Hans find the gold and now they want their fair share of it — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Those were the tiny guys he bullied — no support
- **3.** They're the dwarfs Hans messed with — score -7
- **4.** They were the little guys Hans wronged — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against -7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1678, line 11: «How: the Queen bribes the servants with "a great deal of money" to learn the secret of the wood.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «queen» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/1800-pg641-part51/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Ngl, what did the dwarf say about diss-ing little things?

- **1.** Be nice, fam — no support
- **2.** Chill out, bro — no support
- **3.** Don't dis any creature, however tiny — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** Don't mock little things, however small — score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1799, line 20: «Old word: a "christening" is the church ceremony where a baby is given its name, and today it is still held in churches.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-5). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1800-pg641-part51/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Wait, where's the loot hiding, fam?

- **1.** Behind a loose stone in the church corner — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Under a tile near the back of the altar — no support
- **3.** Under a rock by the old oak tree — no support
- **4.** Hidden inside the hollow base of the old church font, beneath the water and the moss — 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/1800-pg641-part51/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Seriously, how much loot does Hans have to share with the poor?

- **1.** A quarter, I reckon, bruv — no support
- **2.** Just a small cut, bruv — score -8
- **3.** One third of it, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **4.** Well, he's got to share out a fair chunk of it with the church and the poor, innit — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, against -8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1800, line 5: «That dwarf tells Hans where the treasure is hidden, Hans digs it up, gives a third to the poor, and leaves his master.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «third» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1800-pg641-part51/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Lowkey, what did Hans say about boasting about money?

- **1.** Fools brag about farthings, wise folk hide crowns — **✓ the right answer** · score -6
- **2.** Dumb folk show off pennies, clever ones stash gold — score -5
- **3.** He says folk who brag about small money are daft, and the sensible ones keep their wealth to themselves — score -1
- **4.** Fools show coins, the smart keep crowns hidden away — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1107, line 19: «Old word: a "rouble" was Russian money, and a "farthing" was a tiny old English coin worth a quarter of a penny.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, scored -6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1800-pg641-part51/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Yo, what's the gallows thing, mate?

- **1.** Two robbers swinging in wind — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two evil-doers hanging up high — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Two thieves dangling from ropes — no support
- **4.** Two murderers who were hanged for killing a farmer and stealing his cattle — 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/1800-pg641-part51/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Bruh, why'd Hans say he'd camp on the ground?

- **1.** The gallows birds hang high, he's low — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Cos the birds up on the gallows hang way above him and he's sleeping right down on the ground under his tree — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** The birds up there can't get to him because he's lying low down under the tree where it's safe — no support
- **4.** Birds can't reach him on the ground — score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1322, line 14: «The fir tree is "five hundred feet from the ground to its first branch," and the bark is so smooth he must climb like a sailor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «ground» (+1); 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/1800-pg641-part51/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Ayy, what does farthing mean, like, back then?

- **1.** Old coin worth a quarter of a shilling — score 2
- **2.** A very small old English coin that was worth one quarter of a penny and used by poor folk in the past — score 1
- **3.** The smallest coin, a quarter of a penny — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** A small silver coin from the old kingdom that was worth a whole penny and was used by merchants — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1800, line 19: «Old word: a farthing was the smallest English coin, a quarter of a penny, so today we would say small change.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «farthing» (+1); the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1800-pg641-part51/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Fr, why did everyone think the minister had a crash?

- **1.** The minister came back alone in the cart with a broken wheel and nobody to help him push it — score -4
- **2.** He arrived without his servant — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **3.** He turned up with no coachman — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** His horse had run off alone — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score -1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1796, line 17: «Old word: a "vizir" was a chief minister who advised an old Eastern ruler; today the word means a high government official in some old Muslim countries.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-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/1800-pg641-part51/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Ok real talk, why did Hans finally leave the minister?

- **1.** He got his money and left in peace — no support
- **2.** He got bored — no support
- **3.** He was paid — score -4
- **4.** He had found the treasure and was free — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score -2, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 829, line 7: «Where: the kitchen talk happens while the maid is away, and the fireworks happen over the city and the forest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «kitchen talk» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1800-pg641-part51/t12/)

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

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Upon what grounds did Hans refuse to proceed further toward the town on the evening in question?

- **1.** He reasoned that his contractual obligations to the minister had been fully discharged once the evening light had faded from the sky above the wood — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** He believed his shift ended at nightfall — score 0
- **3.** He considered his duty concluded at sunset — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** He thought the minister had no right to ask him to go on, since the horse was tired and it was growing dark — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 1578, line 3: «The seven Dwarfs come home, find her, hear her sad story, and let her stay to keep house for them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «seven dwarfs» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1800-pg641-part51/e1/)

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

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In what location did the headless dwarfs assemble and converse in the hours after midnight?

- **1.** Near the fire under the old pines — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** Close by his tent beneath a tree — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** Beneath a branch near his camp — score -1
- **4.** Around the minister's cart at the edge of the town, beside the gallows and the church wall — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 645, line 5: «The dwarfs tie the children to the Pole and pile up fires to thaw the dragon, who will eat them first when he wakes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1800-pg641-part51/e2/)

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

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Which object did the dwarf instruct Hans to extract from the church wall?

- **1.** A loose tile by the church door, hidden under a pile of straw and old bricks — score -6
- **2.** A loose stone in the north corner — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** A loose stone located in the north corner of the church, hidden behind the old altar cloth and dust — score 1
- **4.** A loose board in the south aisle — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 774, line 7: «What: the dwarf gives the prince an iron wand, and the prince says the words the dwarf taught him, "strike the iron door of the castle three times with the wan…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «teach» (+1); the same doer «dwarf» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1800-pg641-part51/e3/)

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

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What proportion of the buried money was Hans required to bestow upon the poor?

- **1.** All of it — no support
- **2.** One third of the whole — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Half — no support
- **4.** A quarter of the total — **← Mova's choice** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1347, line 16: «OLD WORD: "Compunction" means a feeling of guilt or unease, so Urashima feels bad taking yet another gift.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1); a different thing acted on (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/1800-pg641-part51/e4/)

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