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title: Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1939 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 1 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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# Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land

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**Tests:** 1 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1939 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/1939-pg7277-part76/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Oi, did the little bloke actually batter the fiddler or nah?

- **1.** Yeah, he battered him then made him a sarnie and sent him home — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, the fiddler battered the little bloke and got him sacked from the castle — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he gave him a proper hiding — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, not really — 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bruv, why did the flute-player not get scared like the other two?

- **1.** He had heard the castle was haunted and wanted to see the ghost — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He had a dodgy heart and no real plan — no support
- **3.** He was dead brave and fancied the treasure — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He got bored of the fiddle and the drum and wanted some food — 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Wait, what did the flute guy actually grab to get out of it?

- **1.** The dwarf's massive beard — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The dwarf's massive beard and the belt at his waist — no support
- **3.** A huge handful of the dwarf's grey beard and cloak — no support
- **4.** The dwarf's golden buckle — 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Mate, how did the trumpeter look after getting smashed?

- **1.** Like a squashed rabbit in bed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Crying like a baby child — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **3.** Pale and sick — no support
- **4.** Shaking like a wet dog — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1937, line 15: «Old word: "kettledrums" are large drums played by soldiers; they are called kettledrums because they look like copper kettles.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-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/1939-pg7277-part76/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Proper cool, but what made the water split open?

- **1.** The dwarf's wand touched the waves — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The dwarf shouted a spell and the river heard him — score -1
- **3.** The trumpeter blew a loud note — no support
- **4.** The flute-player's magic beard pulled on the water — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1908, line 8: «Where: the King "drew his chin out of the water" after the claws let him go and then rode home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «draw» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/1939-pg7277-part76/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Did the castle have loads of grub or was it empty?

- **1.** Tons of food on tables but everyone had run off — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Plenty of bread but no people — no support
- **3.** Loads of grub but nobody there — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Loads of grub and a fire roaring in every room — 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Yo, was the castle door left open or shut on the fiddler?

- **1.** It slammed shut behind him — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** It slowly creaked shut after a long while behind him — score 1
- **3.** It was bolted by a dwarf from the inside of the hall — no support
- **4.** It blew open in the wind — **← Mova's choice** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1898, line 14: «Where: he finds an old castle with "the door standing open," and a fire blazing in a low hall.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «door» (+2). 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Honestly, what colour was the little man's beard then?

- **1.** Golden yellow, tied in a knot under his chin and stretching far — no support
- **2.** Long and silver-grey, down past his belt to the floor — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **3.** Brown, down to his waist — no support
- **4.** Grey, down to his buckles — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 788, line 5: «In the forest the girls find a dwarf whose long white beard is trapped in a split tree, and Snow-white cuts it free.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same property (-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/1939-pg7277-part76/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What's the deal with the stars in the golden land, mate?

- **1.** They looked half as small — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They were bright — no support
- **3.** They looked twice as big — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Very shiny — 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Bro, how tall was the dwarf, like actually?

- **1.** Taller than most grown men in the village — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Up to the height of the castle door handle — no support
- **3.** Over five feet at most — no support
- **4.** Not more than three feet — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Ngl, was the flute guy chatty with the dwarf or dead quiet?

- **1.** He sang and joked with the dwarf the whole way round — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He was dead quiet to him — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He chatted all the time — no support
- **4.** He told him all his life story and asked lots of questions — 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Did the fiddler's mates get dragged in or were they chilling?

- **1.** They were stuck in the stream outside — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They got dragged in — no support
- **3.** They were out in the fields working — no support
- **4.** They were chilling in bed asleep — **✓ 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/1939-pg7277-part76/t12/)

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

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Which of the three musicians first entered the castle and returned injured?

- **1.** The fiddler, who was struck by the dwarf and expelled through the iron gate — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The fiddler, who was struck by the dwarf and expelled through the iron gate and then sent back to the village in shame by the king — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **3.** The trumpeter, who was struck by the dwarf and thrown out of the hall — no support
- **4.** The flute-player, who was grabbed by the dwarf and flung into the stream — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1939, line 8: «Where: the haunted castle stands near a village, and its outer gate is "open, quite as if he were an expected guest".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). 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/1939-pg7277-part76/e1/)

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

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By what means did the flute-player compel the dwarf to fulfil his promise?

- **1.** By holding the dwarf's beard tightly and singing a loud spell until the dwarf gave in and promised everything — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** By threatening to cut off the dwarf's beard with a knife — score -2
- **3.** By offering the dwarf a golden coin and a warm meal — score -2
- **4.** By retaining the dwarf's beard until the promise was honoured — **✓ the right answer** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1891, line 20: «Mannikin advises the Princess to promise her answer after the Ambassador's grand entry, to "gain a little time".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+4). Against it: the same action «promise» (-3). The right option, 4, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1939-pg7277-part76/e2/)

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

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What physical transformation is described when the flute-player laid hold of the beard?

- **1.** He shrank to the size of a child and noticed nothing around him at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He felt sick and wobbly and wanted to lie down for the rest of the day — no support
- **3.** He felt strong enough for any task and perceived hitherto unnoticed objects — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He became very strong — 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/1939-pg7277-part76/e3/)

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

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Describe the manner in which the company crossed the river in the latter portion of the narrative.

- **1.** The waters parted and stood still, and they crossed with dry feet — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They waded through the mud and got soaked to the knees — no support
- **3.** The river froze and they skated over the ice — no support
- **4.** They swam across — 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/1939-pg7277-part76/e4/)

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