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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers

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**Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 274 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/274-pg1597-part1/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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bro, did the emperor care more about his soldiers or his fits?

- **1.** his outfits way more than anything else he owned or did — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the soldiers, duh — no support
- **3.** his fits, way more — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** soldiers, mostly — 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/274-pg1597-part1/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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like, how many outfits did he have each day?

- **1.** a fresh robe every morning — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** like, a brand new suit for each and every hour of the court day — no support
- **3.** a new suit each hour — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a new coat each day — 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/274-pg1597-part1/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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ok so who showed up in town calling themselves weavers?

- **1.** three travellers — no support
- **2.** a tailor — no support
- **3.** two swindlers — no support
- **4.** two rogues — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 274, line 6: «Who? An Emperor "excessively fond of new clothes" who spent all his money on dress, and two rogues "calling themselves weavers".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «two rogues» (-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/274-pg1597-part1/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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wait, what did the weavers say their cloth could do?

- **1.** stay hidden from fools and rivals — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** hide from the unfit and make wearers truly invisible to all of court — score -1
- **3.** hide from the unfit, like invisible — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **4.** hide from anyone unfit for office or in any way disloyal to the crown — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 5, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 274, line 7: «What? The rogues claimed their cloth would stay invisible to anyone "unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «stay» (+1); 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/274-pg1597-part1/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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and the weavers were working at the looms, right? what were they actually doing?

- **1.** working hard — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** weaving cloth in the dark — score 5
- **3.** nothing at all, just faking — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** just weaving — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 226, line 16: «How the cure works: the prince says the enchantment must be "dissipated by certain perfumes" that he alone knows.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «work» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). 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/274-pg1597-part1/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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did the old minister see the cloth or was he lowkey scared to say?

- **1.** he admired the bright colours — no support
- **2.** he saw nothing, yet praised it at once and urged the Emperor to wear it — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** he saw nothing, but praised it — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** he saw nothing, but praised it loudly to avoid looking foolish before the court — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 274, line 3: «The old minister stares at the empty looms, sees nothing, but praises the cloth so that no one will think him a fool.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); the same doer «old minister» (+2); the same thing acted on «nothing» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/274-pg1597-part1/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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what happened when the second officer came, did he get it?

- **1.** he praised the threads — no support
- **2.** he saw nothing, praised it too — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** he peered closely, saw nothing, and praised it loudly like the minister had — no support
- **4.** he saw nothing and then praised it too, copying the minister's words exactly — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 13: ««Suppressed» means stopped or held down; here the officers put the cheering guinea-pig head first into a canvas bag and sit on it; later a second guinea-pig ch…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «cheering pig head» (+2). Against it: 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/274-pg1597-part1/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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bruh the emperor finally went himself, what did he do?

- **1.** he told the truth quickly — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** said it was charming, lied — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** he praised the cloth wildly — score 5
- **4.** he refused to look — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 274, line 12: «Why did the Emperor hide the truth? He would "on no account say that he could not see" the cloth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «emperor» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «say» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/274-pg1597-part1/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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and the people in the city, were they all in on it?

- **1.** yes, every one — no support
- **2.** mostly, though a few doubted — no support
- **3.** no, they just went along — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** no, they just went along, cheering loudly for the Emperor's clothes — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 274, line 2: «They pretend to weave on empty looms and secretly keep all the silk and gold they are given.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same doer «people» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/274-pg1597-part1/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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what did the emperor give the weavers as a reward?

- **1.** a horse — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a ribbon and a title — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a golden coin — no support
- **4.** a purse of silver — 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/274-pg1597-part1/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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how did the rogues pretend to finish the suit at night?

- **1.** cut air, sew with no thread — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** cut air and sewed with no thread, working secretly through every night until dawn — no support
- **3.** stitched in the dark hall — no support
- **4.** measured the bolts of silk — 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/274-pg1597-part1/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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and what did they say the clothes felt like?

- **1.** soft as wool — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** thin as a sheet — no support
- **3.** as light as a cobweb drifting in the palace garden breeze — no support
- **4.** light as a cobweb — **✓ 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/274-pg1597-part1/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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so was everybody talking about it or what?

- **1.** yes, the whole court — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** not really — no support
- **3.** yep, the whole city — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** no, just a few — 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/274-pg1597-part1/t13/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which character trait does the Emperor's inordinate devotion to apparel most evidently demonstrate?

- **1.** vanity — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** shyness — no support
- **3.** greed — no support
- **4.** envy — 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/274-pg1597-part1/e1/)

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

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By what means did the two impostors obtain the materials they claimed to weave?

- **1.** by asking the Emperor for coins — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** by requesting silk and gold thread from the royal treasury at once — no support
- **3.** by demanding rare silk, pure gold thread, and a large workshop in the palace — no support
- **4.** by requesting silk and gold thread — **✓ 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/274-pg1597-part1/e2/)

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

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What did the minister's fear of appearing incompetent ultimately induce him to do?

- **1.** to praise the nonexistent cloth and urge the Emperor to wear it at once — score 7
- **2.** to tell the Emperor the truth — no support
- **3.** to praise the nonexistent cloth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** to order a fresh inquiry at court — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 274, line 3: «The old minister stares at the empty looms, sees nothing, but praises the cloth so that no one will think him a fool.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «praise» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+2); 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/274-pg1597-part1/e3/)

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

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Which phrase most accurately describes the courtiers' reaction to the Emperor's new garments?

- **1.** open disapproval — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** unanimous feigned admiration — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** genuine and open praise — no support
- **4.** a unanimous and sincere display of genuine admiration for the cloth — 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/274-pg1597-part1/e4/)

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