--- title: Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells Gerda that… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 290 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 1 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/290-pg1597-part17/) [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/) / 290 # Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 17: a Raven tells Gerda that Kay is living with a Princess **Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 15 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 290 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/290-pg1597-part17/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo Gerda, you actually kissed that raven? bruv that's mad - **1.** Yeah, she was well happy — no support - **2.** Yeah, he was a proper legend, and she gave him loads of cuddles — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** Yeah, no cap, the raven was a proper legend, and she was well happy — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, that was weird — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 289, line 1: «explain: The old woman pulls Gerda from the river, feeds her cherries, and locks her in her cottage.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «feed» (+1); the same doer «old woman» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/290-pg1597-part17/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} so the princess is basically a brainbox, innit? - **1.** Yeah, she's read every newspaper in the whole world, well clever — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, she reads loads of papers, the whole lot, and she's dead smart — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Yeah, she's read all the news going, she's dead brainy and well sharp — no support - **4.** Yeah, she's read every newspaper in the whole world, and she's been to every country on the map — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 276, line 14: «The Princess says she "scarcely closed her eyes the whole night through" and that "I had something hard under me."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «princess» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/290-pg1597-part17/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} wait, the blokes at the palace just froze up? - **1.** Yeah, they could chatter like mad outside, but inside they went dumb and then they all ran off — no support - **2.** Yeah, they could chatter like mad outside, but inside they went dumb — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, they were chatty out front, then inside they just went silent — no support - **4.** Yeah, they could chatter like mad outside on the steps, but inside the palace they went completely dumb and couldn't say a word — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 290, line 13: «Many young men go to the palace, but inside they are struck dumb and can only repeat "the last word they had uttered".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «palace» (+4); the same doer «many young men» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/290-pg1597-part17/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} bare hungry lot, nobody shared a crust? - **1.** Yeah, each one thought, let him look peaky, the princess won't pick him, and so nobody shared even a crumb of bread at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** Yeah, each lad figured the rest should look hungry, so he'd win — no support - **3.** Yeah, each one thought, let him look peaky, the princess won't pick him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, everyone kept their grub, thinking the others should look peaky — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 16: «Alice hears the Queen sentence three players to be executed «for having missed their turns», though nobody takes turns at all; her flamingo has gone across the…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «nobody» (+2); the same place «all» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/290-pg1597-part17/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} so kay just strolled in like he owned the place? - **1.** Yeah, he nodded to the servants and wasn't nervous, just cool — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** Yeah, he gave the lackeys a nod, and he weren't scared one bit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, he waved at the footmen and strolled right past them, dead chill — no support - **4.** Yeah, he just walked in — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 290, line 16: «Kay nods to the servants and says the staircase must be "very tiresome" to stand on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «nod» (+4); the same doer «kay» (+2); the same receiver «servants» (+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/290-pg1597-part17/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} how did gerda know it was kay, dead giveaway? - **1.** His boots were creaking loudly, and she'd heard those very same boots in grandma's room, so it had to be him — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** His boots were creaking, and she'd heard them in grandma's room — **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** She'd seen his boots creaking on the stairs at grandma's house — no support - **4.** His boots were creaking, and she'd heard them in grandma's room, so it had to be him — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 290, line 17: «Gerda knows it is Kay because of his new boots, which she "heard creaking in grandmama's room".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hear» (+4); the same thing acted on «new boots» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/290-pg1597-part17/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} where was the princess sitting, like a throne or summat? - **1.** On a pearl as big as a spinning-wheel, dead posh — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** On a crystal stool, dead fancy and very lovely — no support - **3.** On a pearl as big as a spinning-wheel, sitting up grand and dead posh — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** On a velvet cushion, placed on a marble step — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 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 223, line 4: «She dresses in her grandest jewels, then sends word that she wants to see the prince.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «princess» (+2). 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/290-pg1597-part17/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} did gerda just leg it out the garden? - **1.** Yeah, she pulled the old latch and sprinted off down the lane, barefoot and gone — score 4 - **2.** Yeah, she gave the rusty bolt a proper shake and then ran barefoot out through the wide world, never once looking back at the garden at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Yeah, she gave the rusty bolt a proper shake and ran barefoot into the wide world — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Yeah, she gave the rusty bolt a proper shake and ran barefoot out into the world, and she never came back to the garden again — score 5 **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 290, line 8: «Where: Gerda runs "into the wide world" through a gate with a "rusted bolt", and it is autumn outside.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+4); the same place «wide world» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/290-pg1597-part17/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} what did the narcissus go on about, like, all proud? - **1.** It kept saying it could see itself, and it was dead fragrant — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** It kept saying it could see itself, and it was dead fragrant and it grew by the pond — score 6 - **3.** It kept boasting it could see itself, and it was dead proud — no support - **4.** It kept saying it could see itself in the water, and it was dead fragrant and proud of its own lovely reflection — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 290, line 7: «What: Gerda leaves the garden. The Narcissus tells her only about a dancer in a garret, and Gerda says "That does not concern me."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «narcissus» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/290-pg1597-part17/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} so the raven's had a mate on the inside, yeah? - **1.** Nah, he's on his own — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, his tame girl bird flits round the palace and spills all the gossip — no support - **3.** Yeah, his tame sweetheart hops about the palace and tells him everything — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, he has a friend — no support **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/290-pg1597-part17/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} was gerda not bothered about the flowers' rhymes? - **1.** Yeah, she didn't care — no support - **2.** Yeah, she reckoned they only knew their own old rhymes, so no help — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Nah, she loved them — no support - **4.** Nah, she liked them, but they were off on their own tune, really — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 288, line 5: «Gerda thinks Kay is drowned, so she goes to the river in her red shoes, throws them in, drifts off in a boat, and reaches a cottage where an old woman comes ou…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+4); the same doer «gerda» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/290-pg1597-part17/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} did the summer just stop, like, all of a sudden? - **1.** Yeah, it was autumn outside, though the garden had always been sunny, and it was cold there — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, it was autumn outside, though the garden had always been sunny, and the leaves were all falling down on the road in the wind — no support - **3.** Yeah, it was autumn outside, though the garden had always been sunny — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, outside it was autumn, but the garden had been sunny all along — 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/290-pg1597-part17/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} so what's the story with the raven's caw? - **1.** He said "Caw! Caw! Good day!" and he meant it kindly, and he was very pleased to see Gerda after all that long travelling — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** He croaked "Caw! Caw!" but he was really kind to her — no support - **3.** He said "Caw! Caw! Good day!" and he meant it kindly — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** He said "Caw! Caw! Good day!" and he meant it kindly, though he was very rude about her shoes — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 16: «The Pigeon says "A likely story indeed!", which means: I don't believe you; it has seen many little girls, "but never one with such a neck as that!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); the same thing acted on «many little girls» (+1). Against it: 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/290-pg1597-part17/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which character, having been struck dumb in the presence of the Princess, subsequently recovered his speech only upon leaving the palace? - **1.** The suitors who had failed before the throne — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The suitors who had failed before the throne and were then sent home by the king — no support - **3.** The guards who had left the palace early — score 2 - **4.** The suitors who had failed before the throne and were struck dumb, and who only got their speech back outside the palace gates — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 3: «The Rat warms up some ale with spices, as people did in those days, and the field-mice sip and cough and laugh. The Mole asks one of them to recite from last y…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «strike» (+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/290-pg1597-part17/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} To what extent did the young man arriving on the third day display composure within the palace, as described by the Raven? - **1.** He displayed no embarrassment whatsoever in the courtyard and on the staircase, and even greeted the Princess with a bow and a laugh — no support - **2.** He displayed no embarrassment whatsoever in the courtyard and on the staircase, and then left the palace at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **3.** He showed no shame anywhere, in the courtyard or on the stairs, very bold — no support - **4.** He displayed no embarrassment whatsoever in the courtyard and staircase — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 290, line 9: «Why: Gerda wants to find Kay, so she says, "I will soon come home, and then I will bring Kay with me."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «kay» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-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/290-pg1597-part17/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} What reasons does the Raven give for the suitors' failure to share their provisions amongst themselves? - **1.** Each man thought a hungry look would impress the Princess, so he kept it — no support - **2.** Each man reasoned that appearing hungry would recommend him to the Princess, and so each one ate his food alone in secret — score 3 - **3.** Each man believed that seeming starved would help him win the Princess's hand — no support - **4.** Each man reasoned that appearing hungry would recommend him to the Princess — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 290, line 14: «Hungry suitors get "nothing whatever" to eat, and each thinks, "Let him look hungry".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «look» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/290-pg1597-part17/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which object did Gerda identify as belonging to the boy, and on what grounds did she do so? - **1.** His boots, clearly — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** His hat, because he had worn it since childhood — no support - **3.** His sledge, because he had taken it with him when he left home — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** His boots, since he had worn them since he left home — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 290, line 17: «Gerda knows it is Kay because of his new boots, which she "heard creaking in grandmama's room".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «gerda» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «new boots» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/290-pg1597-part17/e4/) - ← previous: [289. Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/289-pg1597-part16/) - next →: [291. Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/291-pg1597-part18/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)