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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda gets help in… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 293 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda gets help in Finland, then walks on alone among living snowflakes

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**Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 293 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/293-pg1597-part20/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, did the Lapland lady have actual paper or what?

- **1.** No, just a fish and some ink — no support
- **2.** No, so she wrote on a dried fish — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** No, she had no paper so she wrote the message on a dried fish skin — score 8
- **4.** No, she had none at all so she wrote the whole message on a fish she had dried — **← Mova's choice** · score 11

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 11, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 293, line 1: «Gerda is still far from Finland, so the Lapland woman sends her on with a message written on a dried fish, since she has no paper.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «message» (+5); the same circumstance (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «write» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/293-pg1597-part20/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Dude, how did they get into the Finland lady's crib?

- **1.** Through a window, not a door — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They climbed onto the roof and came down through the smoky chimney, since there was no door — no support
- **3.** They climbed the roof and came down the smoky chimney since the door was locked — no support
- **4.** Through the chimney, no door — **✓ 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/293-pg1597-part20/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bruh, was the Finland lady chill in the heat or what?

- **1.** She stripped down to her shift and walked about barely dressed for the great heat — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She went around almost naked — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She stayed in her thin linen dress — no support
- **4.** She walked about in her shift — 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/293-pg1597-part20/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Wait, how many times did she read that fish note?

- **1.** Three times, then she knew it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** She read it over three times, and each time the message grew clearer in her mind — score 4
- **3.** Four times, then she knew it — score 4
- **4.** Three times over, very slowly, until every word of the fish note was known to her — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 293, line 3: «The Finland woman reads the fish three times, then refuses to give Gerda a potion, saying her power already lies in her own heart.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: 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/293-pg1597-part20/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Real talk, did the Finland lady give Gerda the potion?

- **1.** Nah, she said the power that Gerda needed could never come from a potion, only from the heart — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Nah, she said power's in the heart — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nope, she said it's in the heart — no support
- **4.** No, she said power's in her heart — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+4); the same doer «gerda» (+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/293-pg1597-part20/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Ngl, what was stuck in Kay's eye and heart?

- **1.** Glass — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A splinter of glass — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A bit of ice — no support
- **4.** A piece of cold glass — 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/293-pg1597-part20/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Yo, where'd the Reindeer dump Gerda, the bush with what?

- **1.** Some bush with red berries by the old frozen river out in the woods — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A red bush by the snow — no support
- **3.** A bush with red berries, right where the snow starts to get deep — no support
- **4.** Red berries in the snow — **✓ 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/293-pg1597-part20/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Wait, was Gerda wearing boots when she got dropped off?

- **1.** Nope, she had no boots or gloves, only her thin dress and bare cold hands — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Nope, she was missing both gloves — no support
- **3.** Nope, she had lost both her boots and gloves somewhere on the long road north — score 3
- **4.** Nope, she had no boots or gloves — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 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» (+2); the same thing acted on «new boots» (+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/293-pg1597-part20/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Lowkey creepy, what did the snowflakes look like?

- **1.** Porcupines and snakes and bears — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **2.** Hedgehogs and serpents and wolves — no support
- **3.** Porcupines, snakes, and bears, all alive and moving about in a crowd — no support
- **4.** Spiky beasts and snakes and dogs — 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 293, line 13: «The snowflakes are the "outposts of the Snow Queen," and they look like "large ugly porcupines" and "snakes knotted together."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: 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/293-pg1597-part20/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Bro, how did Gerda stay brave out there?

- **1.** She repeated her mother's psalm — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She said the Lord's Prayer — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She sang a short old hymn — no support
- **4.** She prayed — 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/293-pg1597-part20/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Okay, what were the angels holding, like for real?

- **1.** Lances and shields and banners and golden trumpets — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Long lances, shining shields, and little silver bells for the march — no support
- **3.** Lances and shields — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Silver helmets — 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/293-pg1597-part20/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Real quick, what was Kay doing in that cold palace?

- **1.** Arranging ice shards for hours — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Trying to spell the word eternity out of ice pieces in the palace cold — no support
- **3.** Sitting alone in the cold palace trying to make the word eternity from ice — no support
- **4.** Making ice puzzles for eternity — **✓ 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/293-pg1597-part20/t12/)

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

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With reference to the passage, state precisely in which location the Finland woman stated that the Snow Queen's garden begins.

- **1.** two miles hence — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** two miles hence from the bush — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a mile past the frozen river — no support
- **4.** at the far edge of the great forest, two miles hence from the bush — 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/293-pg1597-part20/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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With reference to the passage, identify the specific object upon which the Lapland woman wrote her written message to the Finland woman.

- **1.** a dried haberdine — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a long strip of birch bark dried by the fire — no support
- **3.** a smoked salmon — no support
- **4.** a dried herring — 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/293-pg1597-part20/e2/)

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

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With reference to the passage, explain the precise reason the Finland woman gave for refusing Gerda the requested potion.

- **1.** her power lies within her heart, which no potion can ever reach — score 3
- **2.** her strength dwells in her heart — no support
- **3.** because a child's power lies within her heart and cannot be bottled in a flask — score 3
- **4.** her power lies within her heart — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 293, line 3: «The Finland woman reads the fish three times, then refuses to give Gerda a potion, saying her power already lies in her own heart.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same action «lie» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/293-pg1597-part20/e3/)

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

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With reference to the passage, describe the precise task that the Snow Queen set Kay in exchange for the whole world.

- **1.** to spell the word eternity in ice using every piece of ice in the palace, all alone — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** to spell the word eternity in ice — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** to write the word freedom in ice — no support
- **4.** to make the word eternity out of ice pieces, and then he would be free to go home — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 53, line 9: «The aunt could be «properly approached — squared, I believe is the word you animals use»: «squared» is old slang for paid secretly to help (bribed).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); the same thing acted on «word» (+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/293-pg1597-part20/e4/)

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