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# Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the children are led into the forest and get lost

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**Tests:** 1 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 743 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/743-pg2591-part19/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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dude, why did Hansel keep stopping to look back?

- **1.** He was dropping crumbs to mark the trail — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** He was checking if the dog followed them — no support
- **3.** He was dropping pebbles so they could find home — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** He was looking for the father who had gone away to chop wood in the forest — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 101, line 2: «The children fall asleep and wake in the dark, and this time the birds eat the crumbs Hansel dropped, so they cannot find the way home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drop» (+1); the same doer «hansel» (+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/743-pg2591-part19/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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so the stepmother wanted them gone for good, right?

- **1.** No, she wanted them to come back home — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Yeah, she kept begging the father to take them far into the deep woods — score 5
- **3.** Yeah, she wanted them lost in the forest forever and never found again — score 7
- **4.** Yeah, she wanted them lost in the forest — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 743, line 2: «A poor wood-cutter and his wife have no food, and the stepmother wants to leave the children in the forest.», 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 «stepmother» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/743-pg2591-part19/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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bruv, the cat on the roof was just the sun, innit?

- **1.** Yeah, Hansel was just daydreaming a bit — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, Hansel was totally making it up about the whole cat thing — no support
- **3.** Yeah, Hansel was totally making it up — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, there was a real white cat up there on the tiles — 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/743-pg2591-part19/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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wait, the pebbles were like proper silver money?

- **1.** Yeah, they were real silver coins — no support
- **2.** No, they were just plain white pebbles from the stream bed outside — score 4
- **3.** Yeah, they shone like real silver pennies — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** No, they were only pale pebbles — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 743, line 12: «Hansel's trick: he "stuffed the little pocket of his coat" with white pebbles that glittered "like real silver pennies."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «glitter» (+2); the same doer «white pebbles» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/743-pg2591-part19/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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that's mental, the birds just ate all the crumbs?

- **1.** Yeah, loads of birds gobbled every single one — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, loads of hungry birds gobbled every single one up quickly — score -2
- **3.** Nah, the wind blew them away — no support
- **4.** Nah, the rain washed away every single crumb they had dropped on the path — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 101, line 2: «The children fall asleep and wake in the dark, and this time the birds eat the crumbs Hansel dropped, so they cannot find the way home.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «drop» (+3); the same thing acted on «crumbs» (+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/743-pg2591-part19/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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so Gretel shared her bread with Hansel, yeah?

- **1.** Yeah, she gave him her piece at noon — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, she did — no support
- **3.** Nah, she ate it — score 3
- **4.** Yeah, he shared his bread with her — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 485, line 12: «Why: the rich brother got no bread because "St. George found that he had no bread to give to one of his wolves."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brother» (+3); the same thing acted on «bread» (+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/743-pg2591-part19/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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why was the dad so gutted about the kids?

- **1.** He was cross they had eaten all the bread — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** It cut him to the heart to leave them — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It cut him to the heart to leave his children alone in the dark forest — no support
- **4.** He was sad because he had no food — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 140, line 18: «Old word: "thatch" means the straw or reeds used to cover a roof, which the Kid eats from.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+1); the same doer «kid» (+1). Against it: 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/743-pg2591-part19/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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lowkey, was the mum being super sus the whole time?

- **1.** Nah, she was just worried about the food and money running out — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, she kept nagging him to leave — no support
- **3.** Yeah, she kept pushing him to ditch them — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, she kept pushing him to ditch them in the forest every night — 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/743-pg2591-part19/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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did they find their way home the first time or nah?

- **1.** Nah, they wandered in the forest until the birds ate every crumb — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Yeah, the moon guided them home — no support
- **3.** Yeah, the shining pebbles brought them safely back home to their father — no support
- **4.** Yeah, the pebbles brought them back home — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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 101, line 2: «The children fall asleep and wake in the dark, and this time the birds eat the crumbs Hansel dropped, so they cannot find the way home.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «birds» (+3); the same action «eat» (+2); the same thing acted on «crumbs» (+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/743-pg2591-part19/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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so Hansel really knew how to, like, plan ahead?

- **1.** Nah, he just got lucky that day — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he was clever at hiding things — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he was clever — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he was clever and thought ahead — **✓ 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/743-pg2591-part19/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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how was the second trip actually different?

- **1.** The door was locked so he couldn't grab any pebbles to drop along the way — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The door was locked so he couldn't grab pebbles — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** This time he had only bread crumbs and the door was locked tight by his mother — no support
- **4.** The pebbles were all gone that morning — 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/743-pg2591-part19/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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wait, what were they eating at the very end?

- **1.** Two or three nuts from the trees — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** A few mushrooms from the forest floor — no support
- **3.** Two or three wild berries they picked from the forest floor — no support
- **4.** Two or three berries from the ground — **✓ 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 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 738, line 2: «Chanticleer and Partlet eat so many nuts in the mountains that they build a nutshell carriage to ride home.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «many nuts» (-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/743-pg2591-part19/t12/)

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

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Which action did Hansel perform in order to secure the family's route home?

- **1.** He tied a long piece of string to the door and unrolled it on the way — no support
- **2.** He left a trail of breadcrumbs behind — score 1
- **3.** He carried a lantern along the trail — score -1
- **4.** He scattered shining pebbles along the path — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 743, line 3: «Hansel overhears this, sneaks out at night, and fills his pocket with shining white pebbles.», 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 (+2); the same thing acted on «white pebbles» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/743-pg2591-part19/e1/)

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

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What was the principal reason for the parents' decision to abandon their children?

- **1.** A wicked stepmother's cruel plan — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Severe famine afflicting the household — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Hunger — no support
- **4.** Their family was very poor — 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/743-pg2591-part19/e2/)

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

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Which phrase best describes the sustenance the children possessed at the conclusion of the passage?

- **1.** Two or three wild berries — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Berries — no support
- **3.** Some scraps of stale bread — no support
- **4.** A handful of wild plums — 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/743-pg2591-part19/e3/)

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

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In what manner did the birds frustrate Hansel's second attempt at navigation?

- **1.** By eating up every single crumb that Hansel had carefully dropped — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** By stealing the bread crumbs — no support
- **3.** By greedily consuming all of the scattered breadcrumbs along the path — no support
- **4.** By consuming the scattered breadcrumbs — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 101, line 2: «The children fall asleep and wake in the dark, and this time the birds eat the crumbs Hansel dropped, so they cannot find the way home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «crumbs» (+2); the same action «eat» (+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/743-pg2591-part19/e4/)

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