--- title: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the c… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 744 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 14 tests right, exam 2 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/744-pg2591-part20/) [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/) / 744 # Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich **Tests:** 6 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 744 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/744-pg2591-part20/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Mate, were Hansel and Gretel properly knackered before they found that bird? - **1.** Nah, they were fine mate — no support - **2.** Yeah, knackered — no support - **3.** Yeah, they was dead beat — no support - **4.** Yeah, they were dead tired — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 744, line 1: «Tired and lost, Hansel and Gretel fall asleep under a tree and wake to find a snow-white bird singing above them.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «tired hansel» (+3); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Bruv, what colour was that bird that sang so sweetly? - **1.** Blue — no support - **2.** Snow-white — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **3.** Red, bruv — no support - **4.** Bright red — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 744, line 1: «Tired and lost, Hansel and Gretel fall asleep under a tree and wake to find a snow-white bird singing above them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). 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/744-pg2591-part20/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Fam, what was the roof of that house made out of? - **1.** Gingerbread, sugar, cakes and a load of sweets mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Bread and cakes — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Pastry and sugar — no support - **4.** Loads of bread and cakes and biscuits stuck together — 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/744-pg2591-part20/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Yo, was the witch's window actually made of sugar, or nah? - **1.** Nah, it was real glass mate — no support - **2.** Yeah, proper clear sugar, the whole window was made of it innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Nah, it was actually thick ice but it looked like sugar fam — no support - **4.** Yeah, it was clear sugar — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 8: «Alice's new rule: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar sour, camomile bitter, and barley-sugar (a hard sweet) makes children sweet-tempered.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «barley sugar» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). 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/744-pg2591-part20/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Like, why'd the witch build a house made of bread, though? - **1.** To lure in children so she could fatten them up for supper — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** To lure children inside — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** To get the kids inside — score 3 - **4.** Cos she wanted to bake the whole village into cakes and bread — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 672, line 12: «how the twins are used: the youth paints a mask so that "no one would have known one boy from the other," and the witch cuts a sleeve to pick out the one to ki…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Was Hansel gonna get fattened up, like, proper? - **1.** Nah, she wanted him as a pet to keep in the stable for ages — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, to be cooked later — no support - **3.** Nah, she was just feeding him — no support - **4.** Yeah, to be eaten later — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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 101, line 19: «Hansel is shut in "a little cage with a lattice-door", and the witch wants him to "get fat".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+3); the same action «want» (+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/744-pg2591-part20/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Did Gretel actually trick the witch, innit? - **1.** She tricked her into the pit — score 3 - **2.** She pushed her in the oven — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** Yeah, she shoved the witch right in the oven and shut the door — score 8 - **4.** Nah, she just sat back and let the witch burn herself out — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 744, line 5: «Gretel pushes the witch into her own oven, the children fill their pockets with jewels, and a white duck carries them over the water to their father.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «push» (+4); the same doer «gretel» (+3); the same thing acted on «witch» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} Bruv, how'd the kids get across that water in the end? - **1.** Some big white duck carried them over on its back, bruv — no support - **2.** A white duck carried them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** A goose flew them across — no support - **4.** A swan ferried them over — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 744, line 5: «Gretel pushes the witch into her own oven, the children fill their pockets with jewels, and a white duck carries them over the water to their father.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+3). Against it: the same doer «white duck» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Did the kids nick loads of stuff from the witch's house, like? - **1.** Loads of pearls and jewels stuffed in their pinafores, fam — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Pearls and jewels — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Pearls, jewels, gold, and a big bag of bread and cakes — no support - **4.** Silver and gems — 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/744-pg2591-part20/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Could the witch see clearly, fam? - **1.** Nah, witches cannot see far — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Nah, actually she could see far, like a hawk over the whole forest, mate — score 3 - **3.** Nah, she was half blind — no support - **4.** Yeah, she could see fine — score 3 **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 94, line 4: «One busy morning the Baby cries outside the Cave. The Cat pats his cheek and tickles him with his tail, and the Baby laughs. The Woman, not seeing who it is, s…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+2); the same doer «woman» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Was the old woman a total nice lady, like? - **1.** Yeah, she was a lovely old lady who just liked kids — no support - **2.** Nah, she was a wicked witch who had been waiting for kids for years, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Yeah, she was a lovely lady — no support - **4.** Nah, she was a wicked witch — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 337, line 12: «Who is the sad mother? Mrs. Darling, who is "a very sad-eyed woman" waiting in the night-nursery.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wait» (+4); the same doer «eyed woman» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Did their dad feel sorry when they got back, like? - **1.** Yeah, he was proper gutted and cried for ages, innit mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, no happy hour since — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nah, he was dead chuffed — no support - **4.** Nah, he just went on with his life and had a laugh with the wife — 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/744-pg2591-part20/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Innit true that a mouse thing starts after this bit? - **1.** Yeah, a new tale starts — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yeah, it does — no support - **3.** Yeah, a new story begins — no support - **4.** Nah, it ends — 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/744-pg2591-part20/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} Can you sort it, who does the cooking in that partnership? - **1.** The sausage cooks the food — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The sausage does all the cooking and stirs the pot every day — no support - **3.** The mouse makes the stew — no support - **4.** The sausage does the cooking — **✓ the right answer** · 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/744-pg2591-part20/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} For what purpose did the old woman confine Hansel within the stable? - **1.** To make him grow plump — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** For the purpose of fattening him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** For the purpose of fattening him up before she ate him later — no support - **4.** In order to make him larger — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 443, line 7: «What: the hag says "Get much to know, and old soon you'll grow," and then she bans questions about things indoors.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old» (+3). 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/744-pg2591-part20/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} By what means did Gretel bring about the destruction of the witch? - **1.** By thrusting the witch into the oven and shutting the door tight — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** By shoving her in the fire — no support - **3.** By locking her in the oven — no support - **4.** By thrusting her into the oven — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 744, line 15: «Gretel "shut the iron door, and fastened the bolt," and the witch is burnt to death.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «shut» (+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/744-pg2591-part20/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} For what reason had the children's father known no happy hour? - **1.** He had lost his two dear children somewhere deep in the dark forest — score 8 - **2.** He had lost his children in the forest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** He had grieved every day since he had lost his children in the woods — score 8 - **4.** He had abandoned them in the deep forest — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 336, line 9: «Why Peter answers like that: it is nonsense, but it proves to Hook that Peter does not know who or what he is.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «peter» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} What duty was assigned to the bird within the partnership? - **1.** To fly out into the wood each day and bring back fuel for the fire — no support - **2.** To collect wood from the trees — no support - **3.** To fly far away deep into the forest and gather fuel and sticks — no support - **4.** To fly into the wood for fuel — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 743, line 16: «The birds: "the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same place «woods» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/e4/) - ← previous: [743. Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/743-pg2591-part19/) - next →: [746. Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/746-pg2591-part22/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)