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title: Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 767 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 7 of 13 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was: the youth calms the dogs, hears the frogs, and becomes Pope

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**Tests:** 7 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 767 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/767-pg2591-part43/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Bruv, them dogs in the tower, were they proper savage?

- **1.** Nah, they wagged their tails — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** Yeah, they went for him — no support
- **3.** Nah, they just sat there — no support
- **4.** Nah, not really — 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 767, line 2: «The youth walks down into the tower, and the dogs wag their tails, eat the food he gives them, and do not hurt him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wag» (+4); the same doer «dogs» (+1); the same thing acted on «tails» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Mate, what did he carry out of the tower in the end?

- **1.** A chest full of gold — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **2.** Some old coins — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** A bag of silver coins — score -2
- **4.** A box of old silver — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 296, line 13: «Who sits with the old man at the end? His old wife, under the blooming tree on their fiftieth anniversary.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). The right option, 1, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Wicked, so who told him how to free the dogs?

- **1.** An old wise monk — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nobody, he guessed — no support
- **3.** The dogs did, in their own language — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A passing old man in the yard — 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/767-pg2591-part43/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Gutted for the frogs, why did he go all sad after?

- **1.** He realised the frogs were really cursed princes — score 5
- **2.** He understood what they said — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** He understood that the frogs had been sent by the Pope — no support
- **4.** He saw the marsh was dark — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 767, line 13: «On the road to Rome, "a number of frogs were sitting croaking" in a marsh, and he listens to what they say.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «frogs» (+4); the same action «say» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Innit mad that they picked him to be Pope?

- **1.** He was a holy man — score 2
- **2.** Three doves flew around him — score 1
- **3.** Two white doves sat on him — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** The cardinals chose him at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 767, line 22: «Old word: "cardinals" are the senior church leaders who choose a new Pope, and they still do this today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «choose» (+4); the same thing acted on «new pope» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/767-pg2591-part43/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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No cap, did he know the mass off by heart?

- **1.** Nope, he forgot every word — no support
- **2.** Nope, the doves whispered it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Nope, the cardinals read it out to him slowly — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he had memorised it as a boy in the monastery — no support

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**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 767, line 5: «In Rome two white doves land on his shoulders, the cardinals make him Pope, and the doves whisper the mass into his ear.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «whisper» (+4); the same doer «doves» (+1); the same thing acted on «mass» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Was the old Pope still alive when he got picked?

- **1.** Yes, he was still alive — no support
- **2.** Yes, but he was too ill to attend the church — no support
- **3.** No, he had retired years ago — no support
- **4.** No, the Pope had just died — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**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 767, line 15: «In Rome the Pope "had just died," and the cardinals cannot agree on a successor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «die» (+4); the same doer «pope» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Sick! What did the lord say he would do if the youth won?

- **1.** Marry him to his daughter and make him lord — score 7
- **2.** Adopt him as a son — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** Make him his heir — score 4
- **4.** Name him his new son — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 767, line 11: «The lord's promise: he would adopt the youth as a son "if he accomplished it successfully."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «youth» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same circumstance (+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/767-pg2591-part43/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Like, why did the howling stop for good?

- **1.** The dogs had gone off to find their old master — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The dogs had disappeared — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The dogs had been freed by the youth's kindness — no support
- **4.** The dogs had all died — 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/767-pg2591-part43/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Our kid, what was the youth warned about at the fortress?

- **1.** The tower was full of wild dogs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11
- **2.** Savage dogs guarded the gold — score 1
- **3.** Wild dogs inside — score 6
- **4.** Wolves had been seen there — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 767, line 8: «What: the lord warns that the tower "is full of wild dogs, which bark and howl without stopping."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «tower» (+3); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Wait, what did the cardinals actually want?

- **1.** A new Pope chosen — no support
- **2.** A proof that the youth was truly holy — no support
- **3.** A clear divine sign sent down from above — score -1
- **4.** A sign from heaven — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 767, line 16: «They want a sign from heaven, and "two snow-white doves flew on his shoulders and remained sitting there."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+2). Against it: the same doer «cardinals» (-1); the same thing acted on «sign» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Yo, what did he have to sing in the church?

- **1.** Hymn — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **2.** Ave — score -2
- **3.** A mass — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** A hymn — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 309, line 19: «Old word: "psalm" means a holy song sung in church; today we still call such songs hymns or psalms.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «church» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1); the same action «sing» (-2). The right option, 3, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Honest, was he totally sure he was good enough?

- **1.** He agreed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He was sure — no support
- **3.** He was not certain — no support
- **4.** He was undecided — **✓ 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/767-pg2591-part43/t13/)

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

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In what manner did the cardinals determine the criterion for the successor to the late Pontiff?

- **1.** By choosing the oldest of the cardinals — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** By demanding a clear sign from God that would show his choice — no support
- **3.** By waiting for the new king's advice — no support
- **4.** By requiring a divine and miraculous token — **✓ 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/767-pg2591-part43/e1/)

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

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Which creatures were observed to alight upon the youth as a sign?

- **1.** A flock of white birds that settled upon the youth's head — no support
- **2.** Three golden bees — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Two snow-white doves that circled the church altar — no support
- **4.** Two snow-white doves — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 695, line 7: «What: the prince must find a ring the king threw into the brook, and the ducks find it for him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/767-pg2591-part43/e2/)

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

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What was the nature of the youth's reaction upon overhearing the frogs?

- **1.** He became thoughtful and sorrowful — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He was amused at first, then grew pensive and moved to tears — no support
- **3.** He became thoughtful, sorrowful, and deeply troubled by what he had heard — no support
- **4.** He grew bold and very cheerful — 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/767-pg2591-part43/e3/)

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

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Which object did the youth bring forth from the subterranean tower?

- **1.** A purse of coins — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** A chest containing gold — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A large iron chest packed tightly with ancient gold — score -2
- **4.** A trunk holding jewels — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 767, line 2: «The youth walks down into the tower, and the dogs wag their tails, eat the food he gives them, and do not hurt him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «youth» (+1); the same place «tower» (+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/767-pg2591-part43/e4/)

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