--- title: Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier's pipe cal… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 771 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 14 tests right, exam 0 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/771-pg2591-part47/) [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/) / 771 # Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier's pipe calls the manikin, and a queen's child becomes a raven **Tests:** 6 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 771 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/771-pg2591-part47/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo so the soldier's basically rich now, right? - **1.** nope, he just gets a little hut — no support - **2.** yeah, he gets the king's whole kingdom — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** nah, he gets nothing — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** nah, he just gets some gold — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 299, line 14: «He asks whether the old man "gets kisses" or a Christmas tree, and says he will get "nothing but a grave".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «soldier» (+1); the same thing acted on «nothing» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/771-pg2591-part47/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} wait, why'd the princess have to clean boots, bruv? - **1.** cos he made her do it, bruv — no support - **2.** cos the soldier made her, like a servant — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** cos the soldier ordered her to, yeah — score 2 - **4.** cos the soldier made her do it like some kind of servant in his house, bruv — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 647, line 13: «The witch says each kiss "will be a spell to bring me to you" when sorrow comes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+2); the same thing acted on «witch» (+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/771-pg2591-part47/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} bro did the peas actually work for the king? - **1.** yeah, they worked great, the king's men followed them straight to the soldier's door — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** nah, the manikin scattered loads of them everywhere in the whole town — no support - **3.** nah, the wind blew them away fast — score 1 - **4.** nah, the manikin scattered loads everywhere — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 670, line 5: «A poor widow's boy keeps a secret about a growing sword, is beaten by his mother, is adopted by a king, and takes his sword home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «adopt» (+4); the same doer «king» (+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/771-pg2591-part47/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} so who snitched on the king's plan? - **1.** the manikin, he told the soldier — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** the manikin, he told the soldier everything about the plan at the inn — score 2 - **3.** the princess, she told him — score 1 - **4.** the little black manikin, who quietly told the soldier all about it later — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 5: «Out of breath, the Queen asks Alice if she has seen the Mock Turtle, «the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from», and takes her to meet him. As they leave, Alice…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/771-pg2591-part47/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} lowkey the shoe thing was clever, yeah? - **1.** nah, it just fell off the bed — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, it made the soldier happy — no support - **3.** yeah, it's what got the soldier caught — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, it's exactly what got the soldier caught in the end, bro — 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/771-pg2591-part47/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} wait, why'd the soldier ask for three pipes, tho? - **1.** cos he just liked smoking — no support - **2.** cos he wanted a long delay before the execution so he could think of a plan — score 3 - **3.** cos he wanted more time before he died — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** cos he wanted more time before he died so his comrade could come back — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 771, line 13: «The soldier asks to "smoke one more pipe" before he dies, and the king says "You may smoke three".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+3); the same doer «soldier» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/771-pg2591-part47/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} so the blue light calls the manikin, that's dope - **1.** yeah, one puff and he's there — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yeah, two puffs and he's gone — no support - **3.** yeah, one puff and the little manikin appears right beside you — no support - **4.** yeah, one puff and he's there, then he does whatever you ask him to do — 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/771-pg2591-part47/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} what did the manikin do to the judge, bruh? - **1.** knocked him flat with a stick — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** knocked him flat with a stick and sent him running through the streets — score 2 - **3.** whacked him with a long pole — score 2 - **4.** beat him with a club — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 771, line 3: «The manikin warns the soldier of each plan, but the shoe is found, so the soldier is thrown into prison and sentenced to die.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «manikin» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/771-pg2591-part47/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} ok so the queen wished her kid was a raven, mad right? - **1.** yeah, it flapped away fast — no support - **2.** yeah, bro, poof, it flew off to the dark wood and never came back — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** yeah, bro, poof, it flew off — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** nah, it just sat there — 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 771, line 5: «Then a queen wishes her crying child were a raven, and the child flies off into a dark wood, where a man finds the raven and must keep watch on a tan-heap.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «fly off» (+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/771-pg2591-part47/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} the raven girl's a princess, innit? - **1.** nah, she's a maid — score 3 - **2.** yeah, she claims she's a queen — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** nah, she says she's a farmer's girl — score 5 - **4.** yeah, she says she's a king's daughter — **✓ the right answer** · 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 671, line 5: «The boy slaps the princess when she pesters him, so the king walls him up in a tower, and the princess feeds him in secret.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+3); the same thing acted on «king» (+2). 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/771-pg2591-part47/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} the dude drank wine, did he get caught? - **1.** yep, he fell asleep on the tan-heap — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nope, he stayed awake all night — no support - **3.** yep, he dozed off near the heap — no support - **4.** yep, he fell asleep on the tan-heap and the raven escaped while he slept — 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/771-pg2591-part47/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} what's a tan-heap even, fam? - **1.** a big pile of old straw — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a heap of tanned hides — no support - **3.** a heap of wood for making fires — no support - **4.** a pile of bark for making leather — **✓ 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/771-pg2591-part47/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} wait, so the soldier's gonna get killed?? - **1.** yeah, the king sends guards — score 3 - **2.** yeah, he's dead — score 3 - **3.** yeah, the king orders his death — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** nah, the king gives him the kingdom — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 471, line 7: «What: the grandfather tells him "If you go, you won't be alive, and if you don't go, you won't be alive."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «grandfather» (+1). 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/771-pg2591-part47/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14} so the blue light is basically magic, yeah? - **1.** yeah, it calls the little manikin, proper, every time you light your pipe — score 5 - **2.** yeah, it calls the little manikin up from the ground whenever the soldier strikes it — score 5 - **3.** yeah, it calls the little manikin, proper — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** nah, it's only a candle, bro — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 643, line 16: «What they see: the Northern Lights, which George calls "the Aurora Borealis", far away at the edge of the dark world.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same doer «northern lights» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/771-pg2591-part47/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} By what means does the soldier obtain the kingdom at the conclusion of this passage? - **1.** Through the manikin's intervention, which compels the king to surrender his realm and daughter — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** By marrying the princess — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** Through a long campaign of war, which obliges the king to abdicate his throne and his crown entirely — score 2 - **4.** By force of arms, which compels the king to yield his realm — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 488, line 14: «The youngest princess says "It's fated I must, it seems!" and so she is the only one who marries the soldier.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «marry» (+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/771-pg2591-part47/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What did the princess report to her father concerning her nocturnal experiences, and how did the king respond? - **1.** She described being secretly conveyed through the sleeping streets to a soldier's chamber, and the king advised her to scatter peas along the way — score 3 - **2.** She told of being carried to a soldier's room, and the king ordered her to hide her shoe — score 3 - **3.** She described being conveyed in her sleep to a soldier's chamber in a distant part of the town, and the king advised her to scatter peas and rest — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** She described being conveyed to a soldier's chamber, and the king advised her to scatter peas — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 771, line 1: «The soldier gets fine clothes and a grand room, then the little black manikin carries the sleeping princess to him each night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+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/771-pg2591-part47/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Upon which condition does the raven declare that her liberation depends? - **1.** Upon the traveler staying up at dawn for three nights in a row — no support - **2.** Upon the traveler keeping watch at the set hour for three days together, without sleeping — **← Mova's choice** · score -4 - **3.** Upon the stranger sleeping soundly at the proper time for many nights in a row — no support - **4.** Upon the wayfarer remaining awake at the appointed hour on three successive days — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 771, line 5: «Then a queen wishes her crying child were a raven, and the child flies off into a dark wood, where a man finds the raven and must keep watch on a tan-heap.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-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/771-pg2591-part47/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which object did the soldier leave behind when he fled, and how did this omission contribute to his capture? - **1.** The pipe and the purse, which were not carried, and the cloak, which was found at the mill near the river — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** The sword and the pipe, which were left by the bed, and the boots he wore home — score -1 - **3.** The bundle and the horse, which were not taken, and the coat, which was seen at his door — score 4 - **4.** The blue light and the gold, which were not retained, and the shoe, which was discovered at his house — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **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 427, line 2: «She takes his hand and leads him into the great hall, where the King is sitting.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «princess» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (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/771-pg2591-part47/e4/) - ← previous: [770. Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/770-pg2591-part46/) - next →: [772. Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a g…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/772-pg2591-part48/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)