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title: Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds S… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 797 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 1 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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# Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy

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

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Lesson 797 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/797-pg27200-part8/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo, so Alfred got engaged to Kaela, right?

- **1.** yeah, and mamma bought like thirty papers — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yeah, mamma sent a load of letters out — no support
- **3.** yeah, and mamma bought loads of papers for the whole town to read about it, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** nah, they got married in secret — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 797, line 1: «Alfred and Kaela get engaged, and mamma buys thirty newspapers to spread the news.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mamma» (+3); the same action «buy» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+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/797-pg27200-part8/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, why did mamma buy thirty newspapers, lol?

- **1.** because she wanted the whole town to know about the engagement and the wedding date — score 3
- **2.** to spread the news about it — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** to get a good discount — score 4
- **4.** to flex the news on her mates — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 797, line 1: «Alfred and Kaela get engaged, and mamma buys thirty newspapers to spread the news.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mamma» (+4); the same action «spread» (+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/797-pg27200-part8/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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bruv, what's a casket even?

- **1.** a rich lady's wooden jewel case — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a posh coffin, like a dead body box — no support
- **3.** a little box — no support
- **4.** a fancy box, like the looks — **✓ 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/797-pg27200-part8/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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was Sophy fit, or nah?

- **1.** yeah, super pretty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, bit plain — no support
- **3.** nah, not pretty but chill — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** nah, rather dull and grey — 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/797-pg27200-part8/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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so Kaela just died, innit?

- **1.** yeah, and Alfred married Sophy after a long time of mourning in the house — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** yeah, he moved to Rome to paint — no support
- **3.** yeah, then Alfred was sad for ages — no support
- **4.** yeah, and Alfred married Sophy after — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 797, line 5: «Kaela dies, Alfred marries Sophy, and Sophy scolds him for his cold, unloving speech.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «alfred» (+3); the same action «marry» (+2); the same thing acted on «sophy» (+2). 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/797-pg27200-part8/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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what's the bit about the swan, fam?

- **1.** he was a swan among the geese — no support
- **2.** he was a bird that looked odd — no support
- **3.** he looked like a swan that had been put with geese and felt out of place — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **4.** he looked like a swan with geese — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 725, line 19: «Old word: leathern means made of leather, so the old leathern saddle is a plain, worn leather saddle.», 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) (-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/797-pg27200-part8/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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did mamma like Italy?

- **1.** yeah, she loved the galleries and the cooking — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, the weather was grey and the rooms were cold — no support
- **3.** nah, the galleries were boring and the food was bad — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** nah, the galleries were boring and the food was bad and the hotel was dirty and loud — 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/797-pg27200-part8/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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why did they go to Italy, though?

- **1.** because mamma's doctor said the sea air would cure her cough — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** to see the old art — no support
- **3.** to get some fresh air — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** for mamma's health — 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/797-pg27200-part8/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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mamma said men have no constancy, right?

- **1.** nah, men are loyal — no support
- **2.** yeah, she thinks men are lazy — score 3
- **3.** yeah, she said so — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** yeah, she reckons they're all flaky — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 797, line 18: «What: after Kaela dies, Alfred weds Sophy, and mamma says "Men have no constancy."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «mamma» (+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/797-pg27200-part8/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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was Alfred a bit of a sad case?

- **1.** yeah, he talked and talked about beauty — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yeah, he talked and talked about beauty and then cried all night for his dead wife — no support
- **3.** nah, he just painted all day long — no support
- **4.** yeah, he cried about his wife a lot — 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/797-pg27200-part8/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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what did mamma wear after Kaela died?

- **1.** black dress, black veil, black gloves, black hat, the whole lot of it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** black, mourning, the whole lot — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** dark blue, with some lace on — no support
- **4.** a grey dress, a veil — 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/797-pg27200-part8/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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so Sophy was a proper good mate, yeah?

- **1.** nah, she was clever but quite boring — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, she was kind and loyal to everyone — no support
- **3.** yeah, faithful and generous and clever and kind and the best friend anyone could ever have — no support
- **4.** yeah, faithful and generous and clever — **✓ 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/797-pg27200-part8/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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why does Sophy scold Alfred at the end?

- **1.** cos his speech was cold and not loving and he had also been rude to mamma all week — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** cos he spoke so coldly to her — no support
- **3.** cos he forgot her birthday again — no support
- **4.** cos his speech was cold and not loving — **✓ 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/797-pg27200-part8/t13/)

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

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Which person did Alfred first agree to marry in the course of this part?

- **1.** Kaela — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Kaela's older sister Ellen — score 5
- **3.** Marta — score 5
- **4.** Sophy — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 235, line 10: «What: the piper promises to rid the town of every rat, and he wants fifty pounds, which the town first agrees to.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «agree» (+4); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/797-pg27200-part8/e1/)

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

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What did the mother purchase in order to circulate the announcement of the betrothal?

- **1.** thirty copies of the newspaper — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** thirty copies of the gazette — no support
- **3.** twenty copies of the paper — score -4
- **4.** thirty copies of the newspaper sent to every relative in town — **← Mova's choice** · 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 -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 757, line 2: «At dinner the mother sends Elsie to the cellar for beer, and Elsie sits down before the barrel.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «send» (-1); the same doer «mother» (-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/797-pg27200-part8/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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To which city did the newly married couple remove after the wedding?

- **1.** Hamburg — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Stockholm — no support
- **3.** Florence — no support
- **4.** Copenhagen — **✓ 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/797-pg27200-part8/e3/)

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

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What was the principal reason given for the family's journey to Italy?

- **1.** the doctor's orders for mamma's worsening cough and tired lungs — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a change of air — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** the sea breeze — no support
- **4.** a warmer climate — 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/797-pg27200-part8/e4/)

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