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title: Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in a loft, s… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 806 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 10 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in a loft, sent up in a balloon, and smashes, but its neck survives

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**Tests:** 3 of 10 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 806 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/806-pg27200-part17/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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bro the bottle just sat in the attic for like twenty years??

- **1.** nah, it was actually in a cupboard downstairs the whole time, dusty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, it was cold and quiet — no support
- **3.** yep, dusty and full of cobwebs — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yep, dusty and full of cobwebs and old broken chairs all around — 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/806-pg27200-part17/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, why did nobody read the note??

- **1.** it was rubbed to nothing from handling — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** the note was written in an old tongue — score 1
- **3.** it was rubbed to nothing from handling by the cellar man who kept it — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** it was rubbed to nothing from handling in the washing and the seeds — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 761, line 14: «Old word: "dumb" in the text means unable to speak, so "it is said that fishes are dumb" means fishes cannot talk aloud.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+5). 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/806-pg27200-part17/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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lol the bottle thought it would learn the language up there

- **1.** nope, you cannot learn it in a loft because there is nobody to talk — score 3
- **2.** nope, you cannot learn it in a loft — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** nope, it just sat there all day — no support
- **4.** yeah, it learnt a lot from the cobwebs and the old rafters up there — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 669, line 5: «The seventh Simon brings a letter to Busan and saves the knights, the Simons get their reward, and a shepherd learns the language of beasts from the King of th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «learn» (+4); the same thing acted on «language» (+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/806-pg27200-part17/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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so the bottle got washed and stuffed with seeds, mad

- **1.** nah, the note stayed dry and clean — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, but not really — no support
- **3.** nah, it was fine — no support
- **4.** yeah, and the message got wrecked — **✓ 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/806-pg27200-part17/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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fr the aeronaut chucked the bottle up in the sky??

- **1.** nah, he just put it down — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** nah, no way — no support
- **3.** nah, dropped it — no support
- **4.** yeah, like a total flex — **✓ 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 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 806, line 9: «Why: the bottle is taken down because "the house was going to be rebuilt" and the roof is taken off.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take down» (+4); the same thing acted on «bottle» (+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/806-pg27200-part17/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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bruh the rabbit went up in a parachute too, right

- **1.** nah, it sank fast — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** yes, it floated down like a boss — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** no, it landed in the garden wild — score 3
- **4.** no, it stayed up — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 3, line 14: «When Alice timidly says "If you please, sir—", the Rabbit drops the gloves and fan and scurries away into the darkness; Alice picks them up and, "as the hall w…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drop» (+4); the same doer «rabbit» (+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/806-pg27200-part17/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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ok so where did the bottle end up, honestly

- **1.** it went into the river and the neck floated off with the rabbit — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** smashed on a roof, neck still whole — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** stuck in a tree by the church — no support
- **4.** smashed on a roof with the neck still whole and the glass in pieces — 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/806-pg27200-part17/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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that neck is a sick glass for a bird, no cap

- **1.** yeah, the cellar-man said so — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** yeah, the cellar-man said so, and he wanted it for a bird's glass — score 5
- **3.** nah, the maid said it was ugly — no support
- **4.** nah, the cellar-man never said anything about it to anyone at all — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 806, line 5: «Only the neck stays whole, and a cellar-man says it would make a fine glass for a bird's cage.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «cellar man» (+3); the same action «say» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/806-pg27200-part17/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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wait so did the old maid see the bottle land??

- **1.** nah, she saw the rabbit fall — score 2
- **2.** no, she was blind — no support
- **3.** nah, she only saw the balloon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** yes, she saw it fall down — score 5

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**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 806, line 16: «Who sees the balloon: an old maid stands at her window, and she sees the aeronaut "drank to the health of all the spectators."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+3); the same thing acted on «balloon» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/806-pg27200-part17/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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lowkey the bottle felt young when falling, is that right

- **1.** yes, it felt sleepy and slow — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** no, it felt old and heavy and wanted to be back in the loft again — score 3
- **3.** yes, it felt free and unfettered as it dropped toward the roof tiles — no support
- **4.** yes, it felt free and unfettered — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**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 793, line 14: «Why she is sad: he "had not a word or thought respecting her," so she leaves "feeling mournful and sad."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+2); the same doer «glass» (+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/806-pg27200-part17/t10/)

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

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Which object, having been thrown from the balloon, struck a roof and was reduced to fragments, the neck alone remaining intact?

- **1.** The rabbit that rode in the basket — no support
- **2.** The bottle — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Paper — score 3
- **4.** The neck — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 3, line 9: «Her head strikes the roof of the hall: she is now "more than nine feet high", so she takes the golden key and hurries to the garden door.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «strike» (+5). 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/806-pg27200-part17/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Of what did the cellar-man propose the surviving neck might be made into a useful article?

- **1.** A lantern for the garden to hang from the tree — no support
- **2.** A bird's glass — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** A bird's bowl kept in the cellar — no support
- **4.** A bird's bath — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 806, line 5: «Only the neck stays whole, and a cellar-man says it would make a fine glass for a bird's cage.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/806-pg27200-part17/e2/)

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

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Which language did the bottle understand upon its return, and in what place had it previously heard it?

- **1.** The new language, heard in the town square and market — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** The old language, at the furnaces and the wine merchant's — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** The old language, heard on the balloon and in the loft — score 4
- **4.** French, at school — score 2

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**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 669, line 5: «The seventh Simon brings a letter to Busan and saves the knights, the Simons get their reward, and a shepherd learns the language of beasts from the King of th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «learn» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/806-pg27200-part17/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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For what duration did the bottle remain concealed within the loft prior to its rebuilding of the house?

- **1.** Twenty years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **2.** Twenty years, until the house was rebuilt — score -3
- **3.** Nineteen years — score -3
- **4.** About a decade — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 308, line 14: «Old word: "perished" means died; the author says the boy "would most certainly have perished" in the cold if he had stayed outside.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-1); 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/806-pg27200-part17/e4/)

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