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# Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose a wife and is pinned in a box of curiosities

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**Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 808 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/808-pg27200-part19/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Bro, so the butterfly ghosted the pea-blossom's sis just cause she had a long face, right?

- **1.** Yeah, he bailed 'cause of her sad face, and then took forever to pick someone else — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, he just liked her sister more — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he bailed 'cause of her sad face — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, he bailed 'cause of her sad face and her long, grumpy mood at the garden gate — 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/808-pg27200-part19/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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No way, so the mint said no to him, lowkey savage, huh?

- **1.** Yeah, she said she just wants to be pals now — no support
- **2.** Yeah, she said friends only, cause they're both old — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Yeah, she said friends only, cause they're both old and she's already got her eye on someone else — score 4
- **4.** Yeah, she said friends only, cause they're both old and the time for romance has passed — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 4, line 14: «Alice says "O Mouse!" because she once saw in her brother's Latin Grammar "A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!"; "O Mouse" is the old way of calling…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «o mouse» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/808-pg27200-part19/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Okay, but why did the butterfly end up stuck on a pin, fr?

- **1.** People caught him in a warm room, and then they pinned him up in a box with the other bugs — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** People caught him in a warm room and pinned him — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A kid caught him in the garden and pinned him — no support
- **4.** He was caught by curious people in a warm room, who then pinned him up in their cabinet of curiosities — 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/808-pg27200-part19/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Lol, so he stuck it out in the warm room like it's no big deal?

- **1.** He said he could exist there, not really live — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he said it was fine, pretty chill — no support
- **3.** He said he could exist there, not really live, and that he was stuck there for good — no support
- **4.** He said he'd rather stay put, honestly — 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/808-pg27200-part19/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Wait, what did the potted plant say, like, roast him or what?

- **1.** That his comfort was really poor — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Roasted, sorta — no support
- **3.** It said he was pretty dumb lol — no support
- **4.** It said his comfort's pretty weak — 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/808-pg27200-part19/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Ngl, the butterfly thinks plants in pots are kinda sus, right?

- **1.** They have too much to do with people — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They're kinda too close to people — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** They're fake — no support
- **4.** They're too sus — no support

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**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 808, line 14: «Old word "curiosities": it means odd or rare objects kept for show, so a "box of curiosities" is a display box, like a small museum case today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «word» (+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/808-pg27200-part19/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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So he waited too long to pick a wife, that's his whole problem?

- **1.** Nah, he just chose the wrong girl — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he took too long choosing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, he took too long choosing, and that's pretty much his whole problem in the story — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he waited for the wrong one — 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/808-pg27200-part19/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Mate, what does he end up being, like, a lonely old guy?

- **1.** An old bachelor, unmarried for life, and then stuck in a box of curiosities forever — no support
- **2.** An old bachelor, unmarried for life — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, an old bachelor, unmarried for life, pinned up in some random people's room — no support
- **4.** Yeah, basically a lonely old man — **← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 779, line 16: «The wedding ends when old Mr Fox "stirred under the bench" and "cudgelled all the rabble", and to cudgel means to beat with a stick.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old mr fox» (+2); the same property (+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/808-pg27200-part19/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Wait, what does the butterfly say he really needs, like, the dream life?

- **1.** Freedom, sunshine, and a little flower — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Money, a girlfriend, and a nice house — score 1
- **3.** Sunshine, lol — score 4
- **4.** Freedom, food, and a cozy bed — score 4

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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 808, line 19: «The author's point: the butterfly says "I need freedom, sunshine, and a little flower for a companion," which shows he wants more than a warm, safe room.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+3); 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/808-pg27200-part19/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Bruh, so the flowers in fall don't have that fresh vibe anymore, huh?

- **1.** Right, they lack the fresh, fragrant air of youth, and that's why the late flowers feel so sad — score 6
- **2.** Right, they lack the fresh, fragrant air of youth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Right, they're old and smell weird now — score 3
- **4.** Right, they lack the fresh, fragrant air of youth, which the warm room and stove never bring back — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 289, line 14: «fact: The one flower Gerda missed was a rose, which she saw on the old woman's hat, where the old woman had forgotten it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «miss» (+4); the same doer «one flower» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/808-pg27200-part19/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Okay, so the butterfly kinda thinks being pinned is like marriage?

- **1.** Yeah, he says both leave you stuck fast — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he says both are pretty boring — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he says both leave you stuck fast, like a bug on a pin in a room full of people — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he says both leave you stuck fast, and that's why he thinks being pinned is fine — 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/808-pg27200-part19/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Lowkey, the ending's kinda sad, right, like a total fail?

- **1.** Nah, he gets a happy ending, kinda — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he stays single and gets pinned up, which is a pretty sad and total fail ending — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he stays alone and gets stuck — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he stays single and gets pinned up — **✓ 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/808-pg27200-part19/t12/)

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

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Which plant did the butterfly, after considerable deliberation in the autumn, finally approach with a proposal of marriage?

- **1.** The clover — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The mint — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The thyme — no support
- **4.** Mint — 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/808-pg27200-part19/e1/)

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

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Under what conditions did the butterfly come to be exhibited, by the persons in the room, as a specimen in a box?

- **1.** He was seized and put in a cage — no support
- **2.** He was caught and pinned on a pin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He was trapped by a child in a box — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** He was caught — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 97, line 6: «Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife: «next time he begins to boast, take him at his word. Ask him to stamp, and see what will happen.»», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «word» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+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/808-pg27200-part19/e2/)

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

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What reason does the text give for the butterfly's failure to obtain a wife at any time during his life?

- **1.** His excessive delay in choosing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He was shy — no support
- **3.** His careless pick of the wrong flower — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** His poor choice of flowers — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 625, line 19: «Old word "picket": a stake or post where an elephant is tied; the text says Toomai is "smaller than a picket-pin".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-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/808-pg27200-part19/e3/)

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

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What term does the narrator use to describe the state of the butterfly at the close of the tale?

- **1.** A lonely old man — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** An old bachelor — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A widower — no support
- **4.** A married old beetle — no support

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**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 724, line 1: «An old man finds a rusty iron kettle in the corner of his room and decides to use it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «old man» (-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/808-pg27200-part19/e4/)

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