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title: Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 815 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 12 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's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom

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**Tests:** 1 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 815 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/815-pg27200-part26/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo, the Dryad's tree got zapped by lightning, like full on BOOM, mate, no cap

- **1.** the branches got burnt off and the trunk survived, which was wild — no support
- **2.** the oak was fine — no support
- **3.** the tree got struck and it was honestly kinda sad, not gonna lie — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** the old oak got split right to the roots, and that was lowkey tragic — **✓ the right answer** · 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 572, line 9: «Why: the persimmons are "green ez grass," so they will not fall, and Miss Cow hits the tree again and again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hit» (+4); the same thing acted on «tree» (+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/815-pg27200-part26/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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so Paris was lit up at night like a massive disco, right?

- **1.** yeah, it was lit — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, it gleamed like a bright mist on the horizon — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** yep, it glowed — no support
- **4.** yeah, it glowed like a sea of fairy lights on the water — 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/815-pg27200-part26/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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why was everyone rushing to the Exhibition, like what's the big deal?

- **1.** it was a brand new marvel that pulled in people from around — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** just a fair — no support
- **3.** it was a wicked new wonder that drew folk from every country — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** they wanted to see the new hall and the machines inside — 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/815-pg27200-part26/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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wait, the Dryad's life got shorter, how short?

- **1.** like the life of a fly that lives just one day — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** only a day — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** like a sparrow's short spring, about a week or so — no support
- **4.** like a day — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 97, line 19: «Real life: scientists today use the words «a just-so story» for a neat-sounding explanation that nobody has tested, like how the leopard got his spots by finge…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+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/815-pg27200-part26/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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did the Dryad actually go to the city or nah?

- **1.** no, she only longed to go and was warned by the voice that her life would shorten — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** yes, she rode there on a painter's cart — no support
- **3.** no, she only longed to go and was warned — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** no, she just wished and was told no — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 815, line 9: «why: she wants to see the wonders of "the city of magic changes," so she longs to leave her tree.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «long» (+4); the same doer «dryad» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/815-pg27200-part26/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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what was in the Champ de Mars, like the coolest stuff?

- **1.** a sunflower — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a giant mechanical sunflower and some painted kiosks in rows — no support
- **3.** a gigantic sunflower and a lotus plant made of colours — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** some bright lamps, a steam engine and a big colourful lotus — 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/815-pg27200-part26/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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what did the old clergyman say the lightning was?

- **1.** bolts from the clouds — no support
- **2.** servants of the Lord God who strike down the wicked and the old trees alike — no support
- **3.** servants of the Lord God — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** servants of the Lord God, sent down from heaven to punish the proud people of the earth — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 815, line 3: «The old clergyman says a few words, a painter draws the tree, and the Dryad sees that everything passes away.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «few words» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/815-pg27200-part26/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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why was the Dryad moaning, all sad and that?

- **1.** because she was lonely and missed the painter who left — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** because she wanted to see the Exhibition and it made her restless — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** because the storm had broken her tree and she was grieving — no support
- **4.** because she wanted to see the Exhibition and it made her restless, so she begged the voice to let her go to the city — 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/815-pg27200-part26/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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what's a caravanserai, like a fancy shop or what?

- **1.** a fancy shop — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a market in the desert town — no support
- **3.** a big inn in the East where travellers rested — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a shop — 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/815-pg27200-part26/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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what happened to the old clergyman in the end?

- **1.** he did not come back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** he went out to the forest and was never seen by the village again — no support
- **3.** he moved to Paris — no support
- **4.** he sailed away to sea — 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/815-pg27200-part26/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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were the Russian horses like normal ponies or what?

- **1.** gentle grey horses that carry the farmers' carts — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** fiery and glorious horses of the steppe that were brought to Paris by Cossacks from the far eastern frontier — no support
- **3.** small shaggy horses of the far grassland — score 1
- **4.** fiery and glorious horses of the steppe — **✓ the right answer** · score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 785, line 5: «When war comes he takes a lame horse from the forest and rides off with an army in iron armour.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «lame horse» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/815-pg27200-part26/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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what's the vibe of the whole Exhibition, like honest?

- **1.** a wonder — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a kingdom of Babel, a wonder of the world — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a tower of glass and a cheap show for all — no support
- **4.** a big fair — 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/815-pg27200-part26/t12/)

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

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Which of the following best describes the event that causes the Dryad's distress in the passage?

- **1.** The lightning strike that split the old oak to its roots — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The painter's sudden visit to the old oak tree — no support
- **3.** The sudden arrival of the new visitors from Paris — no support
- **4.** The lightning strike that split the old oak to its roots and left the whole village in mourning for many days — 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/815-pg27200-part26/e1/)

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

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According to the passage, what did the voice foretell regarding the lifespan of the Dryad should she travel to the city?

- **1.** That her leaves would fall before the next spring came — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** That she would be given a new tree body and a new name — no support
- **3.** Her life would end — no support
- **4.** That her life would be shortened to a span of a single day — **✓ 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/815-pg27200-part26/e2/)

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

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In the passage, to what is the Champ de Mars compared when it is described as a table laid for a festival?

- **1.** A banquet on a summer night — no support
- **2.** A great table on Christmas Eve — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** A grand dinner for the king — no support
- **4.** A table — **← Mova's choice** · 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, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 808, line 15: «Old word "consoled": it means comforted in sadness, so "consoled himself" means he tried to feel better on his own.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/815-pg27200-part26/e3/)

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

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Which term is used in the passage to denote the name given to the machinery in the great circular hall?

- **1.** Master Bloodless — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The Brass Giant — no support
- **3.** Mister Iron Heart — no support
- **4.** The Iron Man — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 767, line 21: «Old word: "anointed and consecrated" means blessed with holy oil and made sacred; today we still use the word "consecrated" for churches.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «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/815-pg27200-part26/e4/)

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