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# Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast

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**Tests:** 4 of 15 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 19 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 822 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/822-pg27200-part33/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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so the wicked brother reckons the jasmine's his now, yeah?

- **1.** Yeah, he stuck it right by his bed like a proper trophy, innit, and then he started boasting about it — score 5
- **2.** Yeah, mate — no support
- **3.** Nah, he gave it to the bees, mate — score 3
- **4.** Yeah, he stuck it by his bed, innit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 822, line 1: «The wicked brother keeps the jasmine his sister left him, and places it by his bed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wicked brother» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on «jasmine» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/822-pg27200-part33/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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who snitched on him to the bees, like proper grassed?

- **1.** The little rose elf, mate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The little rose elf, the one who lives in the hedge, proper grassed — no support
- **3.** Some little elf that lives in the rose bush down the lane, bruv, the nosy one — no support
- **4.** The old raven bloke, innit — 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/822-pg27200-part33/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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what did the flower spirits do to him at night, the dirty pricks?

- **1.** Pricked his neck with poison thorns, mate — score 1
- **2.** Bit his ear — no support
- **3.** Pricked his tongue with poison spears — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Pricked his tongue with poison spears and then gave him horrible dreams all night, the dirty things — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 1, line 23: «Old words in today's English: "presently" = soon after, "fancy" = just imagine, "to-night" = tonight, "I should think" = I expect.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/822-pg27200-part33/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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so did he die from the nasty smell or what?

- **1.** Yeah, folks thought the spirits got him, innit — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, people reckoned it was the poison, bruv — no support
- **3.** Yeah, everyone reckoned the sweet jasmine smell did him in, proper deadly, and the pot got smashed too — no support
- **4.** Yeah, people reckoned the jasmine scent did him — **✓ 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/822-pg27200-part33/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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and when the pot smashed, what was in the bits?

- **1.** A whitened skull, proper creepy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A dead beetle, proper gross, innit — no support
- **3.** Bones, mate — no support
- **4.** A rotten root, bruv, mostly dirt — 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/822-pg27200-part33/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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ok, lizards in the tree gossiping, what were they on about?

- **1.** Loads of buzzing at the elfin hill — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They were gossiping about the elf king's wedding feast and the odd smell coming from the old tree roots — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Loads of chatter about the goblin — no support
- **4.** Loads of buzzing and rumbling at the elfin hill, which kept the first one awake all night long — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 822, line 5: «The lizards gossip about the elfin hill, where the elf king is preparing a grand ball with important guests.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «gossip» (+3); the same doer «lizards» (+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/822-pg27200-part33/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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who's the elf maiden with the heart thing on her head?

- **1.** The old king's housekeeper, bruv — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The old king's cook, the grumpy one — no support
- **3.** The young queen's maid, the one who sings — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **4.** The queen, bruv — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 779, line 13: «Miss Cat is the maid who sits by the fire and does the cooking, and she is the one who speaks to every suitor at the door.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «maid» (+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/822-pg27200-part33/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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who's delivering the invites, the raven or what?

- **1.** Nah, the goblin's sons are doing the invites, the lazy lot, and they're riding the wolves down the hill — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Yeah, the night-raven, croaky fella — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, the big goose, feathery bloke — no support
- **4.** Yeah, the night-raven, the croaky fella with the black wings, and he's bringing the merman too — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 242, line 11: «Tom answers "What should I deliver?", teasing them with words before he fights.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «tom» (+2). 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/822-pg27200-part33/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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what's on the menu at the elf feast, safe to eat?

- **1.** Moths on sticks and slug jelly, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Roasted mice and bat wings, served on mud plates with spiders, which is well grim — no support
- **3.** Frogs on a spit and snail skins, plus slug soup and rusty nails for pudding, proper gross — no support
- **4.** Frogs on a spit and snail skins, gross — **✓ 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/822-pg27200-part33/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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what're the elfin girls wearing for the dance?

- **1.** Silk, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Shawls, mate — no support
- **3.** Shawls from moonshine and mist — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Shawls from moonshine and mist, with silver ribbons and flowers in their hair, proper fancy — 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/822-pg27200-part33/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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where does the big grumpy goblin live?

- **1.** Over in the Dovre hills, Sweden — score 4
- **2.** Down in the swamp by the lake, miles away from the Dovre mountains and the goblin's gold mine, bruv — score 4
- **3.** Up in the Dovre mountains, Norway, in a massive grumpy castle full of gold and goblins — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** Up in the Dovre mountains, Norway — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 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 822, line 17: «Who: the old goblin from Norway, "who lives in the ancient Dovre mountains", is a guest at the feast.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old goblin» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «live» (+1); the same place «ancient dovre mountains» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/822-pg27200-part33/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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what's the old king's crown polished with?

- **1.** Ground silver and honey, the posh stuff from the castle store, proper fancy, bruv, not like the school — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Powdered slate-pencil, like the first form — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Powdered chalk, same as the lower form — no support
- **4.** Powdered slate-pencil, like the first form, which the teacher made us use for maths — 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/822-pg27200-part33/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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so what's the deal with the goblin's gold mine?

- **1.** He's broke, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He has two sons looking for wives, and the mine is better than all his castles, innit — no support
- **3.** He keeps the mine for his sons — no support
- **4.** He has two sons looking for wives — **✓ 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/822-pg27200-part33/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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so the youngest girl wants to know who's coming, yeah?

- **1.** Nah, just one — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Yeah, two brothers have to leave — score 6
- **3.** Nah, only the youngest one is going — score 5
- **4.** Yeah, two sisters must get married — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 677, line 15: «The old man tells him, "Sleeping cats catch no mice", which means that a person who wants something must work hard for it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «old man» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/822-pg27200-part33/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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the raven's invites, was the merman invited, bruv?

- **1.** Yeah, the elf king and his household first — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, the goblin's sons were first, innit — no support
- **3.** Yeah, the merman and his daughter first — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, bruv — 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/822-pg27200-part33/t15/)

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

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Upon what part of the sleeping man did the poisoned spirits of the jasmine inflict their wounds?

- **1.** Upon the forehead — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Hands — no support
- **3.** The ear — no support
- **4.** Upon the tongue — **✓ 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/822-pg27200-part33/e1/)

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

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By what means did the rose elf communicate the account of the murder to the bees?

- **1.** By flying to the hive at night and relating the whole sad story of the murder in a loud song — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** By sending a messenger to the queen bee who then repeated the entire account to every bee in the garden — no support
- **3.** By flying to them and relating it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** By whispering to them in the hive — 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/822-pg27200-part33/e2/)

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

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What office did the elderly elfin maiden hold in the household of the elf king?

- **1.** Cook — no support
- **2.** Nursemaid — no support
- **3.** Housekeeper — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Maid — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 810, line 14: «What the girl says: "I am a child of the court," and she claims "no one who was not well-born could rise in the world."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «one» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). 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/822-pg27200-part33/e3/)

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

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What substance was employed to fumigate the elfin chambers in preparation for the assembly?

- **1.** Burnt feathers and sheep's hooves — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Burnt horse-hair and pig's bristles — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Incense — no support
- **4.** Dried thyme and rotten goose fat — 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/822-pg27200-part33/e4/)

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