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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, a… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 823 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 12 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills

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**Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 823 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/823-pg27200-part34/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Ok so the elf king's guy finally shows up, innit?

- **1.** Yeah, the old goblin from the Dovre mountains turned up with his mates, innit, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, the old goblin's mate, innit — no support
- **3.** The old goblin from the Dovre mountains, yeah — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, the water-god from the sea, 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/823-pg27200-part34/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Them two young goblin lads were proper bare, no braces or nothing, mate. What were they like?

- **1.** Cheeky, they wore shiny big hats — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Rude, they put their feet on the table — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Mad rude, they kept their hats on — no support
- **4.** Rude as anything, they put their muddy boots on the table and swore — 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/823-pg27200-part34/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Wait, what did the youngest lad reckon the elf hill was?

- **1.** A hill full of goblins and mead, the elf king's gaff in Norway, bruv — score -2
- **2.** A hole in Norway, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** A massive hole in the mountain up in Norway, bruv, honest — score 2
- **4.** A stone in Dovre, bruv — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 823, line 8: «What: the youngest son says the elf hill is "a hole in Norway," and his father answers that "a hole goes in, and a hill stands out."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «elf hill» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «hole» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/823-pg27200-part34/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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The sixth sister reckoned she was gutted, didn't she? Why?

- **1.** She had to cook — score 0
- **2.** She had to stitch a shroud for the goblin's sons and their dogs too — score -2
- **3.** She had to sew her grave clothes — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** She had to wash the dishes all day — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 693, line 10: «The queen thinks, "To promise is one thing, and to keep is quite another," and then she marries a noble within days.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «queen» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/823-pg27200-part34/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Her sister had a gold ring, no cap. What was it for?

- **1.** Just jewellery — no support
- **2.** A betrothal, like an engagement — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A bribe for the goblin king — no support
- **4.** A promise to meet at the sea — **← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 776, line 15: «The ring: when the king draws off the huntsman's glove he sees "the ring which he had given to his first bride".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+2). Against it: the same doer «ring» (-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/823-pg27200-part34/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Her fourth finger was dead special, wasn't it? What did it look like?

- **1.** Like it could tell the future and knew all the secrets of the goblin's wedding, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Like it knew about the wedding before anyone else in the whole hill, fam — no support
- **3.** Like a ring with a red stone, fam — no support
- **4.** Like it knew about the wedding, fam — **✓ 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/823-pg27200-part34/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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The lizards were well sound about the goblin, weren't they? What did they say?

- **1.** Oh, how pleased I was with the old goblin and his big hat, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Oh, how pleased I was with the old goblin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Oh, how sad we were for the goblin — no support
- **4.** Oh, how pleased all the lizards were with the old goblin, the water-god, and the sea folk — 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/823-pg27200-part34/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Did the daughters' tricks get the goblin hyped? Which was the one that impressed him?

- **1.** The fourth, peak — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The seventh, with her stories, was peak — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The first, mate — no support
- **4.** The sixth, with her truth, was lit — 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/823-pg27200-part34/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Pure nightmare when the harp started up, right? What happened to everyone?

- **1.** They all danced round the hill — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They all lifted their left legs, no joke — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They all ran out the door, bruv — no support
- **4.** They sat down, mate — 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/823-pg27200-part34/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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The goblin's sons got bored, so they walked out of the hill. Why?

- **1.** They were bored, bro — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** They had had enough of it, bro — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Too boring, bro — no support
- **4.** They fancied a walk outside, bro — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 214, line 14: «The blind man begs, "Strike me, I beg of you, one blow," because he has sworn an oath to accept chastisement with every alm.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «man» (+5). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/823-pg27200-part34/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Is the old goblin's kiss at the party a bit awkward? Why?

- **1.** They were almost strangers to each other — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They were strangers — no support
- **3.** They had been married for years — no support
- **4.** They had a fight at the table — 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/823-pg27200-part34/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Who was the goblin's best mate, the elf king or the water-god? Which one fed him mead?

- **1.** The water-god gave the mead — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** The water-god, mate — no support
- **3.** The elf king's hill had the mead — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The elf king drank all the mead — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 372, line 14: «What happens to them: Mercury gives each one "a hard whack over the head" and sends them home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same doer «mercury» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-4). 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/823-pg27200-part34/t12/)

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

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Which character is described as having "a crown of hardened ice and polished fir-cones"?

- **1.** The water-god — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The old goblin's youngest son from the Dovre mountains and the sea — no support
- **3.** The seventh daughter, the witch — no support
- **4.** The old goblin from the Dovre mountains — **✓ 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/823-pg27200-part34/e1/)

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

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What does the elf king's remark, "They travel economically", most nearly imply about the goblins' journey?

- **1.** They go by sea and never pay — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They are rich and wait for a ship — no support
- **3.** They walk a lot — no support
- **4.** They travel cheaply and wait for a ship — **✓ 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/823-pg27200-part34/e2/)

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

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According to the text, which elfin daughter is the one who refuses to marry unless she is permitted to go to Norway?

- **1.** The seventh daughter — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The third — no support
- **3.** The fourth daughter — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The sixth — 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/823-pg27200-part34/e3/)

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

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Which reason does the text give for the goblin's preference that his sons should not take the vanishing accomplishment?

- **1.** His wife should not have such an accomplishment — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** His sons are too young to learn — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Sons must not vanish — score -1
- **4.** He thinks boys should learn the harp only — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 809, line 1: «A mother cannot believe that her youngest son, a boy of four, is dead, and she falls into bitter despair.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «youngest son» (-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/823-pg27200-part34/e4/)

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