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title: Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watchman wears… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 838 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 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 Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watchman wears magic goloshes and tries life as a lieutenant

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**Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 838 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/838-pg27200-part49/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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yo so the watchman finds these goloshes and just puts them on lol, what, he wants to be the lieutenant, right?

- **1.** Yep, and then he's in the guy's room reading some sad love poem — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yep, and then he's in the guy's room reading some sad love poem, which is wild, like super dramatic and kinda cringe honestly — no support
- **3.** Nah, he's wandering the streets reading some silly old poem about the sea — no support
- **4.** Yep, and then he's chilling in the lieutenant's room, bored with his life — 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/838-pg27200-part49/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, did the watchman like his life before or nah?

- **1.** He was pretty bored, he had his kids and a dull job — no support
- **2.** He was kinda grumpy about his wife and all the kids — no support
- **3.** He was chill with it, he had his wife and kids — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He was chill with it, he had his wife and kids and a warm little house by the water — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 722, line 11: «fact: When the friend wakes up at the shrine, the prince says, "Restore him to life, I pray."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). 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/838-pg27200-part49/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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and the lieutenant was sad cause he was broke, right? like, rough?

- **1.** Yeah, he was broke and kinda annoyed at his life — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he was poor and really salty about it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, he was poor and really salty about it, and wrote sad poems about his money problems — no support
- **4.** Nah, he was just bored and tired of work — 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/838-pg27200-part49/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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bro the watchman wanted to fly up to the moon, what happened to that

- **1.** Nothing happened, because the narrator said the goloshes had to be worn by someone who truly wished to fly up there — score 4
- **2.** He got stuck on the roof and fell down into the street below him — no support
- **3.** Nothing, the narrator said he'd need the goloshes to make it happen — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Nothing, the narrator said he'd need the goloshes to make it happen, and they never flew him anywhere at all — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 838, line 9: «The watchman finds the goloshes and cries, "Well, I declare, there lies a pair of goloshes."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same doer «watchman» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/838-pg27200-part49/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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so the counsellor was wasted and dreaming in the street?

- **1.** Nope, he was just tired from the walk — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, he was sober — no support
- **3.** Yup, one glass of punch and he was out cold — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yup, he was sleeping — 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/838-pg27200-part49/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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and he rode off in a droschky, like a cab, to Christian's Haven?

- **1.** Yeah, and he was so thankful for modern times, which let him ride so comfortably through the night — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, and he was so thankful for modern times — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, and he complained about the slow roads — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he rode it all the way to Christian's Haven and paid the driver with his last coins — 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/838-pg27200-part49/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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were the maids in that tavern weird or nah?

- **1.** Yeah, they were rough and kinda creepy, always whispering and watching the guests closely — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Nah, they were polite and very quiet — no support
- **3.** Yeah, they were rough and kinda creepy, and one of them even tried to steal the goloshes — no support
- **4.** Yeah, they were rough and kinda creepy — **✓ 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 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 791, line 4: «In Copenhagen an old maid at an almshouse window watches poor children play on the rampart.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «watch» (+4); the same doer «old maid» (+2). 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/838-pg27200-part49/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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why didn't the watchman just ring the bell and give the shoes back?

- **1.** He didn't wanna wake everyone up, so he kept them, which was pretty selfish of him honestly — score 5
- **2.** He didn't wanna wake everyone up, so he kept them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** He thought the shoes were too nice to return — score 5
- **4.** He didn't have time, so he just kept walking — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 278, line 15: «He is kind and does not ring the bell, because he "did not like disturbing the other people in their beds."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «watchman» (+5). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/838-pg27200-part49/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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and what's up with the watchman's thing about being happier than the lieutenant?

- **1.** He missed his wife and kids and went back to being him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He wanted to be rich again and to take the job of lieutenant — no support
- **3.** He missed his wife and kids and went back to being him, but he kept feeling the sorrow of wealth — no support
- **4.** He wished to return to his simple life and his fine old chair — 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/838-pg27200-part49/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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did the goloshes fit him or was he struggling?

- **1.** They fit him perfect, like they were made for him, which surprised the watchman very much indeed — score 6
- **2.** They fit him perfect, like they were made for him, and he never took them off again — score 6
- **3.** They were a bit loose, but he didn't mind them — no support
- **4.** They fit him perfect, like they were made for him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 838, line 2: «A watchman finds a pair of goloshes by the lieutenant's door and puts them on, because they fit his feet exactly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fit» (+4); the same doer «goloshes» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/838-pg27200-part49/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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and the narrator says light is faster than a race horse, like how fast?

- **1.** Like nine million times faster, bro — score 3
- **2.** Like nineteen million times faster, bro — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Like nineteen million times faster, bro, which is wild if you think about it for real — no support
- **4.** Like a hundred times faster than a horse — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 178, line 1: «Agib wakes from a dream and shoots the brass rider into the sea, then buries the horse as the old man told him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/838-pg27200-part49/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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so the goloshes can make your mind go places but your body stays put?

- **1.** Yeah, unless you take them off, that's the rule — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, that's the deal — no support
- **3.** Yeah, unless you've got them on, that's the deal — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, the body goes too — 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/838-pg27200-part49/t12/)

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

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Which of the following describes the location in which the counsellor first regains consciousness after his disturbing episode?

- **1.** He wakes in East Street, lying with his legs towards a porch — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** He wakes in East Street, lying with his legs towards a porch, with his hat and cane nearby — score 5
- **3.** He wakes in East Street, lying with his legs towards a porch, after a long and strange dream of stars — score 5
- **4.** He wakes in a dark lane, lying with his head against a wall — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 586, line 9: «Why: Mars John drove Cholly hard that day, so the old man went to the lot and found the horse's mane full of witch-stirrups.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/838-pg27200-part49/e1/)

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

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Which of the following accurately states the reason the watchman refrains from returning the goloshes at once?

- **1.** He is too lazy — score 2
- **2.** He is unwilling to disturb the other occupants of the house — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** He is nervous about being seen leaving the house so early — score 5
- **4.** He wants to keep them — **← 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, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 838, line 2: «A watchman finds a pair of goloshes by the lieutenant's door and puts them on, because they fit his feet exactly.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «goloshes» (+1). 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/838-pg27200-part49/e2/)

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

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Which of the following best describes the change in circumstances undergone by the watchman upon his wish?

- **1.** He is transformed into the lieutenant, and then returns to being a watchman — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He becomes a wealthy merchant, then goes back to his old life — no support
- **3.** He becomes a lieutenant — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **4.** He is made a king — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 838, line 14: «The lieutenant holds a pink paper with a poem, "Oh were I rich!", about a maiden who once loved him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/838-pg27200-part49/e3/)

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

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Which of the following correctly identifies the speed of light, as compared with that of the fleetest race-horse, according to the narrator?

- **1.** Light travels nineteen million times faster than the fleetest race-horse, according to the narrator's careful calculations on the matter — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Light travels nineteen million times faster than the fleetest race-horse — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Light travels nine million times faster than the fastest carriage — no support
- **4.** Light travels nineteen million times faster than the fleetest race-horse, which is far beyond human reckoning — 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 836, line 8: «What news: "Burgomaster's Charlotte has engaged herself to the state councillor's son", his mother tells him after the market.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/838-pg27200-part49/e4/)

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