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title: Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 841 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 14 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 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage

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**Tests:** 3 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 841 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/841-pg27200-part52/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Wait, what did the clerk even turn into, bruv?

- **1.** a small grey bird of the field — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** a lark — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** a crow — no support
- **4.** a little lark with golden wings — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 841, line 9: «Why does he become a lark? Because he sighs, "if I could change myself into anything I would be a little lark."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «clerk» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Lol, who bought him for eightpence?

- **1.** the lady of the house and her two sons — score 1
- **2.** two schoolboys — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** a passing sailor — no support
- **4.** a poor farmer — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 841, line 4: «A sailor boy catches him in a cap, and two schoolboys buy him for eightpence.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «buy» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «two schoolboys» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Innit wild, who snatched him with his own cap?

- **1.** a cabin boy — score 2
- **2.** the schoolboy who had a big cap — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** a cook — no support
- **4.** a sailor boy — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 841, line 4: «A sailor boy catches him in a cap, and two schoolboys buy him for eightpence.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «two schoolboys» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Mate, what did his goloshes turn into, claws or what?

- **1.** bird feathers — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** long scaly bird feet — no support
- **3.** claws — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** wings — 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/841-pg27200-part52/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Be real, which one does the daisy love more, light or air?

- **1.** the warm sunshine above — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** light — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** water — no support
- **4.** the cool air of the morning — 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/841-pg27200-part52/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Bro, what's the parrot's only human line?

- **1.** "Let us go home" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** "Hello, dear" — no support
- **3.** "Now let us be men." — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** "Now let us dance" — 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/841-pg27200-part52/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Lowkey, what did the lady chuck over the canary?

- **1.** a silk blanket cover — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a large white handkerchief from her pocket — no support
- **3.** a white handkerchief — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the lace handkerchief she had embroidered for her husband — 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/841-pg27200-part52/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Fr, where did they put the clerk's cage?

- **1.** beside the window — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** close to the canary — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** in the parlour right beside the canary's golden cage — no support
- **4.** close to the canary, under the window in the parlour — 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/841-pg27200-part52/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Bruh, what did the lady call him?

- **1.** a field-bird — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** a song bird — score 3
- **3.** a farm bird — score 3
- **4.** a fool — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 171, line 7: «What: Zobeida asks why they "should first whip the dogs and then cry over them," and the porter says the men want an answer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cry» (+2); the same doer «question» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Ngl, where's the canary's home sweet home?

- **1.** a warm fatherland — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a warm fatherland across the sea and far away — no support
- **3.** the warm southern lands of his distant fatherland — no support
- **4.** a sunny island — 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/841-pg27200-part52/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Fam, what did the sailor boy use to catch him?

- **1.** a sailor's big woollen cap from the ship — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** a sack — score 0
- **3.** the big red cap of the schoolboy — score 0
- **4.** his big cap — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 699, line 3: «The prince catches Lineik as she tries to dash back to her tree, so he learns the truth about the false princess.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+2); the same doer «prince» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Yeah nah, what did the clerk shout at the boy?

- **1.** "You impudent little rascal, how dare you touch me" — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** "You impudent rascal, give me back my bird" — no support
- **3.** "You silly boy, stop" — score 0
- **4.** "You impudent rascal" — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 524, line 16: «What: Oedipus answered that the creature was man, who in old age "calls a staff to his assistance", so has three legs.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Mate, which bird sang about palm-trees?

- **1.** the parrot — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** the canary — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** the owl — score 3
- **4.** the lark — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 580, line 16: «Help: the little bird sings "Take yo' toofies en gnyaw it," and the rabbits chew through the cane.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sing» (+2); the same doer «little bird» (+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/841-pg27200-part52/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Lmao, why's the lady not chuffed about the lark?

- **1.** she says it sings like a common field-bird that eats worms — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** it sings too softly — score 2
- **3.** it is merely a field bird — no support
- **4.** she calls it a common field-bird — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 811, line 4: «The lark drops down into the grass, sings to the daisy, kisses it with its beak, and then flies back up to the sky.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+1); the same doer «lark» (+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/841-pg27200-part52/t14/)

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

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Which flower did the clerk involuntarily seize?

- **1.** the lily — no support
- **2.** a tulip — no support
- **3.** the daisy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** a violet — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 841, line 9: «Why does he become a lark? Because he sighs, "if I could change myself into anything I would be a little lark."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/e1/)

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

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What was the sole human utterance of the parrot?

- **1.** "Hello there" — no support
- **2.** "Be men." — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** "Now let us dance." — no support
- **4.** "Now let us be men." — **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 599, line 10: «The orator's last words were "an impromptu utterance," meaning spoken on the spot without any preparation.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+8); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «impromptu utterance» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/e2/)

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

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By what means did the clerk's transformation commence?

- **1.** a sudden storm — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** his wish to be a lark — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** his strong desire — no support
- **4.** the wish he made to the daisy in the garden — 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/841-pg27200-part52/e3/)

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

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To whom were the birds sold, and at what price?

- **1.** to a sailor, for ninepence and a biscuit — no support
- **2.** to two schoolboys who lived near the harbour, for eightpence in coins — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** a farmer, for fivepence — no support
- **4.** two schoolboys, for eightpence — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 841, line 4: «A sailor boy catches him in a cap, and two schoolboys buy him for eightpence.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «two schoolboys» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: 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/841-pg27200-part52/e4/)

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