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title: Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 844 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 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 Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story

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**Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 844 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/844-pg27200-part55/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, who totally dragged the sick laundress home?

- **1.** Her mistress — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** the glovemaker's old lame sister — score 2
- **3.** the counsellor's wife and her cook — score 2
- **4.** Lame Martha — **✓ 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 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 31, line 15: «When made to do his share, Toad «was by no means so rapturous about the simplicity of the primitive life» and «attempted to resume his place in his bunk, whenc…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «haul» (+4); the same thing acted on «toad» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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/844-pg27200-part55/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Be real, what did the mayor call her, like, lowkey?

- **1.** a common sot — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** lazy and vile — no support
- **3.** a disgrace to the whole town council — no support
- **4.** good for nothing — **✓ 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/844-pg27200-part55/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bro, where'd the boy chill while Martha got her home?

- **1.** by the bridge with the cart — no support
- **2.** sitting on the riverbank with the washing tubs — no support
- **3.** by the river with the washing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** under the old oak tree — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 475, line 15: «Old word: "Ad" (Hades in Russian folk-tales) is the underground home of evil spirits and sinful souls.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2); the same property (+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/844-pg27200-part55/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Fr, what did Martha heat up for her, like, the healing drink?

- **1.** warm beer with butter and sugar — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** a mug of warm beer with butter, sugar and spice — no support
- **3.** warm wine with honey and mint — score -4
- **4.** mulled wine with spices and cloves — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 844, line 11: «Why: Martha thinks warm beer with "butter and sugar" is "the best medicine."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «martha» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/844-pg27200-part55/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Lowkey tragic, what did she do with the gold ring in the day?

- **1.** wore it next to her heart — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** slept with it under her pillow — no support
- **3.** sewed it into her dress and wore it all day long — score 1
- **4.** she wore it on a cord next to her heart all day — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 777, line 19: «Old word "chain armour": this is mail, a coat of linked metal rings worn by soldiers long ago, and today we would say "chainmail".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/844-pg27200-part55/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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No cap, who did the mistress want her to wed?

- **1.** the wealthy glovemaker and his family — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** the honest glovemaker Eric from the square — score 0
- **3.** the mayor's clerk — score 0
- **4.** Eric the glovemaker — **✓ 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 148, line 21: «Old word: "hankering" means longing or wanting something very much, and the Lion was blamed for hankering after a better prize.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+2); the same doer «old word» (+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/844-pg27200-part55/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Sus question: what was Eric's job?

- **1.** cordwainer — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** glovemaker — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a maker of fine leather gloves — no support
- **4.** he sewed gloves for the gentry — 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/844-pg27200-part55/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Bruh, what went down with the money from the captain?

- **1.** shipwrecked, money lost — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** robbed by pirates — no support
- **3.** stolen — no support
- **4.** wrecked, money stolen — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 844, line 18: «What: the captain carrying the borrowed money "was shipwrecked, and the money lost."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «money» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/844-pg27200-part55/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Real talk, how long was her hubby sick?

- **1.** three quarters of a year — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** two years and a half — no support
- **3.** about four long months — no support
- **4.** for most of the year and a winter — 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/844-pg27200-part55/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Mid, what did the new house cost to build?

- **1.** two hundred dollars — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** eleven hundred and five dollars — no support
- **3.** ten hundred and twenty dollars — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a thousand dollars — 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/844-pg27200-part55/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Yo, what's the boy's quilt look like?

- **1.** grey with brown patches — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** blue and white patchwork — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** red and yellow stripes — no support
- **4.** a faded blue and white patchwork quilt — 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/844-pg27200-part55/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Fr fr, what were the banns she was going to put up?

- **1.** a betrothal gift — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a marriage announcement — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a public notice of a coming marriage — no support
- **4.** the public reading of the intentions to wed — 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/844-pg27200-part55/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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Ngl, who else was crying by the river?

- **1.** the cook — score 1
- **2.** Eric — score 1
- **3.** Martha — score 1
- **4.** the boy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 239, line 14: «It calls Tom "a good lad" and says he has "done me a better turn than thou know'st."», 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 «tom» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/844-pg27200-part55/t13/)

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

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What was the occupation of the gentleman whom the mistress proposed as a husband?

- **1.** a maker of fine leather gloves — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** tanner — no support
- **3.** glovemaker — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** baker — 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/844-pg27200-part55/e1/)

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

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What was the principal cause of the family's financial ruin?

- **1.** the husband's long illness and the medical bills — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the illness that ate the family savings — no support
- **3.** the shipwreck that lost the borrowed money — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the shipwreck and a bank that failed in town — 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/844-pg27200-part55/e2/)

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

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What illness did the laundress's husband suffer before his death?

- **1.** a long illness that wasted his body away — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a sickness of the lungs that lasted through a winter — no support
- **3.** a prolonged lingering illness — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a sudden violent fever — 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/844-pg27200-part55/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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What quality did the mistress ascribe to the poor when she spoke of them?

- **1.** they are often more virtuous than the rich and proud — no support
- **2.** they may stand higher in God's sight — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** they often win the world's favour — no support
- **4.** they may stand higher in God's sight than the rich — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 820, line 11: «WHY the brothers fail: the first brother has "absolutely forgotten" his dictionary, and he stammers and cannot speak.», 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 «first brother» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/844-pg27200-part55/e4/)

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