--- title: Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 845 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 13 tests right, exam 4 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/845-pg27200-part56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 845 # Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow **Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 4 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 845 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. 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/845-pg27200-part56/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo, did the glovemaker's lady really faint in the stream or nah? - **1.** Yeah, she collapsed on the bank and was carried off by the water with her shoes — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, the mayor said she was drunk, so she fell over in the stream and shouted for help — no support - **3.** Yeah, she fainted, fell over, and her feet stayed in the water — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, she walked home and was fine after all — no support **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/845-pg27200-part56/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} wait, why did her wooden clogs float off, bruh? - **1.** They were only tied on with a bit of straw — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** They were too big — no support - **3.** The straw broke — no support - **4.** They were only laced on with some leather — no support **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/845-pg27200-part56/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} so who found her, like for real? - **1.** A neighbour who had been looking for her all afternoon along the lane — no support - **2.** Martha, with some bread — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** The mayor's messenger, who came back to the stream after the widow fell — no support - **4.** Martha, bringing her coffee — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 73, line 15: ««Under severe compulsion from the Badger» the barge-woman was found and paid the value of her horse; Toad «kicked terribly at this» and still called her rude n…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same thing acted on «barge woman» (+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/845-pg27200-part56/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} the mayor sent a message, right? what did it say? - **1.** Come and see him right away — no support - **2.** Visit him soon — no support - **3.** Come see me straight away, he had news — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Bring the boy to the office now — **← Mova's choice** · score -3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 844, line 8: «What: the mayor says she is "good for nothing," though he likes the boy "very well."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); 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/845-pg27200-part56/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} did the doctor save her or was she cooked already? - **1.** She was already dead, too late — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** She was alive but very weak — no support - **3.** The surgeon saved her life — no support - **4.** She died later that night, after the surgeon had tried many remedies — no support **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/845-pg27200-part56/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} the mayor said she drank herself to death, wasn't he dead harsh? - **1.** Nah, he was actually quite nice — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, he was very mean — no support - **3.** Yeah, super cruel and totally unfair — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, very harsh — no support **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/845-pg27200-part56/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} was the brother's money left for the boy or the widow? - **1.** For the widow, six hundred dollars — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** For the boy, six hundred dollars — no support - **3.** The money was for the widow's son, who would receive it after her death — score 4 - **4.** For the widow, to be paid to her in secret by the mayor's own clerk — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 487, line 15: «The old man gives all the money to the Pope, saying, "Take my share too."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+4); the same doer «old man» (+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/845-pg27200-part56/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} so the mayor wanted to keep the money for himself, yeah? - **1.** Yeah, he kept it all — score 4 - **2.** Nah, he planned to give the boy all of it — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Yeah, he meant to keep most of it — score 3 - **4.** Yeah, he figured the boy would get the whole lot — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 845, line 16: «The mayor plans to place the boy "with honest people," so that he may become "a respectable working man."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «plan» (+4); the same doer «mayor» (+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/845-pg27200-part56/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} where did they bury her, like the posh cemetery? - **1.** In the churchyard for the poor, sandy ground — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** In a plain grave near the church — score 6 - **3.** In a poor field — score 6 - **4.** In the paupers' yard by the river — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 471, line 5: «At cockcrow the witch lies flat on the road, and the soldier buries her, then gets two hundred roubles and feeds his family a feast.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bury» (+4); the same thing acted on «witch» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} what did Martha plant on the grave, did she? - **1.** A small rose bush — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** A wooden cross — score 8 - **3.** A rose-tree, on sand — **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** Flowers — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 471, line 8: «Where: the merchant's house, then the road out to the graveyard, where the coffin is set in the grave.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); the same action «set» (+3); the same place «grave» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} the boy asked if his mum was good for nothing, right? - **1.** Nah, he asked the mayor — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Nah, he didn't — no support - **3.** Yeah, he asked Martha straight up — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Yeah, he asked her directly — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 845, line 4: «The boy cries beside the sandy grave under the rose-tree and asks if his mother was really good for nothing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same doer «boy» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} what did Martha say, did she stick up for her? - **1.** Nah, she said the mayor was right — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Yeah, she said she was worth loads, a good woman — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Yeah, she said she was good — score 3 - **4.** Nah, she didn't — no support **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 844, line 4: «When the boy is asleep, the laundress tells how she loved the student, took his ring, and was pushed toward Eric.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3). 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/845-pg27200-part56/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} so God knows Martha's telling the truth, yeah? - **1.** Yeah, God in heaven knows it's the truth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** Yeah, God knows it's a lie — score 6 - **3.** Nah, God knows it's a lie — score 6 - **4.** Nah, God doesn't — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 845, line 5: «Old Martha answers that she was a good and worthy woman, and God knows it is true, even if the world thinks otherwise.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+4); the same doer «god» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following best describes the circumstances in which the glovemaker's widow was found after her collapse? - **1.** She lay on the grass with her feet in the cold water — no support - **2.** She lay face down on the bank, with her whole body sprawled across the road and both shoes gone — score -4 - **3.** She lay with her head upon dry land and her feet in the stream — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** She lay wholly submerged in the stream, her clothes soaked and her shoes floating away down the current — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 845, line 1: «The glovemaker's widow goes to the cold stream to work, feels faint, and falls with her head on dry land and her feet in the water.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «cold stream» (+2). Against it: the same doer «widow» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following best states the reason the mayor gave for the widow's death? - **1.** He said the stream had drowned her quickly — score 1 - **2.** He asserted that she had drunk herself to death — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** He said she was ill — score 1 - **4.** He claimed she had died of cold alone — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 845, line 3: «The cruel mayor says she drank herself to death, then learns that his brother left her a legacy, which he now plans to keep for himself.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); the same action «drink» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which of the following best identifies the disposition of the legacy bequeathed by the mayor's brother? - **1.** Six hundred dollars, paid in full — no support - **2.** Six hundred dollars, to be paid with discretion to the widow or her child — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **3.** Six hundred dollars, paid quietly to the widow's son — no support - **4.** A sum of money, to be kept by the mayor — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 252, line 1: «A dying gentleman and his wife give their two little children to his brother and beg him to be kind to them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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/845-pg27200-part56/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Which of the following best describes the manner in which Martha honoured the memory of the deceased widow? - **1.** She strewed sand upon the grave and planted a rose-tree upon it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** She scattered sand and then prayed by the grave — score 2 - **3.** She covered the grave with sand and flowers — score -4 - **4.** She planted a rose — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 845, line 18: «Martha strews sand on the grave and plants a rose-tree on it, and the boy stands by her side and cries.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «strew» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same place «grave» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/e4/) - ← previous: [844. Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the la…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/844-pg27200-part55/) - next →: [846. Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two ol…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/846-pg27200-part57/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)