--- title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 846 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 3 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/846-pg27200-part57/) [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/) / 846 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son **Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 846 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/846-pg27200-part57/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Did the lane kids pay for Puggie's grave, or nah? - **1.** Yeah, they paid a button each and then got a free ride back home — score 3 - **2.** Yeah, they paid a button each — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Yeah, they paid a penny each — score 3 - **4.** Nah, they only paid if the grave looked nice and the eldest boy said so — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 362, line 10: «Why: the Kid "paid no heed" when his mother called the flock home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «kid» (+2). 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/846-pg27200-part57/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bruv, how many buttons did you need to get in? - **1.** One sweet, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** Just one trouser button — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** You needed a whole coat full of buttons and a penny for the gate — no support - **4.** Loads of buttons, but the boys gave a discount to the smaller kids — no support **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 773, line 15: «The princess is so serious that "no one could make her laugh," so the crowd gives her the joke she needs.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/846-pg27200-part57/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Was the snail house wicked, or just okay? - **1.** Totally fine, they had houses from birth — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Totally normal, they lived in shells — no support - **3.** Not wicked at all, they had their own houses from birth and never needed to borrow one — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** Mostly okay, though they bullied the black snails who had no houses at all — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 709, line 20: «Old word: a "kennel" is the small wooden house where a dog sleeps; we still use the word for a dog's shelter.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+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/846-pg27200-part57/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Did the snail mum wanna be cooked, innit? - **1.** Nah, she wanted a silver spoon — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, she wanted a silver dish — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, she wanted tea — no support - **4.** Nah, she hated it — 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/846-pg27200-part57/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} Who got the lady-snail for the lad, like? - **1.** The glow-worms found her — score -4 - **2.** A band of birds carried her over the wall to the castle lawn in the morning — no support - **3.** The gnats fetched her for him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2 - **4.** The white gnats flew all the way to the gooseberry-bush and brought her to the wedding — score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 846, line 13: «The gnats find a lady-snail "a hundred man-steps from here", sitting alone on a gooseberry-bush.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «gnats» (-1); the same thing acted on «lady snail» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/846-pg27200-part57/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} How long did her trip take, mate? - **1.** Eight whole days of crawling, mate, with no rest — no support - **2.** Nine days, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** Eight days, mate — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** Ages, mate, she took the whole summer to get there — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 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 830, line 5: «In prison and then in freedom at Easter, the boy meets Aphtanides, and on the sea a boat trip ends with a splash and a rescue.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/846-pg27200-part57/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Was the wedding bare loud and mad? - **1.** Yeah, it was a riot — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, it was dead quiet — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nah, quite loud — no support - **4.** Yeah, bare loud — 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/846-pg27200-part57/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Who lit the do, the ants or the glow-worms? - **1.** The glow-worms lit it, six of them hanging from the burdock leaves all night — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The ants, the gnats and the glow-worms all lit it together with their little lamps — no support - **3.** Six glow-worms lit it up — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Four fireflies lit it — 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/846-pg27200-part57/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Was the queen ant a proper cool match? - **1.** Nah, the mum said the queen's palace was far too grand for her boy to live in — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The mum said no, her palace not for him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, she was a good match — no support - **4.** Yeah, she was the perfect match, but the mum refused because the palace was a hill — 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/846-pg27200-part57/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Did the boy snail reach the top of the stalk, like? - **1.** Nah, he stopped at the bottom because the stalk was too tall and slippery — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, but it took him two days — no support - **3.** Yeah, but it took him three days — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, he gave up halfway — 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/846-pg27200-part57/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Was the burdock forest proper massive, or what? - **1.** Yeah, it covered the back yard — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, it covered the whole old garden — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nah, just a few plants — no support - **4.** Nah, it only covered one bed by the wall but looked massive from underneath — 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/846-pg27200-part57/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Was the girl by the tan-yard gutted, yeah? - **1.** Nah, she got in for free but then cried because the grave was too sad — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Yeah, she lost a button and cried — score 6 - **3.** Nah, she just sat there — score 6 - **4.** Yeah, she had no button so she cried — **✓ the right answer** · 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 746, line 6: «Who: a dear little girl called Little Red-Cap, because of the red velvet cap she always wears, and loved most by her grandmother.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same doer «dear little girl» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/846-pg27200-part57/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Did the snails think they were posh, or what? - **1.** Nah, they were humble people who gave away their houses to anyone who asked for one — no support - **2.** Nah, they were just average — no support - **3.** Yeah, they thought they were the nobbest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** Nah, they were humble — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 846, line 8: «What: the snails believe they are the most noble creatures, because the whole forest was planted for them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «believe» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/846-pg27200-part57/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} To what cause may the girl's distress at the tan-yard be attributed? - **1.** The loss of her family and her home in the old tan-yard during the cold night — no support - **2.** Her inability to pay the trouser button that the boys demanded at the tan-yard gate — no support - **3.** Her lack of a trouser button for admission — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Her missing shoe for entry — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 774, line 15: «Old word: "straitened" means narrowed or squeezed tight, so the mountain path became too narrow to ride.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/846-pg27200-part57/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} By what means did the bride of the young snail reach the burdock wood? - **1.** By a passing ant carrying her — score -3 - **2.** By her own slow crawl over eight days — score -1 - **3.** Her own slow journey of eight days — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** By a long journey of eight days, guided by six glow-worms who lit her way — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 334, line 1: «Wendy gives the boys her "last words," and Smee ties her to the mast while Hook plans to make them walk the plank.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); 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/846-pg27200-part57/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} What did the aged snails regard as the highest distinction of their lineage? - **1.** Their claim that they were descended from a noble line that had once ruled the whole garden — no support - **2.** Their claim to be served on gold — no support - **3.** Their supposed right to be boiled and served on a silver dish at every grand feast — score 0 - **4.** Their supposed right to be served on silver — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 846, line 19: «Old word: "aristocratic" means belonging to the highest rank, and the snails think their race is exactly that.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/846-pg27200-part57/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Which creatures did the snails consider vulgar and conceited? - **1.** The black snails without houses, who were thought to be lowly and rude by everyone — score 1 - **2.** The black snails without houses — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** The gnats and glow-worms who flew about the garden in the rain every evening — no support - **4.** The white snails with houses — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 846, line 8: «What: the snails believe they are the most noble creatures, because the whole forest was planted for them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «believe» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/846-pg27200-part57/e4/) - ← previous: [845. Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/845-pg27200-part56/) - next →: [847. Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a sc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/847-pg27200-part58/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)