--- title: Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 858 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 tests right, exam 2 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/858-pg27200-part69/) [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/) / 858 # Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill **Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 858 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/858-pg27200-part69/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Yo, was Rudy's load heavy or what? - **1.** cups, pistols, a pot and a bag of cheese — no support - **2.** loads, three cups, two pistols and a coffee-pot — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2 - **3.** loads of silver, the cups, both pistols, the pot and a whole box of Swiss chocolate — score -2 - **4.** way too much stuff, like three cups, two pistols, a pot, and a huge sack of cheese — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 181, line 6: «Hindbad is a porter, a man paid to carry heavy loads through the streets of Bagdad, and he is weary and sour from his work.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «heavy loads» (-1); the same property (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Dude, why did Rudy really come to Interlachen? - **1.** to buy some hay — score -1 - **2.** for fun — no support - **3.** for cheese — no support - **4.** to see Babette — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 6, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 858, line 1: «Rudy tells Babette he came to Interlachen only to see her, and she goes quiet and thoughtful.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rudy» (+4); the same action «see» (+1); the same thing acted on «babette» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Was the ice girl well sus or what? - **1.** yeah, super sus, with eyes like freezer glass and a voice like the north wind howling down the mountain pass — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** yeah, kinda weird, with cold blue eyes — no support - **3.** yeah, super sus, with eyes like freezer glass — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** so sus, honestly, she had creepy eyes and a totally unearthly vibe that gave Rudy the chills all the way home — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 855, line 11: «Old word: "cretin" was a hard, unkind word for a person with a serious illness that affected his mind and body.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+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/858-pg27200-part69/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Did Rudy let the maiden help him up? - **1.** no way, he said no thanks — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** no way, he said no thanks and then climbed the whole rock face alone in the rain — score 5 - **3.** yeah, he took it — score 5 - **4.** yeah at first, but then he totally changed his mind and asked her to come along too — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 853, line 5: «explain: The Ice Maiden orders Vertigo to seize Rudy, but the sunbeam daughters sing against it, and at eight Rudy says goodbye to Ajola and the cat before lea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «order» (+4); the same doer «ice maiden» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} What was the foster-mum like? - **1.** wriggly neck, kissing him, well weird — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** kinda bossy, always fussing about food — no support - **3.** wriggly neck, kissing him all the time, and well weird, like a bird with too many feathers — no support - **4.** cold hands, sharp voice, always scolding — 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/858-pg27200-part69/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Did the miller get hyped about Rudy's stories? - **1.** kinda, he said they were okay — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** yeah, he was well into them — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** nah, bored — no support - **4.** nope, he yawned at every tale — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 826, line 2: «The fat man tells the story of Humpty Dumpty, and the fir-tree dreams that it might marry a princess too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «fat man» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Did the English dude get the eagle? - **1.** yeah, but Rudy got a better deal — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nope, Rudy was like, not happening — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, Rudy kept the bird for himself — no support - **4.** yeah, the Englishman got it, but Rudy then stole it back that same night from the inn yard — 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/858-pg27200-part69/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} What were the cats gossiping about? - **1.** the eagle and the English gent's gold coins — no support - **2.** Rudy and Babette, secret footsie under the table — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** the weather and the rain — no support - **4.** the hunters and their two stolen silver cups — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 856, line 13: «Rudy's belief is: "No one ever fails who has confidence in himself."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Did Babette talk loads? - **1.** nope, she stayed quiet, just giving shy looks — score 2 - **2.** nah, she was dead quiet but her eyes said it all — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** yeah, she chatted nonstop about the mountains and the cats and the miller's soup and his cheese — score 1 - **4.** nah, she was dead quiet the whole evening but her eyes said everything she wanted to say to Rudy — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 858, line 9: «Why: Rudy came to Interlachen not for the shooting-match but "to see her," as he tells Babette.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «rudy» (+1); the same receiver «babette» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Which stars did Rudy spot? - **1.** two shiny ones, for him and the maiden — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** a huge crowd of tiny stars, like all the people Rudy had ever met in Interlaken and Bex — no support - **3.** just one, lol — score 0 - **4.** two bright ones, like him and Babette — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **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 617, line 3: «Two hunters, Kerick Booterin and his son Patalamon, come from the village and pick out a drove of young seals to be driven to the killing pens.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pick out» (+1). Against it: the same doer «two hunters» (-1). 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/858-pg27200-part69/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} What was the omnibus for? - **1.** the ride to the top of the glacier where the Ice Maiden lives in her crystal palace — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** to carry the miller's cheese and the English gentleman's luggage from Geneva to Interlaken and back — no support - **3.** the ride between Valais and Vaud — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** to haul cheese to the market — 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/858-pg27200-part69/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} What's the Rhone's job here? - **1.** it splits the two cantons, with a bridge and a ferry and a whole lot of fish swimming in it — no support - **2.** it splits the cantons, a bridge over — no support - **3.** it splits the two cantons, with a bridge — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** it cuts the valley, with a ferry on it — **← 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 256, line 13: «fact: Old word: "headsman" means the man whose job was to cut off a person's head with an axe or sword; today we would say executioner.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cut off» (+2); the same doer «job» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/858-pg27200-part69/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Was Rudy scared of the ice lady? - **1.** yeah, he was super scared and ran all the way home to Bex without stopping once for breath — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, he kinda was, not gonna lie — no support - **3.** nah, he said he is not scared — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** nah, he said he is not scared at all, though he was shaking inside and kept looking back over his shoulder — 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/858-pg27200-part69/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which objects did Rudy carry over the mountains on his homeward journey? - **1.** three silver cups, two handsome pistols, and a silver coffee-pot — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** three silver cups, two handsome pistols, a silver coffee-pot, a silver tray, a bundle of furs, and the eagle's old nest — score 3 - **3.** three silver cups, two handsome pistols, a silver coffee-pot, a bag of cheese, and a hunting knife from the English gentleman — score 3 - **4.** three silver cups, two handsome rifles, and a tin cooking-pot — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 858, line 8: «What: Rudy carries three silver cups, two handsome pistols and a silver coffee-pot, and the coffee-pot "would be useful when he began housekeeping."», 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 «coffee pot» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What did Rudy's foster-mother say to him upon his return? - **1.** You bring us all such fine luck, Rudy dear. — no support - **2.** You have brought good luck with you, Rudy. — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Welcome home, Rudy. — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** You have come home at last, Rudy. — score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 858, line 9: «Why: Rudy came to Interlachen not for the shooting-match but "to see her," as he tells Babette.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same receiver «babette» (+2); the same action «tell» (+1). 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/858-pg27200-part69/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which animals hold the closing conversation of this part? - **1.** the parlor-cat, the kitchen-cat, and the old dog who sleeps by the fire — score 2 - **2.** the parlor-cat and the kitchen-cat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** the barn-cat and the stable-dog — score 2 - **4.** the miller and his cat — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 630, line 18: «old word: "to get a word in edgewise" means to squeeze your word into a talk where others keep going; the camel tries this.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} By which conveyance did Rudy travel between the two cantons? - **1.** a sleigh — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** the omnibus — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** the cart — score 1 - **4.** a horse — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 856, line 12: «Why Rudy travels: "If I am to be Babette's husband, I must see her some time or other."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «travel» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/858-pg27200-part69/e4/) - ← previous: [857. Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/857-pg27200-part68/) - next →: [859. Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/859-pg27200-part70/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)