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title: Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm u… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 867 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 13 tests right, exam 0 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 Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him

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**Tests:** 1 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 867 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/867-pg27200-part78/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo, when did the oak have his wild dream, fam?

- **1.** on a windy night — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** in spring — no support
- **3.** at Christmas time — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** when the snow had fallen over the whole wood — 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/867-pg27200-part78/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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so who was perched on the oak gossiping, like proper?

- **1.** ravens and kites — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** owls — no support
- **3.** crows and rooks — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** magpies chattering about the weather and the farm — 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/867-pg27200-part78/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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wait, what did the cuckoo tell him, sick?

- **1.** how many summers and winters he had left in the wood — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** how many summers he had left before the axe came down — no support
- **3.** how long the frost would last — no support
- **4.** how many summers he had left — **✓ 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/867-pg27200-part78/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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was the birch proper quick, or nah?

- **1.** very slowly — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** straight as a rod — no support
- **3.** like lightning, zigzag up — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** quick as a sparrow hop — 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/867-pg27200-part78/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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who was chilling on the grass blade, lol?

- **1.** a dragonfly — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a tiny beetle polishing its shiny wings in the sun — no support
- **3.** a grasshopper — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a ladybird — 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/867-pg27200-part78/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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did the oak want the little blue flower too, or what?

- **1.** yes, he asked for it, longing to have it with him always — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, he asked for it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** yes, he begged the wind to bring it up to him — no support
- **4.** he never asked for it — 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/867-pg27200-part78/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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what dropped on the shore after the storm, bruv?

- **1.** the broken mast — no support
- **2.** the huge oak tree that the storm had torn from the ground — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** the old oak tree — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** the old oak tree that had stood for centuries on the hill — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 369, line 8: «When: "One bright evening as the sun was sinking", so the day is ending.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «one bright evening» (-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/867-pg27200-part78/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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how old was the oak, like for real?

- **1.** three hundred and sixty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** almost four hundred years of storms and sunshine — no support
- **3.** two hundred and ninety-two — no support
- **4.** three hundred and sixty-five — **✓ 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/867-pg27200-part78/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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what was the sailors' song about, mate?

- **1.** Christmas joy and eternal life — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** peace and quiet on the sea — no support
- **3.** summer sun and happy harvest — no support
- **4.** the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 750, line 12: «The messenger's song: "Little does my lady dream Rumpelstiltskin is my name!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «name» (-1). 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/867-pg27200-part78/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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so who was leaning on the bed in the last bit, innit?

- **1.** the nurse — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** a cat — score 1
- **3.** the silver candle — score 1
- **4.** the guardian angel — **✓ the right answer** · 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 783, line 4: «The youth still cannot shudder, so the king's daughter's maid tips a bucket of cold water and gudgeons over him in bed, and he finally shudders.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «bed» (+2); the same action «tip» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/867-pg27200-part78/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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what was shining over the baby, like a proper net?

- **1.** a star — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** moonlight — no support
- **3.** a net of shining stars — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a cloud of golden dust — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 867, line 21: «Over the sleeping child is "a net of shining stars," and each star is "a pearl of happiness," while the nurse sleeps.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/867-pg27200-part78/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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where did the smoke go up from the little huts, fam?

- **1.** into the cold blue sky over the frozen river valley — no support
- **2.** into the blue sky — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** into the grey clouds — score 5
- **4.** over the green hills — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 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 256, line 8: «fact: Where: the forest near the town, where the prince climbs a tree and sees "his watch hanging in the tree".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «climb» (+4); the same doer «forest» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/867-pg27200-part78/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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why was the nurse snoring away, lol?

- **1.** because everything in the house told of happiness and blessing — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** because everything felt happy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** because the baby was sleeping — no support
- **4.** because the whole night seemed full of peace and gentle song — 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/867-pg27200-part78/t13/)

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

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Identify the species of bird described as perching upon the oak prior to the commencement of the narrative.

- **1.** Migratory starlings that gathered upon the old branches — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Herons and gulls — no support
- **3.** Common blackbirds and thrushes perched in flocks — no support
- **4.** Crows and rooks — **✓ 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/867-pg27200-part78/e1/)

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

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Identify the agent that uprooted the oak during the nocturnal tempest at Christmas.

- **1.** A fierce gale sweeping in from the northern sea — no support
- **2.** A violent storm that howled through the wood all night — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** A cruel frost — no support
- **4.** A mighty storm — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 866, line 18: «The storms sing "Good-night, good-night" to the oak, and the snow will be "quite a cover-lid".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «storms» (+1); the same property (+1). 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/867-pg27200-part78/e2/)

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

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State the number of years the oak had existed prior to his fall.

- **1.** Two hundred and ninety-two — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Three hundred and sixty-five — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Three hundred and sixty-five full years of sun and rain — no support
- **4.** Almost four hundred years of storms and sunshine — 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/867-pg27200-part78/e3/)

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

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Specify the object that was shining over the sleeping infant in the subsequent narrative.

- **1.** Moonlight — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A net of shining stars — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A star — no support
- **4.** A cloud of golden dust — 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/867-pg27200-part78/e4/)

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