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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princes… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 876 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 15 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 Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves

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**Tests:** 5 of 15 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 19 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 876 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/876-pg27200-part87/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo, so who's the big boss down there, like the king or what?

- **1.** the Sea Witch — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a crab — no support
- **3.** the Sea King — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the sea — 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/876-pg27200-part87/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, what's the castle even made of, coral or something?

- **1.** pale limestone blocks — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** coral — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** stones — no support
- **4.** marble — 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/876-pg27200-part87/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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bruh, how many oysters did the granny rock on her tail?

- **1.** seven — no support
- **2.** twelve — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** four — no support
- **4.** two — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 876, line 7: «What: the grandmother wears twelve oysters on her tail, which shows her high birth, while others of high rank wear only six.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+4). Against it: the same place «tail» (-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/876-pg27200-part87/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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how many sisters were there, like for real?

- **1.** eight — no support
- **2.** six — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **3.** one — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** seven — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/876-pg27200-part87/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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which one was the cutest, the baby sister?

- **1.** the second — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the one who was prettiest of all — no support
- **3.** the prettiest and smallest one — no support
- **4.** the youngest — **✓ the right answer** · 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/876-pg27200-part87/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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what was the little one's skin like, all clear and stuff?

- **1.** as white as new snow — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** as clear as a rose-leaf — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** pale as pearl — no support
- **4.** as pink as a seashell — 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/876-pg27200-part87/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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what did the baby plant by the statue, like a bush or a tree?

- **1.** a rose-colored weeping willow — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a rose-colored weeping willow with silver leaves — no support
- **3.** a golden kelp in a ring — no support
- **4.** a row of red roses along the statue's base — 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/876-pg27200-part87/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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that boy statue, where'd it even come from, a shipwreck?

- **1.** from a sunken wreck in the deep — score 5
- **2.** from a wreck — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** from the land — score 5
- **4.** the sea — 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 134, line 10: «What the Spendthrift does wrong: he thinks summer has come, so he sells his coat, and then the frost kills the Swallow.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+4); the same doer «summer» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/876-pg27200-part87/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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which sister got to see the sunset, yo?

- **1.** eldest — no support
- **2.** the mid — no support
- **3.** the second — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the sister after the eldest one — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 757, line 10: «how: While the beer runs, she looks up and sees "a pick-axe exactly above her, which the masons had accidentally left there."», reached through a sentence linked to the one 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/876-pg27200-part87/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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who was the bold one that swam up the river, lowkey?

- **1.** the second — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the fourth — no support
- **3.** the third — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the 3rd — 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/876-pg27200-part87/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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what scared the third sister, like a monster or something?

- **1.** a barking dog on a fisherman's cottage porch — no support
- **2.** a fisherman's loud and barking old dog — no support
- **3.** a loud storm — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** a barking dog — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 442, line 19: «Old word: "frightened out of her wits" means so scared that she could not think; "wits" means good sense.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «frighten» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/876-pg27200-part87/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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who chilled in the middle of the sea and didn't wanna come up?

- **1.** the mid — no support
- **2.** the fourth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** the last — no support
- **4.** the fourth sister, who loved the middle of the sea — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 876, line 16: «The fourth sister is "more timid" and stays in the middle of the sea, saying it is "quite as beautiful there".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «middle» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/876-pg27200-part87/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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what was the eldest's fave view, them town lights?

- **1.** many fine lamps — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** lights like hundreds of stars — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** smoke and rising mist — no support
- **4.** candles in the windows — 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/876-pg27200-part87/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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when do the princesses get to go up top, like what age?

- **1.** fifteen years old, when they're grown — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** twenty years old, once their tails were strong — no support
- **3.** sixteen — no support
- **4.** fifteen — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 777, line 9: «Why: The princess in the castle has been turned into a white snake, and only Heinel's silence and courage can free her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4). 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/876-pg27200-part87/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★ · right ✓ {#t15}

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why'd the baby sis have to wait the longest, fr?

- **1.** she was the youngest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** she was the last born — no support
- **3.** she was the youngest of all the sisters in the family — no support
- **4.** she had all her sisters' rising ahead of her — 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/876-pg27200-part87/t15/)

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

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Which of the following, according to the text, was the rank indicated by the number of oysters worn upon the tail of the grandmother?

- **1.** a high birth — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** royal rank — no support
- **3.** a noble tie to the sea-king's court — no support
- **4.** a high birth, signified by twelve oysters — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 876, line 7: «What: the grandmother wears twelve oysters on her tail, which shows her high birth, while others of high rank wear only six.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «high birth» (+2); the same property (+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/876-pg27200-part87/e1/)

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

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In what manner does the text describe the arrangement of the youngest princess's flower-bed in relation to the sun?

- **1.** it is round like the sun — no support
- **2.** it is round, like the moon, containing flowers as white as her light at dusk — no support
- **3.** it is round, like the sun, containing flowers as red as his rays at sunset — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** it is a plain square bed of roses — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 179, line 20: «fact: Old word: a "litter" was a bed or stretcher carried between poles; today we say a stretcher.», 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); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/876-pg27200-part87/e2/)

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

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To which of her sisters' sightings of the surface world does the text attribute the phrase "she was the boldest of them all"?

- **1.** the fourth sister's stay in the middle of the ocean — score 6
- **2.** the second sister's sunset above the wide sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** the fifth sister's long journey up the broad river to the sunlit shore beyond the reeds — score 4
- **4.** the third sister's excursion up the broad river — **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 2 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 405, line 18: «Old word: "imputed" means blamed or claimed to be guilty, so an "imputed crime" is a crime someone says you did.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «impute» (+4); the same thing acted on «old word» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/876-pg27200-part87/e3/)

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

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What reason does the narrator give for the grandmother's use of the word "fishes" when speaking of birds to her granddaughters?

- **1.** the birds were odd, and the granddaughters had only ever seen fishes in the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** the granddaughter had never beheld a bird, so she would not otherwise have understood — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** because the granddaughter had never beheld a bird in the sea, and the word was all she knew of such things at home beneath the waves — score 0
- **4.** the birds swam low beneath the waves, like the fish they resembled in every way — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 134, line 9: «Why the Birds refuse him: they are clever enough to know a villain when they see one, and the story's moral is that "A villain may disguise himself, but he wil…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «one» (-1). 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/876-pg27200-part87/e4/)

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