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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid wat… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 878 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 14 tests right, exam 2 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 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul

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**Tests:** 6 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 878 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/878-pg27200-part89/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Bro, what did the mermaid do after she saved the prince?

- **1.** she sang a sad song — no support
- **2.** she cried in the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** she wept alone in the garden until morning came — no support
- **4.** she went home sad — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 878, line 6: «The little mermaid saved the prince from the sea, and he "knew nothing of all this."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «little mermaid» (+1); 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/878-pg27200-part89/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Yo, so did the prince ever clock the mermaid who saved him?

- **1.** nah, he never knew — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** nope, he forgot her — no support
- **3.** no, he didn't — no support
- **4.** nah, not really — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 878, line 6: «The little mermaid saved the prince from the sea, and he "knew nothing of all this."», 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 «mermaid» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Wait, who did she spill her secret to first, lol?

- **1.** her gran — no support
- **2.** one of her sisters — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** the sea witch who lives down below — score -3
- **4.** the little fish, innit — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 823, line 1: «The elf king waits for his guest, and two will-o'-the-wisps come racing in to say the goblin is nearly here.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same doer «elf king» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Mate, what was the palace made of, like, proper bright?

- **1.** bright yellow shining stone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** gleaming white marble with gold — no support
- **3.** cheap bricks — no support
- **4.** white 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/878-pg27200-part89/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Innit, how did the girls get up to the surface?

- **1.** in a long row — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** on foot — score 1
- **3.** in a little group — score 1
- **4.** by boat — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 877, line 10: «Where: the mermaid rises "as lightly as a bubble to the surface of the water" at sunset, when the sea is calm.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «rise» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Real talk, where did the mermaid chill to spy on the prince?

- **1.** behind the tall stone wall — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** in the cool shade of the palm — no support
- **3.** under the boat — no support
- **4.** in the marble balcony shadow — **✓ 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/878-pg27200-part89/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Bruv, what did the sailors reckon her veil was?

- **1.** a swan with wings out — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a big white ship's sail — no support
- **3.** a bird — no support
- **4.** a white sail — 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/878-pg27200-part89/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Sus, what did her gran say about human souls?

- **1.** they live forever — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **2.** they go to a special place after death — no support
- **3.** they go to heaven — no support
- **4.** they are given a soul by the sea, but only briefly — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 732, line 16: «Old word: "wretch" meant a miserable, unlucky person; today we would say "poor soul" or "unlucky so-and-so".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 1, scored -4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Lol, how long do mermaids live, like, proper long?

- **1.** around a thousand years or more — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** four hundred years — score 5
- **3.** three hundred years — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** for as long as the ocean lasts — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 878, line 10: «Mermaids live about "three hundred years," and when they die they become "the foam on the surface of the water."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same doer «mermaids» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Like, what would give her a soul, bestie?

- **1.** a man who loves her — no support
- **2.** a human who adores her — no support
- **3.** a man loving her most — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** true love — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 205, line 12: «Why: Badoura asks the king to give his daughter to Camaralzaman, because "our religion allows a man to have more than one wife."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same receiver «daughter» (+3). 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/878-pg27200-part89/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Ngl, what do humans reckon about the fish tail?

- **1.** it is quite ugly — **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **2.** it is a bit smelly — no support
- **3.** it is rather silly — no support
- **4.** they think it is a funny-looking tail — **← Mova's choice** · score 11

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 11, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 631, line 9: «What the mule thinks of Two Tails: "Two Tails is a great coward," and the mules claim to be "brothers from Hapur."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+8); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «great coward» (+1). Against it: the same doer «two tails» (-1). The right option, 1, scored 10. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Bare cringe, what do humans call their legs?

- **1.** two long stilts — score 1
- **2.** two stout props — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** two stout props that they walk on every day — no support
- **4.** two rather strange wooden props that wobble — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 878, line 13: «Humans think the fish's tail is "quite ugly," and they need "two stout props, which they call legs."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+3); the same property (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «humans» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Gutted, what does the mermaid want most, fam?

- **1.** to see the land — score -2
- **2.** to be a fish — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** to be human for a day — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** to be a human forever — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 878, line 1: «The mermaid has saved the prince, but he never saw her, and she is sad.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «mermaid» (+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/878-pg27200-part89/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Okay so what lit up the whole saloon?

- **1.** the blue fires burning inside the enormous shells — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** blue fire in the shells — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** candles in the glass lamps — no support
- **4.** blue flames in the walls — 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/878-pg27200-part89/t14/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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In what manner did the mermaid convey the prince to the shore?

- **1.** by swimming with him to the beach — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **2.** by holding him up above the water — no support
- **3.** by swimming with him across the whole bay to the shore at dawn — score -2
- **4.** by carrying him through the sea foam — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 877, line 14: «The mermaid is safe in the sea, but she worries: "he must not die," so she swims among the dangerous planks to find him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «swim» (-1); the same circumstance (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/e1/)

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

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What, according to the grandmother, distinguishes human beings from mermaids?

- **1.** the power of living in the sea — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the possession of an immortal soul — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** the ability to walk on land and to live beyond the sea forever — no support
- **4.** the possession of two legs and a human heart and mind — 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/878-pg27200-part89/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Under what condition, according to the grandmother, might the mermaid acquire an immortal soul?

- **1.** if a man loved her above his parents — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** if a prince kissed her on the shore — no support
- **3.** if a man loved her more than his mother, father, and all his kin — score 4
- **4.** when a man promises to marry her — score -4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 878, line 12: «A mermaid could win a soul only if a man loved her "more to him than his father or mother" and the priest joined their hands.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «love» (+4); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same doer «man» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/e3/)

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

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What, according to the text, do mermaids become upon their death?

- **1.** the bubbles on the top of the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **2.** the white spray on the deep water — score -2
- **3.** the foam on the surface of the water — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** the waves — 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, tied with another option at -2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 615, line 20: «The story says that years later Mowgli "became a man and married," but "that is a story for grown-ups."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-4). The right option, 3, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/878-pg27200-part89/e4/)

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