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title: Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner leave his ce… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 909 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 tests right, exam 1 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 Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner leave his cell, then a little girl says her prayers

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**Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 909 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/909-pg27200-part120/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Bruv, which bit has the Moon peeking in on the kids?

- **1.** the bit with the curtain and the window — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the part where the sister tells her mum she is four and wants a biscuit — no support
- **3.** the bit where the dad reads the paper — no support
- **4.** the bit where the Moon sneaks in and watches the kids in bed from outside — 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/909-pg27200-part120/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Who even is the one getting carted off in the carriage?

- **1.** the prisoner — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the old farmer — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** the mum — no support
- **4.** the man who was sitting in the back of the carriage — 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 899, line 14: «Old word: "lamented" means cried out in sorrow, so Madame's wife "lamented" while the boy wept.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/909-pg27200-part120/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Wait, what was the prisoner doing on that wall?

- **1.** tapping out a rhythm on the iron bars of the window — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** carving a secret message into the stone floor — no support
- **3.** writing a melody — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** drawing a horse — 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/909-pg27200-part120/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Which kid was hopping about like a total goof?

- **1.** the one who was standing by the bed with a candle in his hand — score -6
- **2.** the one in the long white nightgown — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **3.** the smallest child who was wearing a nightgown with lace on it — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **4.** the kid in the blue dressing gown — score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 909, line 14: «One elder boy "hopped about on one leg" in his nightgown, while another pretends to be "Grecian statues".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «one elder boy» (-3). 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/909-pg27200-part120/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Proper funny, what did the little sis say after daily bread?

- **1.** plenty of butter on it — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** a big slice of bread — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** lots of honey on top — score 1
- **4.** some jam — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 20: «The Cat asks "Did you say pig, or fig?", then vanishes slowly, "beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin"; before that Alice asks it not to…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/909-pg27200-part120/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Lowkey, where did the Moon kiss?

- **1.** the soft tip of the little girl's small bare foot — no support
- **2.** the child's left foot sticking out from under the blanket — no support
- **3.** a small round face — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** a little white foot — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 885, line 2: «In a dream the old washerwoman kisses him, and a hen from Kjoge and a wooden parrot from Prastoe chat with him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kiss» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+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/909-pg27200-part120/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Dude, what did the ducks get up to on the pond?

- **1.** hid under the lily pads until the boy went home — score 3
- **2.** splashed about loudly — score -2
- **3.** stood on their heads — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** flapped their wings — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 29, line 6: «The Rat had been «swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks»; when the ducks stood on their heads he would «dive down and tickle their necks…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stand» (+6); the same place «heads» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «ducks» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/909-pg27200-part120/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Ngl, what got all mixed up when the water went choppy?

- **1.** the reflection of the sky — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** the reflection — score 4
- **3.** the picture of the roses — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** the picture of the old house and its chimney and windows — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 589, line 10: «The old man says "Hit look like it mixt," which means the stories have got all mixed up together.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mix up» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/909-pg27200-part120/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Bro, which lot took over last year's swallows' nest?

- **1.** the robins — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **2.** the starlings — score -3
- **3.** the sparrows — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **4.** the owls — score -3

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**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 379, line 5: «The beaten Cock comes out of his corner and takes over as master of the farmyard.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, scored -3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/909-pg27200-part120/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Bet you can't guess what the peasant boy stuck in his hat?

- **1.** a bug — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a rose — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a daisy — no support
- **4.** a feather — 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/909-pg27200-part120/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Like, what did the roses wanna kiss?

- **1.** the moon — no support
- **2.** sky — no support
- **3.** rain — **← Mova's choice** · score -4
- **4.** the sun — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 909, line 21: «The roses see themselves in the water, and they are beautiful but "did not know it, for no one had told them".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «roses» (-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/909-pg27200-part120/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Mate, why didn't the roses know they were pretty?

- **1.** nobody told them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** the gardener never once looked at them closely — score 0
- **3.** nobody taught them — no support
- **4.** they had no mirror — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 909, line 21: «The roses see themselves in the water, and they are beautiful but "did not know it, for no one had told them".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same receiver «roses» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/909-pg27200-part120/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Lol, what did the sparrow mum reckon about the questions?

- **1.** they must be polite — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** they should be silly — no support
- **3.** they were silly — no support
- **4.** they should be sensible — **✓ 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/909-pg27200-part120/t13/)

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

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To which feature of the prisoner's cell did the Moon's rays gain access, according to the narrator?

- **1.** the heavy wooden door with its iron lock and small hatch — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the small barred opening high in the far corner of the cell — no support
- **3.** the stone ceiling — no support
- **4.** the grated window — **✓ 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/909-pg27200-part120/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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What is the precise nature of the surface upon which the prisoner inscribed his final composition?

- **1.** the prison wall — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the rough plaster surface of the far wall beside the bed — no support
- **3.** a stone table — no support
- **4.** the damp inside wall of the old stone tower near the gate — 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/909-pg27200-part120/e2/)

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

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In what manner did the younger sister conclude her prayer when interrupted by her mother?

- **1.** she burst into tears and hid under the blankets for the rest of the night — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** she jumped up and ran out of the room crying loudly — no support
- **3.** she lay silent in embarrassment — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** she pretended to be asleep — 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/909-pg27200-part120/e3/)

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

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What is the principal purpose of the sparrows' discourse concerning the rose-bush?

- **1.** to hide it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** to praise it — no support
- **3.** to predict its removal — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** to describe its colour — 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/909-pg27200-part120/e4/)

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