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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neigh… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 911 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 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 Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave

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**Tests:** 6 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 911 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/911-pg27200-part122/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Bruh, which birds kept yelling "stand in groups" like it was a fire drill?

- **1.** the owls — no support
- **2.** the swallows — no support
- **3.** the pigeons — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** the gulls — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 911, line 7: «The pigeons say "Stand in groups, stand in groups!" and call the sparrows "little grey ones".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «pigeons» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/911-pg27200-part122/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Okay, so who was the fam that said "peep" and did the foot scrape thing?

- **1.** the robins — no support
- **2.** the sparrows who lived under the eaves — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** the little grey sparrows from the burned house — no support
- **4.** the sparrows — **✓ 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 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 616, line 10: «What is strange: Matkah says, "our baby's going to be white!" and Sea Catch answers that such a thing has never existed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «exist» (+4); the same doer «thing» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). 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/911-pg27200-part122/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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No cap, where did the sparrows' nest come from?

- **1.** the old stables — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** the barn — no support
- **3.** the burned house — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the ruined house by the old river bridge — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 902, line 21: «"Grandame" is an old word for grandmother, a "postillion" was a rider who guided the horses of an old stage coach, and "dollars" were the money used for firewo…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old word» (+2); the same property (+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/911-pg27200-part122/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Wait, what did the sparrows lowkey think the painting was?

- **1.** a painted door, I think — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a real rose — no support
- **3.** nothing, just looks like something — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a bird on a branch in the sun — 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/911-pg27200-part122/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Which bird took a solo trip to Copenhagen, like a total main character?

- **1.** the youngest chick — score -4
- **2.** the pigeon — score -4
- **3.** the eldest sparrow — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **4.** the young one — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 4: «They walk five or six miles to the nearest town, Toad trailing after them, thanking the Rat for bringing him on the trip where he saw that «swan, that sunbeam,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bring» (+6); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «toad» (-2). 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/911-pg27200-part122/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Which fancy house looked like a giant tulip to the sparrows, fr?

- **1.** the big museum with the giant tulip roof — score 3
- **2.** the old church — score 3
- **3.** the museum — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** the bakery shop — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 806, line 15: «The festival: "Brilliant lamps hung in festoons from tree to tree," and paper lanterns look "like transparent tulips."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+6). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); the same circumstance (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/911-pg27200-part122/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Whose grave had the rose tree growing over it?

- **1.** The architect's — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Thorwaldsen's — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** The gardener's — score 3
- **4.** The great sculptor Thorwaldsen's grave — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 718, line 8: «Why the queen tests them: she says riding and shooting are things "every one learns", but she wants "sharp wits and clever hands".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «trees» (+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/911-pg27200-part122/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Ngl, who dug up the rose-bush and gave it to the architect?

- **1.** the painter — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** the baker — score 8
- **3.** the gardener — score 8
- **4.** the painter who gave it to the architect — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 911, line 15: «Who dug up the rose-bush: the painter, who gave it to the architect, who planted it on the grave.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «dig up» (+6); the same thing acted on «rose bush» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/911-pg27200-part122/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Real talk, what did the sparrows peck at to look extra?

- **1.** a dry twig — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a crumb — no support
- **3.** a faded leaf — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a seed — 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/911-pg27200-part122/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Why did the sparrows reckon the roses ran the whole place?

- **1.** they thought the house was built for them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** they thought the whole house had been built just for them to bloom in — score 2
- **3.** they believed they ruled the courtyard and the house was built for them and their kin — score 2
- **4.** they thought the garden belonged to the painter — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 911, line 12: «Why: the sparrows think the roses "reigned here" and the house was built for them, which is not true at all.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «build» (+1); the same thing acted on «house» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/911-pg27200-part122/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Which country's emperor is in the next tale, no cap?

- **1.** Iran — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Asia — no support
- **3.** China — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Japan — 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/911-pg27200-part122/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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What's the emperor's palace made of, like the most fragile stuff ever?

- **1.** porcelain — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** ceramic — no support
- **3.** crystal — no support
- **4.** thin porcelain covered in gold — 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/911-pg27200-part122/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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What does the nightingale do that makes the fishermen stop, bro?

- **1.** hides in reeds — no support
- **2.** flies away fast — no support
- **3.** sings so beautifully the fishermen stop — score 1
- **4.** sings beautifully — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 911, line 5: «The last lines start a new tale about a Chinese emperor's porcelain palace and a nightingale that sings in a forest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «nightingale» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/911-pg27200-part122/t13/)

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

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By what means did the sparrows identify one another?

- **1.** By a shared song and a tail flick — no support
- **2.** By a song — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** By a "peep" and three scrapes of the left foot — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** By a loud chirp and two hops forward — 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 800, line 18: «Old word: a "berth" here means a paid post or job, not a bed on a ship as it does today; the "dissertation" is a long written essay.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «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/911-pg27200-part122/e1/)

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

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Upon whose grave did the rose-tree bloom?

- **1.** The grave of Thorwaldsen in the courtyard — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Thorwaldsen's — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The sculptor's — no support
- **4.** The architect's — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 846, line 1: «At the end of the first tale, the tan-yard children bury Puggie and charge a trouser button to see his grave, and a poor girl with no button misses it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «grave» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/911-pg27200-part122/e2/)

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

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To which city did the eldest sparrow resolve to travel?

- **1.** Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and its harbour — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** Copenhagen — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** Stockholm — score 1
- **4.** Copenhagen, the great city by the sea — score 1

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**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 911, line 4: «The sparrows decide the roses rule the place, then peck off a faded leaf and feel very proud of themselves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: 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/911-pg27200-part122/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Of what material was the imperial palace constructed?

- **1.** porcelain — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** crystal — no support
- **3.** marble — no support
- **4.** glass — 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/911-pg27200-part122/e4/)

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