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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 914 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 Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise

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**Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 914 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/914-pg27200-part125/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo, so the emperor was basically dead and then just says good morning?

- **1.** Nah, he just sits there sad — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, the servants walk in and he's chillin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nah, he stays dead the whole time, lol — no support
- **4.** Nah, he's still dead — 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/914-pg27200-part125/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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bruh, why's the nightingale chill about the fake bird staying put?

- **1.** She's chill because she gets to sing in the garden for him anyway — score 0
- **2.** She says it did its best while it could — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** She says it did its best while it could and now the emperor can keep it — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **4.** She thinks it should go to the emperor — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 399, line 2: «A Hawk snatches a Nightingale, who begs to be freed; the Hawk refuses to drop the food in his claws for birds he cannot even see.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «nightingale» (+1); the same thing acted on «nightingale» (+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/914-pg27200-part125/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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mate, where's she gonna sit to sing at him?

- **1.** On his roof — no support
- **2.** In the garden — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** On a bough outside his window, right next to his golden bed — score 4
- **4.** On a bough outside his window — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 914, line 11: «Where: she will sit "on a bough outside your window, in the evening," because she cannot live in the palace.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «palace» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/914-pg27200-part125/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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lol what's the one secret she wants him to keep?

- **1.** That she lives in the palace garden — no support
- **2.** That the bird he keeps is fake and a machine — no support
- **3.** That the artificial bird is the only one who tells him everything that goes on — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** That he has a bird that tells him everything — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 733, line 2: «On the third night he takes a golden cup as proof, and when the king asks where the princesses go, he tells the whole secret.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «king» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/914-pg27200-part125/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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fr, why does the hen pluck herself?

- **1.** Cos she thinks it makes her prettier — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Cos she wants to be like the cock — no support
- **3.** Cos she thinks it makes her shine — no support
- **4.** Cos she thinks it looks smart — 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/914-pg27200-part125/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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wait, who's the first one spreading the rumour?

- **1.** The white hen by the door — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The merry hen by the gate — no support
- **3.** The hen next to the merry one — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The hen that sleeps nearest the cock and always gossips at dawn — 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/914-pg27200-part125/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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lowkey, which birds yell "let it go farther"?

- **1.** Doves and the owls too — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bats, hens and cocks — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Pigeons and the ducks — no support
- **4.** The bats, the owls, the hens and all the cocks in the yard — 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/914-pg27200-part125/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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so it was one feather that turned into five dead hens??

- **1.** Yeah, one little feather grew into five dead hens and the whole yard got dramatic, lol — score 6
- **2.** Yeah, one little feather grew into five hens, lol — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Nah, the whole yard saw a feather and somehow five hens ended up dead, lol — score 1
- **4.** Nah, one feather became five dead hens, lol — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 914, line 19: «The joke: "one little feather may easily grow into five hens."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «grow» (+2); the same doer «one little feather» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/914-pg27200-part125/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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did the paper actually print the story?

- **1.** Yeah, it got printed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Nah, it got cut out — score 2
- **3.** Nope, it didn't — no support
- **4.** Yeah, it ran in the news — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 827, line 5: «The paper is printed into many books, and then it is tied in a bundle and thrown into a tub in the washhouse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «print» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/914-pg27200-part125/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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bruh, what are Anna and grandpa doing in the nursery?

- **1.** Making a play out of books, old clothes, and an old box, with a sloping stage — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Making a play out of books and old clothes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Cleaning up the nursery floor together — no support
- **4.** Turning the whole nursery into a theatre with a stage, props and a grand audience — 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/914-pg27200-part125/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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wait, what does grandpa use as the lover?

- **1.** The sloping row of books — no support
- **2.** The old box — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Grandpapa's old slippers — no support
- **4.** Her brother's old waistcoat — **✓ the right answer** · 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 907, line 18: «Old word "colossal": huge, like the giant saint figures painted on the Tyrol walls; we still use it for something very large.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «word» (-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/914-pg27200-part125/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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nah, why can't Anna's old doll act?

- **1.** She's broken — no support
- **2.** She's a total fright — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She's too old — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** Her nose fell off lol — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 614, line 18: «Old word: An anna was a small old Indian coin, and sixteen annas made one rupee; it is no longer used.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «anna» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/914-pg27200-part125/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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so is Anna's play a tragedy or a domestic drama?

- **1.** A long musical comedy about a sailor and a prince — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A mystery play — no support
- **3.** Domestic drama — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A tragedy about a lost crown and a dying king — 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/914-pg27200-part125/t13/)

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

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Which of the following accurately describes the condition in which the servants supposed the Emperor to be prior to his awakening?

- **1.** They supposed he had left them — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** They had been told by the physician that his heart had stopped beating completely — score 3
- **3.** They believed that he was dead — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** They believed that he had died in the night and that they must bury him — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 778, line 13: «Crabb nudges Grete at each servant and says "Grete, that was the first," so the servants think he knows they are thieves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+4); the same doer «servants» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/914-pg27200-part125/e1/)

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

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With what sentiment does the nightingale regard the Emperor's heart in comparison with his crown?

- **1.** She values his crown above his heart — no support
- **2.** She thinks his crown is worth more gold — no support
- **3.** She cares nothing for his crown and would sing to his heart every single night forever — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **4.** She holds his heart in higher esteem than his crown — **✓ 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 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 274, line 4: «An second officer does the same, and then the Emperor himself sees nothing but pretends to admire it too.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «nothing» (-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/914-pg27200-part125/e2/)

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

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Upon what condition did the nightingale consent to remain in the vicinity of the palace?

- **1.** That no one should be informed of her presence and she may visit the emperor's bedchamber at night — score -2
- **2.** That no one should be informed of her presence — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **3.** That the servants should bring her food and water and never speak of her to anyone — no support
- **4.** That she be given a golden cage at court — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 914, line 7: «Who: the nightingale, who "still sat beside him, and sang" when no servant was left.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/914-pg27200-part125/e3/)

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

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In what manner did the rumour concerning the hens progress from one poultry-yard to another?

- **1.** It was carried by the owls and grew bigger at each yard along the way — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** It was repeated by the doves, growing bigger each time it was told — no support
- **3.** It was repeated and enlarged at each yard until it returned to its origin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It travelled from the roost to the barn, then the mill, and grew with every telling — 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 361, line 8: «Where: The plant grows in the prison yard, where the stones will not let it live.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+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/914-pg27200-part125/e4/)

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