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title: Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last n… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge

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**Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 924 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/924-pg27200-part135/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo, so the farmer dude swapped his horse for a cow, right?

- **1.** nah, a horse, innit — no support
- **2.** yeah, a cow, innit, he swapped the horse proper — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** yeah, a cow, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah, a sheep, bruv — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 924, line 7: «What: the peasant swaps a horse for a cow, the cow for a sheep, the sheep for a goose, the goose for a fowl, and the fowl for "a sack of shrivelled apples".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «swap» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/924-pg27200-part135/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, how did the wife react to the cow, like was she mad?

- **1.** yeah, she was calm — no support
- **2.** yeah, she was buzzing, mint — no support
- **3.** nah, mad — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **4.** nah, she was buzzing, mint — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 727, line 7: «He falls off into a puddle, and a shepherd driving a cow stops the horse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «shepherd» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-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/924-pg27200-part135/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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so he got a sack of shrivelled apples for the fowl?

- **1.** nah, a sack of pears, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, wild, a sack of shrivelled apples, mad rubbish — no support
- **3.** yeah, wild, a sack of apples — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah, a basket of plums — 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/924-pg27200-part135/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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the wife wanted eggs and bacon, but where'd she get herbs?

- **1.** from the schoolmaster's, proper — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** from the neighbours, innit — score 4
- **3.** she got them from the schoolmaster's, proper, no cap — score 4
- **4.** from the mill, dead proper — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 924, line 9: «Why: the wife wants fried eggs and bacon with sweet herbs for supper, but she has no herbs, so she goes to the schoolmaster's.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+2); the same thing acted on «herbs» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/924-pg27200-part135/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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did the schoolmistress like share?

- **1.** nah, she was dead mean — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** nah, she was dead tight — no support
- **3.** nah, she was dead mean, wouldn't share a single herb — no support
- **4.** yeah, she was dead nice — 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/924-pg27200-part135/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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the Englishmen paid all that gold, was it, like, a lot?

- **1.** yeah, a hundred-weight, massive, they paid him right then — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** yeah, a hundred-weight of gold, massive, the lot in a sack — no support
- **3.** nah, a hundred-weight, tiny — no support
- **4.** yeah, a hundred-weight, massive — **✓ 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 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 924, line 3: «The two Englishmen are amazed that the peasant gets kissed instead of scolded, so they pay him a hundred-weight of gold.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «englishmen» (+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/924-pg27200-part135/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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so the husband got a kiss instead of a telling-off, lucky dude?

- **1.** nah, he's well unlucky — no support
- **2.** nah, sick, he's well daft — no support
- **3.** yeah, sick, he's well lucky — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah, sick, he's well lucky, she gave him a massive hug — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 742, line 20: «Old word: a "dowry" is the money or land a bride's family gives to her husband, and "armour-bearer" meant the servant who carried a warrior's armour.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+4); the same receiver «husband» (+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/924-pg27200-part135/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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then the story is about a lamp, yeah? what's up with that lamp?

- **1.** it's knackered, last night, yeah — score -2
- **2.** it's quitting, last shift tonight — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** it's retiring — no support
- **4.** it's retiring, last night on the job — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 599, line 5: «The old man is still sore and cross, and the story stops right as he says the man came "bresh up agin me," so the rest of the fight is still to come.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stop» (+1); the same doer «story» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/924-pg27200-part135/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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why's the lamp scared about the town hall?

- **1.** the mayor might melt him down into a pot, innit — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the mayor could melt him, yeah — no support
- **3.** the mayor might melt him down — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the council might melt him — 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/924-pg27200-part135/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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who were the three rivals on the bridge?

- **1.** herring head, rotten wood, glow-worm — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** herring head, rotten wood, glow-worm, and a passing cat — no support
- **3.** herring tail, rotten stick, moth — no support
- **4.** herring head, rotten wood, glow-worm and the wind — 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/924-pg27200-part135/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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did the glow-worm really shine all the time, or like sometimes?

- **1.** only sometimes, that's what they said — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** only sometimes, that's what they said, not in the rain — no support
- **3.** just now and then, that's the story — no support
- **4.** only sometimes, that's what they said, it flickers too — 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/924-pg27200-part135/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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so the lamp can't pick who replaces him, can he?

- **1.** yeah, he can — no support
- **2.** nah, he's got no clue — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **3.** nah, no — no support
- **4.** yeah, he's got a plan — score -4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 924, line 8: «Where: the peasant's wife goes "over to the schoolmaster's" to beg for herbs, and the lamp stands on a street by a canal.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «lamp» (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/924-pg27200-part135/t12/)

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

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Which of the following best describes the peasant's wife's attitude towards her husband's exchanges?

- **1.** She praised each exchange as wise and beneficial, though she privately doubted the apples' worth — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She praised each exchange as wise and beneficial — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She praised each exchange as wise and beneficial, and cooked anyway — no support
- **4.** She grumbled at every trade but accepted them — 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/924-pg27200-part135/e1/)

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

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Which of the following accurately identifies the reason the schoolmistress refused to lend herbs?

- **1.** Her herb bed had died in frost — no support
- **2.** Her garden had no herbs — no support
- **3.** Her garden produced no herbs to spare — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Her plot grew no herbs to share — **← 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 924, line 2: «She says she went to the schoolmaster's for herbs for supper, but the schoolmistress was too mean to lend any and said nothing grew in her garden.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «schoolmistress» (-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/924-pg27200-part135/e2/)

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

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Which of the following describes the principal concern of the street lamp regarding the morrow?

- **1.** His possible melting down, the loss of his memory and his fear of the mayor's verdict — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** His possible melting down and loss of memory — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The fear of melting and his fading light — no support
- **4.** His possible melting down and loss of memory at the town hall the next day — 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/924-pg27200-part135/e3/)

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

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Which of the following correctly identifies the three rivals encountered by the lamp on the bridge?

- **1.** A codfish's head, rotten wood and a beetle — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **2.** A herring's head, rotten wood and a glow-worm — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **3.** A herring's head, rotten wood, a glow-worm and a passing cat on the bridge — no support
- **4.** A herring's head, dry wood and a firefly — 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 924, line 15: «Old word: "bier" means the frame on which a coffin was carried in a funeral procession; the lamp saw one pass by his post.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). 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/924-pg27200-part135/e4/)

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