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title: Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about bo… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars

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**Tests:** 6 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 929 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/929-pg27200-part140/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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bro did Ole actually ride to Amack on a quill pen, no cap?

- **1.** yeah, he rode it the whole way, no lie — no support
- **2.** nah, he just made it up for fun — no support
- **3.** nah, he just says it, but his niece got carted there — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** nah, it's just a figure of speech, but his niece got carted there in a cart — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 703, line 17: «Old word "fold" means a pen or enclosure for sheep, and the sheep were kept there overnight; today we would say a sheep pen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/929-pg27200-part140/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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wait, so the boulders are, like, super old, right?

- **1.** yeah, way older than Noah's ark, lowkey wild — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** nah, just a few hundred years, kinda boring — no support
- **3.** yeah, way older than Noah's ark and the whole world, lowkey wild and cracked — no support
- **4.** nah, they're from last summer's storm, though they look super ancient and wild — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 8: «The Rat: «This was an impromptu affair» (impromptu = not planned, made up on the spot). The Otter: «Proud, I'm sure» — an old polite way of saying «pleased to…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old polite way» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/929-pg27200-part140/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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why do the stars go down on graves though?

- **1.** cause Ole thinks silent thanks get caught up and fall — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** cause the dead like shiny stuff — no support
- **3.** cause they're dead — no support
- **4.** cause the wind blows them down — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 929, line 5: «Ole thinks falling stars are silent thanks sent down onto graves, and he says no star will fall on his.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «silent thanks» (+2); the same doer «falling stars» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/929-pg27200-part140/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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did the niece have fun at the party or what?

- **1.** she said it was pretty fun, kinda weird — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah it was fun, she said it was amusing, but she was really sus of those poets all night long — no support
- **3.** she said it was very amusing and lively, but honestly she was kinda sus about the whole thing — no support
- **4.** she said it was very amusing, but she was sus — **✓ 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/929-pg27200-part140/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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is Ole a cringe guy or what, the way he talks?

- **1.** yeah, super cringe honestly, a grumpy old tower guy who talks about boulders forever and never stops — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, he's kinda sweet, a bit of a grump — no support
- **3.** nah, he's kinda funny, a bit of a grumpy old tower guy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** nah, he's kinda funny and wise, just a bit of a grumpy old tower guy who loves his books — 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/929-pg27200-part140/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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what even is a beadle, like is it a teacher?

- **1.** nah, a parish officer who kept order, kinda old-school — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** nah, a parish officer who kept order in the village and the church, kinda old-school — no support
- **3.** nah, a church helper who kept things tidy — no support
- **4.** yeah, sorta, a teacher who was also a cop and a parish guy, super old-school — 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/929-pg27200-part140/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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wait, why is Ole so sad about being grease?

- **1.** he thinks his fate is nothing special, no lacquer — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** he thinks he's just plain, no shine — no support
- **3.** he's sad cause he feels like the wheels just use him up and nobody cares, no lacquer — no support
- **4.** he thinks his fate is nothing special at all, just plain grease with no lacquer or shine — 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/929-pg27200-part140/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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did a shooting star fall on Holberg, the plays guy?

- **1.** yeah, on his tomb, for his jokes, no cap — no support
- **2.** yeah, on his grave, for his charming plays, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** nah, it fell on a barn in the north, for his dull letters, no cap, honestly — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** yeah, right on his grave at Soro, for his charming plays, no cap at all — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 929, line 19: «A star fell on Soro, "a flower on the grave of Holberg", for his "charming plays".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fall» (+4); the same doer «star» (+2). 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/929-pg27200-part140/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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was the tree at Amack a real tree or what?

- **1.** nah, a stem from a dirt-heap, kinda like a giant mushroom with a roof on top — no support
- **2.** nah, a rock, like a big boulder — no support
- **3.** nah, a stem from a dirt-heap, like a big mushroom — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah, a tall pine, like a stump — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 825, line 7: «What it wants: to be "tall like its companions--the pines and firs which grew around it".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: 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/929-pg27200-part140/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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so the poets all hate the niece, right?

- **1.** nah, she just said mean stuff but kept it kinda nice — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yeah, they all said mean stuff about her, but she kept it kinda nice and polite in return — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** nah, they all liked her a lot — no support
- **4.** yeah, they said mean stuff, kinda rude — score 6

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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 902, line 4: «At Uppsala, visitors cut their names into the turf over old graves, and a poet whispers a name he is too proud to say.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «poet» (+2). 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/929-pg27200-part140/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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wait, what was the book about, like a school book?

- **1.** a big old book about the sea, the ice, and all the boulders in the north — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** a history book about the old kings — no support
- **3.** a science book about the stars — no support
- **4.** a geology book about the boulders and the earth — **✓ 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 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 20: «When the moon rises, the old places seem to have «put on this pure new apparel» (apparel and raiment are old words for clothes) and wait «to see if they would…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old words» (+2); the same property (+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/929-pg27200-part140/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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did Ole get to see the wild chase this year?

- **1.** yeah, he saw it all from the tower, every star and chase, super wild, and then went to bed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, he was so lost in the geology book that he missed the whole thing — no support
- **3.** nah, he was lost in the book and missed it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah, he watched from his window — 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/929-pg27200-part140/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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is Ole a good guy or nah, like does he talk nice?

- **1.** yeah, he is kind and thinks deep stuff about the earth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** nah, he's kinda rude and talks about grease — no support
- **3.** yeah, he's kind and thinks deep stuff about the earth and the stars and all the old boulders — no support
- **4.** nah, not really, he's grumpy and says weird stuff about grease and graves all the time — 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/929-pg27200-part140/t13/)

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

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According to the passage, which book did the narrator lend to Ole?

- **1.** a travel guide to the northern seas — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a geological book concerning the boulders — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a heavy geological volume concerning the boulders, the glaciers, and the northern shores — no support
- **4.** a rare geological book concerning the boulders and the ancient stones of the north — 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/929-pg27200-part140/e1/)

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

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On what occasion did the narrator habitually call upon Ole?

- **1.** directly after New Year's day — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** during the first week of spring — no support
- **3.** at Christmas — no support
- **4.** every Sunday — 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/929-pg27200-part140/e2/)

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

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What did Ole say of the boulders, and of his own relation to them?

- **1.** they were rare and old — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** they were rare old fellows, and he had passed them carelessly — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** they were strange, and he had barely noticed them — no support
- **4.** they were old stones, and he had ignored them — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 929, line 10: «Ole says the boulders are "rare old fellows" and admits he once walked over them without a thought.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+6); the same property (+3). Against it: the same doer «boulders» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/929-pg27200-part140/e3/)

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

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Why, according to Ole, did the stars fall upon the graves of the dead?

- **1.** because silent thanks were caught up and returned as shooting stars — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** because silent prayers were sent up and fell back — no support
- **3.** because silent thanks from the living were caught up in the air and returned to earth as shooting stars — no support
- **4.** because the sky was full of old wishes — 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/929-pg27200-part140/e4/)

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