--- title: Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 938 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/938-pg27200-part149/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 938 # Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone **Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 938 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. 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/938-pg27200-part149/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} bruh, the dude in the tree castle knows everything, right? - **1.** Yes, he knows the answers — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Basically the whole universe — no support - **3.** Mostly, yeah — no support - **4.** Pretty much everything, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/938-pg27200-part149/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} wait, is he like a wizard or what? - **1.** Just a really clever guy — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** More like a super smart dude — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Kinda magic — no support - **4.** He's more like a super smart dude who studies books all day long — no support **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/938-pg27200-part149/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} so why's he sad if he's so smart? - **1.** He's scared of death — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Because he knows he will die — no support - **3.** Death is coming soon — no support - **4.** He knows he has to die — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/938-pg27200-part149/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} ngl the blind girl sounds kinda cool, how's she see stuff? - **1.** Her imagination shows her things — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Her dad describes it to her — no support - **3.** Her brothers tell her — score 0 - **4.** Her ears tell her where things are — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 3, line 5: «She fears she has become Mabel, a girl she thinks knows very little, and ends up crying because she is so tired of being all alone: funny, but lonely and sad u…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/938-pg27200-part149/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} did the book help him figure out the afterlife? - **1.** Nah, nothing — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, it explained everything — no support - **3.** Yeah, sort of — no support - **4.** Nah, those pages were blank — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/938-pg27200-part149/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} what's the philosopher's stone supposed to be, fr? - **1.** A jewel made of light and truth — score 3 - **2.** A jewel that forms when truth, beauty, and goodness come together in one soul — no support - **3.** A magic rock that turns lead into gold and cures all the diseases of man — no support - **4.** A jewel of true, beautiful, good — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 938, line 14: «The philosopher's stone is a jewel made when these three "held together in the world," clearer than a diamond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «stone» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); 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/938-pg27200-part149/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} were his kids chill or lowkey annoying? - **1.** Bored and grumpy — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Happy — no support - **3.** Quiet, shy, and very serious — no support - **4.** Happy and super curious — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/938-pg27200-part149/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} is the castle actually on a tree? - **1.** Yep, in a giant old tree — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, a tree — no support - **3.** Yep, a super huge tree — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nope, on a hill — no support **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/938-pg27200-part149/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} did he just sit around thinking all day? - **1.** Mostly, yeah, he read books — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Mostly, yeah, deep stuff — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** No, he also went out hunting and fishing with his sons in the valley — no support - **4.** Mostly, he reads and reflects — no support **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/938-pg27200-part149/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} wait, is Solomon smarter than him? - **1.** Solomon knew animal speech only — no support - **2.** Yes, Solomon was wiser — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** Nah, Solomon wins — no support - **4.** Nah, the dude was way smarter — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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 933, line 8: «Why: his grandmother said each flower was a sweet cake, but as he grew wiser he thought paradise must be different.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «king» (+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/938-pg27200-part149/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} what did the sons always want to do? - **1.** Go out into the world and join the big deeds their father talked about — score 2 - **2.** Go out and join big deeds — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** Go out and see the world — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** Ride out to join battles — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 695, line 4: «The king punishes the two jealous soldiers, but the second tale starts with an old man's eldest son going out to see the world.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «world» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «see» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/938-pg27200-part149/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} did the birds all come from the same place? - **1.** Nah, from all over the world — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nah, from one place — no support - **3.** Nah, from far-off islands — no support - **4.** Yes, from the same forest — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **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 902, line 5: «By a seaside forest, rich men, a coachman, a painter and a poor girl each see the same place in their own way.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+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/938-pg27200-part149/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} so the book is basically the answer to life, right? - **1.** Nah, the book is full of answers, but the wise man can only read the first pages — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Only parts of it are clear — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Partly, some pages are unclear — no support - **4.** Only parts of it are clear, and the rest is a mystery nobody can read — no support **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 864, line 17: «Years later, strangers read in their guide-books about the bridal pair who rowed over in the year 1856.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «read» (+4); the same doer «strangers» (+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/938-pg27200-part149/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following best describes the wise man's principal source of unease, as set out in the passage? - **1.** The constant worry that his sons will abandon the castle, his daughter will remain blind, and the book will be taken from him forever — score -5 - **2.** His acknowledged mortality and his inability to discover the nature of life after death — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** His recognition that he must die, combined with his frustration that the book's final pages on the afterlife remain unreadable to him — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** His growing blindness and his failing memory of the old stories — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 327, line 17: «Wendy's rule is "Father knows best", even when her private opinion is different.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+2); the same doer «father» (+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/938-pg27200-part149/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} With reference to the text, in what manner does the blind daughter perceive the world about her? - **1.** Through the faculty of an active imagination, supplemented by the sight of her father and brothers — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** By way of her sharpened sense of touch and hearing, combined with the descriptions given by her family members — no support - **3.** Through the powerful and vivid faculty of an imagination which, supplemented by the sight of the wise father and the boys, lets her move freely about the whole castle and its surroundings — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Through a vivid mental picture formed by listening to the stories told by her father and brothers — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 468, line 2: «The King plans to kill him, but his daughter falls for the fool and begs her father to let her marry him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «let» (+2); the same thing acted on «daughter» (+2). Against it: a different doer (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/938-pg27200-part149/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} According to the passage, what is the philosopher's stone understood to represent? - **1.** A jewel formed when the true, the beautiful, and the good are united — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A precious object that changes base metals into gold by alchemy — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** A gem of pure gold and light — no support - **4.** A jewel of the sun and moon — no support **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 223, line 4: «She dresses in her grandest jewels, then sends word that she wants to see the prince.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+2); the same doer «word» (+1). Against it: 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/938-pg27200-part149/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Identify the principal lesson the father imparts to his children concerning the nature of life, as presented in this extract. - **1.** That life brings joy to the faithful, and that God rewards those who sing and pray daily — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** That life in this world is full of labour and hardship, but that anyone who searches diligently with an open heart will eventually come to understand the nature of God — no support - **3.** That worldly existence involves toil and difficulty, and that true understanding is attained by searching — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** That everyone must suffer toil and difficulty throughout their earthly lives, and that wisdom comes only to those who have read every page of the book of truth and remembered them all — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 166, line 13: «The ogress calls out "Rejoice my children; I am bringing you a nice fat youth" to her hungry children.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bring» (+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/938-pg27200-part149/e4/) - ← previous: [937. Andersen's Tales, The Pea Blossom: a pea grows b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/937-pg27200-part148/) - next →: [939. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, part 150: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/939-pg27200-part150/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)