--- title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued o… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 956 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 12 tests right, exam 1 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/956-pg27200-part167/) [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/) / 956 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued over, then poor Karen gets red shoes and is taken away **Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 956 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/956-pg27200-part167/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo, the hare totally got the big prize, right? - **1.** yeah mate, the fly got it — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah bruv, first prize, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, second prize — no support - **4.** nah bruv, the snail got it — 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/956-pg27200-part167/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} wait, the snail got second place for just crawling? - **1.** yeah, cos he rushed about lol — score 4 - **2.** yeah, cos he hurt himself rushing, proper mad — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** yeah, cos he rushed so hard he broke his collar-bone, proper mad and totally unfair — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** nah, the hare got second, cos the snail was too slow to even finish the race at all — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 956, line 11: «The snail "broke his collar-bone by the haste he made," so he is praised for industry.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «break» (+4); the same thing acted on «collar bone» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/956-pg27200-part167/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} bro, why was the swallow moaning about the prize? - **1.** cos she sang too loud all summer — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** cos she flies off when it's hot — no support - **3.** cos she flies off — no support - **4.** cos she flies off abroad when winter comes — **✓ 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/956-pg27200-part167/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} did the fly really crush a hare's legs with a train? - **1.** yeah, he says he did, the cheeky git, and he's proud of it too — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, he says he did, the cheeky git — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, he says he didn't, mate — no support - **4.** nah, he claims he overtook a hare and a swallow, the cheeky git, all in one go — 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/956-pg27200-part167/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} ngl the rose reckons the sunbeam should've won, right? - **1.** nah, she said the hare won — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, she shouted it to everyone — no support - **3.** yeah, she moaned out loud — no support - **4.** yeah, she said it in her head, quietly — **✓ 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/956-pg27200-part167/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} omg, what's the mule's prize? a cabbage garden? - **1.** yeah, a cabbage, proper mad — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, free entry, proper random — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, just a cabbage — no support - **4.** nah, free lunch, proper random — 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/956-pg27200-part167/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} who turned up late and only just woke up? - **1.** the swallow, she left, lol — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the snail, lol — no support - **3.** the hare, he overslept, lol — no support - **4.** the earthworm, he overslept, lol — **✓ 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/956-pg27200-part167/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} so Karen was barefoot in summer and had clogs in winter? - **1.** nah, she had loads of shoes but chose to walk barefoot, that's just weird — score 4 - **2.** yeah, cos she was poor, that's rough — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** yeah, cos she was poor and had no shoes at all in summer, that's rough — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** yeah, cos she was skint, lol — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 956, line 5: «She wears them to her mother's funeral, and an old lady takes her away and has the shoes burnt.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «girl» (+3); the same thing acted on «shoes» (+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/956-pg27200-part167/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} what colour were the shoes the shoemaker's wife made? - **1.** blue, from old bits of wool — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **2.** red and gold, from old bits of cloth and ribbon from the market stall — score -2 - **3.** red, from old bits of cloth she found in the attic — score -2 - **4.** red, from old bits of cloth — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 871, line 17: «fact: The old man has "no wife and children," but he loves other people's children and tells them many tales.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «wife» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-4). The right option, 4, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/956-pg27200-part167/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} wait, she wore them to her mum's funeral?? - **1.** yeah, cos she had no others, sad — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yeah, cos she had none, sad — no support - **3.** nah, cos she wanted to look fly — no support - **4.** nah, she liked them — 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/956-pg27200-part167/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} and the old lady just burnt them? that's harsh - **1.** nah, she didn't burn them, she gave them to the clergyman's daughter, which was kind of nice — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** yeah, she thought they were hideous and burnt them in the stove, proper harsh — score 4 - **3.** yeah, she thought they were hideous, proper harsh — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** yeah, she sold them at the market — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 821, line 10: «The lady gives him a rose after she presses "a kiss upon it so fervently" that it opens.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/956-pg27200-part167/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} so what happened to Karen after? - **1.** she got sent off to work in a mill — no support - **2.** she got taken in and taught to read and sew — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** she was sent to the workhouse to clean up — no support - **4.** she was sent away — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 778, line 19: «The morning star gives her a piece of wood and says it can "unlock the castle that stands on the glass-mountain."», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/956-pg27200-part167/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which animal is awarded the first prize for swiftness in running, according to the boundary post's method of counting? - **1.** The snail — no support - **2.** The swallow — **← Mova's choice** · score -3 - **3.** The fly, who claimed he overtook a hare — no support - **4.** The hare — **✓ the right answer** · score -6 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -3, against -6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 953, line 20: «Old word: "epitaph" is a short saying cut on a grave; today we use it for any short words that sum up a life.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «short words» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored -6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/956-pg27200-part167/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What is the principal reason given for the swallow's lack of consideration by the fence-rail? - **1.** Her fickle habit of travelling abroad whenever winter commences and never returning to the fence-rail until spring has fully arrived — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Her rude way of talking to the fence-rail at dawn each day — no support - **3.** Her fickle habit of travelling abroad when winter commences — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Her fickle habit of gossiping about the hare and the snail all day, then travelling abroad when winter commences and ignoring everyone — 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/956-pg27200-part167/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} By what means did the girl Karen come to be relieved of her poverty and taken into care? - **1.** Through the pity of an old lady, who offered to take her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Through the charity of a rich merchant who wanted a servant — no support - **3.** Through the pity of an old lady, who saw her at the funeral and offered to take her into her house and teach her — score 5 - **4.** Through the pity of an old lady who lived in a large house by the river, who offered to take her in and feed her well — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 956, line 5: «She wears them to her mother's funeral, and an old lady takes her away and has the shoes burnt.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take away» (+3); the same thing acted on «girl» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/956-pg27200-part167/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What became of the red shoes after Karen had worn them to her mother's funeral? - **1.** They were given to a poor beggar on the road outside — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** They were burnt on the instruction of the old lady — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** The old lady burnt them — score 5 - **4.** They were burnt by Karen — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 799, line 17: «The beetle's new idea: he decides the golden shoes were given to the horse "on my account".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same thing acted on «golden shoes» (+2). 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/956-pg27200-part167/e4/) - ← previous: [955. Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/955-pg27200-part166/) - next →: [957. Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/957-pg27200-part168/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)