--- title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 957 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 2 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/957-pg27200-part168/) [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/) / 957 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her red shoes and cannot stop **Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 957 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/957-pg27200-part168/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} bruh why did Karen's feet just NOT stop dancing lol? - **1.** cuz the shoes had a spell on them — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** cuz the shoes were cursed and had her — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** bc the shoes were red lol — no support - **4.** cuz they were cursed — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 957, line 5: «An angel curses her to dance until she dies, so the executioner cuts off her feet, but the shoes dance on without them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «shoes» (+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/957-pg27200-part168/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} wait so who chopped off her feet, like for real? - **1.** the judge — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** the old coachman — score 5 - **3.** the soldier — score 5 - **4.** the executioner — **✓ the right answer** · 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 957, line 15: «After her feet are cut off, she gets "wooden feet and some crutches" and kisses the hand that guided the axe.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cut off» (+3); the same thing acted on «feet» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/957-pg27200-part168/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} ngl the old lady was mad about the red shoes, what did she say? - **1.** that it was rude and wrong — no support - **2.** that it was shocking and improper — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** that the girl should go home and never come to church again — no support - **4.** that it was shocking and improper for a girl to wear red shoes to church — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 956, line 15: «Karen wears the shoes to her mother's funeral, where they are "certainly not suitable for mourning."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «shoes» (-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/957-pg27200-part168/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} what was the princess wearing, like the whole vibe? - **1.** red morocco shoes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** a train — no support - **3.** red shoes — score 5 - **4.** a blue silk gown — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «shoes» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/957-pg27200-part168/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} did the crippled soldier like her shoes or nah? - **1.** yeah, said they were nice shoes — no support - **2.** nah, said they were too bright — no support - **3.** yeah, said they were pretty dancing shoes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** nah, too red — no support **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 957, line 5: «An angel curses her to dance until she dies, so the executioner cuts off her feet, but the shoes dance on without them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «dance» (+3); the same doer «shoes» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/957-pg27200-part168/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} why was she thinking about her shoes in church instead of praying? - **1.** they were all she could think about since the dancing and the ball — score 3 - **2.** she was thinking of the ball — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** she could not stop looking at them — score 4 - **4.** they were all she could think about — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 744, line 9: «Why: she built the house of bread "in order to entice them there."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «woman» (+6). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/957-pg27200-part168/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} ok so where did the shoes drag her at the ball? - **1.** down the road to the river — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** out the gates into the dark wood — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** out the castle gates and into the dark wood beyond the hill — score 3 - **4.** into the ballroom where the music played all night long — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 953, line 19: «Old word: "Bacchantes" were wild women who followed Bacchus, the god of wine; today the word means a wild, merry partier.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «wild women» (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). 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/957-pg27200-part168/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} what did the angel say the shoes would do to her, fr? - **1.** make her dance till she was a skeleton — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** make her dance till she was tired — score 3 - **3.** make her dance in the churchyard until the bells rang at midnight — score 3 - **4.** make her dance till she was pale and cold and a skeleton — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 309, line 4: «An angel says she must dance until she is pale and dead, so she begs the executioner to cut off her feet.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+4); the same doer «angel» (+2). Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/957-pg27200-part168/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} who lived in the lonely little house on the heath? - **1.** the executioner — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** the soldier — score 3 - **3.** the judge — score 3 - **4.** the old coachman — score 3 **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 488, line 1: «An old hunter sells his dog to a well-dressed stranger and later finds that the stranger is a devil who lives in a city on a mountain.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/957-pg27200-part168/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} how did Karen get her wooden feet, dude? - **1.** the carpenter made them — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** the old coachman carved them — no support - **3.** the cobbler made them in his shop in the town of the heath — score 4 - **4.** the executioner carved them — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 561, line 15: «The bed test: the bed's foot was made from "the stem of an olive-tree which was still rooted in the ground", so it could not be moved.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «foot» (+2). 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/957-pg27200-part168/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} bro did she go back to church in the end? - **1.** yeah, but the red shoes danced in front of her all the way to the door — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, but the red shoes danced in front of her — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, she stayed home — no support - **4.** yeah, but the shoes kept dancing — 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/957-pg27200-part168/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} what's the vibe of the old soldier's beard? - **1.** long and red and tied up very neatly in a knot at the back of the head — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** wonderfully long and bushy, more red than white with grey streaks — no support - **3.** wonderfully long, more white than red — no support - **4.** wonderfully long, more red than white — **✓ 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/957-pg27200-part168/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which colour of footwear did the child wear to the ceremony of confirmation? - **1.** Tan — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Red — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** Blue — score 2 - **4.** Jet — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 930, line 18: «Old word: an "urchin" here is a mischievous little winged creature, while today the word usually means a street child or a spiny sea animal.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). 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/957-pg27200-part168/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} By what agency was the child's foot released from the cursed shoes? - **1.** By the executioner who came with his axe and a red cloak in the morning — no support - **2.** By the executioner's heavy axe that struck off her feet — no support - **3.** By the executioner's axe — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** By the executioner's knife — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 619, line 17: «Old word: a fathom is a sailor's measure of depth, about six feet, so twenty fathoms is roughly 120 feet today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «120 feet» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). 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/957-pg27200-part168/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} What did the angel pronounce upon the child as her punishment? - **1.** Dancing until she was pale and cold — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** Dancing until she was pale and cold and could dance no more — score 0 - **3.** Dancing until she was tired — score 0 - **4.** Dancing in the churchyard until the bells rang out at midnight — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 957, line 5: «An angel curses her to dance until she dies, so the executioner cuts off her feet, but the shoes dance on without them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/957-pg27200-part168/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Which garment did the young princess conspicuously omit from her attire? - **1.** A train — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** A veil — score 4 - **3.** Gloves for the church — score 4 - **4.** A long silk gown — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 16, line 7: «Alice soon decides it is «a very difficult game indeed»: her hedgehog unrolls itself and crawls away, the ground is full of ridges and furrows, and the soldier…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave off» (+2); the same doer «soldiers» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/957-pg27200-part168/e4/) - ← previous: [956. Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/956-pg27200-part167/) - next →: [958. Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen rep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/958-pg27200-part169/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)