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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart

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**Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 970 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/970-pg27200-part181/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Mate, so the wet kid knocks at the door, yeah?

- **1.** Nah, the poet slams the door and sends him off into the rain — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Yeah, the old poet opens up — score 3
- **3.** Yeah, the poet takes him in and warms him by the fire — score 2
- **4.** Yeah, the poet lets him in — **✓ 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 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 932, line 14: «In the fire scare, aunt was "the last in the box" because the people before her "slammed the door of the box."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «slam» (+3); the same thing acted on «door» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+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/970-pg27200-part181/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Wait, what's the kid called then, like proper?

- **1.** Amor — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Tommy — no support
- **3.** Cupid — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Eros — 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/970-pg27200-part181/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Did the boy's bow get wrecked by the rain, then?

- **1.** Nah, wet — no support
- **2.** Yeah, soaked — no support
- **3.** Yeah, it was ruined — no support
- **4.** Nah, it was dry — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 308, line 11: «Why: Cupid's bow looks ruined, so the poet says, "Why, your bow is quite spoiled," but the boy shows it is "dry again" and works well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/970-pg27200-part181/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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So the shot, where'd the arrow land, innit?

- **1.** Right in the heart — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Right in the shoulder — no support
- **3.** Straight into the poet's chest and out the back — no support
- **4.** Right through his coat and into his ribs below — 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/970-pg27200-part181/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Was the poet well chuffed about that?

- **1.** He was gutted — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He was chuffed — no support
- **3.** He was happy — no support
- **4.** He was furious — 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/970-pg27200-part181/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Proper creepy, yeah, that Cupid sitting in the big light?

- **1.** Yeah, the huge glowing chandelier in the old theatre hall — no support
- **2.** Nah, he's sitting in the cold attic by a small window — score 3
- **3.** Yeah, that bright chandelier — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** Yeah, the chandelier at the theatre — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 308, line 19: «Old word: a "chandelier" is a hanging frame with many lights; today we would call it a light fitting, and Cupid sits in it "in bright flames".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «chandelier» (+4); 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/970-pg27200-part181/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Ever seen a bloke as brown as mahogany?

- **1.** Nah, but folk there are — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, I've seen one — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Nah, but I've heard — no support
- **4.** Yeah, loads — 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 299, line 6: «Who: a little boy visits an old man in a house where even the furniture seems to talk.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «visit» (+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/970-pg27200-part181/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Did the scholar's shadow get proper tiny?

- **1.** Nah, it stayed the same — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Yeah, it shrivelled up to nothing at all in the end — no support
- **3.** Yeah, it went quite small — no support
- **4.** Yeah, it shrivelled up — **✓ 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 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 970, line 16: «What: he must stay indoors all day with windows closed, and his shadow "shrivelled up."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same doer «man» (+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/970-pg27200-part181/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Like, when did his shadow stretch out long?

- **1.** At dusk — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** At noon — no support
- **3.** When the lights came on — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** When the sun went down — 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/970-pg27200-part181/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Was the house opposite all noisy and that?

- **1.** Yeah, it was noisy — score 5
- **2.** Yeah, there was loud music and shouting all night — no support
- **3.** Nah, it was dead quiet — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Nah, it was dead quiet except for a dog barking outside — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 279, line 18: «OLD WORD: a "roysterer" is a noisy, merry drinker, and "tweak" means to pinch or twist, which is what the drunk man does.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). 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/970-pg27200-part181/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Wasn't the music over there the same tune again and again?

- **1.** Yeah, the same piece — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nah, different tunes — no support
- **3.** Yeah, the same piece played over and over all night — no support
- **4.** Nah, they played a different piece every few minutes — 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/970-pg27200-part181/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Mate, what sort of wood is mahogany, anyway?

- **1.** A pale yellow timber — no support
- **2.** A tropical tree that grows in the far jungle — no support
- **3.** A hard blackish wood from a big tree in India — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** A dark reddish-brown wood — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 303, line 18: «Hard word: "mahogany" here is a reddish-brown wood, and in a Danish joke it means "excessively fine".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «brown wood» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/970-pg27200-part181/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Who's the bloke that warns all the kids off?

- **1.** The old poet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The king — no support
- **3.** The boy — no support
- **4.** The young boy — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 967, line 6: «Who: Jurgen is a young man who was wrongly accused and locked up for a whole year, and "Niels the thief" was the real killer.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «young man» (+3); 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/970-pg27200-part181/t13/)

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

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In what manner did the aged poet receive the unclothed child on the evening of the storm?

- **1.** He admitted him and warmed him by the fire — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** He let him in and gave him a warm drink — score 4
- **3.** He let him in, gave him clothes and sat him by the fire until morning — score 3
- **4.** He welcomed him and dried his clothes out — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 820, line 9: «WHEN: It happens on the day the Princess receives the suitors, with crowds "almost under the very windows."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «receive» (+3); the same doer «princess» (+2). The right option, 1, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/970-pg27200-part181/e1/)

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

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Which object did the child bear, and in what condition was it after the rain?

- **1.** A bow and quiver, all the colours bleeding into one another — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A quiver, its arrows soaked — no support
- **3.** A bow, its colours run together — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A bundle of arrows and a bow, with paint running down the wood — 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/970-pg27200-part181/e2/)

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

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To what cause did the learned man from the northern regions attribute his wasting strength?

- **1.** Long journeys through the snow and freezing winds of the north — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The unbearable heat of the sun — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Years of working in the dark mines beneath the hills — no support
- **4.** The bitter cold of winter — 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/970-pg27200-part181/e3/)

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

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By what proper name is the figure who shot the poet designated in the tale?

- **1.** Edmund — no support
- **2.** The mischievous child who claimed to be the god of love — score 0
- **3.** Cupid — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The boy who called himself Cupid in the tale — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 908, line 1: «The boy on the roof waves his broom and shouts in triumph, and then the Moon starts to tell the poet what it saw.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «shout» (+3); the same doer «boy» (+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/970-pg27200-part181/e4/)

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