--- title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow tells how i… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 972 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 14 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/972-pg27200-part183/) [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/) / 972 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow tells how it became a man, then invites the scholar on a journey **Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 972 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/972-pg27200-part183/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Bro, the shadow turned into a full grown man, right? - **1.** Yeah, it became a real man — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** Yeah, it turned into a king — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Nah, it stayed a shadow — score 3 - **4.** Yeah, it became a real man after going to the ante-room — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 216, line 1: «The blind man ends his tale: he touched his right eye with the ointment and became blind, because he would not believe the dervish.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «man» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Wait, so who gave the shadow new clothes? - **1.** No cap — score 2 - **2.** The tailor, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** The baker, no cap — score 2 - **4.** The tailor — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 188, line 1: «Sindbad gives the Old Man of the Sea his gourd of wine, and the old monster gets so merry that his iron grip loosens.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+1); the same thing acted on «old man» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+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/972-pg27200-part183/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Lowkey, did the shadow get coins made for it? - **1.** Yeah, the mint overseer did, he made them all himself — no support - **2.** Yeah, the mint overseer did — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nope, the tailor made them — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** Yeah, the overseer of the mint struck every coin for it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 587, line 8: «Deal: the Bad Man says "he make a trade wid 'im", promising the blacksmith's spirit at the end of a year.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/972-pg27200-part183/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Dude, the shadow was all like "I saw everything," right? - **1.** Yep, it totally said it saw all of it and everything else too — score 3 - **2.** Nope, it said it saw none — score 3 - **3.** Yep, it said it saw all of it from the top of the tower — score 3 - **4.** Yep, it said it saw all of it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 972, line 18: «The shadow forbids the scholar to say "thou" to it, yet it says "thou" to him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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/972-pg27200-part183/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Ngl, where did the shadow chill before it went out? - **1.** In the ante room, bro — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** In the ante room next to the court of poetry, bro — no support - **3.** At the old court, bro — no support - **4.** In the ante room of the palace, bro, where it waited all day — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 303, line 4: «After eight days a new shadow grows, and it lengthens on the journey home to the north until it is more than enough.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «new shadow» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: 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/972-pg27200-part183/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Was the scholar kinda salty when the shadow came back? - **1.** Nah, happy — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, kinda — no support - **3.** Yeah, he was really mad — no support - **4.** Yeah, he was super sad — **✓ 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/972-pg27200-part183/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Wait, did the shadow tell him to go on a trip? - **1.** Yep, a watering place trip, the shadow said it was needed — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Nope, a mountain hike trip — no support - **3.** Yep, it told him to go on a long watering place trip with it — no support - **4.** Yep, a watering place trip — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 47, line 11: «Toad: «I'm afraid it is the trouble you mind … I'm a nuisance, I know.» The Rat: «You are, indeed. But I tell you, I'd take any trouble on earth for you, if on…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); the same thing acted on «trouble» (+1). 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/972-pg27200-part183/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Real talk, who started off being the boss on the trip? - **1.** Shadow — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The shadow, fr — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The scholar, fr — no support - **4.** Him, fr — 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/972-pg27200-part183/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Fam, why did the shadow want a beard? - **1.** It wanted a beard to look old — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It was not growing well — no support - **3.** It wanted hair — no support - **4.** Its beard was not growing right — **✓ 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/972-pg27200-part183/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Bruh, what did the shadow say makes it feel crushed? - **1.** Rude words — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Being called thou — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Being ignored — no support - **4.** Being called a fool — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 938, line 4: «He has four clever sons and a blind daughter, and he tells them stories about the world shown on the castle walls.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+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/972-pg27200-part183/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Okay but what did the princess spot about him? - **1.** He had no shadow at all, bro, that was the weird part — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He had no shadow on the ground, bro, like something was off — no support - **3.** He was a ghost, bro — no support - **4.** He had no shadow, bro — **✓ 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/972-pg27200-part183/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Ngl, did the shadow say the world was a good place? - **1.** Yeah, it called it a nice place — no support - **2.** Yeah, it called it a good world — no support - **3.** Nah, it called it a bad world — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, a bad place — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 587, line 13: «Bag: the Bad Man "grab 'im up en cram 'im in a bag en tote 'im off" to the Bad Place.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same circumstance (+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/972-pg27200-part183/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} So the shadow lives where, fam? - **1.** On the sunny side of the street, where it liked to sit all day — score 1 - **2.** On the sunny side of the street — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** On the bright side of the town — score 3 - **4.** On the sunny side of the long street near the old market — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 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 241, line 5: «Seven years and a day later her bird-husband returns, takes her away, and they live happily ever after.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} Dude, what did the shadow say about the cake lady? - **1.** She had no idea who it was — no support - **2.** She knew — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** She had no clue who she hid — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** She was rude — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 304, line 7: «What: the shadow boasts that he "saw everything, and I know everything!" and talks down to his master's new shadow, which lies "like a poodle-dog at his feet."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «shadow» (+2); the same action «know» (+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/972-pg27200-part183/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} In which location did the shadow state that it acquired the status of a man? - **1.** The palace — no support - **2.** The chamber next to the mint's library — no support - **3.** The hallway joining the court of verse — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **4.** The ante-room adjoining the court of poetry — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 932, line 3: «When he woke, he told a wild tale of a real court held on stage after the show, which aunt did not believe.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Upon what grounds did the shadow decline to be addressed with the familiar form "thou"? - **1.** It experienced a sensation of being crushed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** It experienced a sensation of being crushed and humiliated by the familiar address — score 0 - **3.** It was overcome by an odd feeling of dread — score 0 - **4.** It regarded the form as a grave personal insult — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 650, line 16: «Old word: "plowed" means dug up and turned over with a plough, and today we usually write it "ploughed."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which personage first perceived that the newcomer lacked a shadow? - **1.** A beautiful servant at the baths — no support - **2.** A beautiful princess at the baths — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** The princess at the old palace — score 0 - **4.** The princess — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 972, line 17: «At the baths the princess sees that the scholar "is unable to cast a shadow."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} What did the shadow advise the learned man to seek, owing to his declining health? - **1.** A quiet rest — score 2 - **2.** A visit to a watering-place — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** A trip to a healing spring — score 7 - **4.** A stay at a seaside town — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 303, line 1: «A learned man from the cold lands visits a hot country, where the sun is so strong that everyone stays indoors by day.», 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 (+3); the same doer «learned man» (+2); the same thing acted on «visits» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/e4/) - ← previous: [970. Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/970-pg27200-part181/) - next →: [973. Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/973-pg27200-part184/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)