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title: Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is called false… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 975 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 14 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is called false and passed from hand to hand

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**Tests:** 5 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 975 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/975-pg27200-part186/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Mate, what was the shilling made of, like, the proper stuff?

- **1.** iron — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** tin — no support
- **3.** copper — no support
- **4.** silver — **✓ the right answer** · 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/975-pg27200-part186/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Yo, how'd the shilling end up on the floor, innit?

- **1.** it slipped out the purse into a pocket of the trousers and then rolled across the hall and under the door — score 4
- **2.** it slipped out the purse into a pocket of the trousers and then rolled across the hall — score 4
- **3.** it slipped down a hole in the coat — score 4
- **4.** it slipped out the purse into a pocket — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 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 280, line 2: «A young man finds the Shoes on the floor and slips out into the rain to make a visit in town.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «slip out» (+3); the same doer «young man» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/975-pg27200-part186/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Bruv, who first said the shilling was dodgy and good for nothing?

- **1.** a bystander who saw it fall — no support
- **2.** someone who found it on the floor — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **3.** some bloke in the hall — score -2
- **4.** a random geezer near the door — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 975, line 7: «What: a gentleman finds it in his purse and cries "here is a shilling from home".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same thing acted on «shilling» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-5). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/975-pg27200-part186/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Gutted, did the shilling feel proper rubbish when they called it false?

- **1.** nah, it was fine — no support
- **2.** nah, it just felt sad inside — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** yeah, like it got stabbed — no support
- **4.** yeah, like a dagger went through it — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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 771, line 5: «Then a queen wishes her crying child were a raven, and the child flies off into a dark wood, where a man finds the raven and must keep watch on a tan-heap.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+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/975-pg27200-part186/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Who got lumbered with the shilling as wages, innit?

- **1.** a rich young lady — score -8
- **2.** a poor old woman — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** a poor old woman who lived alone in a tiny cottage on the edge of town — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** a tired old servant — score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 975, line 16: «Why: she goes out at twilight to buy "a ticket" with "a shilling that should bring luck".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same doer «mother» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). 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/975-pg27200-part186/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Did the baker chuck it back in her face?

- **1.** yeah, he flung it at her and nearly hit her face with it while swearing loudly — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, he slid it over the counter — no support
- **3.** nah, he gave it straight back — no support
- **4.** yeah, he threw it almost in her face — **✓ the right answer** · 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/975-pg27200-part186/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Why'd the woman drill a hole through it, like?

- **1.** so she could sell it later — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** to check whether it was silver — no support
- **3.** first to show everyone it was false — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** to test if it was real — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 975, line 3: «A poor old woman gets it as wages, but the baker throws it back, so she bores a hole and hangs it on a child as a lucky shilling.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «shilling» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/975-pg27200-part186/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Who got the lucky shilling round their neck?

- **1.** the little kid from the house next door who always played outside with the woman's girls — no support
- **2.** the neighbour's little kid — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** the mother's oldest child — score 0
- **4.** the little kid from the house next door who always played outside with the woman's boys — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 975, line 6: «Who: the shilling tells the story itself, and it is made of silver with "very little copper".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «shilling» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/975-pg27200-part186/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What did the mum do to make it go green?

- **1.** soaked it in water — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** dipped it — no support
- **3.** stuck it in vinegar — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** used paint — 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/975-pg27200-part186/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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What did she fill the hole up with?

- **1.** cement — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** plaster — score 7
- **3.** wet cement mixed with sand and dust — no support
- **4.** hot lead poured in slowly from a tin and left to cool in the hole — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 975, line 15: «What: the mother cuts the string, puts the coin in vinegar, and fills the hole with cement.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fill» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «hole» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/975-pg27200-part186/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Where'd the mum nip off to at twilight?

- **1.** the lottery collector's house on the far side of the village green, near the old mill — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the bank in town — no support
- **3.** the lottery collector's house on the far side of the village green — no support
- **4.** the lottery collector — **✓ the right answer** · 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/975-pg27200-part186/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Where did it end up in the chest?

- **1.** in a drawer — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** beside the old notes — no support
- **3.** in a box — no support
- **4.** among other coins — **✓ the right answer** · 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/975-pg27200-part186/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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How long was it passed around before the traveller got it back?

- **1.** days — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** weeks — no support
- **3.** a month — no support
- **4.** a year — **✓ the right answer** · 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/975-pg27200-part186/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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Who finally took it as proper money, bruv?

- **1.** the traveller who took it from home — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **2.** the traveller who had taken it from home and then carried it abroad to a far land — score -2
- **3.** a sailor who came from home — score -2
- **4.** the farmer who had it first — no support

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**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 546, line 1: «Heracles and his wife Deianeira reach the river Evenus, where the Centaur Nessus carries travellers for money.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+2); the same thing acted on «travellers» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-5). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/975-pg27200-part186/t14/)

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

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Which metal, as stated in the passage, constituted the composition of the shilling?

- **1.** a precious white metal of very high value that was mined in distant lands — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** an alloy composed of copper and tin combined together — no support
- **3.** copper — no support
- **4.** silver — **✓ the right answer** · 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/975-pg27200-part186/e1/)

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

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When was the shilling first declared to be false by a bystander?

- **1.** when the baker counted coins — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** after the coat was taken off — no support
- **3.** in the morning — no support
- **4.** when it fell to the floor in the hall — **✓ the right answer** · 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/975-pg27200-part186/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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By what means did the mother render the coin green in colour?

- **1.** by leaving it in damp soil — no support
- **2.** by immersion in vinegar — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** by complete immersion for several days in a bowl of strong vinegar and salt — score 1
- **4.** by complete immersion for several days in a bowl of strong vinegar and then drying it slowly — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 725, line 19: «Old word: leathern means made of leather, so the old leathern saddle is a plain, worn leather saddle.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old word» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/975-pg27200-part186/e3/)

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

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To whom did the shilling finally return, and in what capacity?

- **1.** to the old woman, in her house — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** to the traveller, who accepted it as current coin — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** to the lottery collector, in a chest — score 4
- **4.** to the traveller — score 4

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**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 975, line 5: «After a year the shilling returns to the same traveller, who trusts it as real money.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «return» (+2); the same circumstance (+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/975-pg27200-part186/e4/)

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