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title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses ev… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 976 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper

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**Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 976 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/976-pg27200-part187/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Bruv, why did folks reckon the shilling was fake?

- **1.** Cos the bloke at the stall swore someone drilled it proper — score 2
- **2.** Cos a geezer scratched its face — no support
- **3.** Cos someone bored a hole thru it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Cos some geezer bored a hole right thru it innit — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 976, line 8: «Why: people called the shilling false, because "Some one has bored a hole through it", but the hole did not make him any less true.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «shilling» (+3); the same action «bore» (+1); 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/976-pg27200-part187/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Wait, where's the shilling headed in the end, mate?

- **1.** To the shop — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** To a bank in town — no support
- **3.** Back to his own home in the far country — no support
- **4.** Back to his own home — **✓ 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/976-pg27200-part187/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Proper dodgy, but what did the collar claim he owned?

- **1.** A boot-jack and a hair-brush — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -5
- **2.** A boot-jack, a hair-brush, and a fine silver locket from the hall — score -5
- **3.** A boot-jack and a comb — score -5
- **4.** A boot-jack, a hair-brush, and a gold watch — score -5

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**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 976, line 10: «The shirt collar is "a terrible boaster" who claims a boot-jack and a hair-brush that really "belonged to his master".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); 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/976-pg27200-part187/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Lol, who did the collar chat up in the wash tub?

- **1.** A slim garter — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A sock — no support
- **3.** A tall hatband — no support
- **4.** A slim garter who was too shy to speak — **← Mova's choice** · score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 976, line 3: «A boastful shirt collar meets a shy garter in the wash-tub and tries to win her with fine talk about his boot-jack and hair-brush.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «shy garter» (+1). Against it: the same property (-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/976-pg27200-part187/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Wat did the garter say when he got too close, bro?

- **1.** You're acting like a clerk — no support
- **2.** You're acting far too bold for a garter like me — no support
- **3.** You're acting like a man — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** You're acting like a man who lies about his boots — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 973, line 12: «The shadow says the learned man can "lie at my feet as becomes a shadow", which is a cruel order to a man who once was equal to him.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lie» (+5); the same doer «learned man» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/976-pg27200-part187/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Innit, what did the iron call him?

- **1.** An old rag — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A rag — no support
- **3.** A dirty, torn old rag from the wash-tub — no support
- **4.** A cloth — 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/976-pg27200-part187/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Ngl, who got engaged to the boot-jack?

- **1.** The hair-brush — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** The scissors — score 4
- **3.** The slim garter from the wash-tub — score 4
- **4.** The flat-iron — 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 976, line 14: «The collar says he will "propose to the hair-brush", but she is "engaged to the boot-jack", so he pretends to despise love.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «engage» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/976-pg27200-part187/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Mate, why did the scissors chop the collar?

- **1.** She was sharpened too long and so cut the collar in rage — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She got very angry at his bold proposal — no support
- **3.** She got quite upset — no support
- **4.** She got well angry — **✓ 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/976-pg27200-part187/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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So where did the collar end up, fam?

- **1.** At a laundry where he was ironed again and again — no support
- **2.** At the shop — no support
- **3.** In the market — no support
- **4.** At the paper mill — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 976, line 15: «In the paper-mill the fine rags lie "separated from the coarser", and the collar becomes paper as a punishment for his lies.», 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 place «paper mill» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/976-pg27200-part187/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Bruh, what's the collar's big moan at the end?

- **1.** He lost his cuff — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He was ironed — no support
- **3.** He lost his button — no support
- **4.** He lost his garter — **✓ 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/976-pg27200-part187/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Dead funny, but why'd he turn into paper, like?

- **1.** Cos he bragged a lot — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cos he boasted lies — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Cos he told tall tales — no support
- **4.** Cos he was old — 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/976-pg27200-part187/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Lush, what's the snow man's gob made of, innit?

- **1.** A cracked tin cup — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** An old broken rake — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** An old broken pot — no support
- **4.** An old broken rake from the back garden — 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/976-pg27200-part187/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Ok, what did the yard dog's bark sound like?

- **1.** Rough and cracked — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Hoarse, not proper — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Like a hoarse, croaking cough, not a proper bark — no support
- **4.** Croaky, not clear — 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/976-pg27200-part187/t13/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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By what means did the shirt collar attempt to secure a matrimonial alliance?

- **1.** By offering a proposal to the flat-iron — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** By begging the garter to wed him — no support
- **3.** By writing a grand letter to the scissors — no support
- **4.** By buying her a gift — 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/976-pg27200-part187/e1/)

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

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What was the ultimate fate of the shirt collar, as recorded in the narrative?

- **1.** He was converted into fine white paper for printing — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He was converted into white paper — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He was turned to white dust — no support
- **4.** He was pulped at the mill and converted into coloured wrapping paper — 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/976-pg27200-part187/e2/)

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

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To what did the author attribute the shirt collar's transformation?

- **1.** His boastful and untruthful speech — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** His noisy and tiresome boasting habit — no support
- **3.** His silly, boastful manner — no support
- **4.** His constant boastful and untruthful speech to the garter — 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/976-pg27200-part187/e3/)

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

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What did the Snow Man state regarding the sensation of the cold?

- **1.** It made his face melt slowly — no support
- **2.** That it made his whole body crackle like dry sticks — no support
- **3.** That the cold made his whole body crackle and then go hard — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** That it made his body crackle — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 887, line 9: «fact: What: November says he must accompany servant girls to their new places, while his cold makes him use his handkerchief all the time.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «cold» (+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/976-pg27200-part187/e4/)

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