--- title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and th… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 977 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 14 tests right, exam 1 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/977-pg27200-part188/) [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/) / 977 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove **Tests:** 4 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 977 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/977-pg27200-part188/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo, is the snowman lowkey stove sick or nah? - **1.** yeah, he's totally stove sick and wants to lean on it — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, he's hungry lol — no support - **3.** yeah, he's totally stove sick — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** nah, he's just cold — 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/977-pg27200-part188/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} bruv, did the dog get sent out cos he bit someone? - **1.** nah, he chased the cat away — score 4 - **2.** yeah, he bit the kid who kicked his bone — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** yeah, he bit the kid who kicked his bone away at the gate — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** yeah, he kicked the kid back — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 977, line 10: «Why he was sent away: he bit the youngest son "in the leg, because he kicked away the bone I was gnawing."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kick away» (+3); the same thing acted on «bone» (+2); the same property (+2); a different doer (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/977-pg27200-part188/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} wait, what's the dog's name when he was a little pup? - **1.** Tomi, sweet Tomi — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Ami, sweet Ami — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Rico, little Rico — no support - **4.** Bo, sweet Bo — 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/977-pg27200-part188/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} how did the snowman feel about the stove, like honest? - **1.** he wanted to leave — no support - **2.** he hated it deeply — no support - **3.** he wanted it so bad — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** he wanted it so bad he could feel the heat — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 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 977, line 11: «Why the Snow Man wants the stove: he says, "It is an innocent wish, and innocent wishes are sure to be fulfilled."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+3); the same thing acted on «stove» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/977-pg27200-part188/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} that stove is black as a crow, right? - **1.** yeah, with a brass knob and a big pipe on top — no support - **2.** yeah, with a brass knob — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, it's black as a crow but with a brass door — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** nah, with an iron door — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 977, line 13: «The stove is "as black as a crow," with a long neck and a brass knob, and fire spurts from its mouth.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «stove» (+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/977-pg27200-part188/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} why was the girl so hyped about the frost? - **1.** it looked like tiny diamonds flying across the snowy garden — score 1 - **2.** it looked like diamonds scattered on every twig — score 1 - **3.** it looked like pearls — score 1 - **4.** it looked like diamonds — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 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 977, line 15: «Old word: "hoar frost" is the white frost that coats trees in cold weather, looking like "a forest of white coral."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/977-pg27200-part188/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} lol the dog kept barking "away away," did he mean it? - **1.** yeah, he meant come here — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** yeah, he meant go away — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** nah, he was just playing — no support - **4.** yeah, he meant go away from the garden wall — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 964, line 21: «Old word: a "maelstrom" once meant a whirlpool that sucks in the sea, but here it means a wild, crowded rush of people.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+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/977-pg27200-part188/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} did the snowman think the sun was his buddy? - **1.** nah, it was his enemy — no support - **2.** yeah, it was his best friend until the morning came — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** nah, it wasn't his friend and it was burning him — score 1 - **4.** nah, it wasn't his friend — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 61, line 5: «Toad slept in a hollow tree whose «front door» faced east, so the early sun woke him, along with his very cold toes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «toad» (+2). Against it: the same doer «early sun» (-1). 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/977-pg27200-part188/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} is the moon the same as the sun, like the dog said? - **1.** nah, it's a star — no support - **2.** nah, the moon was the one before — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** yeah, same one — no support - **4.** nah, the sun was the one before — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 251, line 9: «WHY: The Moon lost her light because she "pulled and fought" to save the man, and then she was caught.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «man» (+2). Against it: the same doer «moon» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/977-pg27200-part188/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} what did the couple do after the frost show? - **1.** slid down the hill — no support - **2.** stayed in the garden and sang a song for the snowman — no support - **3.** tripped away over the snow and into the woods — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** tripped away over the snow — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 753, line 8: «Where: the couple chase the thieves through a dark wood, and the narrow road runs down the side of a hill.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «couple» (+2); the same place «dark wood» (+1). 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/977-pg27200-part188/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} is the window freezing or thawing when the snowman is stuck? - **1.** thawing, all water drops — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** freezing, all frost fern — no support - **3.** freezing, the glass covered with ice flowers all over — no support - **4.** freezing, all ice flowers — **✓ 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/977-pg27200-part188/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} yo, does the dog think the snowman is a baby? - **1.** yeah, born yesterday — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yeah, a baby — no support - **3.** yeah, born in May — no support - **4.** nah, born last year — 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/977-pg27200-part188/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} did the stove make the room warm, like proper warm? - **1.** yeah, a gentle glow that filled the whole room — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** yeah, a steady hum — no support - **3.** nah, a harsh light — no support - **4.** yeah, a gentle glow — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 3: «She grows and grows until she fills the whole room, with one arm out of the window and one foot up the chimney, and she wonders half sadly, half curiously what…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fill» (+3); the same thing acted on «whole room» (+2); 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/977-pg27200-part188/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} the snowman says innocent wishes always come true, right? - **1.** yeah, they are sure to be fulfilled one day soon — score 3 - **2.** yeah, they are sure to be fulfilled — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** nah, they are never granted — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** nah, they are rarely fulfilled by anyone in the world — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 955, line 2: «The lecturer dazzles him with science, and over wine he grants the wish that the puppets will come alive.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grant» (+3); the same thing acted on «wish» (+2). 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/977-pg27200-part188/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following describes the Snow Man's principal desire in this part of the narrative? - **1.** to run away from the garden and find the girl — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** to approach and lean against the stove — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** to approach and lean against the warm stove at once — no support - **4.** to stand near the window — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 349, line 13: «Who helps: a man runs into his garden and comes back with "a long grape-vine" to use as a rope.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+2); the same place «garden» (+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/977-pg27200-part188/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following accurately identifies the cause of the yard-dog's confinement to the chain? - **1.** for chasing the youngest son — no support - **2.** for stealing the master's bread — no support - **3.** having bitten the youngest son of his master — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** for barking loudly — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 977, line 10: «Why he was sent away: he bit the youngest son "in the leg, because he kicked away the bone I was gnawing."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bite» (+2); the same thing acted on «youngest son» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/977-pg27200-part188/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following expressions denotes the frost that coats the trees in the morning? - **1.** white dew — no support - **2.** the frozen morning mist of the wide country fields — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** hoar frost — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** a thick white hoar frost on every branch — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 855, line 11: «Old word: "cretin" was a hard, unkind word for a person with a serious illness that affected his mind and body.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/977-pg27200-part188/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following statements correctly characterises the closing change in the weather observed by the narrator? - **1.** a thaw began to set in over the whole garden — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a thaw began to set in — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** the frost grew harder — no support - **4.** a warm summer breeze came and the snow vanished completely from the valley — 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/977-pg27200-part188/e4/) - ← previous: [976. 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