--- title: Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 987 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 0 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/987-pg27200-part198/) [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/) / 987 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house **Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 987 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/987-pg27200-part198/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} yo so the snowdrop got stuck in a book innit, who found it first? - **1.** the bro reading it — no support - **2.** the cook — score 0 - **3.** a dog — score 0 - **4.** the maid sweeping up — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 762, line 13: «fact: The eldest brother turns to stone because he finds only the first hundred pearls, and the spell says "if one be missing by set of sun" he is turned to ma…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/987-pg27200-part198/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} how long till someone opened that book again, like proper long? - **1.** years and years went by, mate, like proper ages — no support - **2.** years went by, mate — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** months went past, mate — no support - **4.** like, weeks — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 987, line 10: «When: "after this years went by" before someone took the book up and read it again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «book» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); a different action (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/987-pg27200-part198/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} that guy called the flower a gauk, wdym gauk? - **1.** a thrush, and a dope — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a cuckoo, and a fool — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** a bird — no support - **4.** a fool — 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/987-pg27200-part198/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} the eldest bro just makes bricks, mad lowkey? - **1.** nah, bricks are boring — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, no bricks — no support - **3.** yeah, bricks for the win — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, walls for the win — 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/987-pg27200-part198/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} the wonky house by the sea, who got that one? - **1.** poor Margery — no support - **2.** the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score -5 - **3.** the bro — no support - **4.** poor Margaret — **✓ the right answer** · score -5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 90, line 3: «But the Man says the Sea is not obedient: once a day and once a night it rushes up the Perak river and floods his house, then runs out again and leaves only mu…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «house» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-3); the same doer «sea» (-4). The right option, 4, scored -5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/987-pg27200-part198/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} what's the second bro's whole deal, job wise? - **1.** builder turned master — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** builder turned master of the whole building guild — no support - **3.** a builder — no support - **4.** baker turned master — 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/987-pg27200-part198/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} the fifth bro just roasts everyone, sus or nah? - **1.** yeah, he roasts everyone, he's a proper critic — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, he's a critic — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, he's a poet — no support - **4.** yeah, he's a builder — 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/987-pg27200-part198/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} fourth bro wants to be a genius, that real? - **1.** yeah, best of all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, just ordinary — no support - **3.** nah, not really — no support - **4.** yeah, greatest of all — **✓ 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/987-pg27200-part198/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} what's the floor made of, like, when they danced? - **1.** stone — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** wood — score 1 - **3.** lime, white and shiny — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** tiles, grey and dull — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 952, line 19: «Old word: a "mosaic" floor is made of tiny coloured stones set together; today we still use the word for such art.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «tiny coloured stones» (+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/987-pg27200-part198/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} when they danced, what made the walls look proper special? - **1.** flowers sprang out, bruv — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** flowers sprang out from the walls and the ceiling too, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** flowers sprang out all over the walls, bruv, it was wild — score 1 - **4.** pictures popped out, bruv — no support **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 928, line 19: «Old word "portrait": a painted picture of a person; here it hangs on the wall of Hjalmar's bedroom.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «wall» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/987-pg27200-part198/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} the street built his house, lol how? - **1.** the street did it — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** the people in the town all said so, it's what they reckoned — no support - **3.** the town agreed, bro — no support - **4.** the people said so — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 987, line 22: «The street "built a house for him in return", and the people said, "Certainly the street built his house for him."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «house» (+2); the same doer «street» (+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/987-pg27200-part198/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} so the snowdrop felt honoured, kinda cute tbh? - **1.** yeah, a token in the book — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yeah, a gift in the book — no support - **3.** yeah, it was a proper token kept in the book for ages — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** yeah, honoured and pleased, a little token tucked in the book — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 987, line 3: «The Snowdrop feels proud to be a token in the book, because it was put there "with a meaning".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «token» (+2); the same place «book» (+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/987-pg27200-part198/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} wait the snowdrop got put in the book on purpose, real talk? - **1.** nah, for no reason — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, with a meaning — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, by accident — no support - **4.** yeah, with a reason — 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/987-pg27200-part198/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} In what manner did the reader interpret the presence of the flower within the volume? - **1.** As a forgotten bit of litter — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** As an accidental pressed leaf — no support - **3.** As an intended token bearing meaning — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** As a bookmark — 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/987-pg27200-part198/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which occupation did the eldest brother select in preference to all others? - **1.** The making of carts — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The manufacture of bricks — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The manufacture of bricks and tiles for the whole town — no support - **4.** The manufacture of all kinds of bricks, tiles, and clay pots — 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/987-pg27200-part198/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What was the condition of the dwelling erected by Margaret upon the dyke? - **1.** Its chimney was tall and its floor wet — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Its window was crooked and its door low — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Its window was crooked and its door was low, with a broken latch and a leaking roof — no support - **4.** Its window was crooked and its door low, and its roof was thatched with reeds — 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/987-pg27200-part198/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Upon what surface did the master builder and his bride perform their dance? - **1.** A floor covered with lime — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Stone tiles — no support - **3.** Bare earth — **← Mova's choice** · score -6 - **4.** A floor covered with dust — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 947, line 20: «The word "minuet" meant a slow, formal dance for two, and the General moves as if he were dancing one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «slow formal dance» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-3). 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/987-pg27200-part198/e4/) - ← previous: [986. Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/986-pg27200-part197/) - next →: [988. 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