--- title: Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 996 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 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/996-pg27200-part207/) [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/) / 996 # Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child **Tests:** 3 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 996 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/996-pg27200-part207/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Wait, so Death's basically a gardener, yeah? - **1.** Nah, he's a king — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, he's God's gardener, innit — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Yeah, mate — no support - **4.** Nah, he's just a sad old man — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 15, line 3: «Alice stays standing, because what is the use of a procession if everyone lies on their faces? The Queen asks her name; Alice answers very politely, but thinks…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «pack» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «gardeners» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/996-pg27200-part207/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bro, where's the mum even at? - **1.** Out in the yard, sat on a wall, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** In the hothouse, with the plants — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** In the kitchen — no support - **4.** Upstairs, asleep in her bed, innit — 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/996-pg27200-part207/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} So she grabbed two flowers, yeah? - **1.** Yeah, she grabbed two flowers and then smashed the pots against the wall — score 2 - **2.** Yeah, she took three flowers — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Yeah, she grabbed two flowers — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** Nah, she dropped two petals — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 996, line 11: «Death explains that he takes the flowers and transplants them "into the gardens of Paradise in an unknown land".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same thing acted on «flowers» (+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/996-pg27200-part207/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} What did Death say about her eyes, like? - **1.** They were red, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** They were sadder now, mate — no support - **3.** They were clearer now, mate — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** They look tired now, mate — 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/996-pg27200-part207/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Wait, what did she see in the well, fam? - **1.** One flower a blessing, one misery — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** One flower dead, one alive — score 2 - **3.** Just a well — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** A blessing, fam — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 996, line 15: «In the well she sees one flower become "a blessing to the world", while the other is full of "care and poverty, misery and woe".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «well» (+3); the same action «see» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/996-pg27200-part207/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Did Death tell her which flower was her kid's? - **1.** Yeah, he told her which one was her kid's, but she didn't believe him — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Yeah, he did — no support - **3.** Nah, he didn't say, bruv — score -1 - **4.** Nah, he never told her — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 996, line 8: «Why she comes: "I am a mother," she tells Death, who asks how she found her way there faster than he did.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+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/996-pg27200-part207/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} So she wanted her kid took to God, innit? - **1.** She wants him back, yeah — no support - **2.** Yeah, take the kid to God — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Yeah, she wanted her kid taken up to God so he'd be safe forever — score 5 - **4.** Yeah, bring the kid home — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 129, line 14: «What: the table has "delicate food" on it, "as warm as if they had been just taken away from the fire".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take away» (+4); the same thing acted on «kid» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/996-pg27200-part207/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} Then Death nicked the kid, yeah? - **1.** Nah, he didn't — no support - **2.** Yeah, he took him — score 6 - **3.** Yeah, Death took the child away — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **4.** Nah, Death left the kid alone — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 996, line 16: «Death will not say which flower is her child's, so she begs him to take the child away to God's kingdom.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «child» (+2); the same doer «death» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/996-pg27200-part207/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} What's the hothouse like, in the story? - **1.** A glasshouse full of plants — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A glasshouse full of plants and flowers, with a deep well at the end of it — no support - **3.** A cold shed full of tools — no support - **4.** A huge glasshouse full of rare plants, all lined up in rows on shelves, innit — 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/996-pg27200-part207/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Why'd she say she was a mum, then? - **1.** Cos she loves her kids, innit — no support - **2.** Cos she's a mother and she couldn't stand to lose her kid to the cold ground, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **3.** Cos she's the nurse, bruv — no support - **4.** Cos she's a mother, that's why — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 677, line 10: «Wildrose is angry that the old woman will not listen, and she says "Make a fire near a tree and hang the kettle from one of the branches".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). Against it: the same doer «old woman» (-2). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/996-pg27200-part207/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Did the crocus have a sick head, like? - **1.** Nah, it was fine — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, it did — no support - **3.** Yeah, its stem was bent sickly — no support - **4.** Yeah, its head hung down sickly — **✓ 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/996-pg27200-part207/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} So Death breathed on her hands, didn't he? - **1.** Nah, his touch was gentle, fam — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, his breath was colder than ice and it made her hands go numb for hours — no support - **3.** Yeah, his breath was warm as soup — no support - **4.** Yeah, his breath was colder than ice — **✓ 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/996-pg27200-part207/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Did she ever get her kid back, mate? - **1.** Yeah, she got him back in the end — no support - **2.** Yeah, she got her kid back after she begged Death on her knees for a while — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Nah, Death carried the child off — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, Death carried the child off to the unknown land, and she never saw him again, bruv — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 362, line 3: «The Kid begs the Wolf to pipe him a tune first, so he can dance and be merry before he is eaten.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «beg» (+4); the same doer «kid» (+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/996-pg27200-part207/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} Was she like, begging Death for mercy, bruv? - **1.** Nah, she was calm — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, she was weeping and begging — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, she was — no support - **4.** Nah, she was laughing at him, mate — 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/996-pg27200-part207/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} In the context of the passage, what is the chief purpose of the mother's threat to tear up the flowers? - **1.** To scare Death — no support - **2.** To show Death her grief and anger — score 2 - **3.** To compel Death to return her child — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** To free the flowers — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 996, line 13: «Death answers, "Would you make another mother as unhappy as yourself?", and she sets the flowers free.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «flowers» (+2). 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/996-pg27200-part207/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which statement most accurately describes Death's reasoning when he refuses to let her destroy the flowers? - **1.** Other mothers would also grieve the same — score 1 - **2.** Another mother would suffer as she does, and so he must let each flower live its appointed life — score 3 - **3.** Another mother would suffer as she does — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** He is bound by God's law and cannot allow any flower to be destroyed by a grieving human — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 996, line 3: «She seizes two flowers and threatens to tear them up, but Death asks if she would make another mother suffer as she does.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «suffer» (+4). Against it: the same doer «mother» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/996-pg27200-part207/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} What is the primary significance of the well, as presented in the passage? - **1.** It reveals the future of each flower — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It is a place where the dead are judged, and the mother sees her child's fate there — no support - **3.** It shows where each flower will go next — no support - **4.** It shows the future of each flower, including which one is blessing and which is misery — 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/996-pg27200-part207/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which phrase in the passage expresses the mother's final submission to the will of God? - **1.** "Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will" — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Thy will be done — score -1 - **3.** Let Thy will be done, O God — no support - **4.** If it be Thy will, then grant my child a place — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 476, line 19: «The prayer: a child "neither ate nor drank for three years" and prays, "God grant the kingdom of heaven to him at whose cost it was built!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grant» (+3); the same receiver «child» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-5). 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/996-pg27200-part207/e4/) - ← previous: [995. Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 20…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/995-pg27200-part206/) - next →: [997. 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