Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is hunted, leaves the boys' lake and serves a king

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1040 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.

Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ah here, what did the robber tell Fionn to keep between his teeth?

1. a spear — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. a knife — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. a long iron hunting knife — score 0
4. a sharp bronze blade — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 587, line 6: «Who: Uncle Remus, an old man, tells the tale to a little boy by candlelight.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, who was it that gave Fionn up to his guardians?

1. Cona — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Fiacuil — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Cumhall, Fionn's old father — no support
4. The druid Finegas of the hills — 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

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yer man Fionn got called what after the lads at the lake?

1. Fair — score 5
2. Fionn — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. the Fair One — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. the Bold One — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 993, line 6: «Who: the young storks, their mother and father, and the boys who sing the mocking song, except one boy named Peter who will not join in.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «name» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Sound, why did the boys turn on Fionn at the lake?

1. he beat them at everything — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. he beat them at everything, even the hurling their own mothers loved — score 1
3. he beat them at everything and laughed at every one who lost — score 1
4. he was too good at games — no support

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 17, line 12: ««Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves» is a joke on the real saying «Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sounds» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «care» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Grand, what happened to the animals when Fionn went hunting?

1. they sought him out, and every deer came to his feet — score 5
2. they sought him out — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. they hid from him — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. they sought him out and gathered round him in the glen — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1034, line 21: «Old word: "coverts" means thickets where wild animals hide; today we say cover or undergrowth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+4); the same doer «wild animals» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gas one, what game did Fionn play with the king?

1. draughts — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. hurling — no support
3. chess — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. fidchell, the game of kings — 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

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Deadly, who did the king reckon Fionn was the son of?

1. Tadg son of Cian — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cumhall — no support
3. Uail son of Baiscne — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Morna — 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

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wagon, what did the Fianna argue about at the end?

1. the finest music in the world and who among them could sing it — no support
2. the best weapon in the land — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. the finest music in the world — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. the finest music in the world, and which harp could play it best — no support

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 1040, line 5: «The king praises him, Fionn plays chess with him, then he leaves the king's service, and the Fianna start arguing about music.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «argue» (+1); the same doer «fianna» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Ah no, why did Fionn leave the boys' lake?

1. they turned against him and plotted his death in the dark — score 8
2. they turned against him after he beat them at every game they played — score 8
3. they turned against him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. the king had banished him — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1040, line 4: «The jealous boys turn against him, so he leaves that lake and takes service as a hunter for the King of Finntraigh.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «jealous boys» (+6); the same action «turn» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Like, what was the name of Fionn's stag?

1. Goll — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Dubh, Fionn's wild stag — no support
3. Ban — no support
4. Dun — 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

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Be honest, how many eyes did Fionn have to look with?

1. two — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. no — no support
3. 1 — score 2
4. Two, one on each side of the face — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 238, line 6: «Who: the youngest daughter, who goes away on the Black Bull after her two sisters went off in coaches.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «two sisters» (+1); the number the lesson gave for it (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yer man can run a deer down, what does he haul it home by?

1. the antlers — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. the stubborn hide — score 1
3. the heavy hooves — score 1
4. the reluctant skull — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 968, line 5: «Jurgen swims with Clara in his arms, is struck by an iron anchor, and is hauled into a boat, but Clara is dead.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «jurgen» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ah here, what did the sons of Morna say about Fionn after he came home?

1. "Kill him" — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. "Watch him" — no support
3. "Bring him in" — no support
4. "Let him be" — ✓ 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

With what object did the robber advise Fionn to swim in the lake?

1. a flat stone for weighting his head — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a rope — no support
3. a sharp hunting blade of bronze — no support
4. a knife — ✓ 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

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which name was bestowed upon Fionn by the lads at Moy Life?

1. Fionn — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Fair — score 2
3. the Swift Fair One of Moy — score 2
4. the Fair One — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 567, line 1: «Miss Sally finds her little boy sitting by Uncle Remus in the old man's cabin, listening hard.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «cabin» (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); the same circumstance (-3). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

At which lake did Fionn enter the service of a king after leaving the boys?

1. Loch Le'in beyond the hills — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Lock Lean — no support
3. Lock Le'in — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The lake of the king of Finntraigh — 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What did the king say when he observed Fionn's appearance and bearing?

1. Surely you are the son of the Fianna chief — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. If Cumhall had a son, you would be him — score 2
3. If Uail son of Baiscne has a son, you are he — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. If Uail son of Baiscne has a son, then surely you are he, my boy — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1036, line 7: «What: He says he was "the king of the salmon" and swam over the whole sea, where "the sea guards all her creatures."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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