Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara

Tests: 0 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1042 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 ✗

yo, who was the one who actually caught the salmon, the teacher or the lad?

1. Deimne — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Uail — no support
3. Finegas — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the teacher, not the lad, I think — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

sound, where did the teacher go off to while the fish was cooking?

1. behind the bushes on the ridge above — ← Mova's choice · score 11
2. off up the hill behind the tall gorse bushes — score 7
3. behind the rocks — score 7
4. behind the bushes — ✓ the right answer · score 11

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 11, tied with another option at 11 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1042, line 2: «He asks Fionn to roast the fish and then goes off behind the bushes, trusting Fionn not to eat it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «go off» (+4); the same doer «finegas» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «bushes» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 11. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

lol, what did Fionn burn, like, his thumb or his face?

1. his nose — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. his thumb — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. his hand — score 3
4. his finger — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1042, line 3: «Fionn burns his thumb on a blister and sucks it, so he has tasted the fish after all.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «burn» (+2); the same doer «fionn» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

bruv, what did Fionn suck on to make the sting go?

1. his finger — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. his tongue — no support
3. his thumb — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the blister on his thumb — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the teacher say the fish was for Fionn or for himself?

1. for his pupil — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. for the king — no support
3. for Fionn, the lad he'd taught — no support
4. for Fionn — ✓ 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

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

be real, what was the lie the teacher owned up to?

1. he forgot the rule about the salmon — no support
2. he left out that the salmon was forbidden to anyone of the poet's blood — score 4
3. he left out that the fish was sacred and could not be eaten by the boy — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. he left out that Fionn could not eat it — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 440, line 9: «The lie in the house: the girl said "aunt's a Baba Yaga, and she wanted to eat me," and her father believed her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same doer «girl» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, what name did Fionn give, like, Deimne or Fionn?

1. Deimne — ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. Dermot — score 1
3. Fionn mac Cumhaill — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Deimne the poet's son — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1040, line 10: «WHAT: At Moy Life a boy said, "He is fair and well shaped", and from then on he was called Fionn, the Fair One.», 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 doer «fionn» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

so what's the big feast called, the one at Tara?

1. Imbolc-tide — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. harvest — no support
3. winter — no support
4. Samhain-tide — ✓ 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

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

ngl, how long was the peace for, like six days or six weeks?

1. six months — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. through the whole of the winter and spring — no support
3. six weeks — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. for six full weeks before the feast ended — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

how many roads ran out of Tara, like two or four?

1. one — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. two — score 4
3. four — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. eight — score 4

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 1030, line 4: «The Wind says roads and railways now run over the graves, and he rushes away, leaving the tale to others.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+2); the same doer «roads» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

how many little palaces were at Tara, like two or four?

1. two — no support
2. four — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. one — score -1
4. seven little palaces around the great hall — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1022, line 15: «Old word: "gothic" windows are tall pointed windows of old churches, seen in the clouds.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «gothic windows» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «tall pointed windows» (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

wagwan, what pulled the ale barrel, like oxen or horses?

1. a hundred horses — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. a hundred oxen and their herdsmen together — score 3
3. a score of cows — no support
4. a hundred oxen — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 631, line 18: «Old word "Brumby": it means a wild horse without any breeding, and today it is used for wild horses in Australia.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «word» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

fr, what was it a crime to do with poems in wisdom land?

1. record a whole poem in ink on a wall at Tara — no support
2. copy a poem out in full — no support
3. write more than first lines — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. write any lines beyond the first lines of a poem — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 92, line 13: «The end-poem is a riddle about steamship companies of 1902: the lines that sail east past Singapore, like P. and O. and B.I., pass Pau Amma's playground; the A…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «riddle» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the character who obtained the Salmon of Knowledge and who thereafter concealed his prior prophetic error.

1. Cormac — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the old druid of the fishing pool — no support
3. the poet who was his teacher — no support
4. Finegas — ✓ 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 ✗

State the duration, in weeks, of the Peace of Ireland maintained during the feast at Tara.

1. nine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 3 — no support
3. six weeks in full — no support
4. six — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓

Specify the nature of the omission by which the poet acknowledged that he had deceived his pupil.

1. the prohibition on eating the salmon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. the promise of a share of the salmon — no support
3. the silence about the forbidden feast — no support
4. the rule about the sacred salmon — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1042, line 14: «fact: Finegas refuses even "a piece of its skin that is as small as the point of its smallest bone" and tells Fionn to eat it all.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same thing acted on «salmon» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Indicate the season at which the feast of Tara was convened and the festival to which it was connected.

1. Imbolc-tide — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Samhain-tide — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. harvest — no support
4. Bealtaine — 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

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