Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defend Tara against Aillen
Tests: 4 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1043 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 ✗
Wait, so who's the lad who just stood up at the feast?
- 1. A stranger — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The herald — no support
- 3. Fionn, Uail's son — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Cormac, Goll's son — 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 ✗
Yer man Conn, what's he after doing with the horn?
- 1. Giving the horn of state, which only the king may hold, to the stranger — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Handing the horn of state to Fionn with both hands — score 6
- 3. Offering it to Goll — score 7
- 4. Handing it to Fionn — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 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 704, line 7: «fact: What: the youth must mind "forty oxen", and one has "gold-tipped horns and hoofs".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «one» (+4); the same thing acted on «tipped horns» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Was Aillen's grudge a serious thing or just a bit of craic?
- 1. A serious revenge grudge — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A grudge of revenge held since the battle of Moytura and never forgotten — no support
- 3. A deadly old quarrel — no support
- 4. A serious grudge that Aillen would take revenge for at Samhain each year — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why were the lads all staring at their wine-cups?
- 1. They feared Aillen — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. They were afraid — no support
- 3. They were scared — no support
- 4. They were scared to say yes — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 236, line 19: «Old words: "bonny" means pretty, and "bogles" means goblins or ghosts, which is why the lads in the next tale fear them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lads» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Did the Master of the Banquet go red, like, blushing?
- 1. Yes, he blushed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Yes, he paled — no support
- 3. Yes, he turned red and hid his face behind a cup — no support
- 4. No, he laughed — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 231, line 16: «The brothers forget to ask their sister's advice, and they "looked at each other and blushed."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «blush» (+2); the same doer «brothers» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Was Goll grand with it, or was he sulking?
- 1. He sipped his wine, no twinkle — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He sipped his wine with no twinkle in his eye, but sat smiling at the king — no support
- 3. He spat out the wine, angry — no support
- 4. He raised his cup, all smiles — 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 ✗
What's the wee shallow dish Fionn stares into?
- 1. A shallow golden dish filled with clear water from the well — score 0
- 2. A silver bowl of milk — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. A bronze vessel brimming with the sacred water of the Boyne — no support
- 4. A dish of clear water — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 290, line 13: «Many young men go to the palace, but inside they are struck dumb and can only repeat "the last word they had uttered".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Does Fionn have the wisdom gnasher, the tooth?
- 1. Yes, his wisdom tooth, which he presses with his thumb when he needs to know — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. No, he lost the tooth at sea — score 4
- 3. Yes, the tooth that gave him knowledge from the salmon he cooked for his master — no support
- 4. Yes, his Tooth of Knowledge — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1043, line 13: «What: Fionn asks what "will be given" to the defender, and the king promises that "All that can be rightly asked will be royally bestowed".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same doer «fionn» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wasn't Fionn the one who ate the Salmon, like?
- 1. Yes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No — no support
- 3. Yes, the Bull of the Fianna — no support
- 4. Yes, the Salmon of Knowledge — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where's the hall all gleaming with bronze, like?
- 1. In the fort — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. In the cold of the Boyne — score 6
- 3. In Tara's banqueting hall — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. At the gate of Emain — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 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 522, line 7: «Where is the judgment hall? It has walls of "solid adamant" and is surrounded by the river Phlegethon, whose waves "rolled flames of fire."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «judgment hall» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was it a proper gang of heroes sitting there?
- 1. The nobles and champions of the Fianna, all sworn to Conn's service — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The nobles and champions — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The lords and warriors — no support
- 4. The kings, the bards, the druids and the champions of all the provinces — 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 12 · ★ · right ✓
Were the folk at the feast sad when Fionn left?
- 1. They wished him luck but dreaded it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They laughed and drank his health — no support
- 3. They wished him luck but dreaded the coming night and the fight with Aillen — no support
- 4. They wished him luck but dreaded what he would face at the mound of Samhain alone — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Is it true Fionn got the seat of a friend?
- 1. Yes, next to Art — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, he got the seat of his friend, next to Art the king's son — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. No, beside Goll — no support
- 4. No, beside the king — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 220, line 14: «How: the brightest boy says, "Let us play at being the Cadi," and he takes the seat "gravely".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+2); the same thing acted on «seat» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wha'? The herald, did he know the lad?
- 1. Yes, the herald knew him well from the fort of Uail's house — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, nobody in the hall had ever seen him at a feast before this night — no support
- 3. No, nobody knew him — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, he was a stranger — 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 ✗
To which person did the High King assign the seat at his right hand?
- 1. Art, the son of the High King, who was next in line — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. Conn's son, the young prince — score 0
- 3. The seat went to Goll, the champion of the Fianna, whose fame was known to all — no support
- 4. Art, the son of the High King — ✓ the right answer · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 22, line 5: «The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache. Alice is curious who it will be, since they have hardly any evi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2). Against it: the same property (-2). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
What undertaking did the sureties bind themselves to fulfil?
- 1. The bargain made with Fionn — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. Everything that the sureties had promised to Aillen at the feast of Samhain — no support
- 3. The pact of the High King — no support
- 4. The bargain made between Fionn and the High King before the whole hall — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1043, line 19: «Old word: "largess" means generous gifts given freely, and "sureties" are people who promise that a bargain will be kept.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did Fionn customarily discover what was hidden?
- 1. By burning the sacred oak wood — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By gazing into a dish of water and waiting for the vision to appear — no support
- 3. By gazing into a dish of water — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. By placing his thumb on his wisdom tooth and gazing at the old salmon — 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 ✗
At what annual occasion did Aillen proceed to ravage Tara?
- 1. At the great autumn feast of Samhain, when the king's hall is full — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. At the feast of Samhain — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. At the festival of Imbolc — no support
- 4. At the feast of Samhain, when the doors between the worlds open wide — 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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