Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 22: Goll outgives Fionn at the banquet and admits killing Fionn's father
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1054 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 ✗
Yer man Goll was chucking out gold like sweets, wasn't he?
- 1. Nah, not really, Fionn stayed chatty — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Yeah, mad amount, and Fionn went proper quiet and stared at the door — score 6
- 3. Yeah, loads of it, and Fionn went quiet — no support
- 4. Yeah, mad amount, and Fionn went proper quiet — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 970, line 16: «What: he must stay indoors all day with windows closed, and his shadow "shrivelled up."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+4); the same doer «man» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who's the crier with the two chains, the lad like a DJ?
- 1. the lad shaking the iron one and the silver one by the door — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the lad shaking the iron one and the silver one — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the old man shaking a bronze bell and a horn — no support
- 4. the lad shaking the iron one and the silver one while the servants stared — 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 ✗
Was Fergus the poet with True-Lips, the gobby one?
- 1. Yeah, Fergus True-Lips, sang about Goll's whole clan — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, Fergus True-Lips, sang about Fionn's whole family — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, Fergus True-Lips, sang about Fionn's whole family line at the feast — no support
- 4. Yeah, Fergus True-Lips, sang about Fionn's whole family and the old war at Allen — 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Cona'n, what was the scrap at Allen about, like?
- 1. a quarrel over a hound, both sides blamed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. eleven hundred dead, and both of them blaming each other — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. eleven hundred dead, and both of them blaming each other for the feud — no support
- 4. nine hundred dead, and neither would give way — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Did Cairell reckon Fionn had the rights of it, or nah?
- 1. Nah, Cairell said Goll had the rights — no support
- 2. Yeah, Cairell said Fionn had the rights of it, every bit — score 4
- 3. Yeah, Cairell said Fionn had the rights of it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Yeah, Cairell said Fionn was mistaken — no support
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 223, line 14: «The princess will not meet him in her own rooms, because the chief of the eunuchs "has the right to enter whenever it pleases him".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «chief» (+2); the same thing acted on «right» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Boys are only good for slings and nicking dinner, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, Confro reckons boys are only good for slings and nicking dinner — score 5
- 2. Yeah, Confro reckons boys are good for nets — score 5
- 3. Yeah, Confro reckons boys are only good for slings — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Nah, Confro reckons girls are good for slings — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 670, line 9: «Why won't the boy tell his mother? She "never could keep anything from her neighbours," so he keeps his good news to himself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «boy» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
So Goll's gift-giving got Fionn raging, or was he just sulky?
- 1. Fionn went stern and silent, dead quiet — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Fionn went stern and silent, dead quiet, and stared at the door — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Fionn went stern and silent, dead quiet, and called for more wine — no support
- 4. Fionn went merry and loud, not sulky at all — score 5
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 1049, line 16: «how Fionn looks at the end: he "stared on him like a lost man" and beats his breast with his closed fist.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stare» (+4); the same doer «fionn» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where did Goll say he finished off Fionn's da?
- 1. at Cnocha, out in Lochlann, by the river — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. at Cnocha, out in Lochlann — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. at Cnocha, out in Lochlann, where the Fianna fell — no support
- 4. at Cnocha, out in Ireland — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 1054, line 14: «Goll says Fionn's father "forced war" on him, raised the High King against him, and banished him from Ireland.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «goll» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
What's Lochlann, like, the old name for?
- 1. Norway — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the far north of Denmark — no support
- 3. Britain — no support
- 4. Scotland — 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 ✗
Did Fionn's da chase Goll out of Ireland, or the other way?
- 1. Fionn's da banished Goll from Ireland, not the other way — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Fionn's da chased Goll into Britain — no support
- 3. Fionn's da banished Goll from Ireland and then died at Cnocha — score 4
- 4. Fionn's da banished Goll from Ireland — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1054, line 14: «Goll says Fionn's father "forced war" on him, raised the High King against him, and banished him from Ireland.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «ireland» (+4); the same action «banish» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Goll's runner, the bird with legs, what did she bring in?
- 1. three men's worth of silver — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. six men's worth of bronze — no support
- 3. three men's worth of refined gold — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. three men's gold — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the banquet end with a bit of a laugh, or what?
- 1. Nah, it went awkward and loud, dead noisy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, it went loud and merry, big laugh — no support
- 3. Nah, it went all awkward and silent, dead quiet — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, it got awkward — 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 ✗
Which individual, according to the text, composed the verses honouring the lineage of Fionn?
- 1. Cairell, called Red-Mouth — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Confro, called Gold-Tongue — no support
- 3. Fergus, called True-Lips, the Fianna's poet — no support
- 4. Fergus, called True-Lips — ✓ 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 · right ✓
At what location does Goll state that he caused the death of Fionn's father?
- 1. Cnocha, in Lochlann — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Lochlann — no support
- 3. Allen, in Lochlann — no support
- 4. Cnocha, in Ireland — 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 · wrong ✗
What number of men did Cona'n allege had been slain by Fionn?
- 1. eleven hundred men and their kin — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. eleven hundred men at Allen — score 1
- 3. eleven hundred — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 4. twelve hundred — 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 1050, line 6: «Who: Fionn, Chief of the Fianna, is the one who finds the boy, and the five wise hounds are Bran, Sceo'lan and their three whelps.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fionn» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «one» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What response did Fionn render upon hearing Goll's admission?
- 1. he left the hall — ← Mova's choice · score -5
- 2. he sat rigid and unmoving — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. he wept — no support
- 4. he laughed and drank — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1043, line 5: «Every hero goes silent and stares at the table, until Fionn stands up and offers to defend the city.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «city» (-1); 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
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