Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1067 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's the lady with the red cheeks?

1. Cairide, the old storyteller — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Becuma — no support
3. Bro'tiarna, Mongan's wife — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Duv Laca — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Lads, what were the two fighters first turned into?

1. giant stags butting with their foreheads — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. wild bulls goring with their horns — no support
3. great boars charging with their tusks — no support
4. two lions snarling and clawing at each other across the sea — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Yer man Cairide, what's his story called, like?

1. Mongan's Frenzy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The Tale of Mongan and the Lady Duv Laca — no support
3. The Frenzy of Mongan in the Hall of Tara — no support
4. Mongan's Sleep — 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 ✗

Grand, where did Becuma head off to after Tara, sure?

1. Sasana — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Ireland — no support
3. Ben — no support
4. Tara — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 999, line 9: «Homer "recites his verses for a livelihood" and is blind, so he walks from city to city.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

The abbot of Moville, what was he collecting, yeah?

1. old tales in danger of being forgotten — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. gold coins — score -1
3. the old kings' laws and records of wars — no support
4. old songs — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1067, line 4: «The abbot of Moville collects old tales, and the storyteller Cairide arrives to tell "Mongan's Frenzy".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «abbot» (+1); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, why did Bro'tiarna get so jealous?

1. he was late home — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Mongan said other women's names in his sleep — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Mongan rode off to hunt with the lady Duv — no support
4. he drank too much — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who's Duv Laca anyway, like?

1. his old love — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a lady Mongan speaks of with longing — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a lady who sailed to Ireland with Delvcaem — no support
4. a woman Mongan married at Tara — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did Mongan ever actually tell her the story, or what?

1. yes, he told it at Tara — score -1
2. no, he kept putting it off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. no, he kept putting it off until his wife finally forgot about the promise entirely — score 2
4. yes, he told her the whole of it that very night while the candles burned low — score 1

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 1051, line 3: «The lady will not give her name or say where she comes from, and she will not tell anyone anything.», 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 thing acted on «name» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's vellum, mate?

1. a sort of thin paper — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. calfskin for writing on — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a fine cloth woven from wool that monks use to bind their books — no support
4. paper made from reeds — 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 10 · ★ · right ✓

Hold on, who sent Becuma packing?

1. Delvcaem — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. the abbot of Moville, who was angry — no support
3. Becuma — score 6
4. Cairide — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 700, line 4: «The crow shows the magpie he was fooled, and the next day the magpie sends the fox packing.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «send» (+2); the same thing acted on «fox packing» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gas, where did the coracle take them?

1. across the sea to the Shi' hills, where the stags fight — no support
2. the western isles and then back home to Sasana — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. Ireland, to Ben Edair — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. to the coast of Moville — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 1067, line 7: «Where: the fight happens in the Many-Coloured Land, and then the coracle carries the two travellers to Ireland.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+4); the same doer «coracle» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ye know the bit where they're lions, right? What was their mood?

1. they roared — score -2
2. roaring with wild golden eyes — no support
3. fierce — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. snarling with red-eyed glare — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 542, line 2: «He goes home and kills a fierce lion that has been terrorising the herds on Mount Cithaeron.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fierce lion» (+3). Against it: the same property (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

In the passage, what shape do the two combatants assume when they "met and crashed and sunk into" one another?

1. two great billows of the deep, green-ridged and white-topped — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. two great rocks, moss-covered and grey-topped — no support
3. two waves — no support
4. two dark storms at sea — ← Mova's choice · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 70, line 2: «They slip into a hole in the river-bank. Of course Toad falls into the water with a splash and a squeal. In the cold, dark, narrow passage he lags behind, gets…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: the same place «cold dark narrow passage» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

To whom does the abbot of Moville address his request for the collection of old narratives?

1. to the old men of Moville who remember the tales of the kings and queens of Ireland — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. to the kings — no support
3. to the story-tellers of Ireland — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. to the abbots of the Irish churches — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 914, line 13: «Her one request: "let no one know that you have a little bird who tells you everything."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «little bird» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what name is the wife of Mongan known, and for what reason?

1. Bro'tiarna, the Flame Lady, because her cheeks burn whenever Mongan speaks of other women in his sleep — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Bro'tiarna, the Flame Lady, because she burns with rage and fury — no support
3. Bro'tiarna, the Flame Lady, because her blood flooded her cheek — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Bro'tiarna, the Flame Lady, because she was born beside a great fire on the shore of Ben Edair — 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 1067, line 17: «Why: she is jealous, because Mongan talks in his sleep of other women, especially of Duv Laca.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «talk» (+3); the same doer «mongan» (+1); the same place «sleep» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

What is the reason that Mongan repeatedly defers his promise to his wife?

1. he is afraid the tale is bad — no support
2. he is confused and says he will tell it some other time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. he wants to keep the story secret from his wife and the monks — score -4
4. he fears that the story will shame his household at Tara — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1067, line 18: «What: each time she asks, Mongan renews his promise and "put it back to another time".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mongan» (+1); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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