Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forced to war, the venomous sheep kill his men, and a laughing stranger offers a dog
Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1069 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 ✗
Mate, did the Black Hag actually get her twenty cows or what?
- 1. Yeah, she took the lot, no bother — no support
- 2. No way, she turned them down flat — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No way, she turned the twenty cows down flat and went home grumbling loudly — no support
- 4. No way, she turned the cows down flat and cursed the king — ← 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 1069, line 7: «fact: What does she say the king owes her? "The four cows he had gone bail for" that she has never been paid.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «hag» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «fact» (-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
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
So who's the proper villain of this bit, like the one who started it all?
- 1. Big Eolgarg, the bloke with the sheep and the tent, I reckon — no support
- 2. The Black Hag, with her cow moaning — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The king, for starting the whole row — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. The sheep — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 957, line 10: «The soldier's words "Dear me, what pretty dancing shoes!" start her dancing, once in the churchyard and again later.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «start» (+3); the same doer «words» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, why did Fiachna have to go to war in the first place?
- 1. Her judgement made him go to war on Lochlann anyway — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She told him to — no support
- 3. Her ruling forced him to march — no support
- 4. Her judgement made him go — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
Sheep trying to kill everyone, that's mental, innit?
- 1. Proper gutted, the lads all legged it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Proper gutted, the lads all legged it up the trees — no support
- 3. Proper gutted, the lads all legged it up the trees and sat there ages — no support
- 4. Proper scary, the lads all scarpered — 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 ✓
Hang on, how did nine hundred blokes get killed by sheep?
- 1. The venomous sheep were let loose from the tent by Big Eolgarg's lads that morning — score 0
- 2. The venomous sheep were let loose from a tent by Big Eolgarg — score 0
- 3. The venomous sheep were let loose — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Some lad let the sheep out early — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 364, line 16: «The word "tended" is an old word meaning looked after or taken care of, so today we would say the boy minded the sheep.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «sheep» (+2); the same doer «boy» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, the king was stuck up a tree like a hen, wasn't he?
- 1. Yeah, he was perched with the others — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he was hiding up there too — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was roosting with the rest — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, sure — 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 ✗
Who's the posh bloke in the golden sandals, then?
- 1. Mananna'n, son of Lir, god of the sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mananna'n, son of Lir — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Lir's son — no support
- 4. Fiachna, son of Lir — 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 ✗
What's the deal, did he want money for helping?
- 1. The rights of the crown and the hall for a day and a night — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The rights of the crown for a whole day and night — no support
- 3. The rights of the crown for a day — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Half the king's treasure at once — 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 ✗
Ugh, what was actually in that cloak?
- 1. A massive weird dog with a hairy tail — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A massive weird dog — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A dog — no support
- 4. A huge grey wolf — 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 ✗
That dog's gob sounds grim, what did it look like?
- 1. Like a hollow log, dark — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Like the lid of a pot over the fire at the back of the hall — no support
- 3. Like the lid of a pot, opening sideways — no support
- 4. Like the lid of a pot — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
How did the dog deal with the sheep, quickly or what?
- 1. A leap and a crunch each — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. A jump and a chop each — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Quickly — score 3
- 4. A jump and a chop each, like clockwork — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1017, line 3: «After the show, Joanna steps out of her carriage, but she does not recognize Knud, and a man with a star takes her arm.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Honestly, how long did the massacre take the dog?
- 1. Nine minutes, dead slow — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. An hour — score 2
- 3. Ten minutes, dead quick — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. Ten minutes — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 966, line 21: «Later: He is taken to Ringkjobing, where he is "imprisoned with equal severity".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Right, what happens next, do they all get down?
- 1. Mananna'n says it is safe now — no support
- 2. They can come down — score 3
- 3. Mananna'n says they can come down, but the king must stay up — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Mananna'n says they can come down — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1036, line 12: «What happened next: the king's wife ate him, and he was born again as "the son of Cairill the king."», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
To what extent was Fiachna Finn bound by the Black Hag's judgement when he undertook the campaign against Lochlann?
- 1. He was partly bound by her words — score 3
- 2. He was fully bound and marched from the west coast to the east coast of Ireland — no support
- 3. He was bound and marched west to east — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. He was free to go — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1069, line 3: «She orders him to march from west to east against the King of Lochlann, and he sails with ten battalions.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «march» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Describe the manner in which Big Eolgarg gained an advantage over the men of Ulster during the second engagement.
- 1. He let loose sheep from a wagon — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. He sent venomous hounds from a cave — no support
- 3. He released venomous sheep from a tent — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. He hid in a tent — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1069, line 11: «fact: Why does Eolgarg win an unfair advantage? He "did not fight fair", letting venomous sheep out of a tent.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let» (+3); the same thing acted on «venomous sheep» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
State the precise payment that Mananna'n demanded in return for delivering the king from the venomous sheep.
- 1. The rights of the crown for one day, plus all the king's cows and horses — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Half the gold of the whole kingdom — no support
- 3. The rights of the crown for one day and his own sandals — no support
- 4. The rights of the crown for one day — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Explain how the dog dispatched the venomous sheep and the duration the operation required to complete.
- 1. Bite, done fast — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Jump and chop, complete in ten minutes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Leap and snap, dragged out for hours — no support
- 4. Chop and bite, done in an hour — 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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