Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1072 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 one hiding under his hood like a proper ninja?
- 1. Dan — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mongan — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Mac — no support
- 4. Eochaid — 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 ✓
wait, where's this mad feast actually at, bruv?
- 1. the big Moy of Cell Camain by the sea — score 8
- 2. the Moy of Cell Camain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. the Moy of Cell Camain up past the river — score 8
- 4. the hall at Dun Ailinne — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 989, line 7: «Where was the feast? She sat "number twenty-one below the mouse-king," and the food was "mouldy bread, tallow candle, and sausage."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «feast» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
which one's the king that nicked the wife, innit?
- 1. the King of Ulster — score 3
- 2. the King of Leinster — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. the King of Munster — score 3
- 4. the King of Leinster who took the wife — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1070, line 6: «Who: Mananna'n, the son of Lir, is Mongan's real father, and he wraps the baby in "his green cloak" and takes him away.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take away» (+2); the same thing acted on «mongan» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «mongan» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
what were the gobby old women munching, like?
- 1. bread and cold beef — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. apples and meat-pies with honey and cream — no support
- 3. apples and meat-pies — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. apples — 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 ✓
mac an da'v was well raging, what did he wanna chuck at the king?
- 1. a heavy rock from the wall — score -1
- 2. a rock — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 3. a stone — score -3
- 4. a log — score -3
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 1072, line 4: «Mongan spots the King of Leinster coming, pulls his hood down over his brow, and sighs; mac an Da'v roars and wants to throw a rock at him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mac» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «rock» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
what did the stranger actually pelt mac an da'v's conk with?
- 1. a stone from the riverbed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a shoe — no support
- 3. a sharp stone from the wall — no support
- 4. a stone — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
so how many clerics rolled up on the road, like?
- 1. 0 — no support
- 2. two — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 3. 1 — no support
- 4. four — ← 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 -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1053, line 5: «At breakfast four clerics arrive, and their news about a Sunday fight and buried gold puts the king and Becfola in a tangle.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
who was carrying the massive book, the lumpy one?
- 1. Tibraide — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. the big priest Tibraide — score 6
- 3. Maelduin — score 6
- 4. Tibraide the lumpy clerk — 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 870, line 5: «An old drover takes Little Claus's place in the sack, Little Claus drives off the cattle, and Great Claus drowns the drover, then meets Little Claus with cattl…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same thing acted on «place» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
who keeps going amen every time the big priest grunts?
- 1. the man behind — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. the tall man standing at the back — score 1
- 3. the stranger in the hood behind — score 2
- 4. the boy beside — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1048, line 1: «Fionn chases a fawn with his hounds Bran and Sceo'lan, but the dogs keep silent and speed on.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «dogs» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
what did mac an da'v call the nosey stranger, proper rude?
- 1. a flat-faced, nosey, uninvited stranger from the north — score -4
- 2. a grey-bearded old hag — no support
- 3. a flat-faced, nosey person — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 4. a fat-bellied, loud lout — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -2, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1070, line 13: «Old word: "affianced" means promised in marriage, which we today call "engaged."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
what were the young lasses doing, all giggly?
- 1. singing till the sun rose — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. giggling till out of puff — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. giggling till out of puff near the door of the hall — no support
- 4. giggling till out of puff and then giggling again — 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 ✗
what were the wee lads doing, all whispering and pointing?
- 1. whispering and pointing everywhere at the priests — score 0
- 2. whispering and pointing everywhere — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. running in circles around the fire — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. whispering, giggling and pointing at every stranger in the hall — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1028, line 5: «Ida dreams of a castle in the air, Joanna walks past her ancestors' portraits, and Waldemar's fire smokes day and night as he hunts for gold until all he owns…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «hunt» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
why was mac an da'v gobsmacked by the priests, like?
- 1. they were praying — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. they were reading their prayers aloud in a cold, damp church — score 7
- 3. they were chanting the hymns — score 7
- 4. they were reading their prayers — ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1071, line 18: «Old word: "intelligible" means clear enough to understand, so the king's words are "at last" something Duv Laca can follow.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+6); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which individual is described in the text as having sighed in a deep and anguished voice?
- 1. Eoin — no support
- 2. Dan — no support
- 3. Mongan — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 4. Eochaid — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1072, line 8: «fact: Why: Mongan hides under his hood because he sees the king coming, and he cries "Alas!" in "a deep and anguished voice".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «king» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What is the designation of the locality in which the festival of Moy Life is conducted?
- 1. Cell Camain — no support
- 2. the plain of Ard Ruis — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. the hill of Tara — no support
- 4. the Moy of Cell Camain — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1071, line 19: «Old word: "boon" is an old word for a favour or gift that someone asks for; today we would say a special request.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What object does the second cleric transport upon his back?
- 1. a load — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a book — ← Mova's choice · score -4
- 3. bag — score -4
- 4. box — score -4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 824, line 19: «Old word: a "canopy" was a cloth held over an important person in a procession, and a "train" was the long back of a robe that trailed on the ground.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same circumstance (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what term does mac an Da'v describe the two clerics upon their first appearance?
- 1. rogues — no support
- 2. the cowards — no support
- 3. the fools — ← Mova's choice · score -7
- 4. the rascals — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1072, line 8: «fact: Why: Mongan hides under his hood because he sees the king coming, and he cries "Alas!" in "a deep and anguished voice".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «king» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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