Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants

Tests: 3 of 14 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1292 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 · ★ · right ✓

Is Seven Inches, like, actually tiny?

1. Yeah, seven inches high — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, about six inches — no support
3. Yeah, he's seven inches tall but he's massive really — no support
4. Nah, he's actually like a giant, far taller than the prince — 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 ✗

Bro, how'd the prince get down the well?

1. In a wooden cart on iron chain — score 6
2. In a basket on silk rope — ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. In a bucket — score 6
4. Down a ladder made of wood — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 202, line 4: «He chases the bird for eleven days, reaches a town by the sea, and hides in a kind gardener's garden.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «reach» (+3); the same doer «prince» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Grand, what's the land he finds called?

1. Tir-na-n-Oge — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Tir-na-m-Oge — no support
3. The fairy country they call Tir-na-n-Oge, across the water — no support
4. The land of Tir-na-n-Oge where youth never fades — ← Mova's choice · score -3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1232, line 3: «On Christmas Eve a boat of strange beings lands, and the youth hides behind his wood stack to watch them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); the same thing acted on «lands» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the prince mannerly at dinner, or did he dig in?

1. He asked for more food — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He waited to be asked — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He ate straight away — no support
4. He ate first — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

What happened to the other two princes, deadly?

1. They died — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. They turned to stone — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. They became little birds — score 1
4. They turned to wood — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1240, line 1: «Three fairies warn that the baby prince must die by a crocodile, a serpent or a dog.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «die» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yer man giant, what'd he scoff at supper?

1. Three-quarters of a calf, washed down with ale and wine — score 2
2. Half a sheep and bread — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Three-quarters of a calf — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. A whole lamb roasted — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 783, line 6: «Who: the youth who "had a wonderful time" and wanted to learn "what it was to shudder," a boy who is bold and calm even among dead men.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

What was the giant sniffin' for?

1. Fresh meat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Fresh bread — no support
3. The scent of fresh roasted meat from the kitchen — no support
4. Human flesh that had come to the castle that very morning — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mad, what did the giant nod off in?

1. His supper plate — no support
2. A huge wooden dish of meat and bread he had been eating from all evening — no support
3. His dinner dish — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The big dish of meat that had been set before him — ← 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 685, line 7: «The giant "washed them well" and put the prince's eyes back in his head.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ah, what made the giant wake up?

1. The clatter of horse hooves on the cobbles of the courtyard — no support
2. The sound of the prince's horses kicking the loose stones outside the gate of the castle — score -2
3. Horse hooves on stones — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A cart on the road — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1278, line 20: «Old word: "bleat" is the cry a sheep or goat makes; "baa" is the same sound written as a word.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Sound, what did the prince chuck to make a wood?

1. A short sharp knife — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. A short sharp knife that the magician had given him as a gift at the castle — score 2
3. A small iron blade — score 3
4. A short sharp knife he had taken from his belt — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1172, line 7: «Becasigue, the prince's envoy, pleads the prince's cause and says "What a wife our prince will have!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

How many knives did he chuck in total?

1. Four — no support
2. Two, one after the other at the giant — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Two — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Three — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 124, line 11: «Who: Henry is called "trusty" and "faithful", two words that both mean loyal and can be trusted.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+4); the same doer «two words» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wha's the quarry depth, roughly?

1. Half a mile deep — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A quarter of a mile — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Roughly a quarter of a mile straight down — no support
4. Ten yards — 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 ✗

What did the giant sound like, bruv?

1. Wolves — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Like a hundred lions roaring all at once — no support
3. A hundred lions — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. A bear — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1135, line 16: «fact: The giant shrinks to "quite a little man" after one blow of Nu-endo, the hammer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «giant» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where'd they end up in the end, then?

1. The far-off land of the three princes' long-lost father, the king — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Back in the castle of the youngest princess's father — no support
3. The magician's kingdom — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The giant's kingdom — 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 ✗

By what means did the youngest prince descend into the well?

1. By rope — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. By a wooden cart on a long iron chain — score 2
3. By a basket suspended from silk rope — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. In a bucket — 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 203, line 18: «The gardener has dug the ground "for the last eighty years" without finding anything, so he thinks the treasure is meant for the prince.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Upon what grounds did Seven Inches approve of the prince at supper?

1. Because he sat quietly at the table — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Because he had been told by his mother that it was the custom to wait for the host — no support
3. Because he awaited an invitation to eat — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Because he was very well mannered — 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 was the consequence of the knife cast by the prince upon the pursuing giant?

1. A dense wood rose up between them and the giant on the road — no support
2. A thick and dark wood sprang up instantly between them and the pursuing giant, blocking his path — score -4
3. A thick forest appeared there — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. A dense wood rose between them — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1292, line 8: «Where: he comes out of a "big lime-kiln" into a land with "a wood, and green fields, and a castle in a lawn".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come out» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the final destination of the fugitives at the close of this part?

1. The domain of the great magician, which lay beyond the seven hills — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The domain of the great magician — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The kingdom of the old wizard — no support
4. The vast domain of the great magician, where the giant had been bound in chains forever — 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

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