Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is killed and revived by the deer, then the birds carry him under the sea
Tests: 2 of 14 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1302 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 ✓
Hey, how many hooligans were roaring in the robbers' hoose?
- 1. Twenty-four — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Twenty-two — no support
- 3. Twenty-four hooligans and their wee bairns — no support
- 4. A hunner and twinty-four roarin' hooligans — 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 ✗
Whit did the deer shake aff her lug tae mend him?
- 1. Gey sticky earwax frae the lug — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Honey — no support
- 3. Glaur — no support
- 4. Wax — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Which muckle thing did wee Ian hide ahint?
- 1. A big dark cupboard — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. A great big barrel by the fireplace — score 2
- 3. A muckle wooden table — score 2
- 4. A great big barrel — ✓ the right answer · score 2
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 1302, line 7: «Where: he hides "behind a great cask" in a robbers' house in the heather.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ian» (+3). Against it: the same action «hide» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit's the name o' the spooky stick stuck in the door?
- 1. The thorn o' harm — no support
- 2. The spike of hurt — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The wee cursed stick that the robbers' captain stuck in the door — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. The spooky iron spike o' cruel hurt stuck in the door — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 332, line 2: «Peter sleeps on, then hears a soft tapping at his door, grabs his dagger, and asks who is there.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «peter» (+2); the same place «door» (+1). Against it: 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who turned up at the kirk and wrote her name on his arm?
- 1. The bonnie lass, child o' the sea-king doon below — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The lassie, child o' the sea-king doon below the foam — no support
- 3. The lady, daughter o' the king under the waves — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The lassie frae 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 6 · ★ · right ✓
Why did the lady greet the hardest the third time?
- 1. Cause she kent the sea wid tak him doon in the mornin' — no support
- 2. Cause it wis her very last chance tae see him ever again — no support
- 3. Cause her faither wis angry — no support
- 4. Cause it wis her last chance — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 85, line 4: «The Stranger-man is thumped, rolled on pebbles and called rude names, but he leads them all back to the river. There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Te…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same doer «ladies» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit big birdie grabbed the bag and flew aff wi' it?
- 1. A big crow — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A great hawk — no support
- 3. A big craw — no support
- 4. An eagle — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit wis the bag made oot o'?
- 1. The horse's brown skin — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A sheep's grey wool — no support
- 3. Red hide — no support
- 4. The cow's red skin — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Hou long wid a walk tae the sister's hame take, like?
- 1. Three days — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A year and a day — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A month and a day — no support
- 4. Two years or so — 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 ✗
Whit did the third sister's son keep?
- 1. Every bird in the sky an' every fish in the deep sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The keys o' the castle — no support
- 3. The birds o' the air and aw the beasts o' the forest — no support
- 4. The birds o' the air — ✓ 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 ✗
Whit did the three wee birds ask him, dae ye ken?
- 1. Whether they could tak him tae the sea-king's castle an' feed him sweeties — score 4
- 2. If there wis anything they could dae — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Whether they could tak him somewhere grand — no support
- 4. If there wis anything at aw they could dae tae help him find the king's dochter — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1275, line 9: «Why he is scared: "Not even a night bird twittered to help him out of his predicament."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «help» (+3); the same doer «night bird» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit did the robbers yell when they got hame?
- 1. Some wee gadgie's eaten aw oor dinner an' the bread tae — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Somebody's eaten oor dinner an' that wee lad is hidin' somewhere — score -2
- 3. The laddie's run awa wi' it — score 5
- 4. Someone's eaten oor dinner — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 1302, line 2: «They kill him for eating their dinner, but the deer shakes healing wax from her ear and brings him back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same doer «robbers» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit happened when the robbers scrapped at the end?
- 1. They killed each ither wi' swords an' then the hoose caught fire an' aw burned — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. They stabbed the captain and the cook — score -1
- 3. They killed each ither and aw lay deid — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. They fought the whole nicht lang till the sun came up an' the hoose fell doon — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 1302, line 9: «Why: the robbers kill him because "Some one has been eating our dinner," and they are angry the food is gone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kill» (+3); the same doer «robbers» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where did Ian end up at the very end?
- 1. At home — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Under the sea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Ashore — no support
- 4. On a far island — 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 ✗
To what place did the eagle convey the fisher's son within the bag?
- 1. To an island — ✓ the right answer · score -4
- 2. Home — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. To a far hill — score -2
- 4. Shore — score -4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1124, line 12: «The old man carries the casket home "under his arm," and his sons see it and think of gain.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «home» (-2). The right option, 1, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the daughter of the king under the waves make her presence known to the sleeping youth?
- 1. Through a dream of the sea king — score 0
- 2. By writing her name upon his arm while he slept in the kirk at night — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. By sending a letter ashore — no support
- 4. By writing her name upon his arm — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 877, line 15: «Why she saves him: she knows "human beings could not live in the water," so she holds his head above the waves all night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mermaid» (+3); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What service did the second sister's shoes render to the fisher's son?
- 1. They walked him to the eastern shore — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. They conveyed him swiftly to the third sister and then vanished into the mist — score 1
- 3. They conveyed him swiftly to the third sister — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. They took him over the sea slowly — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 760, line 11: «The dove sang: "The shoe is too small, and not made for you!" and it told the prince the bride was false.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
To what circumstance were the robbers' quarrel and subsequent fighting attributed?
- 1. The complete exhaustion of all their food supplies and their ale — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The shortage of their wine casks — no support
- 3. A quarrel over the stolen gold — no support
- 4. The exhaustion of their food supplies — ✓ 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
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