Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances with a sea lady and forgets his mother on the shore
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1305 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, what did the sea lady have on her head, like?
- 1. like a big pointy seashell thing from the deep water — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. some kind of tall silver crown — score 3
- 3. a cocked hat — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a red shawl — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1305, line 15: «The lady hides him "in a thing like a cloak with a big hood to it" when the wave comes down.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lady» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, what colour was her hair, seriously?
- 1. silver like the moon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. green like the sea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. gold — no support
- 4. brown like a fox — 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 ✗
So why did Maurice say yes, be real?
- 1. he was just lapping up the free drink in the pub that night — score 0
- 2. the drink was in him — score -1
- 3. the drink was strong in him — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 4. he was dead scared — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1187, line 14: «fact: Jose is to be fried in oil, and the king says he would rather not do it but "I have no choice."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «fact» (+1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Was his ma well up for it or what?
- 1. she begged him to come back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. she told him to stay home — no support
- 3. she cried a lot — no support
- 4. she fainted on the floor — 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 ✓
What did the big wave do, like?
- 1. flooded the fields — no support
- 2. burst on the strand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. hit the rocks — no support
- 4. broke on the beach — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 103, line 10: «The father says, "Get out of my sight; I do not wish to see you again!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wish» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
How long did his mam last after the dance, roughly?
- 1. two months — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 2. nearly three long years after the dance — score -1
- 3. two days — score -1
- 4. three weeks — ✓ the right answer · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 662, line 14: «Old word: courtiers are the men and women who lived at a royal court; "a great train of courtiers" means a long crowd of them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
What's a twelvemonth, bruv?
- 1. a day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a decade — no support
- 3. a month — no support
- 4. a year — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, Maurice was blind, yeah?
- 1. no, he could see the sea clearly — score 4
- 2. yeah, he was deaf — no support
- 3. yeah, he was blind — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. nah, he could see — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1304, line 6: «Maurice Connor is called "the king... of all the pipers in Munster", and he is blind, so his mother leads him about.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «maurice» (+2); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wasn't the old man minted, though?
- 1. yeah, a pile of gold in the chest — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, a box of silver plates — no support
- 3. nah, just a chest of rags — no support
- 4. yeah, a great pile of gold coins and jewels hidden under the floor — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1229, line 2: «Turned into a bee, he flies through the keyhole into the princess's room, where she screams that a man is hiding there.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); the same doer «man» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
What was the landlady gassing about, like?
- 1. his new daughter-in-law — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. his sick wife at home — no support
- 3. his new cart and horse — no support
- 4. his son's health — 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 ✗
Where did the old man head off to, lads?
- 1. home — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the sea — no support
- 3. the market — no support
- 4. the city — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
What's an ostler, like?
- 1. a cook — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a stable lad — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. a clerk — no support
- 4. a stable hand — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
Did the fish lady dance right up to Maurice?
- 1. no, she stayed away — score 0
- 2. no, she danced away from him — score 2
- 3. yeah, she danced up to him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. yeah, she sang to his mother — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1305, line 1: «Maurice the blind piper is dancing on the shore when a beautiful lady with green hair dances up to him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «piper» (+4); the same doer «beautiful lady» (+2); the same action «dance up» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
With reference to the passage, what condition did the lady of the sea attach to her proposal of marriage?
- 1. Maurice should become king of the fishes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. He must go down beneath the waves and never return to land again — no support
- 3. He must renounce his mother and his home village forever — no support
- 4. He must send her a yearly gift of gold — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1303, line 9: «fact: Why: the princess recognises him because she had written her name under his arm, so she knows he is the true winner.», 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 doer «fact» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Pursuant to the text, what annual tribute did Maurice undertake to send to his mother?
- 1. a basket of fish and a sealed letter of thanks to the lady — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a fine silver box filled with salt and herbs — no support
- 3. a piece of sea-washed glass — no support
- 4. a piece of burned wood — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
At what location did the token of the bargain regularly arrive ashore?
- 1. Ballinrobe — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Trafraska — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the rocky strand beneath the old castle wall — no support
- 4. Kilmore — 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 ✗
According to the narrative, what was the immediate cause of the mother's death?
- 1. a broken heart at last — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a fever — no support
- 3. grief and fatigue after her loss — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. old age — 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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