Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off

Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1319 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 ✓

Oi, how'd Peronnik actually nab the colt, mate?

1. he baited it with bacon-fat bread — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. he lured it with fresh oats — no support
3. he dangled a whole loaf from a long rope in the wood — no support
4. he crept up beside the path and threw bread at its hooves — 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 ✗

Wait, what did the wizard do with the chalk-looking stuff?

1. he sketched a star on the earth — no support
2. he drew a circle — no support
3. he drew three circles on the ground — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. he wrote a name — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 589, line 7: «The old man says "I don't wanter tell you no stories," so he is not sulking for no reason; he thinks the tale is muddled.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old man» (+3); the same thing acted on «stories» (+2); a different action (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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mental, what did the colt drag him through?

1. the haunted marsh — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the thick, silent, enchanted wood of the korigan — no support
3. the enchanted wood — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the dark enchanted wood beside the cold river — 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 ✓

Dude, what was lying all over that plain?

1. fallen trees and ruined carts — no support
2. skeletons of men and horses — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. countless bones of soldiers, mules and horses in sand — score 3
4. the bleached skeletons of men, horses and wolves alike — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 331, line 20: «Old word: "sward" means the short grass or turf on the ground; Hook's hat lies on it, and today we would say lawn.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lie» (+2); the same place «word» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Bro, what was the korigan clutching?

1. a stick — no support
2. a fiery sword — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. a dagger — no support
4. a steel blade — 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 1319, line 13: «The korigan is "a little fairy man" who holds a "fiery sword" that "reduced to ashes everything it touched".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «fiery sword» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did that sword do to stuff it touched?

1. turned it into stone there — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. it melts — no support
3. burned it — score -1
4. turned it all to ashes — ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1319, line 4: «On the plain he meets the korigan with his fiery sword, who is suspicious but lets him talk on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fiery sword» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «fiery sword» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

How'd Peronnik get the dwarf stuck, innit?

1. a heavy net dropped over his whole head and shoulders — no support
2. a noose round his neck — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. a rope — score 3
4. a loop round his leg — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 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 1319, line 16: «Then Peronnik throws "the noose over his neck" and draws it close, and the dwarf is caught like a bird.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «peronnik» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Which tree was the net pegged to, mate?

1. the apple tree — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the tallest pear tree beside the orchard wall — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. a hollow willow — score -4
4. the great oak tree near the bridge over the stream — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 825, line 7: «What it wants: to be "tall like its companions--the pines and firs which grew around it".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

What did he grab before riding off?

1. an apple — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a berry — no support
3. a red plum — no support
4. a ripe pear — 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 ✗

Gutted for the korigan, but what was the valley full of?

1. the scent of roses, broom, honeysuckle, mint and wild thyme — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. heather, thyme and tall foxglove — no support
3. roses, broom, honeysuckle and sweet heavy lilac blossom — no support
4. roses, broom and honeysuckle — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

Wicked, what's the flower that laughs?

1. scarlet pansy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. golden poppy — no support
3. daisy — no support
4. a tiny red violet with gold spots — 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 ✗

Why was the colt going mad for those crumbs?

1. bacon fat was its favourite treat — no support
2. it had never had bread like that — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. no horse in the valley had ever been given such a treat before — no support
4. it had been starved for days and wanted every crumb at once — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1319, line 2: «The greedy colt licks up the crumbs, and Peronnik halters it, ropes its feet, and jumps onto its back.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «crumbs» (+3). Against it: the same doer «greedy colt» (-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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who actually owned that colt, bro?

1. a passing young shepherd — no support
2. the old korigan — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. the magician Rogear — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a farmer — score -4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -2, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1319, line 14: «The korigan believes Peronnik partly because he recognises the magician's colt.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same doer «korigan» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following was the means by which the youth lured the colt from its path?

1. a bread bait rubbed with bacon fat and salt and herbs — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a bread bait rubbed with bacon fat — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a loaf of bread soaked in beer and wrapped in cloth — no support
4. a loaf dipped in fresh milk — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following was the korigan's principal weapon as described in the passage?

1. a long burning sword forged in the fires of the wood — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a sword of flame that glows red in the dark — no support
3. a silver dagger — no support
4. a fiery sword — ✓ 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 ✗

Which of the following describes the snare by which the korigan was secured?

1. a trap of rope hung from a pear tree — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a heavy net tied to the apple tree and then dropped over his body — no support
3. a net fixed to an apple tree with a noose — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a long woven net pegged to a tree beside the orchard wall with a noose — 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 · right ✓

Which of the following was the object the youth removed from the orchard before departing?

1. an apple from the tree — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a pear — no support
3. a red berry from a bush — no support
4. fruit — 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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