Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the prince and the giant's daughter escape on the blue-grey mare

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1322 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 ✓

Yo, when the giant tested the wee boy, whit did he say his da would skelp wi the rod?

1. dugs and cats that broke the glasses — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. his belt — no support
3. any dugs and cats that broke the glasses in the house — no support
4. the cats that scratched the bairns sore — 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 ✗

Naw, be honest, whit's the giant's daughter's big plan for the prince at midnight?

1. tae warn him and get him tae refuse her sisters — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. tae kidnap him and keep him in the byre — no support
3. tae help him marry her ain sister instead — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. tae run hame — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 668, line 9: «Why: The king wants to marry the princess, but his wise men say nothing, so the Court Fool gives the plan of sending the seventh Simon.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «marry» (+3); the same thing acted on «princess» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, hou many blackbirds did the prince actually get on the moor?

1. two, baith the same colour — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. two, baith the same colour, sittin on the auld fir — no support
3. twa blackbirds, baith the same colour, that he catched wi his bare hands — no support
4. three, aw o the same colour — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dinnae lie, how high wis that fir tree tae the first branch?

1. twenty feet — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. fifty feet — no support
3. three hundred feet — no support
4. five hundred feet — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · right ✓

Pure mental, whit did the prince dae tae get up the tree?

1. climbed wi his knees like a sailor, gripping the trunk the whole way up — score 3
2. heaved himself up wi a rope ladder — no support
3. climbed wi his knees like a sailor that he saw on the harbour at the coast — score 3
4. climbed wi his knees like a sailor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1322, line 14: «The fir tree is "five hundred feet from the ground to its first branch," and the bark is so smooth he must climb like a sailor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «climb» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Haud on, hou many eggs wis in the magpie's nest?

1. five — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. four — no support
3. five, a' blue wi brown speckles — no support
4. five eggs, a' warm, hidden in the nest under the magpie's tail — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 890, line 5: «The storks decide to hide the two swan-feather suits in their nest on the moor so the false princesses cannot fly back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); the same place «nest» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gallus, which finger wis missin fae the right bride's hand?

1. the wee finger aff her richt haund, the ane fae the ring — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the wee finger — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the big finger — no support
4. the wee finger that her mither aye kissed when she was bairn — 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 ✓

Naw way, hou mony pieces did she cut the apple intae?

1. nine — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. four — no support
3. three — no support
4. two — 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 ✗

Ken whit, whit did the pair jump on tae escape?

1. the blue-grey mare that the giant kept locked in the stable out back — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the blue-grey mare — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the black stallion — no support
4. the blue-grey mare fae the stable at the back — 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 ✗

Ach, where did she stick the last bit o the apple?

1. oot by the back o the byre — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. ahint the cairt by the dyke — no support
3. oot the front o the hoose — ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. oot the front o the hoose on the path that led back tae the giant's gate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1130, line 7: «The poor man catches the goat with a lasso made of "the bit and reins that remained to him," and the story says it was "the Devil himself."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); the same action «remain» (+3); the same thing acted on «bit» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead funny, whit wis the giant's face like when he heard the lad wanted the youngest?

1. it darkened like a thunderstorm coming ower the moor — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. it darkened — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. angry — no support
4. it fell — 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 ✗

Bampot, how did the giant's daughter get the prince tae sleep in the byre?

1. she tucked him in wi a blanket — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. she said "Lay doon yer weariness" and gied him a warm bed in the byre — no support
3. she telt him tae sleep in the straw — no support
4. she said "Lay doon yer weariness" — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, state the first of the three tasks imposed upon the prince by the giant.

1. the gathering of two blackbirds from the moor at the hour of midday — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the cleaning of the byre so that a golden apple may roll through it — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the cleaning of the byre so that a golden apple may roll through it from door to door before nightfall — no support
4. the cleaning of the byre, which had not been swept in a hundred years, so that a golden apple may roll through it — 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 ✗

With reference to the passage, identify the means by which the giant's youngest daughter identifies herself to the prince at the wedding.

1. the presence of a scar on her right arm — no support
2. the absence of a little finger upon her right hand — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the absence of the little finger upon her right hand, as the prince had been told by the old woman — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. the absence of a little finger upon her right hand, which the prince had noticed at the feast — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1172, line 1: «Becasigue begs the king's court to consult the princess, and the queen rushes to tell Desiree about the sick prince.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «queen» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, state what the bride does to protect the prince from the giant on the wedding night.

1. she throws her ring down the stairs, scatters an apple cut into nine pieces, and escapes with him to the mare — score 3
2. she scatters an apple cut into nine pieces and escapes with him — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. she locks the door and hides the keys from her father — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. she scatters an apple cut into nine pieces behind them and then escapes with him over the wall — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1296, line 3: «The princess goes home to her family, where the wise egg-wife tells her to burn the bear's skin.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «princess» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, state the animal upon which the prince and the giant's daughter escape from the castle.

1. the blue-grey mare taken from the stable at the back of the castle — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the brown stallion kept near the gate — no support
3. the grey donkey in the byre — no support
4. the blue-grey mare taken from the stable — ✓ 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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