Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Irishman frees the Princess but is pinned to sleep by the lad

Tests: 6 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1735 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 ✗

so who's the babe that pops out the window, like?

1. the queen's maid, that — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a bloke — no support
3. the Princess, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the lad — 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 ✗

yeah but how long was she stuck there, mate?

1. like sixteen years or summat, been stuck there ages, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. she'd been stuck up there for sixteen years, the poor thing, mate — no support
3. sixteen years, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. sixteen-ish, I reckon — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, what's she need the bloke to do, then?

1. sit in the little room the whole time, not move a muscle — no support
2. wait in the back room — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. sit quiet in that tiny room and not come out for anything, mate — score -7
4. sit in the little room — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, against -7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1098, line 15: «At home his wife "smiled" because she thinks her husband is mad, and she waits to see what he does.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «wife» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

how long's he got to sit in there, proper?

1. ten till midnight, but three nights on the trot, proper long — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. ten till midnight, three nights — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. from ten o'clock till midnight, every single night for three nights — no support
4. dusk till dawn, two nights — 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's the bottle stuff actually do?

1. wakes him up quick — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. sorts him out proper — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. fixes him — no support
4. heals him — 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 ✓

did them lads just leg it when cockcrow went?

1. yeah, they vanished — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, they legged it — no support
3. yeah, they all just vanished into thin air when it went off — no support
4. nah, they fought — 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 7 · ★ · right ✓

what she give him to pass the time, like?

1. a pipe and baccy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. a rolled-up fag — no support
3. a pint of ale — score 1
4. a proper long pipe and a bag of the good baccy — 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 1727, line 9: «Why the dog lets them pass: they gave him "their own loaf of bread", while the witch "never gave me so much as a hard crust".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3). Against it: the same doer «witch» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

so what's she coming back in, a ride?

1. a big fancy carriage thing, pulled by four grey horses, proper showy — score -3
2. a carriage, four grey horses — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. a coach, two black ponies — score 1
4. a massive posh carriage with four proud grey horses pulling it along — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 890, line 9: «Why he is not cured: the healing flower "had not arrived", because his daughter never came back.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3). Against it: the same doer «daughter» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

what's the little rod thing for, then?

1. wake the sleepers up — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. it wakes up whoever's been put to sleep in the room, all of them — no support
3. bring the lads round — no support
4. it's for waking up the sleeping blokes, so they can get out proper quick — 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 · ★ · right ✓

who's the little lad, anyway?

1. his mate — no support
2. a servant — no support
3. fair-haired, comes to make food — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. dark-haired, brings the dinner — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1735, line 5: «A fair-haired lad comes to make his food, says the Princess sent him, and then sticks a pin into the Irishman's coat so that he falls asleep.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

what's the pin all about, though?

1. wakes him up — no support
2. keeps him still tight — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. sends him off to sleep — no support
4. knocks him right out — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1445, line 19: «Old word: "trace-pins" were the pins holding the harness straps to the coach, and a "byre" is an old word for a cowshed.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «pins» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

so what's the Irishman's big mistake, mate?

1. he falls asleep — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. he drinks the bottle — no support
3. he wakes up — no support
4. he nods off early — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1735, line 5: «A fair-haired lad comes to make his food, says the Princess sent him, and then sticks a pin into the Irishman's coat so that he falls asleep.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following correctly states the period for which the Irishman was required to remain in the little room?

1. Three consecutive nights, from ten o'clock until midnight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Every night for three consecutive weeks, from ten o'clock in the evening until well past midnight — no support
3. Three weeks, from sunset until the stroke of morning bells — no support
4. Three nights, from dusk until the cock crows — 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 correctly describes the remedy the Princess applied to the Irishman after each ordeal?

1. Rubbing him all over with a healing salve kept in a bottle, then carrying him to a bed upstairs and leaving him to recover — no support
2. Pressing a warm cloth against his bruised back — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Pouring a strong-smelling liquid from a glass bottle over his whole body and face after each night — score -3
4. Rubbing him with a substance from a bottle — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 1735, line 19: «Old word: "entreated" means begged or pleaded, so when the Princess "entreated him to stay" she was asking him very earnestly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following correctly identifies the object the Princess left in the Irishman's keeping before her departure?

1. A small iron rod, carved all over, that could wake any sleeper in the house at once — no support
2. A little rod with which he could wake each of the sleeping men in the room whenever he chose — no support
3. A little rod for waking the sleeping men — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A small wand that opens locked doors — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 180, line 3: «The princesses leave and beg him never to open the Golden Door, but after thirty-nine days he turns the key anyway.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «golden door» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following correctly identifies the agent by which the Irishman was finally rendered insensible at the close of the passage?

1. A large pin that the lad stuck deep into his back through the thick woollen coat — no support
2. A large pin pushed into the back of his coat — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A long iron pin pushed hard through the back of his heavy coat while he was asleep in the garden — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. A sharp nail hammered into the wooden chair — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1735, line 3: «For two nights the Irishman is beaten by unseen men, but he stays, and on the third morning the Princess finds him nearly dead and revives him with the bottle.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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