Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 2016 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 ✗

Ah, did you see Ivan nearly get jumped by them robbers?

1. Yeah, he roared "Thieves!" and they legged it, class — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Yeah, he hollered "Thieves!" at the top of his voice and those lads legged it straight off down the lane, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Nah, he just stood there and cried, mate — score 4
4. Yeah, he shouted "Help!" and they bolted, lads — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2016, line 9: «The robbers run away when they hear Ivan's shout of "Thieves!".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «shout» (+3); the same doer «ivan» (+1); the same thing acted on «thieves» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ivan's wife found a purse, yeah? Was it full of cash?

1. Yeah, gold, and it had no name on it, deadly — ✓ the right answer · score -1
2. Yeah, gold coins galore, no name on it nowhere, and they took it straight to the lord, deadly — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Yeah, loads of gold, and it had no name on it at all, proper deadly, bruv — no support
4. Yeah, gold, but it had a name on it, lads — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1900, line 5: «Ludovine takes his purse and red cloak while he sleeps on the grass, and she runs home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); the same thing acted on «purse» (+1). The right option, 1, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, who was the baddie at the inn?

1. The hostess and her monk mate, sound — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The merchants, the lot of them, sound — no support
3. The landlord and his cook, sound — no support
4. The hostess and her monk mate, who was in on the whole thing, sound — 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 ✗

Was the monk actually caught out by a bit of his own robe?

1. Nah, Ivan just left it alone, lads — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Yeah, he did, lads — no support
3. Yeah, Ivan nicked a bit off it, lads — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Yeah, Ivan snipped a round bit off his robe with a knife, and that proved it, lads — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 422, line 19: «OLD WORD: "Cinder" means a small piece of burnt material, like the charred bits left in a fire, and it is still used today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+3); the same thing acted on «charred bits» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Ivan get the job from the lord, or what?

1. Nah, he got turned away from the house, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Yeah, he got made the lord's servant, bang on — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Yeah, he did, bang on — no support
4. Yeah, he got made the innkeeper's errand boy, lads — 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 2016, line 6: «Ivan is the hero of this part; he has been "in service" and is hurrying home to his wife.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ivan» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ah go way, Andrew Coffey got lost in the rain, right?

1. Yeah, on his good horse, in the dark, soaked, class — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, he got lost at the ford, but found his way back, class — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Nah, he was fine, mate — no support
4. Yeah, he got lost in the fog on foot, soaked to the bone, class — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 2016, line 4: «Andrew Coffey, lost on his horse in the rain, finds a cabin and hears a voice demanding a story.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lose» (+3); the same thing acted on «andrew» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

What was that voice in the cabin doing?

1. Yelling for the police, the cheek of it — score 0
2. Shouting, "tell me a story", the cheek — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Singing, mate — score -3
4. Laughing and singing, what a racket — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2013, line 14: «Old word: a "draught of oblivion" is a magic drink that makes you forget. Today we might say a sleeping drug or a potion.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «say» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Who came flying out of the cupboard?

1. The lad who'd drowned in the river, Patrick Rooney, the cheek of him, lads, proper wild — score 1
2. Patrick Rooney, the lad who everyone said had drowned in the river last winter, wild — score 1
3. Patrick Rooney, the lad who drowned, wild — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. Some ghost from the old mill, mate, wild — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 2014, line 1: «Jack's brother comes home beaten, so Jack sets off to serve the Gray Churl himself.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Andrew stop and have a chat, or did he leg it?

1. He stopped and had a chat, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He stood still and had a natter, bruv — no support
3. He legged it out of there as fast as his legs could carry him, like a shot — no support
4. He legged it out of there, like a shot — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where did Andrew hide, the hedge or the tree?

1. The hedge, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Behind it — score 5
3. Behind the hedge, quick enough — score 5
4. Up the tree, quick as you like — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 61, line 1: «Toad wakes in the hollow tree where he hid after jumping off the train. His toes are freezing, and he dreams that his bedclothes have run downstairs to the kit…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «hollow tree» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

What were the four men lugging about?

1. A long box, heavy as anything, they were struggling with it up the lane, proper lads — score 1
2. Bags of gold, quite heavy, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. A long wooden box, heavy as anything, wrapped up in old rope, lads — score 6
4. A long box, heavy as anything, lads — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 538, line 7: «fact: What: the Giants were "monsters with six arms", and they were blocking the harbour with huge rocks.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «block» (+5); the same doer «fact» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

What colour was Patrick's face, ah?

1. Grey as old stone, proper creepy — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Pale, bruv — no support
3. Pale as old snow, proper scary — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. Pale as old snow, proper scary, like he'd come straight out of the river — no support

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 113, line 14: «Old word: "countenance" means the face, or how a person looks, and we would say "face" today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was it a cold night, or what?

1. Freezing, with a March wind tearing through the trees and rain coming sideways over the moor, savage — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Mild and clear, moon out over the moor, lads — no support
3. Freezing, mate — no support
4. Freezing, March wind tearing through the trees, savage — ✓ the right answer · 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which road did Ivan take in preference to the new road when journeying home?

1. the old road, which he kept to throughout — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the wide river road through the hills, which he took all the way to the lord's gate — score 1
3. the new road, which he took at once — score 1
4. the new road, which he had been told was faster and shorter than the old one — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2016, line 16: «The servant at the gate is the thief; the lord sends him away and makes Ivan his servant.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ivan» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What precisely did the hostess conspire with the monk to effect?

1. the murder of her husband in his bed while he slept by the fire — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the murder of her husband and the merchants in their beds that very night at the inn — no support
3. the murder of her husband in his bed — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. to kill the merchants in their sleep — 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 ✗

What object did Andrew Coffey hear about before he saw the box?

1. a blackthorn stick carried by the man who had bounced out of the cupboard in the cabin — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. a club the robber had hidden in the hay — no support
3. a blackthorn carried by the man from the cupboard — ✓ the right answer · score 0
4. a heavy iron cudgel carried by the man outside the door — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1955, line 7: «fact: The mouse King calls all the mice together, and they all say no, they have not seen the castle.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «men» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means did the four men kindle their fire beneath the tree?

1. by tinder and flint struck together — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. by striking a steel bar against a flint stone that the men had brought up the hill — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. by a tinderbox and flint struck hard together beside the tree — score 6
4. with a lantern and some dry moss — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2010, line 20: «Old word "skivered" means shot through, and Fin fears he will be killed like a rabbit.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old word» (+7); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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