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title: The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books
description: The 18 test and exam questions of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» of the books course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its depe
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade

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The 18 questions of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 90 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1276-pg3454-part1/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t1/) — yo bruv, so how many kids did the widow have, innit? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t2/) — was the lad proper clever or nah? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t3/) — what did the mum save her coins up for, like? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t4/) — when's he getting apprenticed, then, fam? — right ✓ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t5/) — who gets to pick the trade, though? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t6/) — what's the old name for Ireland in the first line? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t7/) — who's the bloke who wrote the intro, like? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t8/) — who did most of the translating, innit? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t9/) — what book did he reckon the kids would dig? — right ✓ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t10/) — what did Homer nick the old stories for? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t11/) — who's Adam in the garden, according to Mark Twain, like? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t12/) — why wasn't the editor scared of the dark as a nipper? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t13/) — where do the golden fruits grow, the ones from the old myths? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/t14/) — who did the Jogi's tale, innit? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/e1/) — In which country is the widow's dwelling situated, according to the opening passage? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/e2/) — What was the principal reason the widow saved her money? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/e3/) — What did the Editor state regarding the authorship of most of the tales? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1276-pg3454-part1/e4/) — Under what circumstances was the son to be apprenticed to a trade? — wrong ✗ · exam

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