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title: Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en

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The 16 questions of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 85 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/1277-pg3454-part2/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t1/) — Wha's the Shifty Lad's big plan, like, when he's grown? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t2/) — Yer man's ma heard a voice in the bushes, yeah, so what did it shout? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t3/) — Ah sure, how did the boy get his ma not to know it was him? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t4/) — Ye know the Black Gallows Bird, the class thief? Why couldn't anyone catch him? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t5/) — Were the cattle grand, or what happened in the cowshed? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t6/) — Ha, the lad sewed the Gallows Bird's coat to what? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t7/) — Any craic at the Hallowe'en party? What were the folk doin'? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t8/) — Yer one cracked a nut, right? Why did the Gallows Bird run off? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t9/) — Sound, so what did the lad nick from behind the straw? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t10/) — Like, what did the lad and the Gallows Bird do with the loot? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t11/) — Wha's the bloke at the end carryin' on his shoulder? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/t12/) — Was the lad's ma sound with him gettin' into thievin'? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/e1/) — What, according to the narrative, did the Shifty Lad's mother identify as the terminal consequence of theft? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/e2/) — By what stratagem did the Shifty Lad procure the knowledge of his future trade? — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/e3/) — On which night, and in what manner, did the principal robbery of the farmer's chest transpire? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1277-pg3454-part2/e4/) — Which person did the Black Rogue's wife formally designate as the superior practitioner of the thieving art? — wrong ✗ · exam

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