--- title: Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» 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 tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: th… # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin The 16 questions of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 87 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/1279-pg3454-part4/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t1/) — Yo, was it the Wise Man who dotted the Shifty Lad's cheek, or the king, like, trying to be sneaky? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t2/) — Dude, how did the Shifty Lad even spot the dot, like, was he cheating with a mirror or what? — right ✓ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t3/) — Mate, so he nicked the bottle and then dotted the Wise Man? Proper cheeky, innit? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t4/) — Wait, how many blokes ended up with black spots? Like, a proper mob? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t5/) — Lol, so the king said whoever sorted it gets the princess AND half the kingdom? Sick deal! — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t6/) — Yeah but how'd they choose? Did the chamberlain just pick one? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t7/) — Bruv, the Shifty Lad was twisting a bit of wood round his finger, right? Mad, that's proper dodgy. — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t8/) — So the kid went straight to him? Like, that's the best bit, she knew him! — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t9/) — Ha, and then the bridge, like, he wanted her to hang him over the wall for a laugh? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t10/) — Yo, his mum said he'd hang off Dublin bridge, bet she was right, eh? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t11/) — What's the bit where she let go? Was it cos she got a fright? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/t12/) — Gutted, so he just smacked his head on a stone and that was it? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/e1/) — By what means did the Shifty Lad ascertain the presence of the black mark upon his cheek? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/e2/) — Which stratagem did the council adopt in order to identify the rightful suitor among the twenty men? — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/e3/) — Upon what grounds did the Shifty Lad express his conviction concerning the bridge of Dublin? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1279-pg3454-part4/e4/) — What circumstance occasioned the princess to release the handkerchief and precipitate the death of her husband? — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [1278. Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tric…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1278-pg3454-part3/) - next →: [1280. Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a cond…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1280-pg3454-part5/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/)