--- title: Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn slays Aille… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1045 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1045-pg2892-part13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 1045 # Gods and Fighting Men, The Birth of Bran, part 13: Fionn slays Aillen, Goll submits to Fionn, and Tuiren marries Iollan **Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1045 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo, did Aillen actually think his music would knock Fionn out, or was he just being a mad fairy lad? - **1.** he was dead sure it'd flatten Fionn, yeah — no support - **2.** nah he knew it wouldn't work but he played anyway cos he was bored of the glen — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** he thought it would work, it was mint in his head — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** he reckoned it was a proper plan, like — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 303, line 12: «The music: the landlord says it is "extremely tiresome", like someone who "cannot master" a piece however long he plays.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «play» (+4); the same doer «music» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} bruv, why did Aillen literally run away like a sprinter who's gutted? - **1.** his tune totally flopped and he panicked like a kid, so he ran for the hills — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** his magic failed and he got proper scared — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** his spell bombed so he legged it — no support - **4.** he wasn't scared at all, he just fancied a nice run to the glen and back — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} so Fionn's cloak just caught the fire like a net, yeah? - **1.** nah, it just bounced off and hit a rock — no support - **2.** yeah, it got caught — no support - **3.** yeah, the flame went off the cloak into the soil — no support - **4.** yeah, the fire slid off and went down into the ground — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1045, line 8: «Where: Fionn's mantle stopped the fire, which "sped down into the earth to the depth of twenty-six spans," and that slope is still called the Glen of the Mantl…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «fire» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} was Goll's submission actually sick or was he just being a snake? - **1.** he did it so well he didn't lose any face — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** he was dead sneaky about it — no support - **3.** he was a total snake — no support - **4.** he bent low but kept his pride — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} wait, why does Fergus hate dogs so much, is he just a grumpy old wagon? - **1.** he's a total grump and throws stuff at barking dogs — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** he hates them, throws stuff at them — score 0 - **3.** he's not really bothered by dogs, he just likes throwing stuff at the whole Fianna — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** he's a total grump, he chucks everything he owns at any dog that barks, cos of his squint — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1045, line 5: «At Tara, Conn gives Goll a choice, Goll puts his hand in Fionn's, and later Tuiren marries Iollan while Fergus Fionnliath hates dogs and Fionn loves them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fergus» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} did Fionn literally have three hundred dogs, like a whole pack? - **1.** nah, more like thirty dogs, and Fergus owned most of them and he threw stuff at them all day — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** yeah, about three hundred, Bran was his fave — no support - **3.** yeah, three hundred, and Bran and Sceo'lan were his faves — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, three hundred dogs in the kennels, and Bran and Sceo'lan were his absolute faves of the whole pack — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 151, line 20: «fact: At the end the Dog says, "Oh, throw it away, do", because the packet is useless to him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «throw away» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} so Tuiren was Fionn's aunt, not his sis? - **1.** yeah, she was his young auntie, her sister was his mum — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nah she was his sister for real, their mum was the same woman as his mum — no support - **3.** yeah she was his young auntie, and her sister was his mum so they're sort of family — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** yeah she was his auntie, her sister was his mam — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1038, line 2: «They tell him wild tales of the sons of Morna and of his brave father, Uail.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «aunts» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} was Iollan a proper lad or just a bit of a chancer? - **1.** he was a chief from Ulster who asked for her proper — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** he was a chief from Ulster who went for her — no support - **3.** he was a bit of a chancer who snuck into the palace and tried to take her — no support - **4.** he was a chief from Ulster who came to Tara and asked for her hand proper, not sus — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} why did Fionn put a weird condition on the wedding, was he being sus? - **1.** he wanted her home if she got sad — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** he just wanted to keep her for himself and was being sus about her happiness — score 1 - **3.** he wanted her sent back to Tara right away if she was ever even a bit unhappy with the marriage — score 1 - **4.** he wanted her back if she was ever unhappy — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1044, line 9: «Why: Fionn goes out alone on the night of the Feast of Samhain because he wants to face the danger himself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fionn» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} did Lugaidh get the girl in the end, or was he just cut up about it? - **1.** he was gutted, he wrote a sad poem and gave her away — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** he got her, he wrote a poem about it — score 2 - **3.** nah he got over it — no support - **4.** he was sad, he wrote a poem and let her go — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 787, line 10: «How she gets to the feast: the cook lets her go up, if she is back "in half an hour's time, to rake out the ashes".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «let» (+4); the same thing acted on «girl» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} was the end of the story happy or mad sad, like proper depressing? - **1.** it starts sad then gets happy in the end — score 5 - **2.** it's a total tragedy from the beginning, the wedding was a disaster and nobody was happy at all — no support - **3.** it starts happy but the past comes back to get them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** it starts happy with the wedding but then the past comes back and hurts them both really badly — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 422, line 14: «THE HAPPY END: The journeyman brings the seigneur back, crying "Don't hang him! Here's your master!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «happy end» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} so what's the big lesson, the past is just behind us, right? - **1.** nah, the future is behind you, blocking — no support - **2.** nah, the past is in front of us, blocking the road, and you can't just walk around it — no support - **3.** yeah, the past is behind us where it belongs, and you can forget it and move on — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** nah, the past is in front, blocking the road — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 522, line 1: «After a thousand years in Elysium, the souls drink from Lethe and forget their past before returning to earth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «forget» (+4); the same thing acted on «past» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following describes the means by which Fionn neutralised the blue flame of Aillen mac Midna? - **1.** He caught the flame with his shield. — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** He threw his bronze shield over the flame, which deflected the fire into the water. — score 3 - **3.** He held up his fringed mantle, which sent the blue fire down into the ground. — score 3 - **4.** He interposed his fringed mantle, which diverted the flame into the earth. — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1045, line 4: «Aillen panics and runs, but Fionn's spear-thong brings him down at his own Shi', and Fionn carries his head back to Tara.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the condition which the Ard-Ri Conn imposed upon Goll Mor before the latter submitted to Fionn. - **1.** Goll had to pay tribute to Conn. — no support - **2.** Goll was required to quit Ireland or to place his hand in the champion's hand. — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** Goll was ordered to quit the land or to give his sword to the champion. — score 5 - **4.** Goll had to flee Ireland or submit his weapons to Fionn's men. — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1045, line 14: «What: Goll must leave Ireland or "place your hand in the hand of this champion," and he chooses to submit.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «submit» (+4); the same doer «goll» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} State the reason given in the text for the aversion of Fergus Fionnliath towards dogs, and the consequence of his aversion. - **1.** He was afflicted with a squint, so he threw crooked and always missed the barking dog. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** He had been born with a squint in one eye, which made him throw crooked, so he always missed whichever barking dog he aimed at and threw everything he owned. — score 5 - **3.** He was bitten as a boy, so he threw crooked and feared the barking hound. — no support - **4.** He was struck in battle by a dog and lost sight in one eye, so he threw his spear crooked and missed the barking dogs of the Fianna every time. — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1045, line 5: «At Tara, Conn gives Goll a choice, Goll puts his hand in Fionn's, and later Tuiren marries Iollan while Fergus Fionnliath hates dogs and Fionn loves them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fergus» (+2); the same thing acted on «dogs» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Describe the circumstances under which Iollan Eachtach came to be bound by the stipulation set by Fionn, and identify the sureties to that agreement. - **1.** Iollan agreed at the wedding feast to return Tuiren to Fionn's household if she should ever be unhappy in Ulster, and Caelte mac Ronan, Goll mac Morna, Lugaidh and Oisin stood surety for him. — score 5 - **2.** Iollan agreed to send Tuiren back if she was unhappy, and Caelte and Goll stood as sureties to it. — score 5 - **3.** Iollan agreed to return Tuiren if she should be unhappy, and Caelte mac Ronan, Goll mac Morna and Lugaidh stood surety. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Iollan was bound by Fionn's stipulation only after Tuiren begged for it, and Caelte mac Ronan, Goll mac Morna and Lugaidh were the sureties who guaranteed it at Tara. — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1045, line 19: «Where: Iollan takes Tuiren to Ulster, and "they lived together very happily."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «iollan» (+2); the same thing acted on «tuiren» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1045-pg2892-part13/e4/) - ← previous: [1044. Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn and the Man from the Sh…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1044-pg2892-part12/) - next →: [1046. Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: U…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1046-pg2892-part14/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)