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title: Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked boy among… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Heroic Romances, The Finding of Oisin: Fionn finds a naked boy among the fighting hounds and takes him home as his own

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**Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1050 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.

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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/1050-pg2892-part18/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, did Fionn's hounds actually get beaten by a hundred dogs or is that just a made-up story thing?

- **1.** Yeah, a hundred dogs chased the five wise hounds off the slope into the trees — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** Nah, they just barked — score 6
- **3.** Nah, just five hounds — no support
- **4.** Nah, the five wise hounds were holding a circle against a hundred dogs — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 81, line 2: «The Little God Nqa and the Middle God Nquing both shout "Go away!", but the Big God Nqong says "Yes, I will!" and calls the always-hungry Yellow-Dog Dingo to c…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «chase» (+4); the same doer «hungry yellow dog» (+2); the same thing acted on «dog» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bro, wait, why was the lil lad totally bare naked in the middle of a hunt?

- **1.** Nobody knew whose child he was, he had a torn old cloak on over his hair — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** He just wandered in — no support
- **3.** Nobody knew where he came from, he had no clothes on at all — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** No idea, he was naked — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1014, line 1: «The ugly duckling, afraid of being pecked and starved, flies to three white swans and waits to be killed.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ugly duckling» (+5). 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/1050-pg2892-part18/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Lol so Bran and Sceo'lan just licked the kid's hands like he was a puppy?

- **1.** Yeah, super quick — no support
- **2.** Yeah, they licked him — score 5
- **3.** Yeah, they went all whiny and licked his hands right away — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** Nah, they growled at him first and then sniffed his feet slowly — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1050, line 2: «Fionn runs to the spot and finds a little boy standing unafraid in the middle of the ring, while Bran and Sceo'lan lick his hands.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lick» (+4); the same doer «bran» (+2); the same thing acted on «hands» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Did Fionn actually carry him home or just leave him there?

- **1.** Nah, he left him sitting on the grass with the hounds nearby watching — score 6
- **2.** He lifted him onto his shoulder and carried him home singing — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11
- **3.** He set him down and walked him home quietly with the hounds — score 8
- **4.** He carried him home — score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 11, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1050, line 3: «Fionn lifts the boy onto his shoulder, sees the eye of his lost love Saeve in him, and carries him home singing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+4); the same property (+3); the same doer «fionn» (+2); the same thing acted on «boy» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Wait, so the little guy was basically a replacement for Saeve?

- **1.** Nah, Fionn never forgot Saeve and grieved on his own for years — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Yeah, Fionn saw her look in his eyes and got all happy again — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Yeah, Fionn saw her look in his eyes and got all happy again, and he never once forgot her after that day — score 3
- **4.** Yeah, Fionn saw his old wife in the boy's look and felt glad — score 5

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**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 1050, line 4: «The boy tells how he lived alone in a wide place with a deer, until a dark man struck the deer and drove her away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dark man» (+2); the same thing acted on «saeve» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Ha, what did Fionn even call the kid, like a nickname?

- **1.** My Fawn, My Pulse, My Secret Little Treasure from the Hills of the North — no support
- **2.** My Little Stag, My Gold, My Dear Companion — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** My Fawn, My Pulse, My Secret Little Treasure — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** My Bright Wolf, My Heart, My Own Dear Boy — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1039, line 4: «The Leinster robber Fiacuil mac Cona kills the poets, then spares Fionn when he gives his name.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «fionn» (+2). Against it: the same action «name» (-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/1050-pg2892-part18/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Did the other dogs like him or were they sulking?

- **1.** They were mad for him, and the five wise hounds whipped any dog that messed about — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Some were jealous, but the five wise hounds kept the rest quiet and in line with him — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** They loved him — no support
- **4.** They were jealous — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1048, line 1: «Fionn chases a fawn with his hounds Bran and Sceo'lan, but the dogs keep silent and speed on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same doer «dogs» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Hang on, so where did the lad live before this, like on a farm?

- **1.** A wide beautiful place with hills and woods, but always a cliff he couldn't climb — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** On a farm near the hills — no support
- **3.** A wide place with fields and rivers, but always a steep wall he couldn't scale — no support
- **4.** A green valley with a river, but always a wall he couldn't cross — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 236, line 19: «Old words: "bonny" means pretty, and "bogles" means goblins or ghosts, which is why the lads in the next tale fear them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «words» (+3). Against it: the same doer «lads» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Who was the mean old fella who was chasing the deer?

- **1.** A dark stranger who spoke sweetly then shouted at the hounds — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The dark man, who talked soft one minute and roared the next, and who came with a hazel rod in his hand and a cloak of black — no support
- **3.** The dark man, who talked soft one minute and roared the next — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A hunter with a rod — no support

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**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/1050-pg2892-part18/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Did the deer just go off with him on her own?

- **1.** No, he hit her with a hazel stick until she had to follow him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yes, but only after the dark man promised her grass and food — no support
- **3.** No, she followed the stag away after he begged her to go — no support
- **4.** Yes, she went willingly — no support

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**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/1050-pg2892-part18/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Yo, so what's the big deal with the boy's memory, does he remember everything?

- **1.** Kind of, he remembers bits of this world but not much of the other one he came from — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** He remembers a lot but is unsure about the Fianna and the wood where he was raised by the deer — score 6
- **3.** He remembers loads but he's not totally sure what happened in this world or the other one, and he gets muddled about the deer and the dark man — score 6
- **4.** He remembers loads but he's not totally sure what happened in this world or the other one — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 589, line 4: «He remembers carrying Unk Jeems that same way, and he says Mars Jeems was even heavier than the boy.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «remember» (+4); the same doer «boy» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Lol, so did this lad become a proper fighter or just sit about singing?

- **1.** He became a king of the Fianna, the finest hunter of his time — score 1
- **2.** A fighter and poet — no support
- **3.** He stayed a lad and just sang songs by the fire every night — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** He grew up a great fighter and the top poet in the world — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 237, line 1: «explain: The lad sits up the third night and hears the bogles fighting over the golden ball under his bed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «lad» (+2); a different action (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/1050-pg2892-part18/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which of the following best describes the manner in which the five hounds conducted their combat against the assembled pack?

- **1.** They fought in a ring, uplifting their heads and calling out for their master between each onslaught, and they never once broke the circle or gave ground to the pack. — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** They ran in a circle, barking at the dogs before each charge, but never called for their master. — no support
- **3.** They fought in a ring, uplifting their heads and calling out for their master between each onslaught. — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** They fought in a circle, lowering their heads and staying silent until the end of each attack. — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 977, line 12: «The yard-dog warns him that "if you approach the stove, you'll melt away, away."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «yard dog» (+2); the same receiver «man» (+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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Which statement most accurately identifies the reason Fionn was unable to rebuke his hounds for their excessive attendance upon the boy?

- **1.** It was unthinkable to him that he should do so, given his deep attachment to his dogs and their devotion to the boy. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** He loved the dogs too much. — score 3
- **3.** He feared the hounds would turn on him if he struck them for following the lad about. — score 2
- **4.** He had no power over them, since the hounds answered only to the boy and his own dear whelps. — score 2

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**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 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 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 question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Which of the following accurately describes the principal means by which the boy was separated from the deer, as recounted by the boy himself?

- **1.** The dark man struck the deer with a hazel rod, compelling her to follow him away from the boy into the dark wood, while the boy wept at the edge of the clearing. — score 4
- **2.** The dark man struck the deer with a hazel rod, compelling her to follow him away from the boy. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** The dark man beat the doe with a hazel switch, forcing her to leave the boy behind. — score 4
- **4.** The deer was stolen by a hunter who lured her away with grass and sweet water. — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 469, line 13: «What: the merchant's daughter jokes back, "God knows, soldier, who breaks in whom", and laughs as she goes her way.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «soldier» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Which of the following statements most correctly identifies the order in which Fionn's affections were directed, according to the narrative?

- **1.** The boy first, then Bran and Sceo'lan with their three whelps, then Caelte mac Ronan, and then the champions. — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **2.** The boy came first, then Bran and Sceo'lan with their whelps, then the champions of the Fianna. — no support
- **3.** Fionn loved the hounds first, then the champions, and the boy last of all. — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** The boy first, then Bran and Sceo'lan with their three whelps, then Caelte mac Ronan, then the champions, and last of all the nobles of the Fianna who had come to the hunt. — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 193, line 8: «What: the narrator says that he sent the servant to "beg her master to come down as fast as possible".», 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, 1, scored -4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1050-pg2892-part18/e4/)

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