--- title: Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56: Bellah d… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1331 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 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/1331-pg3454-part56/) [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/) / 1331 # Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56: Bellah dresses as a young man, rides a magic horse, and turns the fairy into a toad **Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1331 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/1331-pg3454-part56/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, did you see Bellah go full boy mode in that cabbage suit? - **1.** Nah, she looked dead rough in a red cardigan, innit — no support - **2.** Yeah, she looked well smart in a blue coat, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **3.** Yeah, she looked proper dapper in green velvet, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, she looked dapper, innit — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1331, line 5: «Dressed as a young man, Bellah wins the Groac'h's trust, then traps her in her own net and turns her into a toad.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different action (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/1331-pg3454-part56/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Wait, why did Houarn go all frog on us? - **1.** Coz the Groac'h netted him and chucked him in the pond — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Coz the Groac'h cursed him and sent him to the moor — score 4 - **3.** Coz the Groac'h netted him and chucked him in the pond when he was being nosy, innit mate — score 4 - **4.** Coz the Groac'h netted him, chucked him in the pond and then laughed at him for ages — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 1331, line 3: «The Groac'h catches Houarn in her steel net and turns him into a frog for the fish-pond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «groac'h» (+1); the same thing acted on «houarn» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1331-pg3454-part56/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Did you clock the tailors coming out of his hairs? - **1.** Yeah, three of them, lounging by the pond and knitting — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Proper mad, four of them, sitting in the nest and sewing — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nah, two of them, standing in the pond and cooking — no support - **4.** Proper mad, four of them came out of his hair, sitting in the nest and sewing away like mad — 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/1331-pg3454-part56/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Bellah's stick turned into a horse, wicked, yeah? - **1.** Dead wicked, with rosettes and a feather on its head and iron shoes that clattered on the stones — **← Mova's choice** · score -3 - **2.** Dead wicked, with rosettes and a feather on its head — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Dead wicked, with a saddle and a bell on its neck — no support - **4.** Nah, it was dead slow, with a bridle and a saddle — 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 372, line 20: «Hard word: "wringing his hands" means twisting them together in worry or grief, a gesture people still use.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «hard word» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-4). The right option, 2, 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/1331-pg3454-part56/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} Why did the horse grow wings, though? - **1.** Coz the Groac'h cursed it so it could fly over the hill — score 3 - **2.** Coz it couldn't climb the Leap of the Deer, nothing could — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Coz it wanted to — score 3 - **4.** Coz it had to fly — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1331, line 13: «At the Leap of the Deer, the horse grows wings, and the tiny husband sits in a nest on the rock.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leap» (+4); the same thing acted on «deer» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1331-pg3454-part56/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Ngl, was the Groac'h proper fancying her? - **1.** Nah, she said she'd fallen out of love with him — no support - **2.** Yeah, she said she'd fallen deeply in love with him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, she said she'd fallen deeply in love with him and then turned him into a frog to keep him near her — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **4.** Yeah, she said she'd fallen deeply in love with him the moment she saw him at the pond and wanted to marry him — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1331, line 3: «The Groac'h catches Houarn in her steel net and turns him into a frog for the fish-pond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, 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/1331-pg3454-part56/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Did Bellah just sit by the pond and chill? - **1.** Yeah, she sat with her chin in her hands staring at the fishes — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Yeah, she lay on the bank with her head on her arm — no support - **3.** Nah, she ran around the pond shouting at the fishes — score 1 - **4.** Yeah, she sat by the pond — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 738, line 12: «The needle cries "Stop, stop!" because he and the pin had been "at a public-house" and "sat drinking" too long.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «sit» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1331-pg3454-part56/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} How'd she get the net off the Groac'h then? - **1.** She just grabbed it — no support - **2.** She swapped it for her magic stick, innit — no support - **3.** She took it when the Groac'h held it out to her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** She tricked the Groac'h with her stick — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1175, line 6: «Who: the girl who would not help her parents, and her mother, who "begged her to take the fishing-net out to the bank of the river".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same thing acted on «fishing net» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1331-pg3454-part56/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} What did she say when she zapped the Groac'h? - **1.** Become in body what you are in soul — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Become in body what you are in soul and sit in the pond for ever more — no support - **3.** Become in body what you are in soul, you wicked old hag, and never change back again — no support - **4.** Become in shape what you are in heart — 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/1331-pg3454-part56/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Did the Groac'h end up as a toad, then? - **1.** Nah, she turned into a lovely swan, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** Yeah, horrible to look at, a proper toad — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, horrible to look at, a proper toad with warts and slime all over her back — no support - **4.** Nah, a lovely swan, innit — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1331, line 3: «The Groac'h catches Houarn in her steel net and turns him into a frog for the fish-pond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+1). The right option, 2, 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/1331-pg3454-part56/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} Where'd Bellah hide the magic knife? - **1.** In a pocket of her green coat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **2.** Up her sleeve, in her shoe — score 9 - **3.** Tucked in her red bag — no support - **4.** In her boot — score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1331, line 18: «Bellah hides the magic knife "in a pocket of her green coat", so the Groac'h does not see it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bellah» (+5); the same thing acted on «magic knife» (+3); the same action «hide» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1331-pg3454-part56/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Who's the tiny bloke sitting on the stone eggs? - **1.** One of her suitors, trapped till they hatch — no support - **2.** The husband of the Groac'h, stuck there till the stone eggs hatch and he is free again, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** The husband of the Groac'h, stuck in the nest till the stone eggs hatch, and nobody can help him — no support - **4.** The husband of the Groac'h, stuck till they hatch — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1012, line 1: «The mother duck keeps sitting on the largest egg, which will not hatch.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hatch» (+3); the same doer «largest egg» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1331-pg3454-part56/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Is Houarn still a frog by the end of this bit? - **1.** Yeah, he's still in the net, peeping through the holes while the tailors sew him a new suit of green velvet — no support - **2.** Yeah, he's still in the net, peeping through the holes and croaking at the Groac'h's poor husband — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **3.** Nah, he's out of the net, hopping about the pond — no support - **4.** Yeah, he's still in the net, peeping through the holes — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1330, line 5: «The Groac'h is so beautiful that Houarn forgets Bellah and agrees to become her husband.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: 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/1331-pg3454-part56/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Pursuant to the narrative, state which object the Groac'h employed to secure the fish, and indicate the material of which it was constructed. - **1.** A net of steel — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A sieve of brass — no support - **3.** A fine net woven from strands of steel wire — no support - **4.** A large net constructed entirely from woven silver and steel — 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/1331-pg3454-part56/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} With reference to the text, identify the means by which Bellah transported herself to the Leap of the Deer, and state the transformation effected upon the animal. - **1.** A winged chariot pulled by two stallions — no support - **2.** A golden coach that became a swan — no support - **3.** A magic stick — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **4.** A magic horse that became a great bird — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1204, line 4: «Jamila strikes the deer with a magic stick, and the prince stands up again as Prince Almas in a royal robe.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1331-pg3454-part56/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Account for the manner in which Bellah procured the garments in which she disguised herself, as set out in the passage. - **1.** Made by the Groac'h from silk thread — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Bought from the market — no support - **3.** Given by the Groac'h from her golden chest — no support - **4.** Tailors made from red hairs, using cabbage leaves — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1331-pg3454-part56/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} State the outcome of Bellah's final action upon the Groac'h, and identify the form into which she was transformed. - **1.** A toad — no support - **2.** Turned into a frog — score 1 - **3.** She became a toad, horrible to look upon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** She became a snake, dreadful to behold — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1331, line 5: «Dressed as a young man, Bellah wins the Groac'h's trust, then traps her in her own net and turns her into a toad.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+1); 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/1331-pg3454-part56/e4/) - ← previous: [1330. Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1330-pg3454-part55/) - next →: [1332. Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1332-pg3454-part57/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)