--- title: Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Ba… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1336 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 tests right, exam 0 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/1336-pg3454-part61/) [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/) / 1336 # Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu **Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1336 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/1336-pg3454-part61/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, who was secretly doing all of Barbaik's chores? - **1.** the old farmer Riou — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** the brownie helping Jegu — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** the brownie — no support - **4.** Jegu's father — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 238, line 19: «The glass hill: she "tried all she could to climb, but wasn't able", so she had to work for iron shoes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «all» (+3). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «word» (-2). 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/1336-pg3454-part61/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Bruh, where did Jegu first meet the talking brownie? - **1.** at the little lake — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** near the old stone bridge — score 3 - **3.** beside the market at Morlaix — score 3 - **4.** at the little lake where he watered his horses — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 310, line 7: «Where: the Darlings live at "14", and Nana was first met in "Kensington Gardens", where she peeped into prams.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «meet» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same property (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} No cap, what shape did the brownie pop out as at first? - **1.** a bright green snake coiled in the reeds — no support - **2.** a small brown hare — no support - **3.** a little green frog — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** a grey heron bird — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 957, line 10: «The soldier's words "Dear me, what pretty dancing shoes!" start her dancing, once in the churchyard and again later.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «words» (-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/1336-pg3454-part61/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Lowkey, why did the brownie say he was helping Jegu? - **1.** Jegu was kind — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Jegu had fed his horses well — no support - **3.** he liked Jegu — no support - **4.** Jegu had saved his robin — **✓ 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/1336-pg3454-part61/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Fr fr, how many loaves did Barbaik wish to see on the shelf? - **1.** twelve loaves on the shelf — no support - **2.** six pies on the table — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **3.** six loaves of bread on the high wooden shelf — no support - **4.** six loaves on the shelf — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1330, line 16: «Old word: "beheld" means saw or looked upon, and it sounds old-fashioned now, when we would just say "saw."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «old word» (-2). 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/1336-pg3454-part61/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Dude, why did Barbaik love her wishing trick so much? - **1.** she could lie in bed all morning — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** she could sleep late each day — no support - **3.** she liked to sleep — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** she could stay in bed longer — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1336, line 10: «What: Barbaik's wishes come true, such as "six loaves on the shelf above the bread box".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wish» (+3). 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/1336-pg3454-part61/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Ngl, how long after the wedding did old Riou die? - **1.** two years later — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** soon after — no support - **3.** next day — no support - **4.** a few days later — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 677, line 4: «The prince kisses Wildrose in front of everyone, and she rides to the palace in a golden dress, and the wedding is held three days later.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Bet, how many petticoats was she rocking on holidays? - **1.** five embroidered petticoats worn under her skirt — no support - **2.** six petticoats — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **3.** five stiff white petticoats with lace — score -1 - **4.** five petticoats — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **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 782, line 19: «Old word: "shudder" means to shake suddenly, usually from fear or cold, and we still use it that way today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-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/1336-pg3454-part61/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Real talk, why did Barbaik say yes to Jegu in the end? - **1.** she felt sorry for the poor man — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** she was tricked by a wish that bound her to him for life — score 2 - **3.** she had been won over by the brownie's magic and his promise — score 3 - **4.** she obeyed her father, as a good girl — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1336, line 4: «Barbaik finds her cows cleaned, her bread baked and her chores done for her, and she only has to wish.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Mate, how did Barbaik treat Jegu before the brownie helped? - **1.** she ignored him — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** she laughed at his clothes — score 3 - **3.** she made fun of him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** she avoided him at church — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1336, line 15: «Why: Barbaik accepts Jegu because she wants to "sleep every morning till breakfast time".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «barbaik» (+1); the same thing acted on «jegu» (+1); 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/1336-pg3454-part61/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} Lol, what did the brownie say when Jegu asked how he would do it? - **1.** that is my affair — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Wait — no support - **3.** that is a secret — no support - **4.** I will not tell — 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/1336-pg3454-part61/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Honestly, what did the brownie tell Jegu to do in the meantime? - **1.** go and rest — no support - **2.** eat and sleep — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** go home, eat well and sleep until the morning — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **4.** wait at home — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1336, line 15: «Why: Barbaik accepts Jegu because she wants to "sleep every morning till breakfast time".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same property (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). 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/1336-pg3454-part61/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Bruh, what did the korigans declare war on? - **1.** the brownies' people — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** the lake's spirits — no support - **3.** the brownies — no support - **4.** the brownies' people and all the farms nearby — 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/1336-pg3454-part61/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which phrase describes the means by which Barbaik obtained her household comforts? - **1.** by means of wishes spoken at the spring close by — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** by means of the brownie's secret help at night — score 2 - **3.** by means of her father's gifts — score 1 - **4.** by means of her spoken wishes — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 1098, line 19: «Old word: "wherewithal" means "the means," such as money or food, so "wherewithal to comfort" means enough to live on.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What was the principal reason the brownie offered for assisting Jegu? - **1.** a fair share of the harvest — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a promise — no support - **3.** the robin's gift — no support - **4.** gratitude for the robin's release — **✓ 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/1336-pg3454-part61/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Upon what condition did Jegu agree to reward the brownie? - **1.** that his soul be excepted from any reward — no support - **2.** that his soul be excepted — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** that he keep his horses — **← Mova's choice** · score -4 - **4.** that he pay with money but keep his soul — score -4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1336, line 5: «She marries Jegu, old Riou dies, and the brownie keeps the farm running.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different thing acted on (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/1336-pg3454-part61/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which event immediately preceded the marriage of Barbaik and Jegu? - **1.** the wedding feast — no support - **2.** Barbaik's acceptance of Jegu's proposal — **✓ the right answer** · score -7 - **3.** Jegu's visit to the lake — no support - **4.** the brownie's first wish granted — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1336, line 5: «She marries Jegu, old Riou dies, and the brownie keeps the farm running.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «brownie» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1336-pg3454-part61/e4/) - ← previous: [1334. More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1334-pg3454-part59/) - next →: [1337. Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1337-pg3454-part62/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)