--- title: Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1570 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 12 tests right, exam 1 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/1570-pg540-part67/) [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/) / 1570 # Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house **Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1570 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/1570-pg540-part67/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} bro so the old lady with the super long nose, did she actually dance or nah? - **1.** yeah she went full dance mode after the tobacco — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** nah she was too busy sniffing the snuff — no support - **3.** yeah she danced a bit after he gave her smoke — score 0 - **4.** nah she just sat there — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1570, line 10: «Why: the old women dance for joy at tobacco, "so delighted that she began to dance", and that is how he gets leave to stay.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} ok but how did the dude get the eagle to take him? - **1.** the eagle wanted food first, then he sat in a feather's place — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** the eagle picked him up cause he was sad lol — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** he gave the eagle some bread then it let him ride along — score 4 - **4.** the eagle wanted food first, so he gave it bread and then sat in a feather's place and held on tight — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 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 1126, line 15: «The eagle drops the archer from near the clouds, then catches him, and asks "How dost thou feel now?"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «eagle» (+3); the same action «catch» (+1); 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/1570-pg540-part67/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} so when the feathers hit the ground what happened, like for real? - **1.** they turned into ravens that chased the crows home — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** they turned into ravens that chased the crows all the way home to their nests in the wood across the hill — score 2 - **3.** they turned into ravens and flew off somewhere — score 2 - **4.** they turned into ravens that chased the crows home and then the farmer went mad about it — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 914, line 19: «The joke: "one little feather may easily grow into five hens."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «one little feather» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} and the splinters, were they just sticks lol? - **1.** nah they grew into a massive wood, farmer had to fetch an axe — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nah they grew into a massive wood, farmer had a fit — no support - **3.** nah they grew into a massive wood, farmer had to fetch an axe and his whole family and the dog — no support - **4.** nah they turned into a big wood, the farmer needed help to cut it — 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/1570-pg540-part67/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} the hare, bro, was it a real hare or something else? - **1.** it turned into his son Jack after churchyard earth — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **2.** it was a magic hare that stayed a hare for ages — no support - **3.** it was a hare then it became a boy — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** it turned into his son after some dirt — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1128, line 2: «She turns herself into a hare, and Ivan hands her to the she-dragon and runs off.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «girl» (+2). The right option, 1, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} so the stone turned into what, a pebble? - **1.** a huge high mountain he had to break through — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** a huge hill that blocked the road for ages — no support - **3.** a huge high mountain he had to break through with his bare hands and an axe — no support - **4.** a huge high mountain he had to break through, and it took him a whole day to get past it — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1502, line 18: «Old word: "grat" means wept or cried, so when she "grat" she was crying hard and long on the stone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «word» (+1). Against it: the same place «stone» (-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/1570-pg540-part67/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} did the guy just take the bread and leave? - **1.** nah he plucked feathers from the snoring people first and then he stole the eagle's bread too — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** nah he nicked some feathers off the sleeping folks — no support - **3.** nah he plucked feathers from all the snoring people in the house and then climbed back out the window — no support - **4.** nah he plucked feathers from the snoring people first — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 491, line 12: «The demon reports to the devil: "I've stolen Uncle Sidor's bread!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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/1570-pg540-part67/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} the sisters, how many were there, like proper? - **1.** three — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** three sisters in total — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** five sisters altogether — score 1 - **4.** two — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 6, line 4: «Feeling lonely, Alice wishes her cat Dinah were there and proudly says Dinah eats little birds, and at once every bird finds an excuse to hurry home.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «cat» (-2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} wait what did the sisters rule, like what's their deal? - **1.** beasts, fishes and birds, one each, with the first sister ruling over all the land creatures — score -1 - **2.** birds, beasts and fish, split up — score -4 - **3.** beasts, fishes and birds, one each — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **4.** beasts, fishes and birds, one each, and the old one had the beasts plus the wood — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 517, line 1: «Thetis, a sea-goddess, is so beautiful that Zeus and Poseidon both want her, but a prophecy says her son will rule over his father, so they give up.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «rule» (+1). Against it: the same doer «son» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} how long did it take him to get to the first hut, like a bus ride? - **1.** a long long walk through a huge wood — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** a long walk over a high hill — no support - **3.** a long long walk through a huge wood and over a river that nobody would cross — no support - **4.** a long long walk through a huge wood, past three farms and a lake and a hill — 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/1570-pg540-part67/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} when they got to Farmer's house what was outside the door? - **1.** a great many dead bodies lying in heaps, the eagle said not to worry and to keep walking — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a great many dead bodies, the eagle said not to worry — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** a row of tall barrels, the dog snoring loudly — no support - **4.** a great many dead bodies, and the eagle said not to worry about them at all — 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/1570-pg540-part67/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} so who packed the man off to look for the son? - **1.** his wife, the old woman, who gave him a bag and a roll of tobacco to take — score 0 - **2.** his wife, the old woman, who had sent him off with a bag of food — score -1 - **3.** his wife, the old woman — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 - **4.** his brother, the young boy — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1546, line 9: «How he searches: he asks "whether people died in that land" in every new country he reaches.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). The right option, 3, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} In the narrative, through which agency does the protagonist effect his escape from the household of Farmer Weatherbeard? - **1.** By magic — no support - **2.** Through the help of the farmer — no support - **3.** By the assistance of the Eagle — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** By the eagle — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1570, line 4: «The Eagle flies him to Farmer Weatherbeard's, where he sneaks out three bits of bread and plucks feathers from the snoring household.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «eagle» (+1). 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/1570-pg540-part67/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following accurately records the manner in which the hare was restored to human form? - **1.** By a spell — no support - **2.** By soil from the farm garden plot — no support - **3.** By earth from the churchyard laid upon it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **4.** By dust from the old church door — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1570, line 18: «Old word: "Christian earth" means earth blessed by the church, laid on the hare in the churchyard to break the spell.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «lay» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which description best characterises the man's conduct at Farmer Weatherbeard's house? - **1.** He stealthily removed feathers from sleeping persons, and was brave enough to do it — score -2 - **2.** He stealthily removed feathers from the sleeping persons in the house and then ran away — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **3.** He sneakily took bread from the sleeping cook — score -2 - **4.** He stealthily removed feathers from sleeping persons — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1234, line 13: «He runs away because "if he was caught he would be condemned to death", meaning he would be put to death.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: the same action «run away» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-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/1570-pg540-part67/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following correctly identifies the object transformed into a mountain? - **1.** The little pebble from the field — no support - **2.** The hard stone from the kitchen floor — score 3 - **3.** The great stone from the stable door — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** The stone — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 1559, line 19: «Old word "christened": given a name and blessed in church, a ceremony called baptism today.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1570-pg540-part67/e4/) - ← previous: [1569. Gutenberg 540, Renelde the Spinner: Renelde keep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1569-pg540-part66/) - next →: [1572. Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1572-pg540-part69/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)