--- title: Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the giant laugh… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 2004 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 14 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/2004-pg7885-part23/) [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/) / 2004 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the giant laugh and stops a wedding **Tests:** 4 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 2004 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/2004-pg7885-part23/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} mate, why was the cowboy so mental with the Gruagach, like proper scary? - **1.** he gave him a stern look and a shove — no support - **2.** he dragged the giant across the whole hall by his hair and kicked him in the ribs until he begged for mercy — no support - **3.** he flayed the giant's back with a knife and then tied his feet to the rafters for an hour — no support - **4.** he tore the house apart to make him talk — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2004, line 13: «The cowboy made Yellow Face pay by using the wooden loop and the wooden pike, which the cowboy chose on purpose.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cowboy» (+1). Against it: the same action «make» (-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/2004-pg7885-part23/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} did the cowboy actually tie the giant up good, or what? - **1.** with his wrists tied to the rafters and his feet to the stone floor — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **2.** with his hands bound behind his back — no support - **3.** by the three smalls, toes near his ears — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** bound in sheepskin from head to toe so he could barely breathe — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1079, line 3: «Her kind sister flees into the forest, where a King's son marries her when pearls and diamonds fall from her lips.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «marry» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-3). 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/2004-pg7885-part23/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} wait, the hare was the actual villain yeah? - **1.** the sons had started the fire — no support - **2.** the hare tossed the ashes all over — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** the stork threw the milk around — no support - **4.** the Gruagach set the hare on the hearth on purpose to trick them all — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 2004, line 7: «What: a "slender brown hare" kept coming into the hall, tossing up the ashes to the rafters and running away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «ashes» (+3); the same doer «slender brown hare» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2004-pg7885-part23/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} so who got the iron pike, the Gruagach or the cowboy? - **1.** the Gruagach got the iron pike — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** the cowboy grabbed the iron pike from the Gruagach's hand before the first blow was struck — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **3.** the Gruagach chose the iron pike and gave it to his eldest son — score -1 - **4.** the Gruagach kept the wooden pike — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 2004, line 13: «The cowboy made Yellow Face pay by using the wooden loop and the wooden pike, which the cowboy chose on purpose.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «cowboy» (-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/2004-pg7885-part23/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} bruv, how many sons did the Gruagach have again? - **1.** six — score 3 - **2.** twelve — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** thirteen sons from the first wife — no support - **4.** twelve sons and a daughter — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 2004, line 3: «The cowboy turns the trick back on Yellow Face, who must bring the twelve sons back to life.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+6). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2004-pg7885-part23/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} was the wedding happening today or nah? - **1.** tonight — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the day before the feast — no support - **3.** the day after the laugh — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** today — 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/2004-pg7885-part23/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} what did the cowboy do to the wee hare, dead? - **1.** ate it raw — no support - **2.** smashed its brains on the wall — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** let it go — no support - **4.** pinned it to the wooden table — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2004, line 5: «They race to the king's castle, push through the crowd, and the cowboy knocks the prince under a table.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/2004-pg7885-part23/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} and the sheepskin, did it come off or nah? - **1.** no, it came off — no support - **2.** it peeled off in the night — no support - **3.** it grew on him for good — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** he took it off and burned it in the fire at dawn — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2004, line 12: «The Gruagach's back was stripped, and a black sheepskin "grew on me", so he now shears his own back each year.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+4); the same doer «black sheepskin» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2004-pg7885-part23/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} so what was the Gruagach's big secret, pal? - **1.** he clipped his own back for wool — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** he had no secret — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** he spun his own yarn at night — no support - **4.** he sheared his own sheep yearly — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1506, line 12: «The Duke of Beloeil lets his daughters' suitors try to discover the secret, and Michael is the only one who learns it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «secret» (+3); the same doer «only one» (+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/2004-pg7885-part23/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} did the cowboy actually go for the prince or nah? - **1.** he chased the prince out of the castle and into the glen before dawn — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** he lifted the prince by the collar and dropped him in the moat outside — score 5 - **3.** he threw him against the wall — no support - **4.** he flattened him under a table — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **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 2004, line 5: «They race to the king's castle, push through the crowd, and the cowboy knocks the prince under a table.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «prince» (+3); the same doer «cowboy» (+2). 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/2004-pg7885-part23/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} honestly, was the cowboy kind of a legend or what? - **1.** he won the whole contest — no support - **2.** he was the bravest man ever to walk into the hall and make the giant weep — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **3.** he saved the princess, the sons and the whole household from the giant — score -1 - **4.** he saved the day, big time — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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 1947, line 4: «The queen sends the hen-wife's boy and the gardener's boy instead, and the giant kills both at the big stone.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «boy» (-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/2004-pg7885-part23/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} wait, what was that bit about the milk, yeah? - **1.** the giant had no pots to hold it — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 - **2.** the giant poured the whole churn of milk into the stork's pot by mistake — no support - **3.** the cowboy spilled it on the floor — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** the giant had drunk every drop and then fell asleep by the fire — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1965, line 15: «He spills the milk because he puts the jar "into the large pocket of his jacket."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «spill» (+4); the same thing acted on «milk» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2004-pg7885-part23/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} the stork in the pot, was that dinner or something? - **1.** it was a decoy — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the stork was roasted on the spit — no support - **3.** the stork was boiled for supper — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** the goose was hung up to dry — 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/2004-pg7885-part23/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} so the iron loops, they were for who, mate? - **1.** the sons' heads — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** the heads of the twelve sons — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** the necks — no support - **4.** the hands of the twelve guests — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 2002, line 18: «Old word: "skelped" means ran off very fast; this is a dialect word from Scotland, northern England and Ireland.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+5). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «dialect word» (-2). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2004-pg7885-part23/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} With reference to the text, what was the cause of the Gruagach's silence? - **1.** his sons were gone — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the loss of his twelve sons and his flayed back — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** the death of his wife and his burned hall — no support - **4.** the loss of his twelve sons and his stolen cloak — 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/2004-pg7885-part23/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which implement did the cowboy select when offered the choice by Yellow Face? - **1.** the wooden staff — score -3 - **2.** the wooden pike — **✓ the right answer** · score -5 - **3.** the iron pike — score -3 - **4.** the iron — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2004, line 13: «The cowboy made Yellow Face pay by using the wooden loop and the wooden pike, which the cowboy chose on purpose.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «choose» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1); the same doer «cowboy» (-2). The right option, 2, scored -5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2004-pg7885-part23/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What did the cowboy do with the iron loops when he received them? - **1.** threw them at Yellow Face and dragged him across the floor to the hearth — score -1 - **2.** fastened them round the necks of the sons — score -2 - **3.** tied them around his own neck and wrists — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** placed them on the necks of the twelve daughters — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 6, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2004, line 20: «Old word: "bride-groom" is an old spelling of "bridegroom", the man who is about to marry.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same action «marry» (+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/2004-pg7885-part23/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What was the consequence of the Gruagach's laughter for the wedding? - **1.** the wedding was moved to the next week — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the marriage was to take place the next day — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** the marriage was postponed until the Gruagach had regained his voice and his skin — no support - **4.** the wedding was delayed by a whole year while the sheepskin was mended — 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/2004-pg7885-part23/e4/) - ← previous: [2003. 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