--- title: Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-tel… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 2005 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 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/2005-pg7885-part24/) [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/) / 2005 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-teller loses everything at dice and is turned into a hare **Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 2005 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/2005-pg7885-part24/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Yer man the beggar, what was he holding in his hand, like? - **1.** a box and dice — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** a bag of coins — score 0 - **3.** a cup — score 0 - **4.** a stick — score 0 **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 1966, line 2: «He keeps bragging to each new chaser, and the bear and the wolf both give up the chase.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2005-pg7885-part24/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} So the story-teller lost all his cash first, yeah? - **1.** the cash — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** every penny — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** his coins — no support - **4.** all his money — 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/2005-pg7885-part24/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Wait, what did he bet next, like, after the cash went? - **1.** his house and hounds and gold — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the chariot — no support - **3.** houses, hounds, and chariot — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** his cows and his 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/2005-pg7885-part24/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Was the wife actually sittin' beside the beggar, sound? - **1.** yes, she moved across the hall and sat with him — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** she sat beside the beggar — score 6 - **3.** she got up and walked over to sit down beside him — score 6 - **4.** she went and sat near him — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **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 1998, line 20: «The second wife strikes the cup so that "some of it went down her throat," and Silver-tree falls dead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «strike» (+4); the same doer «second wife» (+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/2005-pg7885-part24/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} Ah go way, what did the old man stake against the wife? - **1.** every single thing he had, the wife included — score -5 - **2.** the whole lot, wife and all — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** the whole lot, wife, cows, and all his land — score 0 - **4.** his house and his hounds — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1671, line 10: «What she does: she throws a broom, breaks a vase, and at last "ventured to slit its tongue".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2005-pg7885-part24/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Did he get turned into a deer, or what? - **1.** yes, a deer — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** no, he was turned into a great grey wolf — no support - **3.** no, a hare — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** no, he became a stag in the field — no support **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 1204, line 6: «Who: Prince Almas, turned into a deer by Latifa's magic, still has "his man's heart and mind" inside the animal's body.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2005-pg7885-part24/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Why was the hare not gettin' out of the field, like? - **1.** it was fenced in tight — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** a high wall went round it and the dogs were everywhere — score 0 - **3.** a high wall went round it — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** the field had a high gate — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1670, line 5: «A little hyaena sees the hare dancing without the skin, and the hyaenas chase him; he cuts off his ears and pretends to be a stranger.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «hare» (+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/2005-pg7885-part24/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Who got the hounds to stop chasin' him in the end? - **1.** the beggar — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** his wife — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** the stranger — score 1 - **4.** the king — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 189, line 5: «The king sends him home with rich gifts and a letter for the Caliph, and the part ends at the Caliph's court.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «king» (+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/2005-pg7885-part24/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Where did the stranger bring the story-teller, then? - **1.** the castle — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** the Dark Hill — score 6 - **3.** the river — score 6 - **4.** the Foxes' Ford — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 1935, line 11: «The Prince keeps his word: "The Prince promised faithfully to do all he had been told."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/2005-pg7885-part24/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Whose castle was near the ford, do you reckon? - **1.** Red Hugh O'Donnell — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Red Hugh — no support - **3.** the king — no support - **4.** Red Hugh Donnelly — 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/2005-pg7885-part24/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} What was the stranger keepin' that middle-aged man in, lads? - **1.** his pocket — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a little wallet made of leather — no support - **3.** his wallet — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** the small wallet he carried on his belt — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/2005-pg7885-part24/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} So the king at the end of the first tale, was he happy or what? - **1.** he was delighted — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **2.** he was delighted and rewarded them — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **3.** he was furious — score -1 - **4.** he was amazed — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 669, line 16: «Who: a shepherd, who saves a snake from a forest fire and is rewarded by the King of the Snakes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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/2005-pg7885-part24/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Was the deceiver let off, like, or what? - **1.** burned to ashes in the great hall — score 3 - **2.** burned to ashes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** drowned in the sea — no support - **4.** banished — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 2005, line 10: «Why: the deceiver is punished with fire, and "the deceiver was burned to ashes," so the wrong is set right.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2005-pg7885-part24/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which object did the beggar take from his pocket to transform the story-teller, and what was it used for? - **1.** a long cord and a wand, used to change the story-teller into a hare — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** a box, used to hide the story-teller — score -3 - **3.** a small knife and a cloak, used to hide the wife from the king — score 2 - **4.** a leather belt and a whistle, used to call the hounds back to the field — score -12 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 2005, line 14: «Who: the beggar is an old, lame man with "a wooden leg placed beside him," and he carries "a box and dice" and "one hundred pieces of gold."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3). Against it: 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/2005-pg7885-part24/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} In what manner was the story-teller finally conveyed from the field to the Foxes' Ford? - **1.** by the beggar on a white horse who galloped across the field and then vanished into the mist beyond the wall — score 2 - **2.** by the stranger, who kept him in the wallet and rode home — score 1 - **3.** by the stranger, who placed a man in his wallet and vanished — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** on foot, with the hounds running ahead of him to the ford — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 537, line 2: «On the road he carries an old woman across a rushing river and loses one of his sandals.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same thing acted on «one» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2005-pg7885-part24/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What reason did the king of Erin give for requiring proof of the cowboy's deeds? - **1.** He wanted to verify every single claim the cowboy made before granting the hand of his daughter to any man at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** He wished to verify the claim in full before granting the hand of his daughter and his kingdom — no support - **3.** He wanted to check the story before giving his daughter away — score -3 - **4.** He wished to verify the claim before granting the hand of his daughter — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1854, line 14: «Why: the king is angry about the theft and "caused proclamation" to be made throughout the city.», 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/2005-pg7885-part24/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What was the fate of the son of the king of Tisean, and of the deceiver, respectively? - **1.** Both were freed — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He was freed, and the deceiver was freed — no support - **3.** He was exiled, and the deceiver was hanged — no support - **4.** He was imprisoned, and the deceiver was burned to ashes — **✓ 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/2005-pg7885-part24/e4/) - ← previous: [2004. 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