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title: Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and the sea-ma… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 2009 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and the sea-maiden dies

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**Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 5 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 2009 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.

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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/2009-pg7885-part28/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Mate, who actually got nabbed by the sea-maiden?

- **1.** His old horse, mate — score -4
- **2.** The princess, his wife, who was on the shore — no support
- **3.** The soothsayer's son — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** The princess, his wife — **✓ the right answer** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1254, line 9: «Why: the king is angry because the pedlar "in fear of his life, had complained to the king", so he sends men to arrest the boy.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «boy» (+1). Against it: the same doer «king» (-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/2009-pg7885-part28/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Ken how the hero actually beat her, like?

- **1.** He stamped on the egg with his foot, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He caught the hoodie — no support
- **3.** He stole the trout — no support
- **4.** He broke the egg — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Wait, what's in the trout's gob, though?

- **1.** An egg, mate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A little egg, mate, from the sea-maiden — no support
- **3.** Just a fly, mate — no support
- **4.** A small hoodie — no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Was the hind mega quick or what?

- **1.** Fast as the wind, she was — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Quick as a flash, aye — no support
- **3.** Really fast — no support
- **4.** Quick as anything, she was — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Did the otter sort the trout proper?

- **1.** Aye, he fetched it — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Aye, he brung it back — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Nah, he didn't — no support
- **4.** Nah, he dropped it — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2009, line 15: «The otter brings the trout "from the midst of the loch", and the egg comes from its mouth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bring» (+3); the same thing acted on «trout» (+3); the same doer «otter» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2009-pg7885-part28/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Bruv, is Fin like a proper legend?

- **1.** Aye, the big Irish hero — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Aye, the Hibernian Hercules — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Aye, a proper champion — no support
- **4.** Nah, not really — no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Mental, how hard could Cucullin stamp?

- **1.** Hard enough to shake a village — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Hard enough to crack a rock — no support
- **3.** Very hard, bruv — no support
- **4.** Hard enough to shake a townland — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Was Fin scared of Cucullin, or what?

- **1.** Aye, dead scared — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nah — no support
- **3.** Not at all — no support
- **4.** Nah, not scared — no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Where's Fin's gaff, like, on the map?

- **1.** On the top of the big hill near Dungannon — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Far away up on the highest peak in Tyrone — no support
- **3.** On top of Knockmany — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Under the Causeway — no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Oi, what did Fin pull up for a stick?

- **1.** A birch tree, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** A fir-tree, mate — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** A huge fir-tree he yanked from the earth, mate — score 1
- **4.** A big fir-tree from the glen, mate — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 2009, line 17: «Fin M'Coul pulls up a fir-tree and trims it into a walking-stick.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «fir tree» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). 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/2009-pg7885-part28/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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What did Oonagh tell her bully, though?

- **1.** Leave it to me, bully — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Depend on me, bully — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Trust me, bully — no support
- **4.** Count on me, mate — no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Bruv, when's Cucullin rolling up?

- **1.** Tomorrow, about two o'clock, bruv, don't be late — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Tomorrow, about two — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Next week, about two — no support
- **4.** The day after tomorrow, sometime in the afternoon, bruv — no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Yo, is the falcon the one who saves him?

- **1.** Nah, the black one does — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Aye, the grey one does — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Aye, it does — no support
- **4.** Aye, the brown one does — no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/t13/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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In what vessel was the soul of the sea-maiden concealed?

- **1.** Inside a golden box, within a loch — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Within an egg, which was itself hidden inside a trout in the loch — no support
- **3.** Inside a small golden casket, carefully sealed within a trout's belly, deep in the water — no support
- **4.** Within an egg, contained in a trout — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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By what means did the hero's enterprise against the sea-maiden reach its conclusion?

- **1.** By cutting the trout open — no support
- **2.** By crushing the egg in his hand — no support
- **3.** By breaking the egg with his foot — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** By breaking the egg with his foot at the water's edge, while she begged him not to — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1974, line 22: «Old word: "ups to him" is country speech for "walked up to him", and a "curtsey" is a small bow women once made.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «women» (+1). 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/2009-pg7885-part28/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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What office did the old soothsayer perform for the afflicted husband?

- **1.** He told the husband how to find the princess — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** He revealed the single method of her destruction to the husband in secret — no support
- **3.** He explained the whole plan, which was to break the egg with his foot after catching the trout — score -1
- **4.** He disclosed the single method of her destruction — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1963, line 17: «In The Golden Arm, the husband searches for a wife and finds a woman "young, fair, and rich" with "a right arm of solid gold".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+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/2009-pg7885-part28/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Which giant was reported to possess a thunderbolt in the form of a pancake?

- **1.** Fin M'Coul — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Knockmany — no support
- **3.** The giant from Dungannon — no support
- **4.** Cucullin — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/2009-pg7885-part28/e4/)

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