--- title: Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonagh tricks t… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 2010 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 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/2010-pg7885-part29/) [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/) / 2010 # Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonagh tricks the giant with iron cakes **Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 2010 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/2010-pg7885-part29/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} So yer man Cucullin, what's his big secret? - **1.** His strength is all in one finger, and nothing else at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is all in his right hand — no support - **3.** His strength is all in one finger — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** His strength is all in one finger of his right hand — 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Wha, Fin's hiding in a cradle? Like a baby? - **1.** No, Fin is out on the road — no support - **2.** Yes, Fin hides in the pram — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Yes, Fin lies in the cradle — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Yes, Fin lies in the cradle, pretending to be a baby — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 2010, line 6: «Oonagh is Fin's wife, and she runs the whole plan in this part while Fin hides.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); the same doer «fin» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2010-pg7885-part29/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Did Oonagh bake the cakes with griddles inside? - **1.** Yes, she baked iron griddles right into the cakes — score 2 - **2.** No, plain cakes with no iron — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Yes, hot iron griddles hidden inside every single cake — no support - **4.** Yes, iron griddles in the cakes — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1580, line 2: «The little grey man turns the plain cake into rich food and the sour beer into wine, then tells him where to dig.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «plain cake» (+3); the same property (+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/2010-pg7885-part29/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} How many whistles did she give, grand so? - **1.** Four whistles — **← Mova's choice** · score -5 - **2.** Three whistles — **✓ the right answer** · score -5 - **3.** Three loud whistles and a high smoke — score -5 - **4.** Three cheers — no support **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 1785, line 11: «Why: the whistle is given for his lunch, and it brings back "anything that you have lost or that has been taken from you."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-2); the same thing acted on «whistle» (-3). 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Sure look, how many finger cracks for the glen? - **1.** Nine knocks — no support - **2.** None — no support - **3.** Nine cracks — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Five — **← Mova's choice** · score -6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 78, line 16: «The hunter "put his five fingers close together" and pressed them all over the Leopard, and "wherever the five fingers touched they left five little black mark…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «five fingers» (-1); the number the lesson gave for it (-2). 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Was the glen a gas big hole? How deep? - **1.** Three hundred feet deep — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Four hundred feet deep — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Two hundred feet wide — no support - **4.** Four hundred feet deep and a mile across — 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} What did the eejit Cucullin lose on the cake? - **1.** One of his molars — no support - **2.** A tooth — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Two of his teeth — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Two — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2010, line 5: «At supper he bites a cake, loses two teeth, and Oonagh says only Fin and the child can eat that bread.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «lose» (+1); the same thing acted on «two teeth» (+1); a different doer (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/2010-pg7885-part29/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Did the giant say "Blood and fury" or "Holy moly"? - **1.** Holy moly — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Holy Mother — no support - **3.** Blood and fury — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Dear me — 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Was Fin scared when the house turned? - **1.** No — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, he stayed calm inside — no support - **3.** No, not at all — no support - **4.** Yes, he sweated with fear — **✓ 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Did Oonagh call him a basthoon, like a clown? - **1.** Yes, she called him a basthoon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** No, she called him a pup — no support - **3.** No, a clown — no support - **4.** Yes, she called him a clown — 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Who got the hard cake, like, the one that broke teeth? - **1.** Fin got the soft one — no support - **2.** Fin got the hard cake — no support - **3.** Cucullin got the hard cake — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Cucullin got the hard cake with the griddle in it — **← 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 1456, line 15: «Why poison: the crow says "Poison were her fittest punishment," so the maidens bake a cake with poison in it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «cake» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Were potatoes a thing back then, or what? - **1.** No, potatoes not invented yet, so there were none at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, potatoes not invented yet — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, they grew wild here — no support - **4.** No, potatoes were not invented yet in that time — 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Who's that bread for, like, only fam? - **1.** Only Fin and the baby — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Only for Cucullin — no support - **3.** For the giant too — no support - **4.** The baby — 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} Where'd Fin go, sure? - **1.** To the Causeway to fight the giant Cucullin — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** To the Causeway — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** To the seaside — no support - **4.** Home — 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/2010-pg7885-part29/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which signal did the Irish of old use to welcome strangers to a house? - **1.** A high smoke followed by three long whistles blown at the gate — no support - **2.** A high smoke followed by three whistles — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** A tall column of smoke and a bell — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** A high smoke rising from the roof followed by three whistles — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1854, line 20: «Old word: a "fakir" was a holy man who lived by begging; today we might say a holy man or monk.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/2010-pg7885-part29/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What did the passage identify as the principal source of Cucullin's strength? - **1.** The little finger of his left hand — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** The middle finger of his right hand — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** The middle finger of his right hand, hidden inside his fist — no support - **4.** The middle finger of his right hand, which he cracked for the glen — 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 707, line 21: «Old word: "Mährchen" is German for fairy tale, which is why the source is named "Tunische Mährchen", Tunisian tales.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/2010-pg7885-part29/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} By what means did Oonagh cause Cucullin to injure his own teeth? - **1.** By hiding iron bars in the bread — no support - **2.** By baking iron griddles into the cakes for him to eat — no support - **3.** By baking iron griddles into the cakes — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** By baking the cakes with stone inside — **← 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 2010, line 9: «Oonagh bakes "one-and-twenty cakes" and the iron griddles are kneaded into their hearts.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bake» (+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/2010-pg7885-part29/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What reason did Oonagh give for the absence of Fin from the house? - **1.** He had gone out to the fields to work the land — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** He had gone to the Causeway in search of Cucullin — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** He had left for a long walk — score 1 - **4.** He had gone to the Causeway in search of Cucullin, the giant from the north — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2010, line 17: «Old word "troth" means "truly" or "in truth," and Oonagh uses it to sound certain and friendly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «oonagh» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2010-pg7885-part29/e4/) - ← previous: [2009. Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2009-pg7885-part28/) - next →: [2011. Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2011-pg7885-part30/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)