--- title: Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 2011 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2011-pg7885-part30/) [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/) / 2011 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church **Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 2011 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/2011-pg7885-part30/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, so the giant ate the griddle bread and started screaming, right? - **1.** Nah, bro, no way — no support - **2.** Nah, he just ate it, bro, sound — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Yeah, mate — no support - **4.** Yeah, his teeth were wrecked, mate, total gas — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2011, line 9: «Why: Cucullin says "I'd have no chance with a man who could eat such bread", so he is afraid of Fin.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same thing acted on «such bread» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/2011-pg7885-part30/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Wait, the baby in the cradle ate a cake with no griddle? - **1.** Nah, Fin was full and sat it out, mate, chill — score 4 - **2.** Yeah, Fin was starving and went in for it, sound — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** Nah, bro, it was the king's daughter who ate the cake and then slept for three days in the cradle, sound — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** Nah, the baby was just crying in the cradle, mate, lol — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 320, line 14: «Why: Hook thinks the boys will die because they have "no mother" and do not know "how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same thing acted on «rich damp cake» (+3); the same doer «boys» (+1). 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/2011-pg7885-part30/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Bro, how did Fin make the giant panic? - **1.** He told him the curds were his own brain and squeezed them hard, bro, and the giant ran off screaming, fam — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** He squeezed whey out of the curds, bro — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** He had a white stone and squeezed it so the whey came out, bro, real magic, mate, sick trick — score 3 - **4.** He got him to eat stones, bro, sound — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2011, line 10: «How: Fin squeezes curds until "the whey, as clear as water, oozed out in a little shower".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fin» (+3); the same action «squeeze» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2011-pg7885-part30/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} So Cucullin bit his own finger off by mistake? - **1.** Yeah, bro, the finger slipped out of his mouth, sound — no support - **2.** Yeah, bro, Cucullin bit it off in a panic when Fin squeezed the stone, and then he spat it out across the field — no support - **3.** Nah, he just swallowed it whole, mate, no one saw it — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** No, bro, Fin clamped down on it when he felt his teeth — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 12: «Cucullin cracks his finger three times, then gets "his arms about the house" and turns it round.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «finger» (+3); the same doer «cucullin» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2011-pg7885-part30/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Did the giant drop dead from fear, yeah? - **1.** Nah, he got up and ran off, mate, no harm done — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, he got up again, boss, and went for a walk round the lake, shouting about how Fin had done him in, real talk, bro — no support - **3.** Yeah, he dropped right down on the grass in a total faint, boss, scared out of his mind, and never got up again, mate — no support - **4.** Yeah, he fell down with terror and weakness, boss — **✓ 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/2011-pg7885-part30/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Who were Fair, Brown, and Trembling, anyway? - **1.** The king's three daughters, mate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Daughters of the local lord, mate — no support - **3.** The sisters, mate — no support - **4.** Three princesses from the king, bro — 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/2011-pg7885-part30/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} So why were the sisters keeping Trembling at home? - **1.** They were jealous of her looks, mate, real talk — score -1 - **2.** She was prettier, so they were scared, bant — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** She was prettier, so they hid her, bant — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** They were just jealous, mate, sound — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1309, line 8: «Where: she hides in the forest and sleeps "among the creepers which bound together the big branches."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+1); the same doer «sister» (+1). 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/2011-pg7885-part30/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Did the henwife give Trembling a proper outfit, though? - **1.** Yeah, a red cloak and boots, sick — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, a white robe as bright as snow and green shoes that glowed in the dark, sick, honestly, mate — no support - **3.** Nah, only a brown dress and bare feet, bro — no support - **4.** Yeah, a white robe and green shoes, sick — **✓ 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/2011-pg7885-part30/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Was the mare a normal horse, like, bro? - **1.** Yeah, a black pony with a leather saddle, mate — no support - **2.** Nah, a grey donkey with a wooden saddle, bro — no support - **3.** Nah, mate, a magical milk-white mare that could fly over the lake and a golden saddle made by the henwife's own hands — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** Nah, a milk-white mare with a golden saddle, bro — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 430, line 10: «Why: The mares say they came back because "there came flying bees in countless numbers" and stung them all over.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly» (+3); the same doer «mares» (+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/2011-pg7885-part30/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} What about the rule at the church door? - **1.** Don't stay, just leave the church, bro — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Don't go in at the door, just ride off quick and don't look back, fam, no matter what anyone says — no support - **3.** Don't go in, just ride off quick, fam — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Just go in and pray, fam, quick — no support **Why:** It could not read the question into a frame, 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/2011-pg7885-part30/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} So the crowd tried to chase her, yeah? - **1.** Yeah, they ran out after her, but she was gone, fam — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Yeah, they chased her, but nobody caught her, bro — no support - **3.** Yeah, the whole crowd came pouring out of the church after her, screaming and waving their arms, but she was long gone, fam — score 4 - **4.** Nah, bro, they didn't even bother, they just watched her go and went back in for the rest of the Mass, sound, mate, real talk — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 466, line 14: «What: after the kiss the crowd cries, "Who is he? Who is he? Stop him!" but he is gone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «crowd» (+1); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2011-pg7885-part30/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Wait, how fast was she going, though? - **1.** Like a rocket, mate, totally wild — no support - **2.** Quicker than a horse, bro, sound — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** Faster than the wind, like mad, fam — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Super fast, fam — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1921, line 20: «The tale ends on a cliffhanger, as the wise woman says, "I will give you a good piece of advice."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wise woman» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-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/2011-pg7885-part30/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} So what did the henwife have ready at home? - **1.** Porridge, ready to go, so no one knew, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A full hot dinner with meat and bread and wine, all sorted, so nobody knew she'd been out, mate — no support - **3.** Nothing, mate — no support - **4.** Dinner, all sorted, so no one knew, mate — **✓ the right answer** · 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/2011-pg7885-part30/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following was the object Fin used to deceive Cucullin regarding his strength? - **1.** A white stone that he had hidden in his cloak, from which curds were squeezed to produce clear whey for the giant — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** A white stone, from which curds were squeezed to produce whey — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** A small white pebble from the lake bed, which Fin pressed in his fist until curds and then whey ran out — no support - **4.** A hard loaf, from which crumbs were shaken to make dust — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2011, line 10: «How: Fin squeezes curds until "the whey, as clear as water, oozed out in a little shower".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «squeeze» (+3); the same thing acted on «curds» (+3). 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/2011-pg7885-part30/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which character was the first to be deceived by the henwife's enchantments? - **1.** Fair, who received a grey cloak and brown shoes — no support - **2.** Trembling, who was given a white robe and green shoes by the henwife in the dark kitchen one night — score -1 - **3.** Trembling, who received a white robe and green shoes — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The eldest sister, Fair, who was first tricked when the henwife gave her a golden cloak and silver shoes that turned to ash — **← 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 -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 788, line 6: «Who: the story is told by the Brothers Grimm, and the two main characters are the sisters Snow-white and Rose-red.», 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); the same doer «two main characters» (+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/2011-pg7885-part30/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What was the immediate consequence of Fin's cunning upon the giant Cucullin? - **1.** The giant collapsed on the ground, lifeless and pale, overcome with terror and the weakness of his broken teeth — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The giant was humiliated before the whole crowd, and then he fell down dead from the shock of his injured finger and his lost strength — no support - **3.** The giant lost his strength and fled the field — no support - **4.** The giant fell lifeless from terror and weakness — **✓ 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/2011-pg7885-part30/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following describes the rule the henwife gave Trembling about attending church? - **1.** She must not enter the church door and must leave quickly at Mass's end — **✓ the right answer** · score -5 - **2.** She must not enter the church door, and must leave as soon as Mass ends, without speaking to anyone or waiting for blessings from the priest — score -5 - **3.** She must never step through the church door at all and must ride away immediately once the Mass has finished and the crowd gathers — score -3 - **4.** She must avoid the church and sit by the gate during the service — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1878, line 4: «Then we see the Flower Fairy's lovely palace, and she sends young Sylvia out to visit princesses who once left her court.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «lovely palace» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored -5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2011-pg7885-part30/e4/) - ← previous: [2010. Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2010-pg7885-part29/) - next →: [2012. 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