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title: Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks

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**Tests:** 7 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 2018 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/2018-pg7885-part37/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Mate, whit did the giant want the prince's firstborn wee son for?

- **1.** the king's wee gold — no support
- **2.** tae eat the wee lad — no support
- **3.** a wee dog — no support
- **4.** his first son back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1321, line 5: «The raven carries him far away and gives him a bundle that holds a whole castle, and a giant wants the first boy he has when he is seven.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «first boy» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2018-pg7885-part37/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Naw wait, who did the queen send first insteada her ain boy?

- **1.** the stable loon — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** the cook's son — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **3.** a maid — score 0
- **4.** the cook — score 0

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**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 2018, line 9: «Why: the queen sends the cook's son to save her own boy, saying, "We'll try it yet," after the first plan fails.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «queen» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2018-pg7885-part37/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bruh, who's the giant's youngest, the sound one that helps the prince?

- **1.** Mary — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Auburn Mary — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Maggie — no support
- **4.** Fair Elspeth — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Mental, how many lassies has the giant got, like?

- **1.** four — no support
- **2.** one — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** three — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **4.** two — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2018, line 7: «What: the prince promised him "the first son you have when he is seven years of age," and the giant holds him to it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Whit did the prince say his faither had that was braver?

- **1.** a braver steed — no support
- **2.** a braver rod — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** a braver rod than the giant has — no support
- **4.** a better sword — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2018, line 3: «The prince tricks the giant by saying his father has a braver rod, a king sitting in his kingly chair, so the giant spares him and raises him.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «braver rod» (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2018-pg7885-part37/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Hou long had the byre been manky, nae cleaned, like?

- **1.** twelve years — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** seven years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** twae days — no support
- **4.** a year — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Whit did the giant want the byre roof covered wi?

- **1.** birds' down — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** bark and reeds — no support
- **3.** the saft down o a thoosand birds — no support
- **4.** feathers fae the magpie's nest — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Hoo many cattle's stabled in the byre, dae ye ken?

- **1.** a hundred — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** ten — no support
- **3.** twa hunner — no support
- **4.** twelve — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Were the birds meant tae match, like?

- **1.** aw the same — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** every bird's different — no support
- **3.** each a different hue — no support
- **4.** no two the same — **✓ 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Whit did the prince haud when he went efter the birds?

- **1.** his bow — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a spear — no support
- **3.** a rod — no support
- **4.** a gun — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Whaur did the prince chase the birds, on the moors or whaur?

- **1.** in the forest — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** by the loch — no support
- **3.** far awa on the moors o the north — no support
- **4.** on the moors — **✓ 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Whit's in the magpie's nest up the fir tree?

- **1.** five eggs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** five speckled eggs o blue — no support
- **3.** five eggs and a dead bird — no support
- **4.** three eggs — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Hou high was the fir tree tae the first branch, like?

- **1.** a hundred feet — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** five hundred feet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** four hundred yards — no support
- **4.** three hundred feet — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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Whit did the prince lose climbin the tree, like?

- **1.** the skin — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the bark — no support
- **3.** a boot — no support
- **4.** his boots — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/t14/)

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

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What did the giant require in exchange for the castle?

- **1.** the first son o the king's bairn — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** the castle's gold and silver — no support
- **3.** the king's first gold — score 0
- **4.** the first son born to the king — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1064, line 11: «Why Segda agrees: "it is to do good I am required, and no person may shirk such a requirement."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «require» (+1). 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/2018-pg7885-part37/e1/)

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

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By what means did the king's son secure his release from the giant?

- **1.** by claiming his father owned a sword — no support
- **2.** by stating that his father possessed a braver rod than the giant — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** by offering the giant his own gold — no support
- **4.** by stating that his father possessed a braver rod — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**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 2018, line 17: «Old word: a laddie is a boy in Scots talk, so "the little laddie" means the little boy who holds the rod.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «little boy» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2018-pg7885-part37/e2/)

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

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What task did the giant set the prince before permitting the marriage to his daughter?

- **1.** thatching the byre with birds' down by dusk — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** cleansing the byre within a single day — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** cleansing the byre within a single day, with the golden apple running end to end — score 4
- **4.** feeding the hundred cattle before the dusk — no support

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**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 2018, line 4: «The giant's youngest daughter, Auburn Mary, secretly helps the prince, who must clean a filthy byre and thatch it with birds' down.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «thatch» (+3); the same thing acted on «byre» (+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/2018-pg7885-part37/e3/)

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

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Which magical object did the giant ask the prince to fetch from the top of the fir tree?

- **1.** a bird's nest from the top — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** five magpie eggs from the nest — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** the golden apple from the orchard — no support
- **4.** five magpie eggs — 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/2018-pg7885-part37/e4/)

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