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title: Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins a laird's… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 262 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 14 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins a laird's bride, and he forbids her the spinning-wheel

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**Tests:** 1 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 3 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 262 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/262-pg14241-part29/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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So ken what the bairn did when she woke up?

- **1.** Ran back up the hill to find the cave and the wheel again — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Ran home, weeping and tired, to find her mother's arms at the cottage door — no support
- **3.** Walked to the mill — no support
- **4.** Ran home sharp-sharp — **✓ 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/262-pg14241-part29/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Wha's the wee dame who talks through the stone?

- **1.** The old wife of the mill — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The ugly old dame who lives inside the stone and sings all night long — no support
- **3.** Habetrot, the old spinner — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The witch of the wood, the girl's old aunt who lives in the hills — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Did the lassie get the yarn fer free?

- **1.** Nae — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Aye, she got it free — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nay, she paid in gold — no support
- **4.** Nay, she gave her hand and her ring to the old spinner — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Whit did the mammy shout when she saw the yarn?

- **1.** Seven, seven, seven rhyme, sing it again and again — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Seven, seven, seven rhyme — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nine, nine — no support
- **4.** Seven! — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Wha got the sausters all gone, pal?

- **1.** The grey cat next door — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The hungry dog that came in by the door and ate the rest of the food — no support
- **3.** The hungry lassie — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Her hungry brother — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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How mony hanks were on the table?

- **1.** Seven, dead right — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Two — no support
- **3.** Seven, I think — no support
- **4.** Five, dead right — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Wha rode up tae the cottage, no kidding?

- **1.** A rich lord on his fine horse, followed by three servants and a pack of hounds — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A laird on his horse — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A miller on a cart — no support
- **4.** A young laird on a grey horse, riding fast down from the hills with his men — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Whit did the laird say he wanted in his wife?

- **1.** A kind heart, aye — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A guid spinner, aye — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A guid cook, a guid spinner, and a lass who sings and dances bonnie at the fair — no support
- **4.** A guid spinner who can spin flax white and fine, and keep his house warm and bright — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Wis the bride feart she'd no be guid at the wheel?

- **1.** Nae, she was no feart — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Aye, she was feart of the wheel and the wedding night too — no support
- **3.** Nae, no — no support
- **4.** Aye, she was feart — **✓ 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/262-pg14241-part29/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Whit did Habetrot dae at the wedding?

- **1.** Sat in the corner and sang a long sad ditty, cursing the wheel and the bride — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Sang a ditty, dancing, and spun the yarn too — no support
- **3.** Spun the wedding flax — no support
- **4.** Sang a ditty, dancing — **✓ 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/262-pg14241-part29/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Whit did the laird see through the stone?

- **1.** The laird's own mother — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Habetrot and her wicked kin dancing about the fire in the cave — no support
- **3.** Habetrot spinning yarn — no support
- **4.** Habetrot jumping and singing — **✓ 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/262-pg14241-part29/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Whit did the spinnies' mooths look like?

- **1.** Ugly, with long noses — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Ugly, the lips all twisted — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Bonnie, with bright eyes — no support
- **4.** Ugly, the lips all twisted and the teeth all black — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Whit did the laird swear aboot the wheel?

- **1.** She'd always touch it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She'd never touch it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She'd never sing a note — no support
- **4.** She'd never sing — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Where did the flax go aff tae?

- **1.** Tae the wee glen, aye, and there it was spun in the cave by her — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Tae Habetrot, to spin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Tae the cave in the hill where Habetrot sits and spins the flax wi' her kin — no support
- **4.** Tae the laird's hall — 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/262-pg14241-part29/t14/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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By what means did the maiden come into possession of the yarn?

- **1.** It was spun by Habetrot and given to her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11
- **2.** The laird gave it — score 10
- **3.** It was spun by her mother and given to the laird's wife — score 9
- **4.** She bought it at the market — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 262, line 7: «What: Habetrot spins seven hanks of yarn, and she tells the girl "dinna tell your mother who spun the yarn."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «spin» (+3); the same doer «habetrot» (+3); 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/262-pg14241-part29/e1/)

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

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Upon what condition did the spinner require the maiden's silence regarding the yarn?

- **1.** That she tell the laird everything about the cave and the wheel — no support
- **2.** That she say nothing of the spinner's wicked kin and their wheel — no support
- **3.** That she disclose not the spinner's identity — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** That she tell no one — **← Mova's choice** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 262, line 19: «The laird keeps his word, so his wife "should never touch a spinning-wheel," and all his flax goes to Habetrot to be "converted into yarn."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); 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/262-pg14241-part29/e2/)

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

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Which circumstance rendered the laird's wish to marry the maiden manifest?

- **1.** His love of her face — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** His wish for a cook — no support
- **3.** His wish for a bride from the glen — no support
- **4.** His desire for a skilled spinner — **✓ 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/262-pg14241-part29/e3/)

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

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What prohibition did the laird impose upon his bride following the visit to the cave?

- **1.** She was forbidden the great hall — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** She was forbidden the wheel and forbidden to ever touch the flax, the yarn, or the cave again — score 0
- **3.** She was forbidden to speak of the cave, the spinner, the yarn, or the wheel to anyone in the household or the village — score 0
- **4.** She was forbidden the spinning-wheel — **✓ the right answer** · 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 228, line 5: «An old devotee visits the princess and tells her of the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, and the princess decides she must have all three.», 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 «princess» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/262-pg14241-part29/e4/)

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