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title: Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three giantesses,… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 715 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 14 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three giantesses, then finds the horse Gullfaxi and the sword Gunnfjoder

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**Tests:** 3 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 715 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/715-pg2435-part55/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Like, what did the first giantess want to do to Sigurd tonight?

- **1.** Cook him — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Tie him to a chair — score 3
- **3.** Put him in the pot — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** Burn him — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 715, line 12: «The third giantess is "the most hideous giantess that ever was seen," and she gets the largest ring of all, "the red gold."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+5). Against it: the same thing acted on «hideous giantess» (-2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Innit, what did the wine horn make Sigurd become?

- **1.** Dead strong and ready to fight any giant — no support
- **2.** Quite fast — no support
- **3.** Sick and tired — no support
- **4.** Dead strong — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 715, line 10: «The horn is "foolish" of her, because the wine makes Sigurd "so strong that he soon overthrew her."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: the same action «make» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bruv, how many giantesses did Sigurd end up wrestling, proper?

- **1.** Nine giantesses all together in a row — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** Seven giantesses in the mountain hall — score 0
- **3.** Three — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Four — no support

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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 715, line 12: «The third giantess is "the most hideous giantess that ever was seen," and she gets the largest ring of all, "the red gold."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «third giantess» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «hideous giantess» (-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/715-pg2435-part55/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Mate, how did Sigurd get hauled up the cliff, like?

- **1.** With a heavy iron chain — score 6
- **2.** With a long boat hook — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** With a rope — score 6
- **4.** By a ladder — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 715, line 1: «Sigurd rolls his ball, and it stops at the foot of a cliff where the first giantess hauls him up with a boat hook to wrestle her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «haul up» (+3); the same thing acted on «sigurd» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Yeah but, what kind of dad did Helga have?

- **1.** A fierce giant — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A wise king — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** A kind farmer — no support
- **4.** A grumpy shepherd — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 715, line 4: «Sigurd finds Helga playing by a lake, and she hides him from her fierce giant father inside a bundle of wool.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, 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/715-pg2435-part55/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Sick, what does Helga's glove do to Sigurd?

- **1.** Turns him into a stone — score 7
- **2.** Turns him into a bird — score 7
- **3.** Turns him into wool — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** Hides him — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 715, line 4: «Sigurd finds Helga playing by a lake, and she hides him from her fierce giant father inside a bundle of wool.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «hide» (+1); the same thing acted on «sigurd» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Like, where did Sigurd find the horse and sword?

- **1.** Behind a locked iron door at the back of the giant's house — no support
- **2.** Behind a locked iron door — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** In a secret room under the cliff, guarded by a huge giant — score 1
- **4.** Inside a dark wooden box — **← Mova's choice** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 715, line 5: «At a locked iron door Sigurd finds the horse Gullfaxi and the sword, and Helga tells him about the stick, stone and twig.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+5); the same doer «sigurd» (+4). 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/715-pg2435-part55/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Ngl, what does the sword's writing promise?

- **1.** Happiness for the rider — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Happiness for whoever rides the horse and wears the sword — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** Safety for the warrior — no support
- **4.** Glory and great riches for all who fight with it in battle — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 369, line 18: «Old word "composed": "composed himself to rest" means settled himself calmly; today we would say he got comfortable.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+5). Against it: the same thing acted on «word» (-2). The right option, 1, 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/715-pg2435-part55/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Mate, what's the horse called again?

- **1.** Sleipnir — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Golden-maned Gullfaxi of the north — no support
- **3.** Gullfaxi — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Silvermane, the great horse of the king — 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/715-pg2435-part55/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Bruv, what is the twig supposed to do when thrown?

- **1.** Make a river appear — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Make a thick dark forest appear behind the rider — no support
- **3.** Make a whole wood of tall trees spring up at once — no support
- **4.** Make a forest appear — **✓ 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/715-pg2435-part55/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Gutted, what did Helga say her father would never forgive?

- **1.** Her letting Sigurd ride — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **2.** Her losing the keys — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **3.** Her letting the strange young man ride the golden horse — score 0
- **4.** Her hiding the horse — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 348, line 2: «His father forgives him, saying he would rather lose a dozen trees than hear one lie.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored -3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Proper, what does Sigurd want to do with Gullfaxi?

- **1.** Ride him to the town — score 2
- **2.** Ride him round the house — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** Ride him into the lake — score 2
- **4.** Ride him — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 698, line 6: «Who: the king's children are Prince Sigurd and his sister Lineik, who are left in their own house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); the same place «own house» (+2); the same thing acted on «sigurd» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Innit, what did Sigurd think of the stick, stone and twig?

- **1.** Gifts the wise old giant left for the young prince — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Broken little tools — no support
- **3.** Strange magic items he thought were fine and precious — no support
- **4.** Wretched dried-up things — **✓ 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/715-pg2435-part55/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Peak, what does "chink" mean in this bit?

- **1.** A small wall — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** A thin cloth — score 9
- **3.** A wide opening in the cliff where the wind blows through — no support
- **4.** A narrow crack — **✓ the right answer** · score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 167, line 21: «Old word "cinders" means small burnt pieces of wood or coal; today we would say ash or charred bits.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+5); the same circumstance (+3); the same action «mean» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 4, scored 10. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/t14/)

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

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To what end did the first giantess intend to dispose of the prince after the wrestling?

- **1.** She intended to place him within a cooking pot — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **2.** She meant to cook him — no support
- **3.** She planned to hang him from the high roof beam — no support
- **4.** She meant to hang him over the fire by his feet — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 122, line 10: «What the prince does: he cries the same words, the hair falls, and he climbs up to meet Rapunzel.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «same words» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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What substance did Helga's father detect in the room, and what was his conclusion?

- **1.** He sensed a stranger and let it pass — score -1
- **2.** He detected the smell of men and dismissed it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** He noticed the smell of a horse and waved it away — score 3
- **4.** He detected the smell of men and ordered a search of every room in the house — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 457, line 3: «Frost takes pity on her, wraps her in furs, and next morning her father finds her alive with gifts.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «father» (+2); the same action «find» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/715-pg2435-part55/e2/)

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

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Which properties were ascribed to the horse and to the twig in Helga's account?

- **1.** The horse was a golden gift; the twig, when thrown, made a whole forest rise up behind the rider — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** The horse was given by a king long ago; the twig could raise a dark wood from bare ground — score -2
- **3.** The horse was precious; the twig created a forest — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The horse could fly; the stick could burn — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 222, line 1: «The Indian says the magic horse was a gift in exchange for his only daughter, and he will part with it only for a princess.», 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) (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «gift» (-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/715-pg2435-part55/e3/)

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

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What does the inscription on the sword state concerning its bearer?

- **1.** That the sword will bring happiness — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** That the bearer of the sword will be safe — no support
- **3.** That the owner of the sword will find joy — no support
- **4.** That the rider of the horse and bearer of the sword will attain happiness — **✓ 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/715-pg2435-part55/e4/)

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