Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan catches a mouse that eats his wheat, and a bishop reveals the mice are his enemy's wife
Tests: 0 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1333 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.
Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗
Oi, bruv, what did the shoemakers wanna do to him?
- 1. Chuck him in the river — no support
- 2. Kill him, they was well angry and skint — no support
- 3. They wanted to kill him cos they were proper furious — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. Kill him, proper angry — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1326, line 13: «Why: Owen wants to see the face of a man again, which is why he comes down from the wild hills.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Innit, how many fields did he plant with wheat?
- 1. Three fields, but he said it was loads more — no support
- 2. Four, mate — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 3. Two, mate — score -1
- 4. Three, mate — ✓ the right answer · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 377, line 19: «Hard word "crop" means what a field grows, such as wheat, corn or fruit, which people gather to eat or sell.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «field» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); the same circumstance (-2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, so what was nicking all his corn?
- 1. A whole load of cheeky field mice — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Loads of birds — no support
- 3. Loads of mice and some crows from the hedge — no support
- 4. Loads of mice — ✓ 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
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did he actually nab one, though?
- 1. Nah, it got out, then he caught it again later — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, in his hat — no support
- 3. Yeah, he trapped it in his leather glove — no support
- 4. Yeah, in his glove — ✓ 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
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Kieva well up for the hanging?
- 1. Yeah, she said hang it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, she told him to just let it go free — no support
- 3. Nah, she said no way — no support
- 4. Nah, she said let it go — ✓ 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
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
That scholar, was he some nerdy singer?
- 1. Yeah, a travelling singer from England — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he was a proper scholar from the south — no support
- 3. Nah, from Ireland — no support
- 4. Yeah, from England — ✓ 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
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, how much did the priest offer, like?
- 1. Two quid — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Four quid — no support
- 3. Ten quid — no support
- 4. Three quid — ✓ 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
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the bishop offer loads of loot?
- 1. Twenty-four quid, plus horses and a load of gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Loads more than that, plus horses and a castle — no support
- 3. Twenty-four quid, plus horses — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Fifty quid, plus some silver — 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
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, why did he say no to all that cash?
- 1. Wanted his mate back — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He just wanted the spell gone for good, innit — no support
- 3. Wanted the spell gone — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Cos he wanted the spell gone and his lands back — 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
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
So the mouse is basically the bishop's missus?
- 1. Yeah, his sister — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, his wife, the bishop's bride of years — no support
- 3. Nah, his mother — no support
- 4. Yeah, his wife — ✓ 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
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was the bishop getting revenge for, then?
- 1. Pryderi, his son — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Rhiannon, his wife — no support
- 3. Gwawl, his mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Pryderi — 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
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was that game a proper trick, like?
- 1. Nah, just chess — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, Hurling the Ball — no support
- 3. Yeah, a trick — no support
- 4. Yeah, Badger in the Bag — ✓ 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
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the mice eat loads of the ears, then?
- 1. Nah, just a few — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, most of them — no support
- 3. Yeah, all gone — no support
- 4. Yeah, every ear went — ✓ 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
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, what even is a reptile?
- 1. A small lizard — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A small scaly animal — no support
- 3. A creeping little creature — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A slimy frog-like beast — 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Upon what matter did Kieva offer her counsel regarding the captured creature?
- 1. To keep it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To kill it — no support
- 3. To release it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Hang it — 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
With what apparatus did Manawyddan secure the creature before presenting it to his companion?
- 1. A leather glove and a length of strong string — no support
- 2. His belt and a rope — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. A glove and a string — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. His own glove and a thin silver chain — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 930, line 18: «Old word: an "urchin" here is a mischievous little winged creature, while today the word usually means a street child or a spiny sea animal.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «mischievous little winged creature» (+3). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What sum did the bishop first propose in exchange for the release of the creature?
- 1. Three pounds — no support
- 2. Twenty-four pounds — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Fourteen pounds — no support
- 4. Twenty-four pounds and six fine horses — ← Mova's choice · score -3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1111, line 16: «Why does Daniel swap his horse and armour? The lady offers "her shift and her weapon" in exchange.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «horse» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
By whom, according to the bishop's own account, was the charm upon the lands cast?
- 1. By the bishop himself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. By the bishop himself, in his own household — score 2
- 3. By a jealous old witch — score 0
- 4. By a wizard — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1333, line 18: «The reason for the curse: the bishop cast the charm "to avenge Gwawl the son of Clud my friend".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «charm» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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