Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur's boon, rides off with Kai and six others, and meets Custennin's wife, who hides a youth in a chest
Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1338 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, who's the proper hard geezer on the dapple grey, innit?
- 1. Bedwyr — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Bran — no support
- 3. Kilweh — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Kai — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Right, so the gatekeeper, is he just a bloke with a job or what?
- 1. Custennin the herdsman with the hound — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Custennin — no support
- 3. Gwrhyr the interpreter of many tongues — no support
- 4. Glewlwyd — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, what's the one thing Arthur won't hand over, like, ever?
- 1. his ship, mantle, and the golden shield — score -4
- 2. the sword Caledfwlch and his whole treasury — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 3. his horse and cloak — no support
- 4. his ship and mantle — ✓ the right answer · score -4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 63, line 16: «The gentlemen say: «Here is a poor old thing—a washerwoman apparently—who has fainted in the road!» They lift him into the car and prop him up with soft cushio…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «poor old thing» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «toad» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bare fit mate, who did the hair cutting on Kilweh's head?
- 1. Kilweh — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. Kai — no support
- 3. Arthur — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 4. Bran — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1338, line 4: «Kilweh asks only to have his hair combed and trimmed, and when Arthur learns that Kilweh is his cousin, he promises to help him find the maiden Olwen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «hair» (+3). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «kilweh» (-2). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Proper gutted, innit, when the lads come back with nothing? Who was mad?
- 1. Kilweh — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Bedwyr — no support
- 3. Yspaddaden Penkawr the giant — no support
- 4. Glewlwyd the porter at the gate — 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 ✗
Who's the one-handed fella who's still mega quick, mate?
- 1. Custennin the herdsman with the dog — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gwrhyr, the one with all tongues — no support
- 3. Bedwyr — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Gwrhyr — 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 ✗
Wicked, so how many lads are riding out with Kilweh?
- 1. seven lads from the hall — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. five — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. twelve lads from the court — score 0
- 4. two — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1156, line 4: «A farmer thumps each weaver with a stick while counting to seven, and they think he is a magician.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+4); the same doer «farmer» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, how long did the lot of them take to get to the castle?
- 1. three days — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. three weeks — no support
- 3. five days — no support
- 4. three days and three nights — 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 ✗
Sick trick, who's the one who can hide everyone with a spell?
- 1. Gwrhyr with all the tongues — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gwyn — no support
- 3. Menw — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Caradog the wise with his silver staff — 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 ✗
Yeah, who is the herdsman, the one with the massive dog?
- 1. Custennin the herdsman of the hills — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Custennin, brother of the giant Yspaddaden — no support
- 3. Yspaddaden — no support
- 4. Custennin — ✓ 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 ✗
Lol, why'd the shepherd not get the ring on his finger, bruv?
- 1. it was too small — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. it was too tight — no support
- 3. too big — no support
- 4. it was lost — ← Mova's choice · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1278, line 11: «The second trick works because the shepherd believes the bleating is "the sheep and the kid that I lost", so he ties the bull "hastily to a tree".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bare confusing, but who's the one hiding the youth in a chest?
- 1. the wife of the herdsman — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the wife — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Arthur's own wife Guinevere and her maids — no support
- 4. the steward — 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 ✗
Innit, what's Kilweh to Arthur, like, family-wise?
- 1. his nephew — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. his son — no support
- 3. a rival — no support
- 4. his cousin — ✓ 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which object did Arthur declare that he would not surrender to the petitioner?
- 1. his horse and cloak — no support
- 2. his ship and mantle — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. his ship, mantle, and magic horn of plenty — score 0
- 4. the sword Caledfwlch and his whole treasury — no support
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 1338, line 10: «Arthur answers: "What thou askest that shalt thou receive," but he keeps back "my ship and my mantle, my word and my lance."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «arthur» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «ship» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
To whom did the porter Glewlwyd state that entry to the palace was permitted?
- 1. a king's son, a pedlar, or a travelling smith — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 2. a king's son or a pedlar — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 3. a knight or a pilgrim — no support
- 4. nobody but a king's son or a wandering pedlar with goods — no support
Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. 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 1280, line 4: «At his trial he tells the king how the queen secretly adopted a baby and how the king once married a girl in an orchard.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same receiver «king» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What period of time did Kilweh grant Arthur in which to discover the maiden?
- 1. a single night — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. until the end of the year — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. one month — score 3
- 4. until the next full moon — score 3
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 1338, line 12: «Arthur learns that Kilweh is his kin, and says "my cousin thou art in truth."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «arthur» (+2); the same action «learn» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
How many persons did Arthur select to accompany Kilweh upon his quest?
- 1. five — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. seven men and their hounds — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. two — score 7
- 4. one — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1338, line 16: «The seven men come to "a vast open plain in which was a fair castle," but they only draw near on "the evening of the third day."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+4); the same doer «seven men» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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