Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maiden leaves after three blows

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1993 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, so the lake lady dipped off after the third whack, innit?

1. Nah, she stayed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, she stuck around with the cattle — no support
3. Yeah, she legged it with the cows, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, she bolted off with the herd — 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 2 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, how'd he spot her in the line-up?

1. By her sandal strap, proper — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. By her hair, mate — score 1
3. By her ribbon, that's the one — no support
4. By her bangle on the wrist — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 1923, line 4: «He spots the witch sneaking off with one cage, touches her and the cage with the flower, and gets Jorinde back.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «witch» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, was that bread like rock or what?

1. Hard-baked, like a brick, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Hard-baked, like a brick, bruv, she said it was rubbish and wouldn't eat it — no support
3. Yeah, mate, it was rock hard, proper stale, she sang about it and laughed loud — score -2
4. Rock hard, like a stone, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1970, line 18: «Old words: "Laidly" means loathly, which is horrible; "kine" means cows; "Heugh" is a northern word for a steep rock or crag; and "borrowed" here means freed f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «northern word» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, how many whacks before she bounced for good?

1. Three whacks, then she's gone — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Two whacks, then she's gone, yeah — no support
3. Three, then gone — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. Three hits and she's off — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1098, line 15: «At home his wife "smiled" because she thinks her husband is mad, and she waits to see what he does.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wait» (+1). Against it: the same doer «wife» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Why'd she start bawling at the wedding, like?

1. Cos trouble's coming, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Cos she saw the bloke in the box and knew trouble was coming, bruv, proper — no support
3. Cos the dead's gone, mate — no support
4. Cos she knew the trouble was coming, like, for the whole village, mate — 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 ✗

Did the black calf actually jump off the hook, for real?

1. Yeah, it legged it after her — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Nah, it stayed on the hook — no support
3. Yeah, it jumped and ran off — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Yeah, it got off the hook and legged it after her into the lake, mate — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 258, line 3: «She runs home before anyone can catch her, but on the last day she leaps over the guards and loses a slipper.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leap» (+3); the same doer «calf» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did those oxen just follow her while ploughing, mate?

1. Yeah, they dragged the plough through the whole field, mate, and obeyed her every word — score 5
2. Yeah, they pulled it along, bruv — no support
3. Nah, they wouldn't plough at all, they just wandered off and stood about, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Yeah, they dragged the plough too — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 75, line 7: «On Monday morning the Horse came first, "with a saddle on his back and a bit in his mouth" and asked him to trot; the Dog came "with a stick in his mouth" to f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «plough» (+3); the same doer «ox» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where's the tarn she dived in, bruv?

1. Up in the Black Mountains, that's where the tarn is, mate, proper high up — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Up in the Black Mountains — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Somewhere up on the hills near Myddvai, in the Black Mountains, bruv — no support
4. Up in the Brecon Beacons — 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 ✗

Mad that her sons became doctors, yeah?

1. Nah, farmers — no support
2. Yeah, they're doctors — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. Yeah, the healing lot of Myddvai — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, the medic crew from Myddvai — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1306, line 17: «Old word: to be disinherited means to be cut off and to lose your right to a family's property, as the son was when his father sent him away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «son» (+3); the same thing acted on «father» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did she ever come back to see them, cuz?

1. Yeah, when they were kids — no support
2. Yeah, loads of times, every year, when they were little and playing, bruv, proper — no support
3. Once, when they were grown — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Once, when they were grown and had children of their own, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1713, line 11: «After the second answer she opens the door, sees the ducklings "sound asleep," and kills them "there and then."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «ducklings» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the shepherd's bread go down well with her, mate?

1. She said it was stale, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. She sang it was hard, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. She laughed and ate it, bruv — score 6
4. She ate it, mate — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1993, line 16: «First blow: she says she will fetch the horses if he brings her gloves, but she never goes, so he taps her and says "Go, go".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «shepherd» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the funeral crowd proper gutted when she giggled, bruv?

1. Yeah, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, they laughed too, mate — no support
3. Yeah, they were stunned, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, bruv — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did he actually think the blows could never be causeless, mate?

1. Nah, mate, he knew all along that blows could happen, and he just didn't care — no support
2. Yeah, he thought it could never happen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. Yeah, he reckoned it never would — score 0
4. Yeah, he thought it could never happen, mate, cos he was dead sure of it — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 115, line 11: «Why the King faints: the painting was "so beautifully painted that one thought it breathed and moved."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the condition under which the lake-maiden agreed to become the shepherd's wife?

1. She would marry him only if he could identify her among her sisters on the following day, and if he never strikes her without cause. — score 7
2. She promised marriage if he recognised her among her sisters the following morning. — score 5
3. She agreed to marry him on the condition that he identify her among her sisters on the following day, and that he never doubt her. — score 7
4. She would marry him if he could identify her among her sisters on the following day. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 161, line 10: «fact: The sultan's cruel habit: "every evening he married a fresh wife and had her strangled the following morning".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «marry» (+5); the same thing acted on «fresh wife» (+3). Against it: the same doer «fact» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

To which of the following events does the lake-maiden's statement "The last blow has been struck" refer?

1. The third blow, struck upon her shoulder at a funeral, when she laughed at the mourners — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The third blow, struck upon her shoulder at a funeral — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The second blow, struck upon her arm at a wedding — no support
4. The blow struck upon her shoulder at a wedding feast after she had wept over the bread and her cows — 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means did the shepherd of Myddvai identify the lake-maiden among her sisters?

1. By the strap of her sandal — ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. By the tiny silver strap of the sandal she wore on her left foot — no support
3. By the strap of her sandal, which was the only thing he could see — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. By the ribbon of her dress — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1993, line 1: «A shepherd sees three maidens rise from Lyn y Van Vach, the lake, and tries to catch one with bread.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «see» (+2); the same doer «shepherd» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following accurately records the marriage portion brought by the lake-maiden to her husband?

1. Three cows, two oxen, and a bull — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Three goats, two sheep, and a bull — no support
3. Two cows, three oxen, and a horse — score 5
4. Two oxen and a bull — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1928, line 20: «What does "well-meaning" mean? It means kind-hearted, so the landlord's daughter had good intentions and took no part in the crimes.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «group» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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