Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the knights reach Olwen, and her angry father throws three poisoned darts

Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 2000 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, how long could Kay hold his breath under water, bruv?

1. Seven hours and a long day — score 0
2. Nine nights and nine days — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. Nine days — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. Three nights and three days — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1949, line 13: «The miller stops the "heavy cruel mill-wheels" so the princess can be saved from the water.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same place «water» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Proper wicked, but how far off was that castle, innit?

1. Three days away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Three days away across the wild mountains and dark moors — no support
3. Two days' ride — no support
4. Over the hills — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, who got the gold ring in the end, like?

1. The visitors' leader — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. The herdsman's son — score 2
3. The herdsman's wife — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. The herdsman — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1559, line 5: «At the end the wicked stepmother and her daughter are rolled down the hill in a barrel of nails, and a new tale about twelve sons begins.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «end» (+2); the same thing acted on «wicked stepmother» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Dead cheeky of Kay, squeezing a log like that, yeah? What did it turn into?

1. A twisted coil — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. A tightly twisted iron coil like a serpent — score 7
3. A great wooden beam that split in two halves — no support
4. A glowing ember — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 2000, line 3: «At the castle a herdsman warns them, then his wife hugs Kay, who squeezes a log into a twisted coil.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Which bird's stare was Olwen's better than, sick?

1. A falcon's — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. An eagle's — score 1
3. The stare of a hunting falcon at dusk on the moor — no support
4. A golden eagle's stare from the high cliffs — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 99, line 14: «What does the king do? He orders royal clothes for her, and "he gazed with wonder, she was so beautiful."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «gaze» (+5); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, what colour was her robe, like, proper?

1. Gold — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Pale as moonlight on snow, stitched with silver — score 1
3. Flame-coloured — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Red — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1992, line 15: «Old word: "vagabond" once meant a wandering person with no home, and in this tale it is a rough word for a rascal.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «rough word» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Mad, what sprang up wherever Olwen trod?

1. Roses — no support
2. White trefoils — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
3. White trefoils and bright blue violets in the grass — score 10
4. Lilies — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 2000, line 15: «fact: Four white trefoils spring up wherever she walks, which is why she is named Olwen.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+5); the same action «spring up» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, which dart did Bedwyr catch and chuck back?

1. Third — no support
2. The last — no support
3. The first one — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
4. The second one — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1989, line 4: «Each time the men come, Conall and the boys dive into hiding holes, and the noise gets louder until the king comes himself and catches them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «men» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who got a dart through the eyeball, like, proper nasty?

1. Kay — score 1
2. Kilhwch — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yspathaden — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Menw the sage — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 2000, line 5: «Her father Yspathaden throws three poisoned darts at the knights, and Bedwyr and Kilhwch throw them back and wound him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «darts» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Nah, how many gran-gran types did Yspathaden want to ask?

1. Four great-grandmothers from the oldest families of the land — no support
2. Four great-grandmothers — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Four ancient healers — no support
4. Three wise old men — ← 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 1361, line 11: «Why: the father is "distressed to see her so unhappy," so he asks his wife to explain, and she tells him about the image.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); the same thing acted on «father» (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Wicked bloke Kay, how tall could he go, mate?

1. As tall as the highest tree — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. As tall as the highest tree in the whole forest and beyond — no support
3. As tall as the castle towers — no support
4. Tall as a tree — 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 ✗

Who's the bloke with the gift of tongues, mate?

1. Bedwyr — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cador, the king's own loyal cousin and friend — no support
3. Gwrhyr, the herald and interpreter of the court — no support
4. Gwrhyr — ✓ 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 ✗

Dunno who'd be daft enough, but what did the herdsman warn about?

1. No one lived to tell — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Nobody came back alive — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nobody came back alive, and the giant killed all who came — no support
4. Nobody who went there ever came back alive to tell — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 704, line 3: «The youth traps the sleeping ox in a ring of fire, then tells the herdsman that the oxen sank into a hole in the earth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «youth» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

What did the visitors send to the herdsman's wife by way of him?

1. An iron knife — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. A ring — score 1
3. A gold ring — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. A silver cup — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1764, line 17: «Hard word: "fodder" means food for farm animals such as hay; today it is still used in the same way.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

What was the principal property of Kay's lance, as recorded in the text?

1. It cut deep — no support
2. It was never blunt — no support
3. It wounded as nine lances would — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. It struck with great force — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 2000, line 7: «fact: Kay can make himself "as tall as the highest tree in the forest," and his lance wounds "equal to those of nine opposing lances."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wound» (+4). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

By what means did Kilhwch wound Yspathaden Penkawr?

1. By hurling back the third dart — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. By hurling back the third dart, which struck him in the eye — no support
3. By throwing the second spear — no support
4. By catching the poisoned dart and hurling back the third dart — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of Olwen's features was described as whiter than the foam of the wave?

1. Her voice — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Hair — no support
3. Her hands — no support
4. Her skin — ✓ 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

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