Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, the comb is won, and Kilhuch wins Olwen

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 2001 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 · ★ · right ✓

Oi, did Arthur's lot actually find Mabon or what?

1. Nah, the Ousel never told them anything, they just went home and forgot all about the whole stupid business of Mabon — no support
2. Yeah, Kay and Gwrhyr rode the salmon and heard him wailing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. Nah, Bedwyr and Gwrhyr went the wrong way home — no support
4. Yeah, Kay and Gwrhyr rode the salmon all the way up the river and heard him wailing in the dungeon behind the wall — 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 2001, line 4: «Kay and Gwrhyr ride on the Salmon's shoulders to a prison wall, hear Mabon crying, and Kay and Bedwyr break him out.», 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 question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, why did the eagle say he went all the way to Llyn Llyw?

1. He fancied a change of scenery and some fish — score 0
2. Honestly he was just nosy and wanted to see what the lake was like, so off he went — score 0
3. Cos the wind blew him that way and he was bored — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. He was hungry and went looking for a feed — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 740, line 18: «Old word: "a bird of prey" is a hunting bird such as an eagle or hawk, which snatched the child up.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the Ousel said the anvil was nearly gone, innit?

1. Yeah, just a crumb — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, only a nut-sized bit left — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, about a thumb-sized bit — no support
4. Nah, it was nearly whole still — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Proper mental, that boar ran all over Ireland, yeah?

1. Yeah, he ran all over it — score 0
2. Nah, he only went to Wales — no support
3. Yeah, he wasted a fifth of it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Nah, he only ran across a bit of Ireland before the hunters caught him in the sea — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 512, line 17: «Why: Oeneus had left Artemis out of a sacrifice, so the goddess, "enraged at this neglect", sent a boar that "laid waste the fields".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «waste» (+4); the same doer «boar» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, how did Kaw shave Yspathaden, skin and all?

1. Yeah, skin, flesh and all, right down to the bone, and then he cut the head off too — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Nah, he cut only the hair and left the skin — no support
3. Yeah, skin, flesh and all, right down to the bone — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he shaved only the beard off — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2001, line 15: «What: Goreu seizes Yspathaden by the hair, cuts off his head, and places it "on a stake on the citadel."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «head» (+2); the same action «cut off» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Sus, did Goreu really chop his head off?

1. Yeah, and he stuck it on a stake — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. Yeah, and he buried it deep — score 5
3. Yeah, and he stuck it on a stake on top of the citadel for everyone to see — score 7
4. Nah, he only cut off the beard and gave the head back to the giant alive — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1760, line 16: «The old woman warns that a man who lets the mare stray "will lose your head," and heads are stuck on posts.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stick» (+4); the same thing acted on «heads» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead funny, the widow's son was called Jack, weren't he?

1. Nah, his name was Gwion, not Jack — score 6
2. Yeah, he had a hen — score 5
3. Yeah, and he had one cake and one hen — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Nah, his name was Tom — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 959, line 19: «old word, "cavalier": a gentleman of good birth; the cavalier at the party is "the son of his father."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «son» (+3); the same doer «old word» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Man, was the summer scarce for them, like proper scarce?

1. Nah, the summer was fine, but they had to wait for the apples to ripen in the orchard — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, the harvest came early, luckily — no support
3. Yeah, they had to wait for new potatoes, and they ate only nettles and water for weeks — no support
4. Yeah, they had to wait for new potatoes — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, what did his mum make him choose, cake and hen or what?

1. Half the cake and hen with blessing, or the lot with curse — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The whole cake with blessing, or half with curse — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. The cake, I think — no support
4. Half the bread with a curse, or all of it blessed — score -5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1954, line 8: «Jack chooses the big cake, and his mother "cursed him as far as she could see him."», 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 (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, did Kay and Bedwyr really break into the prison?

1. Nah, they waited until everyone was asleep and then climbed in through a window of the dungeon — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Yeah, while the fight was going on, they crept in through the back door of the prison — no support
3. Nah, they were outside the walls — score 1
4. Yeah, while the fight was going on — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1628, line 3: «Inside the great ice palace, Kay sits alone trying to spell "Love" with pieces of ice, and he cannot do it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kay» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Innit, wait, did the Owl have a valley with three woods?

1. Yeah, a glen, then a second wood, then a third — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, three woods — no support
3. Nah, just one wood — no support
4. Yeah, a wood, a glen, and a marsh — 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 ✗

Blud, the Eagle said he pecked at what every night?

1. The clouds — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. The stars — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Bugs and the stars and the dew on the rocks — score 4
4. The stars over the lake, every single night — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 114, line 1: «The birds pick the good peas out of the ashes so Cinderella can go to the feast, but her mother still says no.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pick» (+2); the same doer «birds» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following animals was described as the oldest and most widely travelled in this world?

1. The Salmon — score -3
2. The Eagle of Gwern Abwy — ✓ the right answer · score -3
3. The Eagle of Llyn Llyw — score -3
4. The Stag of Redynvre — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2001, line 2: «The Ousel, the Stag and the Owl have never heard of Mabon, but each one sends them on to an older animal.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner did Kaw of North Britain perform the shaving of Yspathaden Penkawr?

1. He removed skin, flesh, and all, cutting right down through to the bone and beyond — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He shaved with a sharp blade in one pass — no support
3. He removed skin and flesh to the bone — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He shaved the beard — 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 ✗

Which of the following accurately describes the fate of the Boar Truith after the pursuit?

1. He escaped home — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He was caught — no support
3. He drowned in the river Severn — no support
4. He was hunted into the deep sea — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the response of Jack's mother when her son departed on his journey?

1. She offered him a choice of portions — ✓ the right answer · score -1
2. She gave him a bad choice of food — score -1
3. She offered him a choice of portions, one blessed and one cursed, and he chose wrongly — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. She offered him a choice of portions with a blessing or a curse, and gave him the bread as well — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1954, line 8: «Jack chooses the big cake, and his mother "cursed him as far as she could see him."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 1, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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