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Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)

Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 16 of the arts 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. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.

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 ✓

Your mate goes, "if your art's good, people notice straight away." Which artist proves him wrong?

  • 1. Picasso, who was famous young — no support
  • 2. Van Gogh, who sold very few paintings in his life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
  • 3. Basquiat, who became famous young in New York — no support
  • 4. Qi Baishi, who became famous while he lived — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 4: «Fame is not fair or quick: Van Gogh sold very few paintings while alive, and for centuries women were often kept out of art schools, so historians are still fi…», 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 «sell» (+2); the same doer «van» (+2); the same thing acted on «few paintings» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Harry's teacher shows Picasso's drawing at 15. What lesson does that teach?

  • 1. Breaking the rules works best once you know them — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Only teens can draw realistically — no support
  • 3. Picasso was always bad at drawing, even at fifteen — ← Mova's choice · score 14
  • 4. Cubism was a mistake he couldn't fix, however hard he tried — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 14, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 3: «Many artists mastered the rules before breaking them: Picasso could draw perfectly at 15 and later chose to break faces into shapes; Qi Baishi made a shrimp co…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «draw» (+4); the same doer «picasso» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Teacher's dad says "Bummer" about Van Gogh being broke. What does he mean?

  • 1. That's a disappointment — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. That's very funny — no support
  • 3. That's brilliant news for us — no support
  • 4. That's a big lie — 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 ✗

A cartoon shows Michelangelo snoozing on his back on a bed while painting. What should it show?

  • 1. Him painting from a hot-air balloon — no support
  • 2. Him painting the ceiling with his feet — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 3. Him painting on the floor — no support
  • 4. Him standing on a scaffold, head bent back — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 16, line 14: «Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512 standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down; he wrote a funny poem a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «paint» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «chapel ceiling» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ming's grandpa says simple is the hardest. What would happen if Ming tried to paint a live-looking shrimp in five strokes?

  • 1. It would be perfect the very first time — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. It would be easy, as it's only shrimps — score 4
  • 3. It would most likely be much harder than it looks — ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 4. The ink would refuse to stick to the paper at all — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 16, line 3: «Many artists mastered the rules before breaking them: Picasso could draw perfectly at 15 and later chose to break faces into shapes; Qi Baishi made a shrimp co…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «shrimp» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Sofia's brother calls Kahlo vain. What would be a fairer first step?

  • 1. Learn about her life before judging her work — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Only judge her paintings of flowers — no support
  • 3. Ignore her life and judge only the faces — no support
  • 4. Say all self-portraits are vain, whoever paints them — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Your uncle reckons "women didn't paint in the old days". What is true?

  • 1. Many did but were blocked or forgotten — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. He's right, no women painted before 1900 — no support
  • 3. Women were only allowed to paint shrimps — no support
  • 4. Women painted, but only men's portraits — 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 ✗

Olena says Prymachenko's animals are imaginary. Is that a weakness?

  • 1. Yes, village artists don't count — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. No, imagination can matter as much as copying life — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Yes, real art must always copy real animals — no support
  • 4. No, because they are real animals from Bolotnia, her village — 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 ✗

Ava says Leonardo "was an artist AND a scientist, that's mad". Which is true?

  • 1. He was only a scientist, not an artist at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. His machines were all built and sold in shops in Italy — no support
  • 3. He used drawing to study machines, water and bodies — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. He never studied anything but paint and brushes — 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 ✗

Kwame's cousin says only neat art becomes famous. Whose story shows otherwise?

  • 1. Leonardo, who only wrote poems and songs, never paintings — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Basquiat, whose raw style became highly valued — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. O'Keeffe, who only ever painted tiny neat dots — no support
  • 4. Michelangelo, who never painted a thing — 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 ✗

What would have happened to Prymachenko's paintings in the museum fire if locals hadn't acted, as was reported?

  • 1. They would have been sold for millions — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. They would have moved to China — no support
  • 3. Many more of them would likely have been lost — ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 4. They would have been safe in the fire anyway — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 11: «Qi Baishi was a famous 20th-century Chinese painter of simple ink paintings of shrimps, crabs, birds and flowers; he was a carpenter before becoming a painter,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sell» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal circumstance which gave rise to the numerous self-portraits of Frida Kahlo.

  • 1. A commission from the government of Mexico — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Prolonged confinement to bed after a road accident, with a mirror placed above her — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. A legal prohibition upon the depiction of other subjects by women painters in Mexico — no support
  • 4. A conviction that she possessed unrivalled beauty — 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 ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo.

  • 1. It was executed while the artist lay supine upon a couch for its entire duration — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It was executed in the twentieth century — no support
  • 3. It was executed between 1508 and 1512 in a standing posture upon a scaffold — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. It was executed upon the floor and subsequently raised — 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 statements most accurately characterises the commercial fortunes of Vincent van Gogh during his lifetime?

  • 1. He enjoyed great wealth from the sale of his works throughout his life — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. He sold every work upon its completion — no support
  • 3. He declined to sell any work whatsoever — no support
  • 4. He sold very few paintings and was supported by his brother — ✓ 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 ✗

Ascertain the reason most widely advanced for the predominance of men among celebrated painters of former centuries.

  • 1. The prohibition of the sale of paint to women — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The frequent exclusion of women from academies of art and their subsequent neglect — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The incapacity of women to employ paint — no support
  • 4. The absence of any woman who wished to paint in the centuries before photography — 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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