From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread
Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 286 of the biology 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«why's bread got holes, did the baker mess up» What is right?
- 1. Mice made them at night — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. The holes are where the seeds fell out when the loaf was sliced — no support
- 3. Yes, good bread has no holes — score 1
- 4. No, gas bubbles from the yeast made them and baking set them — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 169, line 7: «Bowhead whales can smash through ice with their heads to make breathing holes, and they may live for over two hundred years; old harpoon tips from the 1800s ha…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same thing acted on «breathing holes» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«war's miles away, why's my bread dearer» How can that be?
- 1. Wheat stops growing during any war — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The war blocked ships carrying wheat, so there was less grain to sell — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Bakers just wanted more money for no reason at all, and used the war as an excuse — no support
- 4. Bread is made in the war zone — 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 ✗
Count them: a combine has 4 wheels and pulls a trailer with 2 wheels; 3 such teams work the field. How many wheels?
- 1. 6 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 12 — no support
- 3. 18 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 24 — 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 ✗
What would happen if a baker forgot the yeast?
- 1. The bread would rise even higher than usual — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The bread would taste much too strongly of sugar — no support
- 3. The bread would come out flat and heavy — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The bread would turn into a sweet sponge cake — 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 5 · ★★ · right ✓
«only one kind of potato, cheap and easy, what's the problem» What did Ireland in the 1840s teach?
- 1. One disease can wipe out a crop everyone depends on — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Famines happen only with wheat — no support
- 3. One kind of potato never gets ill, so it is the safest — no support
- 4. Potatoes grow better without variety — 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 ✗
In a cartoon a farmer pulls bread loaves straight off a wheat plant. What is real?
- 1. Wheat makes loaves after rain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Grain must be harvested, ground into flour, mixed with yeast and baked — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Bread really grows on wheat, but only on the very tallest plants in the field — no support
- 4. Only white bread grows that way — 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 ✓
Why does a seed vault sit inside a frozen mountain?
- 1. Cold keeps seeds alive for a very long time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 17
- 2. Mountains make the seeds bigger — score 2
- 3. The cold keeps birds and mice away from the seeds — score 10
- 4. Seeds grow best in ice — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 17, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 286, line 18: «The Svalbard seed vault in Norway keeps over a million seed samples of the world's crops inside a frozen mountain as a backup against war and disaster, because…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+7); the same thing acted on «seeds» (+4); the same property (+4); the same doer «cold» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«we had rice for dinner, my mate had pasta, his gran had tortillas. who ate a big grain»
- 1. None of them — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only the rice eater — no support
- 3. Only the pasta eater — no support
- 4. All three: rice, wheat and maize — ✓ 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 ✗
«field's gone bright yellow, is it mustard for hotdogs» What is it more likely to be?
- 1. Sunflowers before they open — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Paint sprayed by the farmer — no support
- 3. Wheat that has gone bad — no support
- 4. Rapeseed, grown for cooking oil — ✓ 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 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to a barn of grain with no cats and no traps?
- 1. The grain would sprout and grow into tall wheat — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The grain would last longer — no support
- 3. Birds would guard it — no support
- 4. Mice and rats would eat and spoil much of it — ✓ 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 ✗
Why might a field left bare and ploughed in a dry windy spring lose its soil?
- 1. Rain makes the soil float up and away — no support
- 2. Bare soil slowly turns into hard stone — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Wind blows the loose dry soil away — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Worms carry it off deep underground — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 124, line 4: «Young males like Simba really do leave home at two or three years old, and Mufasa's circle of life is real science: lions eat antelopes, antelopes eat grass, a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+3). Against it: the same doer «soil» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the agent responsible for the rising of bread dough.
- 1. The expansion of flour upon contact with the heat of the oven — no support
- 2. A chemical reaction of salt with water — no support
- 3. Air introduced by the windmill during the grinding of the grain — no support
- 4. Yeast, a microscopic fungus that liberates gas upon consuming sugar — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 286, line 9: «Yeast is a tiny fungus that eats sugar and makes bubbles of gas; stretchy gluten traps the gas so the dough rises, and baking kills the yeast and sets the hole…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «sugar» (+3); the same doer «tiny fungus» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the significance of Ukraine in respect of the world's grain supply?
- 1. Its fertile black soil yields large quantities of wheat for export — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It produces chiefly rice in flooded fields — no support
- 3. Its soil is unsuitable for cereal cultivation — no support
- 4. It imports the greater part of its grain from abroad — 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 · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Irish famine of the 1840s.
- 1. A disease of the potato, the staple food of the poor, resulted in approximately one million deaths — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The famine was occasioned by a shortage of rice — no support
- 3. An excess of wheat caused widespread illness — no support
- 4. No loss of life was recorded — 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 purpose of the seed vault situated upon Svalbard.
- 1. The commercial sale of seeds to gardeners — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The storage of flour for the population of Norway in time of war — no support
- 3. The cultivation of wheat beneath the ice — no support
- 4. The preservation of crop seeds as a safeguard against war and disaster — ✓ 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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