Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 289 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 ✗
«pizza's Italian, all of it, done» What is truer?
- 1. Only the cheese came from abroad — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Every single part of it first grew in Italy, from the wheat to the tomatoes — no support
- 3. Pizza is from America — no support
- 4. The tomatoes came from the Americas and the wheat from the Middle East — ✓ the right answer · 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 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«Irish stew with spuds, Irish since forever» What is right?
- 1. Ireland grew potatoes 5,000 years ago — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Potatoes were first farmed in Ireland and taken from there to the rest of the world — no support
- 3. Potatoes came from China — no support
- 4. Potatoes came to Ireland from South America only after Columbus — ✓ the right answer · 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 · ★★ · right ✓
«why's it called orange, cos it's orange obviously» What happened in English?
- 1. Neither has anything to do with the other — no support
- 2. The fruit was named after the colour — no support
- 3. The colour was named after the fruit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Both were named after a city — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 289, line 7: «Oranges came from Asia and spread along trade routes; in English the colour orange was named after the fruit.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «name» (+4); the same circumstance (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to vanilla farms outside Mexico if nobody pollinated the flowers by hand?
- 1. Nothing, vanilla needs no flowers — no support
- 2. The flowers would turn into oranges — score 1
- 3. Very few pods would form — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. They would make twice as many pods — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 254, line 19: «The titan arum, or corpse flower, can be over 3 metres tall and smells of rotting meat to bring in flies that pollinate it, but it eats nothing.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «titan arum» (+3); the same action «bring in» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (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 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«snails?? frog legs?? gross, French people are weird» What is a fairer view?
- 1. Snails cannot be eaten — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Food is cultural, and others may find our food odd too — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Only one country in the world eats properly, and that is ours — no support
- 4. French food is just wrong — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 114, line 17: «Tiny Partula snails on Pacific islands such as Tahiti were wiped out by a predatory snail that people brought in to eat another pest snail; zoos bred them and…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «pest snail» (+3); the same action «eat» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
«found 3,000-year-old honey in a tomb, that must be rotten» What did archaeologists find?
- 1. It had become wine — no support
- 2. Honey can stay good for thousands of years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. It was all water — no support
- 4. Old honey always turns to poison — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 289, line 14: «Honey can last thousands of years because it has very little water and is a bit acidic, so germs cannot grow; it should not be given to babies under one year.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «honey» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓
Count them: a pizza has 8 slices, each with 3 olives — no wait, 2 olives. How many olives?
- 1. 16 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 24 — no support
- 3. 8 — no support
- 4. 10 — 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 ✗
In a cartoon pirates fight over a chest of gold coins. What did real sailors also fight over long ago?
- 1. Potatoes and carrots — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Tins of baked beans — no support
- 3. Bananas from Iceland's farms — score 1
- 4. Spices such as nutmeg and pepper — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 174, line 7: «Dugongs are sea cows that graze on sea grass, and sailors long ago may have mistaken dugongs and manatees for mermaids.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3). Against it: the same doer «sailors» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
«kiwi fruit, from New Zealand, named after the bird, so it's Kiwi from day one» What is right?
- 1. It was born in New Zealand — no support
- 2. It came from Brazil — score 5
- 3. It is a kind of bird egg — no support
- 4. It came from China and was renamed in New Zealand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 289, line 12: «The kiwi fruit came from China, where it was called the Chinese gooseberry; New Zealand farmers renamed it after their bird, and it has more vitamin C than an…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «china» (+4); the same action «come» (+2); the same doer «kiwi fruit» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why could Inca soldiers carry chuño on long marches?
- 1. It weighs more than gold — no support
- 2. Freeze-dried potatoes are light and last for years — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It must be eaten the same day it is made, so it was always fresh — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. It grows on the way — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 289, line 9: «In the Andes people made chuño, potatoes freeze-dried by night frost and day sun, which are light to carry and can last for years; Peru has thousands of kinds…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same thing acted on «chuño» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«sushi = raw fish, any raw fish from the shop is fine» What is right?
- 1. Raw fish must be very fresh and handled carefully, sometimes frozen first — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 2. Yes, any raw fish from any shop is safe to eat, however long it has been there — score -2
- 3. Raw fish is always poisonous — no support
- 4. Sushi never has fish in it — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 289, line 10: «Sushi uses rice with vinegar and fish or vegetables; raw fish is safe only when fresh and handled carefully, sometimes frozen first to kill parasites; the olde…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fish» (+3); the same doer «oldest sushi» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 1, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Columbian exchange?
- 1. The exchange of currency in the ports of Genoa — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The voyage of spices from Europe to Asia — no support
- 3. A commercial agreement between Spain and Portugal — no support
- 4. The transfer of crops, livestock and diseases between the Americas and the rest of the world following 1492 — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the person credited with the discovery of an efficient method of pollinating vanilla by hand.
- 1. An Aztec emperor of Mexico — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Edmond Albius, a twelve-year-old enslaved boy upon the island of Réunion — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A French professor of botany in Paris — no support
- 4. Christopher Columbus, upon his first voyage — 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 ✗
Ascertain the principal reason for the long preservation of honey.
- 1. The presence of alcohol in substantial quantities, produced by the fermentation within the hive — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The addition of salt by the bees — no support
- 3. Its low water content and slight acidity, which prevent the growth of microorganisms — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Its storage invariably in sealed vessels of gold — 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 ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the origin of the kiwi fruit.
- 1. It originated in South America — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It originated in New Zealand and was named after the native bird by the earliest settlers — no support
- 3. It originated in China and was subsequently renamed by growers in New Zealand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It was first cultivated in Spain — 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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