Maps and scale

Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1 of the geography 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 ✗

my cousin says people in 1337 thought the earth was flat lol. right?

1. No, educated people then knew it was round — ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. No, they thought it was a cube — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. Yes, only sailors knew it was round — score 4
4. Yes, everyone thought it was flat until 1492 — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 19: «Educated people in the Middle Ages, the time when EU5 begins, already knew the Earth was round; the idea that they thought it flat is a myth.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+4); the same doer «people» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · wrong ✗

Two hikers say "meet at grid square 4725". Why must both read eastings first?

1. Because eastings are always the smaller numbers — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. It does not matter which comes first — no support
3. Because north is more important than east — no support
4. Otherwise they could end up in different squares — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 11: «On British maps a four-figure grid reference gives the eastings (the number along the bottom) first and the northings (the number up the side) second.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «eastings» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · right ✓

In EU5 an army marches through six locations. What does that tell you about the distance in kilometres?

1. It is always one day's walk — no support
2. Exactly 60 kilometres — no support
3. Nothing exact, because the game has no scale — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Exactly 600 kilometres — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 4: «But the game prints no scale at all, so you judge distance by how many locations an army marches through, not by kilometres, and a real map is far more exact.», 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 thing acted on «scale» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

Why did portolan charts show coasts in great detail but leave inland areas almost empty?

1. Sailors needed the coasts, not the land far inside — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The inland areas were under the sea — no support
3. Nobody lived inland in those days — no support
4. Ink was too costly to waste on drawing the land — 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 ✓

Switching from EU5's political map mode to the trade map mode is most like what on a real map?

1. Changing the scale to 1:25,000 — no support
2. Turning the map upside down — no support
3. Using a different key over the same land — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. Moving the prime meridian — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 18: «EU5 shows hills and mountains as terrain pictures, a rough version of what contour lines show exactly, and its map modes are like maps with different keys laid…», 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 thing acted on «different keys» (+2); the same place «same land» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

Mate says a 1:10,000,000 map is "large scale cos it covers loads". Is he right?

1. Yes, a bigger area always means a larger scale — no support
2. No, covering a huge area makes it small-scale — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. No, it has no scale at all — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Yes, scale means the size of the paper — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 4: «But the game prints no scale at all, so you judge distance by how many locations an army marches through, not by kilometres, and a real map is far more exact.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «scale» (+4); the same place «all» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

If globes are the most accurate, why do people still mostly use flat maps?

1. Globes are always wrong about sizes — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Flat maps fold, fit in pockets and show detail — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Globes were banned in schools — no support
4. Flat maps show no distortion at all — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 6: «Only a globe gets shapes, sizes, distances and directions all right at once; every flat map, the game's included, bends something.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «globe» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

What would happen to a satnav if it could only hear one satellite?

1. Nothing, one satellite is enough — no support
2. It would be twice as accurate — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. It could not work out where it is — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. It would show the time but also the place exactly — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 1, line 17: «A satnav or phone finds its position by timing radio signals from at least four satellites in orbit.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «satnav» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · wrong ✗

Why would an army be among the first to want very accurate maps of a country?

1. To count how many trees there were for firewood — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Because soldiers liked drawing — no support
3. To decorate the generals' tents — no support
4. To plan marches and defend the land — ✓ 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 ✗

Your map is 1:50,000 and the campsite is 6 cm away on the paper. How far is that?

1. 300 metres — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 30 kilometres — no support
3. 6 kilometres — no support
4. 3 kilometres — ✓ 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 ✗

A map has blue lines and blue patches. Without the key, what is your best guess?

1. Motorways and car parks — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Railways and stations — no support
3. Rivers and lakes — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Borders and capitals — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the distance upon the ground represented by a measured interval of four centimetres on a chart drawn to a scale of one to twenty-five thousand.

1. Four kilometres — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. One hundred metres — no support
3. Twenty-five kilometres — no support
4. One kilometre — ✓ 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 · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the significance of closely spaced contour lines?

1. The terrain so depicted is steep — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The terrain so depicted is wooded — no support
3. The terrain so depicted lies below sea level — no support
4. The terrain so depicted is level — 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

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the sole representation of the Earth that preserves shape, area, distance and direction simultaneously.

1. A physical map — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A globe — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A portolan chart — no support
4. A political map — 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 · right ✓

It is given that a four-figure grid reference is to be stated. Determine which coordinate is to be given precedence.

1. The easting — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The northing — no support
3. The altitude — no support
4. The greater of the two — 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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