Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 10 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 · right ✓
If a game map painted all of Ireland in English colours in 1337, what was the real picture?
- 1. Scotland ruled the island — no support
- 2. Ireland was nearly empty after the Black Death killed everyone — no support
- 3. England ruled every county — no support
- 4. Gaelic lords ruled most of the island outside the Pale — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 18: «In 1337, when EU5 starts, English rule in Ireland reached firmly only the area around Dublin called the Pale, while Gaelic lords ruled most of the island.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «rule» (+2); the same doer «gaelic lords» (+2); the same thing acted on «most» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
Why do most Irish people speak English rather than Irish at home?
- 1. Irish was banned by the EU when Ireland joined in 1973 — no support
- 2. Centuries of English rule, schooling and the famine pushed Irish back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. English is the first official language — score 6
- 4. Irish was never spoken in Ireland — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 14: «The Republic of Ireland, with its capital Dublin and about 5.4 million people, became independent in 1922 and a republic in 1949, and Irish is its first offici…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «centuries» (+3); the same action «push back» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
Why did food leaving Ireland during the famine make people so angry?
- 1. Ships took only the best potatoes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. People were starving while food was shipped away — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The food was poisoned — no support
- 4. The food went to France as a gift from the British king — 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 ✗
does Ireland have more people now than before the famine?
- 1. Yes, ten times more — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, the island still has fewer than in 1841 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, exactly double the number it had back in 1841 — no support
- 4. No, nobody lives there now — 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 · wrong ✗
Why do islands add so much to a country's coastline?
- 1. Islands make the sea deeper — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Every island has its own shore all the way round — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The sea pushes the coast further out around each of them — no support
- 4. Islands are counted twice — 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 ✗
Why does Canada now teach children about residential schools?
- 1. So the harm done to Indigenous children is known and not repeated — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Because they were popular schools — no support
- 3. Because they taught French — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Because Canada still runs them in the far north for Inuit children — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 7: «In many Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries, children learn one America, giving six continents, and the Olympic rings stand for five inhabited c…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «learn» (+3); the same doer «children» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
What did the Mabo decision of 1992 say about the idea that Australia had belonged to no one?
- 1. It gave Australia back to Britain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It made Canberra the capital — no support
- 3. It was wrong: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had rights to their land — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It was right: the land was empty — 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 · right ✓
Why might a capital in the middle of the two main islands make sense for New Zealand?
- 1. It is easy to reach from both islands — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is the biggest city — no support
- 3. It is the warmest city in the country — no support
- 4. It is the closest city to Australia — 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 · right ✓
Why did the two language versions of the Treaty of Waitangi cause problems?
- 1. They did not say the same thing about who held power — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Both versions were written in French by the missionaries — no support
- 3. The Māori version was lost at sea — no support
- 4. Nobody could read either version — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 13: «The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and many Māori chiefs, is New Zealand's founding document; its English and Māori versions do n…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «english versions» (+3); the same action «say» (+2); the same thing acted on «same thing» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
Why is English useful in a country such as Nigeria, where hundreds of languages are spoken?
- 1. It is the only language anyone there speaks — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was chosen in 2025 — no support
- 3. It lets people from different language groups understand each other — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nigerian languages have no words for numbers — 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 · right ✓
In EU5 the sugar islands are just rich trade goods. What does the game leave out?
- 1. The enslaved people forced to grow the sugar — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. The price of sugar — no support
- 3. The ships that carried it — no support
- 4. The islands' weather and the hurricanes that hit them each year — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 3: «The game shows sugar islands as rich prizes, but it hides the people forced to grow the sugar: most Jamaicans today descend from Africans enslaved on British p…», 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 «grow» (+2); the same thing acted on «sugar» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the second most extensive sovereign state in the world.
- 1. Canada — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The United States of America — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Australia — no support
- 4. The People's Republic of China — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 6: «The United States has 50 states and a capital, Washington, D.C., which is not part of any state, and Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states in 1959.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «united states» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · 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 circumstances of the foundation of Canberra?
- 1. It was constructed as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is the most populous Australian city — no support
- 3. It was founded by Dutch navigators upon the southern coast — no support
- 4. It was the first British settlement in Australia — 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 instrument regarded as the founding document of New Zealand.
- 1. The Act of Union of 1707 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Statute of Westminster of 1931 — no support
- 3. The Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Great Famine in Ireland.
- 1. It occurred in the fourteenth century — no support
- 2. No deaths whatsoever were recorded — no support
- 3. It increased the population of the island — no support
- 4. Approximately one million persons perished and over one million emigrated — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 15: «During the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, when the potato crop failed but other food was still shipped out of Ireland, about a million people in Ireland died an…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «emigrate» (+2); the same doer «million» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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