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Africa: countries and capitals

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

Lesson 13 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 ✗

Tom says: «Africa's basically one big country, isn't it?» What is right?

  • 1. Africa is a continent with 54 UN member countries — ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 2. Africa is one country with 54 provinces and one president — ← Mova's choice · score 10
  • 3. Africa is part of Asia — no support
  • 4. Africa has only about 10 countries — score 10

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 5, line 11: «Australia is the smallest continent, with about 7.7 million square kilometres, and it is the only continent that is a single country; it is such a big landmass…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «only continent» (+4); the same thing acted on «single country» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 1, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · right ✓

«capital of nigeria's lagos, everyone knows» What is right?

  • 1. Lagos has always been the capital, since the British first came — no support
  • 2. The capital is Kano, the old trading city of the north — no support
  • 3. Nigeria has three capitals — score 4
  • 4. Lagos is the biggest city, but the capital moved to Abuja in 1991 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 13, line 10: «Cairo (the capital of Egypt), Lagos and Kinshasa are Africa's largest cities, each with well over 15 million people in their wider urban areas.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «cairo» (+4); the same thing acted on «largest cities» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

«why are some african borders dead straight like someone used a ruler» Which is the best answer?

  • 1. African kings liked straight borders best, so they marked them out with stones and walls across the land — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The desert winds blow the sand into straight lines — no support
  • 3. European powers drew many of them on maps, often with straight lines, without asking Africans — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Straight borders follow rivers — 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 · right ✓

In Europa Universalis 5, European forts on the African coast look like simple trade posts. What does the game leave out?

  • 1. Millions of people were enslaved and shipped away, and about 1.8 million died at sea — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The forts were built by Africans for tourists — no support
  • 3. Nothing, the forts only traded fish — no support
  • 4. The forts were all in the middle of the Sahara — 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 ✗

Ella thinks Africans had no kingdoms before Europeans came. What would you tell her?

  • 1. She is right, Africa had only villages — no support
  • 2. Africa had great states, such as the Mali Empire, one of the richest in the world in the 1300s — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Africa's first kingdom was founded in 1960 — no support
  • 4. Only Egypt ever had a king, and all the other lands were ruled by chiefs from Cairo — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 9: «Millions of Native Americans lived in North America before Europeans came, and diseases such as smallpox (new to them, so their bodies had no defences), wars a…», 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 «lands» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · right ✓

«ok which city is egypt's capital, cairo or alexandria, quick» What is right?

  • 1. Cairo — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 2. Giza, by the pyramids — no support
  • 3. Luxor, the old Thebes — no support
  • 4. Alexandria — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 10: «Cairo (the capital of Egypt), Lagos and Kinshasa are Africa's largest cities, each with well over 15 million people in their wider urban areas.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «cairo» (+2); the same thing acted on «largest cities» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · right ✓

What would happen if Somaliland were recognised by the United Nations?

  • 1. Africa would have one more UN member country — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Africa would have one country fewer — no support
  • 3. Somaliland would join South Africa — no support
  • 4. Nothing could change, the number is fixed forever — 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 ✓

«bloody hell, south africa's got THREE capitals?? which one's real» Which is the best answer?

  • 1. Only Cape Town is real — no support
  • 2. Durban is the real one — no support
  • 3. Only Johannesburg is real — no support
  • 4. All three: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the courts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 11: «South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the highest courts.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

«my mate says ethiopia was a british colony» What is right?

  • 1. No, Ethiopia stayed independent apart from an Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 2. Yes, Britain ruled it for 100 years, from Addis Ababa — no support
  • 3. No, it was part of Egypt until the Second World War ended in 1945 — no support
  • 4. Yes, it was French until 1960 — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 13: «At the Berlin Conference of 1884 and 1885 European powers agreed rules for dividing Africa without any African present, and by 1914 only Ethiopia and Liberia w…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ethiopia» (+4); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · right ✓

«the capital of ivory coast is abidjan obviously» What is right?

  • 1. Abidjan is the only capital — no support
  • 2. The capital is Dakar — no support
  • 3. It has no capital — score 8
  • 4. The official capital is Yamoussoukro, though much government work stays in Abidjan — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 13, line 17: «Morocco's capital is Rabat, not Casablanca; Côte d'Ivoire's official capital is Yamoussoukro, though much government work stays in Abidjan.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «capital» (+4); the same thing acted on «rabat» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · wrong ✗

Why might a shared trade language like Swahili spread across many peoples?

  • 1. Traders and travellers from different peoples need one language to understand each other — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. It is the only language that can be written — ← Mova's choice · score 2
  • 3. It is the oldest language on Earth, so all other African languages grew out of it — score 2
  • 4. A king ordered everyone in the world to speak it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 10, line 16: «English is an official language in more than 50 countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Jamaica, Singapore, the Philippines and, alongside Hindi for the ce…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «english» (+1); the same thing acted on «official language» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the number of African states which hold membership of the United Nations.

  • 1. Forty-eight — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Fifty-four — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Seventy-two — no support
  • 4. Twenty-seven — 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 ✓

Identify the principal purpose of the Berlin Conference convened in the years 1884 and 1885.

  • 1. The establishment by European powers of rules for the partition of Africa, in the absence of any African representative — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade — no support
  • 3. The foundation of the African Union — no support
  • 4. The negotiation of independence for African states — 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 · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the capital cities of the Republic of South Africa?

  • 1. Johannesburg is the sole capital — no support
  • 2. Pretoria is the seat of government, Cape Town of parliament, and Bloemfontein of the highest courts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 3. Durban and Pretoria share all functions equally — no support
  • 4. Cape Town is the sole capital in respect of all functions of the state, including the courts — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 7: «Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen by the new republic in 1923 because it lies in the middle of the country, away from the old sultans' court, but its largest…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «capital» (+2). · 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 Federal Republic of Nigeria.

  • 1. It is the least populous state in West Africa — no support
  • 2. Its capital was transferred from Abuja to Lagos in 1991, Lagos being the most populous city in Africa — no support
  • 3. It is the most populous state in Africa, and its capital was transferred from Lagos to Abuja in 1991 — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. It is the largest African state by area, with its capital at Lagos — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 2: «Great Britain holds England, Scotland and Wales; the UK adds Northern Ireland; and the Republic of Ireland is a separate country that shares the island of Irel…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «republic» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). 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

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