Latin America and the Caribbean
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 14 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 ✓
Sam reckons Brazilians speak Spanish «coz it's South America innit». What is right?
- 1. Brazilians speak Spanish like their neighbours, with a few Portuguese words — score 6
- 2. Brazilians speak Portuguese, because Brazil was a Portuguese colony — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 3. Brazilians speak Latin — score 6
- 4. Brazilians speak French — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 2: «Why do Brazilians speak Portuguese while their neighbours speak Spanish? In 1494, in the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain and Portugal drew a line 370 leagues west…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «speak» (+4); the same doer «brazilians» (+4); the same thing acted on «portuguese» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
In Europa Universalis 5, a colony grows in an «empty» province in the Americas. What is wrong with that picture?
- 1. Nothing, the Americas had no people — no support
- 2. Only Europeans could live in the Americas — no support
- 3. The provinces were empty because the Ice Age had only just ended there — no support
- 4. The land was already home to Indigenous peoples whose societies colonisation broke — ← 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 14, line 3: «In Europa Universalis 5, colonising looks like filling empty provinces with settlers. Really the land was home to millions of people: after 1492 the Indigenous…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓
«capital of brazil? rio. duh.» What is right?
- 1. It has been Brasília since 1960; Rio was the capital before that — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is São Paulo — no support
- 3. It is still Rio de Janeiro, as it has been since the Portuguese king came — no support
- 4. It is Buenos Aires — 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 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if a visitor flew straight from the beach to La Paz and ran up a hill?
- 1. They would get warmer and warmer the higher up they went, as they near the Sun — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They could feel short of breath, because the air holds less oxygen up high — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nothing, the air is the same everywhere — no support
- 4. They would float a little, because the air up there is so much lighter — 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's mexico city sinking, is it on the sea??» Which is the best answer?
- 1. It is not sinking at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is floating on the Pacific Ocean — no support
- 3. It is built on the soft bed of an old lake, and the ground is slowly sinking — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A volcano under the city is slowly sucking it down into the earth — 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 was the Haitian Revolution so important in world history?
- 1. It was the first war fought with ships — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Enslaved people won their freedom and founded the first independent Black republic — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It ended slavery everywhere at once, in every country of the world, in the same year — no support
- 4. It made Haiti a French colony again — 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 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«so chile is like 4000 km long and like 5 km wide lol» What is right?
- 1. It is about 4,300 km long and on average less than 200 km wide — ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 2. It is perfectly round — no support
- 3. It is about 4,300 km wide and only 5 km long, like a line — score 10
- 4. It is 200 km long and 4,300 km wide — ← Mova's choice · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 14, line 15: «Chile, with its capital Santiago, is about 4,300 km long but on average less than 200 km wide, squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «chile» (+4); the same thing acted on «200 km» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 1, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
A cartoon shows Columbus landing on an empty island with nobody there. What is wrong?
- 1. The islands were full of people, such as the Taíno, who already lived there — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Columbus never sailed at all, and the islands were found by the Vikings — no support
- 3. Columbus landed in Australia — no support
- 4. Nothing, the islands were empty — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 16: «The Caribbean islands were colonised by Spain, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Denmark, and Cuba, with its capital Havana, is the largest island; when Col…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «islands» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
«bolivia's capital is sucre — no wait, la paz? which» Which is the best answer?
- 1. Only La Paz is a capital — no support
- 2. Sucre is the official capital and La Paz is where the government sits — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Only Santa Cruz is a capital, as it is the biggest city — score 5
- 4. Bolivia has no capital — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 14, line 14: «Bolivia's official capital is Sucre, but its government sits in La Paz at about 3,600 metres, the highest seat of government in the world, where the air is thi…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sucre» (+2); the same thing acted on «highest official capital» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
In 1494, who decided which European country got which lands in the Americas?
- 1. Britain and France, in a treaty signed on a ship at sea — no support
- 2. Spain and Portugal, in the Treaty of Tordesillas — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. The Aztec emperor — no support
- 4. The people living in the Americas — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 11: «Brazil received about 4.9 million enslaved Africans, more than any other country, and in 1888 it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.», 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 «population» (+2); the same place «americas» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓
«why'd they build brasília in the middle of nowhere» Which is the best answer?
- 1. Because Rio sank into the sea — no support
- 2. Because the Portuguese king lived there — no support
- 3. Because the Amazon flooded every coastal city in Brazil, so they had to move inland — no support
- 4. To bring people and growth into the inland of the country, away from the coast — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 7: «Brazil is the largest country in South America, with about 213 million people, and its capital is Brasília, a planned city built far inland that replaced Rio d…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bring» (+2); the same place «inland» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal reason for which the Portuguese language is spoken in the Federative Republic of Brazil.
- 1. Brazil was purchased from Spain by Portugal in 1900 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Under the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, eastern South America fell to Portugal, which colonised it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Portuguese was adopted by decree in 1960 upon the founding of Brasília — no support
- 4. The Indigenous peoples of Brazil spoke Portuguese prior to 1492 — 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 capitals of the Plurinational State of Bolivia?
- 1. Sucre is the constitutional capital, whereas the seat of government is situated in La Paz — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. La Paz is the sole capital in respect of all functions — no support
- 3. Sucre is the seat of government, whereas La Paz is a coastal port — score 0
- 4. Bolivia possesses no designated capital — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 14: «Bolivia's official capital is Sucre, but its government sits in La Paz at about 3,600 metres, the highest seat of government in the world, where the air is thi…», 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 «sucre» (+2); the same thing acted on «highest official capital» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the population of the Americas subsequent to the year 1492.
- 1. The Indigenous population increased substantially owing to European trade — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Indigenous population remained unchanged — no support
- 3. The Indigenous population declined catastrophically, chiefly owing to introduced diseases, warfare and forced labour — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The Indigenous population emigrated voluntarily to Europe — 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 ✓
State the year in which the Federative Republic of Brazil abolished slavery.
- 1. 1888 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 1822 — no support
- 3. 1865 — no support
- 4. 1960 — 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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