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Weather, storms and the changing climate

Tests: 0 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 23 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 ✗

It snowed loads today so global warming is fake lol

  • 1. Yes, warming only means no snow ever, anywhere — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. One snowy day is weather; climate is the long average — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. No, snow is caused by warming every day — no support
  • 4. Yes, a big snowfall proves the planet is cooling down again — 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 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The storm's gone quiet and the sky's blue, can we go out and look??

  • 1. Yes, the eye is the safest place to be outside — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Yes, a quiet sky means the storm is over — no support
  • 3. No, the eye is passing and the other wall will hit soon — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. No, but only because it is getting dark — 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 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗

You count 9 seconds between flash and bang. About how far off is the storm?

  • 1. About 30 kilometres — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Right overhead — no support
  • 3. About 9 kilometres — no support
  • 4. About 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 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Dad says the greenhouse effect is pure evil and we'd be better off without it. Put him right.

  • 1. He is right, it only harms the planet and does nothing good for us — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Without it Earth would be about minus 18 degrees and frozen — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Without it Earth would be much hotter, like the planet Venus — no support
  • 4. It has nothing at all to do with Earth's temperature — 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 could people hold a fair on the frozen Thames in the 1600s but not today?

  • 1. People then had special ice machines — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The Thames was much deeper back then, and deep water freezes more easily — no support
  • 3. Winters were colder in the Little Ice Age and the climate has warmed — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. The river was saltier and froze faster — 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 ✗

A warm year in the Pacific off Peru, and Australia gets a drought. How can that be?

  • 1. The warm water flows to Australia and dries it — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Australia is right next to Peru — no support
  • 3. It is only a coincidence and never happens again — no support
  • 4. El Niño changes winds and rain far around the world — ✓ 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 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

How can a warmer world have both more droughts and heavier downpours?

  • 1. Droughts and floods both come from the world cooling down — no support
  • 2. Warm air dries the ground faster and also holds more water to rain out — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Warming moves all the rain away to the poles — no support
  • 4. Warming only causes floods, never droughts; the droughts come from elsewhere — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 17: «Like most game maps, the EU5 map leaves out most of the polar regions, and its flat world makes northern lands look larger than on a globe.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «flat world» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Melting ice on land raises the sea, but melting floating sea ice barely does. Why?

  • 1. Sea ice is made of fresh water, which simply vanishes when it melts — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. Sea ice melts into the air, not into the sea — score 5
  • 3. Floating ice already pushes aside its own weight of water — ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 4. Land ice is much colder and bigger per drop — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 23, line 15: «Sea level has risen by more than 20 centimetres since 1900, and it is now rising faster, which puts low places such as the Netherlands, Bangladesh and islands…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ice» (+3); the same action «melt» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

In the game winter is just a season. What did real people of the Little Ice Age face?

  • 1. Hot summers every single year — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Colder winters and failed harvests in many years — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Ice covering the whole of Europe all year, so nobody could farm — no support
  • 4. Exactly the same weather as today — 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 ✗

Why do the weather maps on TV show lines with triangles and half-circles?

  • 1. They mark the borders between the counties — score 5
  • 2. They mark fronts, where warm and cold air meet — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. They show where the trains run — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 4. They show where lightning is going to strike today — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1, line 13: «A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physical map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers and heights.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «physical map» (+4); the same action «show» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Which places are especially at risk as the sea rises?

  • 1. Every place on Earth exactly equally — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The Netherlands, Bangladesh and islands like Tuvalu — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Deserts far from the sea, like the middle of the Sahara — no support
  • 4. High mountain valleys such as those in the Alps — 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 ✗

Identify the principal cause of the elevation of the mean global temperature observed since the nineteenth century.

  • 1. A diminution in the distance between the Earth and the Sun — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. An increase in the frequency of volcanic eruptions — no support
  • 3. The combustion by mankind of coal, oil and natural gas — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. The reflection of additional light by the Moon — 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 distinction between weather and climate?

  • 1. Climate denotes present conditions; weather denotes their average over several centuries — score 4
  • 2. The two terms are entirely synonymous in scientific usage — no support
  • 3. Weather denotes present conditions; climate denotes their average over some thirty years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
  • 4. Weather pertains solely to precipitation; climate solely to temperature — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 23, line 1: «Weather is what the sky is doing right now: a shower on the way to school, a windy afternoon. Climate is the long average of weather over thirty years or more,…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «long average» (+2); the same doer «climate» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones.

  • 1. They constitute a single phenomenon, the tropical cyclone, named variously by ocean — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Typhoons alone possess a calm central eye, which hurricanes and cyclones invariably lack — no support
  • 3. They constitute three distinct phenomena of differing structure, size and origin — no support
  • 4. Cyclones are confined exclusively to continental interiors — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that during the passage of a tropical cyclone the wind abruptly abates and the sky clears. Ascertain the most probable explanation.

  • 1. The cyclone has dissipated entirely and the danger is past — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The cyclone has reversed its course and departed — no support
  • 3. The eye is passing, and the opposite eyewall will shortly arrive — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. A front of cold air has extinguished the storm — 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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