The Atlantic routes and the slave trade

Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 30 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 ✓

My mate says ships just sailed straight there and straight back. Why did they take different routes?

1. The straight route was too short — score 3
2. Pirates guarded the straight route in both directions all year — no support
3. Captains liked to see new places — no support
4. They followed the trade winds out and the westerlies back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 1: «A sailing ship could not go straight wherever it liked: it had to follow the winds. Across the Atlantic ships went out with the trade winds in the south and ca…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «follow» (+3); the same doer «ship» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Someone says "enslaved people just accepted it". Put that right.

1. It is right, nobody ever resisted slavery in any way — score 3
2. They resisted, with revolts, escapes and free communities — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. They resisted only after 1888 — score 6
4. Only people in Europe ever fought against slavery — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 30, line 13: «Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «resist» (+2); the same doer «enslaved people» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why did so many people die on the Middle Passage?

1. The ships nearly always sank in the Atlantic storms — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The crossing took only one day — no support
3. They were given too much food — no support
4. They were chained in crowded, filthy holds for weeks — ✓ the right answer · 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 ✗

In the game, sugar from a Caribbean colony is a trade good. What was behind it?

1. Paid farmers from Britain — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Machines that did all the work — no support
3. The forced labour of enslaved Africans — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Sugar that grew wild with no work — 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 ✓

The game ends in 1836. Was slavery over everywhere by then?

1. Yes, Haiti ended it for the whole world — no support
2. No, it never ended anywhere — no support
3. No, it lasted in the USA until 1865 and Brazil until 1888 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Yes, it ended everywhere in 1807, when Britain banned the trade — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 5: «In Europa Universalis 5 colonies send sugar and tobacco as trade goods and the game ends in 1836. Behind every such good were real people forced to work, and s…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «usa» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Why were maroon communities often in mountains or forests?

1. Mountains were warmer than the coast — no support
2. Owners sent them there on purpose — no support
3. The soil there was best for sugar — no support
4. Rough land was hard for soldiers to reach — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 14: «Escaped enslaved people formed free communities called maroon settlements in Jamaica, Suriname, Brazil and elsewhere, and Palmares in Brazil lasted for most of…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

A drawing of the ship Brookes was published in 1788. Why did it matter?

1. It showed how people were packed and turned opinion against the trade — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. It was an advert in the newspapers to sell more ships to Liverpool merchants — no support
3. It showed a new kind of sail — score 6
4. It was a map of the Atlantic winds — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 30, line 3: «About 12.5 million Africans were forced onto ships, and about 2 million died on the crossing, called the Middle Passage, chained below deck in crowded, filthy…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Why do so many Brazilians have African ancestors?

1. Brazil received more enslaved Africans than anywhere else — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Most Africans moved there by choice in the 1950s — no support
3. Brazil was ruled by African kings — no support
4. Brazil is joined to Africa by land, so people walked there — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Britain paid £20 million when it ended slavery. Who got nothing?

1. The slave owners — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The ports of Liverpool and Bristol — no support
3. The British government — no support
4. The people who had been enslaved — ✓ 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 ✗

How did the slave trade harm Africa, not only the people taken?

1. It ended all trade with Africa — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It brought wars and raids and drained kingdoms like Kongo — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It made every African kingdom grow larger and richer — no support
4. It only affected the Americas, never Africa itself — 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 ✗

Music like jazz, samba and reggae has roots in which part of the world?

1. China, carried west along the Silk Road — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Medieval Venice and the music of its gondoliers — no support
3. Northern Russia — no support
4. Africa, brought by the people of the slave trade — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason for which vessels crossing the Atlantic followed different routes outward and homeward.

1. The homeward route was invariably obstructed by ice — no support
2. They exploited the trade winds outward and the westerlies homeward — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Customs regulations forbade the return by the outward route — no support
4. The outward route was shorter only in the summer months — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 14: «The shortest route between two places on a globe is part of a great circle, a circle that goes all the way round the globe's widest part, like the equator does…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «shortest route» (+4); the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Middle Passage?

1. A route of the overland trade between China and Persia — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. The strait separating the continent of Africa from Arabia — score 7
3. The crossing in which enslaved Africans were transported, in appalling conditions, to the Americas — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The return voyage of merchant vessels laden with sugar and tobacco from the Americas to Europe — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 30, line 1: «A sailing ship could not go straight wherever it liked: it had to follow the winds. Across the Atlantic ships went out with the trade winds in the south and ca…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «sailing ship» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · 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 compensation paid upon the abolition of slavery in the British colonies.

1. Twenty million pounds was paid to the formerly enslaved persons — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Twenty million pounds was paid to the slave owners and nothing to the enslaved — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The sum was divided equally between owners and the enslaved — no support
4. No payment whatsoever was made to any party — 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 · wrong ✗

It is given that a free state was established in 1804 by persons who had overthrown slavery in a French colony. Ascertain the state thus described.

1. Brazil — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Jamaica — no support
3. Haiti — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Barbados — 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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