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Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean

Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 32 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 Lepanto smashed the Ottomans for good. Right?

  • 1. No, the Ottomans won Lepanto — no support
  • 2. Yes, and Venice took Constantinople back — no support
  • 3. No, they rebuilt their fleet in about a year and still took Cyprus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
  • 4. Yes, the Ottomans never had a fleet again after that day, and lost Cyprus too — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 16: «The Ottomans rebuilt their fleet within about a year, and Venice still lost Cyprus, so Lepanto changed less than people thought at the time.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ottomans» (+4); the same property (+3); the same action «rebuild» (+2); the same thing acted on «fleet» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · right ✓

In EU5 the Ottomans start as a tiny beylik in 1337. What happened in real life?

  • 1. They moved to Spain and became a kingdom there — no support
  • 2. They were wiped out by Venice in 1340 — no support
  • 3. They grew into an empire over three continents — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 4. They stayed a tiny state in Anatolia until about 1900 — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 10: «The Ottomans began as a small state in north-west Anatolia, in today's Turkey, around 1300 and grew into an empire across south-eastern Europe, the Middle East…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ottomans» (+4); the same action «grow» (+2); the same place «empire» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

A film shows only cheerful free sailors rowing a Venetian galley. What does it leave out?

  • 1. Galleys had no oars at all and moved only by sail — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Many rowers were prisoners, captives or enslaved — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Only children rowed galleys — no support
  • 4. Galleys were rowed by horses walking in a wheel — 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 ✗

If Venice had been built on open farmland instead of a lagoon, what would most likely be different?

  • 1. Nothing, because a lagoon gives no protection to a city — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It would have been much richer from the spice trade — no support
  • 3. It would have had more ships — no support
  • 4. It would have been much easier for armies to attack — ✓ 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 5 · wrong ✗

why'd the Ottomans want Constantinople so bad, it's just one city

  • 1. It controls the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 2. The sultan was born there and wanted his home town back from the Greeks — no support
  • 3. It was the only city with a harbour — ← Mova's choice · score 7
  • 4. It had the only gold mine in Europe — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «largest city» (+4); the same thing acted on «istanbul» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

bloody hell, a thousand years? How long did the Republic of Venice last really

  • 1. About a hundred years, until 1500 — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It still exists today as a republic — no support
  • 3. About a thousand years, until 1797 — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. About fifty years, until 1453 — 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 · right ✓

Your friend thinks the Mediterranean was the centre of world trade forever. What changed after 1500?

  • 1. It dried up and could no longer be sailed — score 5
  • 2. Ocean routes grew and it slowly became less central — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 3. Nothing ever changed there — no support
  • 4. Ships were banned from it by the Pope — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 18: «After 1500 the Mediterranean slowly became less central to world trade as Atlantic and ocean routes grew.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+5); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

A boy from a Balkan village is taken away and trained as a Janissary. Which system is this?

  • 1. The Commonwealth — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The devshirme — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The encomienda — no support
  • 4. Serfdom — 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 ✗

Which list fits the peoples of the Ottoman Empire?

  • 1. Aztecs, Incas and Maya from across the Atlantic Ocean — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Vikings, Saxons, Normans and Danes from the north — no support
  • 3. Turks, Greeks, Arabs, Armenians, Slavs and Jews — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Only Turks, with nobody else allowed to live there — 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 10 · wrong ✗

Mehmed II takes Constantinople in 1453. Which empire ends?

  • 1. The Roman Republic — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The Mughal Empire — no support
  • 3. The Republic of Genoa — no support
  • 4. The Byzantine Empire — ✓ 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 11 · right ✓

Venice's Arsenal could finish ships quickly one after another. Why did a sea power need that?

  • 1. To replace and grow its fleet fast in war and trade — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. To keep its workers busy and out of trouble in the city — no support
  • 3. To sell ships to the Ottomans only — no support
  • 4. To build houses on the lagoon — 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 ✗

Ascertain the geographical setting upon which the city of Venice was constructed.

  • 1. An elevated plateau of central Anatolia — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. A cluster of islands within a shallow lagoon of the upper Adriatic — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. A promontory upon the Black Sea adjacent to the Bosporus — no support
  • 4. The banks of the River Rhine — 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 event of 1453 whereby the Byzantine Empire was terminated.

  • 1. The naval engagement at Lepanto — no support
  • 2. The dissolution of the Republic of Venice by Napoleon — no support
  • 3. The capture of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 4. The conquest of Crete by Venice — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 11: «The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «capture» (+2); the same doer «ottoman sultan» (+2); the same thing acted on «constantinople» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the consequences of the battle of Lepanto in 1571?

  • 1. The Ottoman fleet was rebuilt within about a year, and Venice nonetheless lost Cyprus — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The Ottoman Empire was thereupon dissolved — no support
  • 3. Ottoman naval power was permanently extinguished, and Cyprus was restored to Venice — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 4. Venice thereby recovered Constantinople — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 17: «In EU5 the far north has cold, harsh locations and the tropics hot ones, which follows latitude quite well (the further from the equator, the lower and weaker…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «tropics hot ones» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the year in which the Republic of Venice was terminated, and by whom.

  • 1. In 1336, by the Doge — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. In 1797, by Napoleon — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. In 1453, by Mehmed II — no support
  • 4. In 1571, by the Pope — 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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