Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 34 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 ✗
In EU5 you "form Great Britain" with one decision. How did it really happen?
- 1. It happened when Napoleon ordered it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. England conquered Scotland in one day in 1337 — no support
- 3. Scotland bought England in 1066 — no support
- 4. England and Scotland joined in 1707, and Ireland in 1801 — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
My brother says Russia was always huge. Wrong?
- 1. No, Russia has always reached the Pacific, even in 1337 — score 5
- 2. No, Moscow ruled over the whole Golden Horde in 1337 and beyond — no support
- 3. Yes, Russia was part of France then — no support
- 4. Yes, in 1337 Moscow was a small principality under the Horde — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 34, line 1: «Big countries were not born big: in 1337 Moscow was a small principality paying tribute to the Golden Horde, England still held Gascony in France, and the Fren…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «small principality» (+4); the same doer «moscow» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
If the fur trade had been worthless, what would most likely have been different?
- 1. Serfdom would have ended in 1480 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Russia would have had less reason to push across Siberia so fast — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Russia would have reached America in 1340 — no support
- 4. Peter the Great would never have been born — 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 ✓
my mate reckons Louis XIV made France super rich. not exactly, is it
- 1. Right, Louis XIV lived in Russia — no support
- 2. No, he never fought any wars — no support
- 3. Right, France was strong but his wars left it deep in debt — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 4. No, Louis XIV made France the poorest country in the whole of Europe — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 34, line 16: «Louis XIV ruled France from 1643 to 1715 and built the palace of Versailles, making France the strongest power in Europe, though his wars left France deep in d…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wars» (+4); the same property (+3); the same place «debt» (+2); the same action «leave» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
A Russian peasant in 1800 wants to move to the city for work. What stops him?
- 1. As a serf he is bound to the estate — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Nothing stops him at all — no support
- 3. He needs a passport for Schengen — score 3
- 4. Cities did not exist in Russia — ← 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 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 24, line 4: «For most of history nearly everyone lived on the land and a city of 100,000 was huge. Since about 2007 more than half of all people have lived in towns and cit…», 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 «city» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did the English lose Gascony?
- 1. It joined Scotland — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They sold it to the King of Spain for a ship full of gold — no support
- 3. The sea flooded it — no support
- 4. It was taken by France in the Hundred Years' War — ✓ 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 ✗
Peter the Great's new capital was built on marshy land. Who paid the price?
- 1. Nobody, because paid engineers from Holland built it with machines — no support
- 2. Tens of thousands of forced labourers, many of whom died — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Merchants from Venice — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. Only the Tsar's own family — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 27, line 18: «Farmers who grow crops like cocoa and coffee often earn very little of the price paid in shops, because most of it goes to traders, factories, brands and shops.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+5); the same thing acted on «price» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
which year did the French Revolution kick off, quick
- 1. 1789 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 1815 — no support
- 3. 1707 — no support
- 4. 1337 — 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 ✗
A friend says France was always one united kingdom. What is wrong?
- 1. Nothing, France never changed — no support
- 2. France was only Paris until 1900 — no support
- 3. France was ruled by Russia — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Kings slowly absorbed lands such as Burgundy and Brittany — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 34, line 16: «Louis XIV ruled France from 1643 to 1715 and built the palace of Versailles, making France the strongest power in Europe, though his wars left France deep in d…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «rule» (+2); the same thing acted on «france» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Around 1810, which ruler controlled or dominated most of western and central Europe?
- 1. Louis XIV — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. Peter the Great — score 9
- 3. Napoleon — ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 4. Ivan III — score 9
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 34, line 18: «Napoleon's empire at its height, around 1810 to 1812, controlled or dominated most of western and central Europe, and after his defeat the Congress of Vienna r…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «control» (+5); the same place «1810» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
A history card says Irish Catholics owned most land in Ireland by 1750. Is it right?
- 1. Yes, settlers never came — no support
- 2. No, by then Catholics owned only a small share — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. Yes, the English gave them extra land as a reward for loyalty — score 3
- 4. No, the French owned it all — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 34, line 14: «English and later British rulers took land from Irish Catholics and gave it to Protestant settlers, especially in the 1600s, so that by the 1700s Catholics own…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «small share» (+4); the same action «own» (+2); the same doer «catholics» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition of the principality of Moscow in 1337?
- 1. A province of the Ottoman Empire — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A possession of the English Crown — no support
- 3. A modest principality subject to the overlordship of the Golden Horde — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The capital of an empire extending from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean — 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 · wrong ✗
State the year in which serfdom was abolished within the Russian Empire.
- 1. 1789 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 1707 — no support
- 3. 1480 — no support
- 4. 1861 — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the instruments whereby the United Kingdom was constituted.
- 1. A decree of Louis XIV in 1643 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 — no support
- 3. A single treaty with France in 1453 — no support
- 4. The union of England and Scotland in 1707 and of Ireland in 1801 — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain which territory alone remained in English possession in France subsequent to 1453.
- 1. Gascony — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Brittany — no support
- 3. Burgundy — no support
- 4. Calais — ✓ 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
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