The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 40 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 ✗
My mate says "in EU5 I took this province in 3 months, so armies were fast back then." What is wrong?
- 1. Armies took buses in 1337 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Real wars always lasted one day — no support
- 3. Nothing, real armies were faster than cars and could cross Europe in a day — no support
- 4. Real armies walked, needed supplies and were often stopped by winter — ✓ 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 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
The storm of 1588 that wrecked parts of the Spanish Armada shows what?
- 1. The Armada was only a video game — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Storms never mattered — no support
- 3. Rulers controlled everything, even the weather — no support
- 4. Luck and weather shaped real events — ✓ 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 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
On a Mercator map Greenland looks as big as Africa. What would you see on a globe?
- 1. Africa is only about twice as big — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Greenland is a little bit bigger — no support
- 3. Africa is about 14 times bigger — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. They are exactly the same size on a globe — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 40, line 10: «A flat map of the round Earth always stretches some places, and the common Mercator map makes Greenland look as big as Africa, though Africa is about 14 times…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «africa» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
oi the game says this village makes "wool" only. that legit?
- 1. Yes, wool was the only good in 1337 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, each village made one thing only and bought the rest — no support
- 3. No, real places made many things at once — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, villages made nothing — 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 ✗
A history book says "In 1337, 4,213,560 people lived in England." What should you think?
- 1. It is far too big, England was empty — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is exact, because the king's clerks counted every single person by name — no support
- 3. It is a guess dressed as an exact number, since there was no census — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It must come from the Domesday Book — 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 medieval merchant from Bruges in 1337 time-travels to today. Why can't he sail home to his port?
- 1. Ships are banned in Belgium — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Bruges is under the sea now — no support
- 3. Bruges was moved to France, stone by stone, after a war — no support
- 4. Its channel silted up and the sea is far away now — ✓ 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 ✗
In EU5 you see a sharp black line between two kingdoms in 1337. A real traveller crosses there. What is he most likely to find?
- 1. A painted line on the road — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A tall fence with guards checking everyone's passports — no support
- 3. A Schengen sign — no support
- 4. Forest and villages with no clear line at all — ✓ 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 8 · ★★★ · right ✓
Why might a village in 1337 be shown under three different rulers in three different books?
- 1. Only one ruler existed then — no support
- 2. Books always lie — no support
- 3. It owed rent, tithes and taxes to a lord, a church and a king — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. Villages moved from one kingdom to another every year with their animals — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 7: «A real medieval village might owe rent to one lord, tithes (a tenth of its harvest) to a church and taxes to a king at the same time.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «owe» (+3); the same doer «real medieval village» (+2); the same receiver «one lord» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓
you're playing as the Yuan in 1337, where's your capital and what's it called then
- 1. Beijing, then called Khanbaliq or Dadu — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Mexico City, then called Tenochtitlan — no support
- 3. Istanbul, then called Constantinople — no support
- 4. Agra, then called Hampi — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 16: «Beijing was called Khanbaliq or Dadu under the Yuan in 1337.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+1); the same thing acted on «beijing» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓
A friend says a game map is exactly the real world because experts made it. What is the best answer?
- 1. Every map simplifies, and sharp borders and empty lands were not real — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, the only mistake is that the sea is the wrong colour — no support
- 3. Yes, the game is a perfect copy of the real world in every single detail — no support
- 4. No, the game invents every single place and every name it shows — 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 ✗
If EU5 added winter stopping campaigns, slow letters and uneven harvests, how would the game feel?
- 1. It would have no wars at all — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Exactly the same as now — no support
- 3. Faster and easier than before, with shorter wars and more battles — score 1
- 4. Slower and more unpredictable, more like real history — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 4: «In Europa Universalis 5 borders move with every war and inheritance, and that is not far from the truth, but the game shows them as sharp lines, while real bor…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «war» (+3); the same doer «game» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · 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 boundaries of states in the year 1337?
- 1. They frequently constituted indeterminate zones rather than precise lines — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They did not exist in any form — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. They were fixed by international treaty in the twentieth century by the League of Nations — no support
- 4. They were delineated with exactitude in every instance — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 9: «Europe and Asia are one landmass, often called Eurasia, and the usual boundary follows the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus, the B…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «usual boundary» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the reason for which the Mercator projection represents Greenland as comparable in extent to Africa.
- 1. The Greenland ice sheet increases its apparent area — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The projection distends regions remote from the Equator — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Africa is depicted at a reduced scale by convention — no support
- 4. Greenland is in fact of equal area to Africa — 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 principal reason for scholarly disagreement concerning the population of Europe in 1337.
- 1. Population was not subject to change in that period, and was never counted — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Every inhabitant was recorded twice, by the lord and by the parish — no support
- 3. Comprehensive censuses were seldom conducted, so figures are estimates — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Contemporary records are complete but secret — 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 ✗
State the cause whereby the port of Bruges ceased to be a principal centre of maritime trade.
- 1. The submersion of the city beneath the sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The silting of its channel to the sea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The relocation of the city to the Kingdom of Spain — no support
- 4. A prohibition on shipping issued by Napoleon — 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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