Continents and oceans

Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 5 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 ✗

Mate reckons there's exactly seven continents and that's a scientific fact. Right?

1. Yes, scientists fixed it in 1884 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, there are really twelve — no support
3. Yes, every country teaches seven — no support
4. No, how many is an agreement and differs by country — ✓ 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 ✓

Which city lies partly in Europe and partly in Asia?

1. Istanbul — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. Cairo — score 4
3. Saint Petersburg — score 4
4. Rome — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). 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: the same action «lie» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

In EU5 the Ottomans hold lands on both sides of the Bosporus. What does that real strait separate?

1. North from South America — no support
2. Europe from Asia — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Africa from western Asia — ← Mova's choice · score 8
4. Europe from Africa — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 10: «Africa is the second largest continent, with about a fifth of the world's land, and it lies on both sides of the equator.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «second largest continent» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

Which two Asian countries together hold more than a third of all humans?

1. India and China — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Russia and Mongolia — no support
3. Indonesia and Iran — no support
4. Japan and Korea — 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 ✓

Why is Australia called a continent and not just the biggest island?

1. It is a very big landmass on its own, so it is counted as a continent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. It is bigger than Asia — no support
3. Islands must be in the Pacific — no support
4. Its name was chosen by Captain Cook, who wanted it called a continent and not an island — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 11: «Australia is the smallest continent, with about 7.7 million square kilometres, and it is the only continent that is a single country; it is such a big landmass…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «count» (+2); the same doer «big landmass» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

Which ocean surrounds Antarctica?

1. The Indian Ocean only — ← Mova's choice · score 14
2. The Arctic Ocean — score 14
3. The Atlantic Ocean only — score 14
4. The Southern Ocean — ✓ the right answer · score 14

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 14, tied with another option at 14 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 5, line 12: «The five oceans are the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and the Arctic, and National Geographic began marking the Southern Ocean, which surroun…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «surround» (+4); the same receiver «antarctica» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «southern ocean» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 14. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

Which hemisphere has more ocean?

1. The northern hemisphere — no support
2. Neither, the oceans are on the equator — ← Mova's choice · score 12
3. The southern hemisphere — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They have exactly the same — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 12: «The five oceans are the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and the Arctic, and National Geographic began marking the Southern Ocean, which surroun…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «five oceans» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

If Everest were dropped into the Challenger Deep, what would happen?

1. It would fill the trench exactly — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Its peak would stick out by 2 km — no support
3. It would float — score 2
4. Its peak would still be more than 2 km under water — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 5, line 5: «The Pacific alone is bigger than all the land on Earth, and its deepest point, the Challenger Deep, could swallow Mount Everest with over 2 km of water to spar…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «deepest point» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

In EU5 you send Portugal down the African coast. How long did the real Portuguese take to reach the Cape of Good Hope?

1. A single summer in 1337 — no support
2. Just one voyage in 1600 — no support
3. It was never reached — no support
4. Decades of voyages, until Dias rounded it in 1488 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 18: «Portuguese ships spent decades creeping down Africa's coast before Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «round» (+2); the same thing acted on «cape» (+2); the same place «1488» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

the pacific is called the peaceful ocean so it must be calm innit?

1. No, Magellan named it on a calm crossing, but it has fierce storms — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. No, it is called that because it is warm — no support
3. Yes, it is too big for wind — ← Mova's choice · score 8
4. Yes, it never has storms — 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 5, line 5: «The Pacific alone is bigger than all the land on Earth, and its deepest point, the Challenger Deep, could swallow Mount Everest with over 2 km of water to spar…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «pacific» (+4); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · right ✓

Why do most of the world's people and the EU5 map's great powers lie in the north?

1. About two-thirds of the land is in the northern hemisphere — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The south is all ice and cold deserts — no support
3. The south has no rivers — no support
4. The game hides the southern lands from the players on purpose — 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 continent of the greatest extent and the most numerous population.

1. North America — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Asia — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Africa — no support
4. Europe — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the proportion of the terrestrial surface covered by the oceans?

1. Approximately twenty-nine per cent — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Approximately fifty per cent — no support
3. Approximately ninety per cent — no support
4. Approximately seventy-one per cent — ✓ 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 · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the number of continents.

1. It varies according to the convention adopted — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It is invariably seven — no support
3. It is invariably five — no support
4. It is invariably six — 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 the location of the greatest known oceanic depth.

1. The Puerto Rico Trench in the Atlantic — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The Mediterranean basin — no support
4. The Arctic Ocean beneath the Pole — 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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