The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 61 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 ✗
«latitude and longitude are the same thing really» What would you say?
- 1. No: latitude is height and longitude is width — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No: latitude is for the sea and longitude is for land — no support
- 3. No: latitude is north-south, longitude is east-west — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, they are two names for the same line on a map — 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 Whale swims due east from 50° North, 40° West, keeping to 50° North, until longitude is 5° West. Where is it now?
- 1. Off the coast of Australia — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Near Cornwall, in south-west England — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. At the South Pole — no support
- 4. In the middle of the Sahara Desert — 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 · ★★ · right ✓
«the Limpopo isn't real, it's a made-up name like Nqong» What is right?
- 1. It is a real river in southern Africa — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. It is a made-up river Kipling drew on his map — score 6
- 3. It is a real lake in Scotland — no support
- 4. It is real, but it is in South America — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 61, line 9: «The Limpopo is a real river, about 1,750 kilometres long, that forms the northern border of South Africa with Botswana and Zimbabwe and flows into the Indian O…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «real river» (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
A friend says the Sahara has always been a desert. What do rock paintings of swimmers and cattle show?
- 1. People swam in the sand in the old days — score 2
- 2. It was always an icy desert, just like Antarctica is now — score 5
- 3. People painted things they saw only in their dreams — score 4
- 4. It was green with lakes about 5,000 to 11,000 years ago — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 15
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 15, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 61, line 15: «The Eldest Magician makes the Himalayas, the Sahara and the Everglades in a game, but really the Himalayas were pushed up as India crashed into Asia over about…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+7); the same property (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«the middle of Australia is jungle innit, that's where the roos are» What is true?
- 1. It is a wet, steamy rainforest like the Amazon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is covered in deep snow most of the year — no support
- 3. It is the sea, with islands — no support
- 4. It is mostly hot desert and dry grassland — ✓ 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 6 · ★★ · right ✓
In which order would the Elephant's Child meet these places going north from the coast: Graham's Town, Kimberley, the Limpopo?
- 1. Graham's Town, Kimberley, then the Limpopo — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Kimberley, the Limpopo, then Graham's Town — no support
- 3. The Limpopo, Graham's Town, then Kimberley — no support
- 4. The Limpopo, Kimberley, then Graham's Town — 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 ✓
«the Himalayas are finished growing, they're old» What is true?
- 1. They grow only when there is an earthquake — no support
- 2. They are sinking slowly back into the sea a little every year — score 3
- 3. They are still rising a little, as India keeps pushing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. They stopped growing millions of years ago — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 61, line 15: «The Eldest Magician makes the Himalayas, the Sahara and the Everglades in a game, but really the Himalayas were pushed up as India crashed into Asia over about…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «little» (+5); the same action «rise» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A ship sails from India to China. Why does it go past Singapore?
- 1. Ships must stop in Singapore to ask the Crab — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. The sea around India is frozen in winter — no support
- 3. The Strait of Malacca is the short way between oceans — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is the only place where ships can buy fuel — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 5: «Think of a garden hose bent round a flower bed: cut a straight path across instead and the water arrives much sooner. A canal does that for ships, and when one…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «block» (+2); the same doer «one stuck ship» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Kipling was born in Bombay. What is the city called today?
- 1. Kolkata — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Dhaka — no support
- 3. Delhi — no support
- 4. Mumbai — ✓ 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 ✗
★★★ Socotra, Kimberley and the Limpopo are all in the Southern Hemisphere. Which one is wrong?
- 1. Kimberley, which is north of the Equator — score 2
- 2. None, all three are south of the Equator — no support
- 3. The Limpopo, which is north of the Equator — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Socotra, which is north of the Equator — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 61, line 9: «The Limpopo is a real river, about 1,750 kilometres long, that forms the northern border of South Africa with Botswana and Zimbabwe and flows into the Indian O…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«yo the Amazon's a website not a river» What would you say?
- 1. It is a small river in England named after the shop — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. It is only a website, the river was in a film — no support
- 3. It's a real river in South America too, the biggest on Earth by water — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is a desert in Australia — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 61, line 13: «The Crab's story names the Perak river, Malacca and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula, by the Strait of Malacca, the short way for ships between the Indian Ocea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «name» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «perak river» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the location designated by the coordinates fifty degrees north and forty degrees west.
- 1. A position upon the Antarctic ice sheet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A position in the open North Atlantic Ocean, remote from any coast — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A position in the interior of the African continent — no support
- 4. A position in the Indian Ocean adjacent to Socotra — 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Limpopo River?
- 1. It forms part of the frontier of South Africa and discharges into the Indian Ocean — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. It is a fictitious watercourse devised for the purposes of the tale — score 5
- 3. It traverses the Highveld and discharges into the Atlantic Ocean — score 4
- 4. It rises in the Himalayas and discharges into the Bay of Bengal — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 61, line 9: «The Limpopo is a real river, about 1,750 kilometres long, that forms the northern border of South Africa with Botswana and Zimbabwe and flows into the Indian O…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «form» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «real river» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · 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 formation of the Himalayas.
- 1. They were raised by the collision of the Indian landmass with Asia over tens of millions of years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They were formed by the eruption of one great volcano — no support
- 3. They were raised by the ancient Egyptians as a defence — no support
- 4. They were deposited by the wind in the course of a single season — 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
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the meaning of the word «turbid» as applied to the Amazon.
- 1. Muddy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Narrow — no support
- 3. Salty — no support
- 4. Frozen — 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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