Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★

Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 63 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 ✗

Your mate says "I walked 1 km south, 1 km east, 1 km north and I'm back at my tent." Where could his tent be?

1. In the middle of London — no support
2. Anywhere, if he walks fast — no support
3. On the equator in Kenya — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. At the North Pole — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 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 1, line 15: «The Earth is about 40,000 km around the equator, and the Greek scholar Eratosthenes estimated this size quite well around 240 BC.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «40,000 km» (+2); the same place «equator» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

flight leaves London 9am in January, 7 hours to New York. what time do we land, their time?

1. 9pm — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 2am — no support
3. 4pm — no support
4. 11am — ✓ 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 ✗

my nan in Delhi wants a call at 6pm her time. it's winter here in Manchester, what time do I ring, our kid? ("our kid" = mate)

1. 13:00 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 18:00 — no support
3. 23:30 — no support
4. 12:30 — ✓ 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 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Lad says "Tokyo's like a million hours ahead, innit." How far ahead is Tokyo really in winter?

1. 1 hour — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 9 hours — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A million hours — no support
4. 15 hours — 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 ✗

my bro says Norwich and London share a clock, so the Sun's highest at the same second, no cap. Right?

1. Yes, England is too small for any difference — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, Norwich is east, so its noon comes a few minutes sooner — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yes, the same clock time means the same Sun — no support
4. No, Norwich's noon comes an hour after London's — 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 ✓

"This hill's proper steep, mate, the lines are miles apart on the map." What's wrong?

1. Far-apart contour lines mean a gentle slope — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Nothing, far-apart lines always mean steep — no support
3. Contour lines only show the roads — score 5
4. Contour lines tell us nothing about steepness — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1, line 10: «Contour lines join points of equal height above sea level, and lines drawn close together mean the ground is steep.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lines» (+3); the same action «mean» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Kid in Kashgar, far west China: "Sun's still not up at 9 and I'm late for school, ugh." Why so late?

1. All China runs on Beijing's clock, far to the east — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The Sun rises in the west in China — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. China puts its clocks back every morning — no support
4. Kashgar is south of the equator — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 10: «China uses a single time zone, UTC+8, for the whole country, even though it is about as wide as five standard zones; the clock follows Beijing in the east, so…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sun» (+3); the same action «rise» (+2); the same place «far west» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓

Sis: "Greenland's as big as Africa, look at the map, I'm not delulu." Who's right?

1. Africa is only about twice as big — score 5
2. Africa is about 14 times bigger than Greenland — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. They really are about the same size — no support
4. Greenland is a bit bigger, as the map shows — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 3, line 8: «On a Mercator map Greenland looks about as large as Africa, but Africa is really about 14 times larger.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «africa» (+3); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓

"We crossed the date line going east on Saturday, so we had two Saturdays, sweet as." Can that be true?

1. Yes, but only on a leap year — no support
2. No, the date line never changes the day — no support
3. Yes, going east you go back a day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. No, going east you lose a whole day — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 63, line 15: «Crossing the International Date Line westwards you jump forward one calendar day, and crossing it eastwards you go back one day.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «go back» (+3); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Your gran: "It's a bit far to the next village, love." The map is 1:50,000 and they're 20 cm apart. How far is "a bit"?

1. 100 km — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 20 km — no support
3. 10 km, so not just a bit — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 1 km — 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 ✓

Mate says the Pole Star is overhead at the equator, he saw it on a cruise, deffo. True?

1. Yes, it is overhead at the equator — score 5
2. No, at the equator it sits on the horizon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
3. Yes, it is overhead everywhere in the world — no support
4. No, it is under the ground there — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 11, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 63, line 17: «In the northern hemisphere the Pole Star stands about as many degrees above the horizon as your latitude, and at the equator it sits right on the horizon.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «equator» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same action «sit» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Determine the direction in which an observer is facing, having commenced facing south and executed, in succession, a left turn and a further left turn.

1. West — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. South — no support
3. North — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. East — 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 ✗

A vessel departs Tokyo at 11:00 local time in January and proceeds for twelve hours to London. Ascertain the local time of arrival.

1. 23:00 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 08:00 — no support
3. 14:00 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 02:00 — 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 location at which every possible direction of departure leads southwards.

1. Greenwich in London — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The South Pole — no support
3. The North Pole — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The equator at the prime meridian — 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 ✗

Two settlements lie 45 degrees of longitude apart. Determine the interval between their respective local noons.

1. Forty-five minutes — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Forty-five hours — no support
3. Three hours — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. One hour and a half — 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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