Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 64 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 ✗
Quizmaster in Dudley: "I'm massive, I've got 11 time zones and a bit stuck between Poland and Lithuania. Bostin' clue, that." Who?
- 1. The United States — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Canada — no support
- 3. China — no support
- 4. Russia — ✓ 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 ✗
Mate: "Australia's capital is Sydney, everyone knows that, bruv." Right?
- 1. No, it is Canberra — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Yes, it is Sydney — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. No, it is Perth — no support
- 4. No, it is Melbourne — no support
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 9, line 14: «New York City is the largest city in the United States, with about 8.5 million people, and began as the Dutch town of New Amsterdam, taken by the English in 16…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «largest city» (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
"I'm a country, I'm on two continents, my big city's split by a strait less than 1 km wide, and my capital's NOT that city." Who?
- 1. Morocco — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Denmark — no support
- 3. Kazakhstan — no support
- 4. Turkey — ✓ 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 ✗
Cousin from Glasgow: "Wee clue for ye: I'm fair skinny, Andes on one side, ocean on the other, my north is never dreich (grey and drizzly) cos it barely ever rains." Who?
- 1. Argentina — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Bolivia — no support
- 3. Peru — no support
- 4. Chile — ✓ 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 5 · ★★★ · right ✓
Lad reckons Lesotho is just a bit of South Africa, not its own country. Right?
- 1. Yes, it is a South African province — no support
- 2. No, it is a separate country inside South Africa — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 3. Yes, it is one of South Africa's three capitals — no support
- 4. No, it lies inside Botswana — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 7: «Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area, and most of it is Sahara desert, so most Algerians live near the Mediterranean coast.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «largest country» (+5); the same place «africa» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓
"No cap, Dubai is the capital of the UAE, I've literally been there a million times." What's the fix?
- 1. Abu Dhabi — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The capital is Doha — no support
- 3. The capital is Muscat — no support
- 4. It's Dubai, he's right — 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 ✓
Friend: "Bolivia's capital is La Paz, end of." What's the fuller answer?
- 1. La Paz is the only capital and always was — no support
- 2. Bolivia has no capital at all — no support
- 3. The capital is Lima, high in the Andes — score 5
- 4. Sucre is the official capital, but the government sits in La Paz — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 64, line 13: «Bolivia is named after Simón Bolívar; its official capital is Sucre, while its government sits in La Paz, the highest seat of government in the world.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «government» (+3); the same action «sit» (+2); the same place «la» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Clue chain: "I'm in Asia. I'm landlocked. I'm NOT a stan. My capital's dead cold." Who?
- 1. Kazakhstan — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Uzbekistan — no support
- 3. Mongolia — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nepal — 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 ✗
"Yeah nah, Thailand was ruled by Britain like the rest round there," says a mate in Brisbane. Right?
- 1. Yes, Thailand was British until 1965 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, Thailand was never colonised by Europeans — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, Thailand was ruled by France — no support
- 4. No, Thailand was ruled by Spain — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓
Sis: "Uzbekistan's only a bit landlocked, like it's not that deep." What does "doubly landlocked" really mean?
- 1. Every neighbour is landlocked too — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. It borders two oceans — no support
- 3. It has two seas inside it — no support
- 4. It is landlocked twice as much as others — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 17: «Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world, and Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries, with Liechtenstein: all its neighbour…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «neighbours» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Quiz card: "My capital and my neighbour's face each other across Africa's deepest river." Which river?
- 1. The Zambezi — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The River Nile — no support
- 3. The River Niger — no support
- 4. The Congo — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the state whose seat of government is situated at the greatest altitude of any in the world, notwithstanding that its official capital is located elsewhere.
- 1. Bolivia — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nepal — no support
- 3. Ecuador — no support
- 4. Peru — 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 ✗
Determine which of the following sovereign states constitutes the sole country of South-East Asia never subjected to European colonial rule.
- 1. Indonesia — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Vietnam — no support
- 3. Malaysia — no support
- 4. Thailand — ✓ 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 ✓
A state possesses three capital cities and wholly encloses another sovereign state. Ascertain its identity.
- 1. South Africa — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nigeria — no support
- 3. Italy — no support
- 4. Switzerland — 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 ✗
Select the country whose name commemorates a sixteenth-century Spanish monarch.
- 1. Colombia — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Argentina — no support
- 3. The Philippines — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Bolivia — 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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