Europe: countries and capitals
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 7 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 ✗
Why can two atlases give different numbers of European countries?
- 1. Countries change every year — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They count partly European and disputed places differently — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Some atlases forget the islands — no support
- 4. One atlas is always out of date — no support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 ✗
In EU5 you play Castile in 1337. Why is there no "Spain" on the map?
- 1. The game left Spain out by mistake — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Spain was under the sea — no support
- 3. Spain was part of France then — no support
- 4. Spain was formed later by joining Castile, Aragon and others — ✓ 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 ✗
Name three EU5 states that are now part of Italy.
- 1. Venice, Bavaria and Bohemia — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Florence, Austria and Bohemia — no support
- 3. Milan, Provence and Navarre — no support
- 4. Venice, Genoa and Naples — ✓ 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 · right ✓
What happened to the rest of the Papal States?
- 1. They still form a big country — no support
- 2. They became part of France — no support
- 3. They joined Italy, leaving the Pope only the Vatican — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. They became Switzerland — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 8: «Vatican City, inside Rome, is the smallest country in the world at about 0.44 square kilometres, and it is ruled by the Pope; it is all that is left of the Pop…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «join» (+4); the same thing acted on «italy» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
Why might a king choose a capital in the middle of his lands?
- 1. It is further from the sun — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Kings were not allowed to live by the sea in case of pirates — no support
- 3. The middle of a country is always on the coast — no support
- 4. It is easier to reach and rule every part from there — ✓ 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 ✓
Why did the union with Lithuania make Warsaw a better capital than Kraków?
- 1. Kraków was handed over to Lithuania — no support
- 2. Warsaw lay nearer the middle of the joined lands — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Lithuania owned Kraków — no support
- 4. Warsaw had the only river in Poland — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 12: «Poland's capital is Warsaw, which took over from Kraków around 1596, partly because it lay nearer the middle of Poland and Lithuania joined together.», reached through the cause of the 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 7 · wrong ✗
amsterdam's the capital so the king and parliament are there yeah?
- 1. Yes, but only in summer — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, all of them sit in Amsterdam — no support
- 3. No, they work in The Hague — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, they work in Brussels — 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 the Swiss avoid naming an official capital?
- 1. Because Bern is in France — no support
- 2. To keep the cantons equal, with no city above the others — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Because the Pope forbids it in the old treaty with the Swiss — no support
- 4. Because Switzerland has no cities — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 14: «Switzerland has no official capital by law, and Bern is called the federal city, where the government and parliament meet; the country is made of 26 cantons (r…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Is every EU country part of the euro area?
- 1. Yes, all 27 use it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, and so does the UK — no support
- 3. No, 21 of the 27 use the euro — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, only 6 use it — 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 ✓
Why did Portugal look to the ocean rather than to land to grow?
- 1. Its only land neighbour was the stronger Castile — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. It had no ports — no support
- 3. Portugal had no army at all — no support
- 4. The ocean was smaller then — 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 7, line 17: «Portugal's capital is Lisbon, and Portugal's land border with Spain has stayed almost unchanged since a treaty in 1297, among the oldest in Europe; its only la…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «only land neighbour» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · right ✓
In EU5 Muscovy keeps growing east. Why is Russia still called European though most of its land is in Asia?
- 1. Its capital and most of its people are in Europe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Siberia has always been counted as part of Europe — no support
- 3. Russia has no land in Asia — no support
- 4. Asia belongs to 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 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the sovereign state of least territorial extent in the world.
- 1. Vatican City — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Monaco — no support
- 3. Luxembourg — no support
- 4. Liechtenstein — 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 seat of government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands?
- 1. The government sits at Rotterdam — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The government sits at Brussels — no support
- 3. The government sits at The Hague, though Amsterdam is the capital — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The government sits at Amsterdam, which is the capital — 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 ✗
Ascertain the year in which Italy was constituted as a single state.
- 1. Nineteen eighteen — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Thirteen thirty-seven — no support
- 3. Eighteen sixty-one — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Eighteen fifteen — 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 response consistent with the established facts concerning the largest state situated wholly within Europe.
- 1. It is Russia — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is France — no support
- 3. It is Germany — no support
- 4. It is Ukraine — ✓ 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
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