Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 16 of the history 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 ✗
a mate says rome fell in one day in 476 and everyone woke up in the dark ages. right?
- 1. Yes, everything changed overnight — no support
- 2. No, for most people life changed slowly — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Yes, and Rome vanished from the map — no support
- 4. No, Rome never fell at all — ← Mova's choice · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 12: «Rome did not fall in a day: for most people life changed slowly, and the West broke into kingdoms that later became countries like France, Spain and England.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall» (+4); the same doer «rome» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
My teacher said, no wait, I think she said Rome fell because of one bad emperor. What do historians say?
- 1. Many problems together weakened the West — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It fell because of a volcano — no support
- 3. One emperor ruined the whole empire all by himself — no support
- 4. It was sold to Persia — 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 ✓
In Europa Universalis Byzantium is a tiny state at the start. Why?
- 1. By then it was near its end, long after its great days — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The game made it up — no support
- 3. It was always a tiny state, even under the great Justinian — no support
- 4. It was a Viking land — 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 ✓
If monks had not copied books, what might we have lost?
- 1. All the Viking runes — no support
- 2. The Egyptian pyramids — no support
- 3. The Chinese printing blocks — no support
- 4. Many Roman and Greek books — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 17: «After the fall of the West, monks in monasteries copied old books by hand, and without them many Roman and Greek books would be lost.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «lose» (+2); the same thing acted on «greek books» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
The Visigoths took Rome in 410. Why were people so shocked?
- 1. Rome was attacked and taken by enemies every single week — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Nobody lived in Rome — no support
- 3. Rome had not been taken by an enemy for about 800 years — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. The Visigoths were Roman senators — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 9: «In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time an enemy had taken the city in about 800 years.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «enemy» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
Why did the Huns cause trouble even where they did not go?
- 1. They pushed other peoples into Roman lands — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. They stopped all trade with China — no support
- 3. They built tall walls everywhere they could find stone — no support
- 4. They sailed up every river — 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 16, line 10: «Attila led the Huns, horse-riding warriors from the east, and attacked both halves of the empire, and the Huns pushed other peoples into Roman lands.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «push» (+3); the same doer «huns» (+3); the same place «roman lands» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓
People in Kyiv became Orthodox Christians. From whom did that come?
- 1. From Byzantium — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. From the Vikings — no support
- 3. From the Aztecs — no support
- 4. From China, along the Silk Road — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why is it fair to say Rome did not really end in 476?
- 1. The West grew stronger after 476 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The eastern half lived on for another thousand years — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Rome still had an emperor living in the Colosseum in 2000 — no support
- 4. Nobody noticed anything at all — 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 ✗
Your class uses the Latin alphabet and months like July and August. What does that show?
- 1. English came before Rome — no support
- 2. It is a coincidence — no support
- 3. Much of our way of life rests on Roman foundations — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The Romans copied our alphabet and our months from us later — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 15: «After Caesar's death his adopted son Octavian won the civil wars and became Augustus, the first emperor, in 27 BC; he said the Republic still went on, but real…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «month» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
An empire is too big for one ruler. What did Rome do?
- 1. Elected two hundred emperors — no support
- 2. Split into an eastern and a western half — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Gave up all its land and went back to seven hills — score 4
- 4. Moved everyone to Rome — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 7: «The empire was split into a western half ruled from Rome and an eastern half ruled from Constantinople.», 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 action «split» (+2); the same place «western half» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Hagia Sophia's huge dome, Roman law in one book. Which emperor?
- 1. Nero — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Attila — no support
- 3. Justinian — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Constantine — 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 emperor who in 313 granted Christians the liberty of worship and founded Constantinople.
- 1. Romulus Augustulus — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Constantine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Augustus — no support
- 4. Justinian — 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 decline of the western Roman Empire?
- 1. It resulted from a single catastrophe in one day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It did not occur — no support
- 3. It resulted from numerous concurrent difficulties over a protracted period — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It resulted solely from the conduct of one emperor — 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 the Byzantine Empire, successor to the eastern Roman Empire, came to an end.
- 1. 476 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 410 — no support
- 3. 1066 — no support
- 4. 1453 — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the preservation of classical literature in the West.
- 1. No classical books survive — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Monks in monasteries transcribed ancient books by hand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The books were printed by Gutenberg in 500 — no support
- 4. The Huns preserved them in libraries — 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
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