Native peoples of North America
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 17 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 ✗
in cowboy films all native americans wear feather headdresses and live in tipis. right?
- 1. Yes, every nation did, from Florida to Alaska — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, that was only some Plains peoples — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, even the Inuit — no support
- 4. No, none of them ever did — 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 · ★ · right ✓
My mate says the Inuit lived in igloos all year round. What is true?
- 1. They lived in tipis — no support
- 2. Many lived in houses of stone, turf and skins; igloos were for winter — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. They lived in pyramids — no support
- 4. Yes, all year in igloos — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 14: «The Inuit of the Arctic hunted seals and whales, used kayaks and dog sleds, and in winter some built snow houses called igloos, but most did not live in igloos…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same place «houses» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Why did many Native people die of smallpox before ever seeing a European?
- 1. The disease spread ahead from village to village — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. They were so scared of ships that they fell ill and died — no support
- 3. They caught it from the Inuit — no support
- 4. Smallpox came from the bison — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 15: «Europeans brought diseases like smallpox that Native peoples had never met, and very many died, often before they ever saw a European, as the illness spread ah…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «spread» (+2); the same place «village» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
If corn, beans and squash had never been shared with the world, what might be missing today?
- 1. All the wheat that grows in Europe and Russia today — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Corn and other foods that now feed the world — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Rice in China — no support
- 4. Nothing 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Cowboy films show settlers as heroes. How was it for Native nations?
- 1. They won every war — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They had no homes to lose — no support
- 3. They lost their homes and lands — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. They were glad to move to new lands in the west — 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 ✓
A Lakota hunter after 1600 rides a horse. Where did the horse come from?
- 1. The Inuit bred them — no support
- 2. The Vikings brought them — no support
- 3. Horses had always lived wild on the Plains since the ice age — no support
- 4. The Spanish brought horses to the Americas — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 9: «On the Great Plains nations such as the Lakota followed huge herds of bison, using almost every part for food, clothing, tools and tipi covers, and after the S…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bring» (+4); the same doer «spanish» (+4); the same thing acted on «horses» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why might the Haudenosaunee council be called wise?
- 1. It never met — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It had the most weapons and the biggest army — no support
- 3. It obeyed a king from Spain who sent them orders — no support
- 4. It settled quarrels by talking, not fighting — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
ugh native americans r just history book people. agree?
- 1. Yes, only in films — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, they all moved to Asia — no support
- 3. Yes, they are all gone — no support
- 4. No, they are doctors, teachers, artists and astronauts today — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
A city of mounds, 15,000 people, 900 years ago, near St Louis. What does it show?
- 1. Europeans built it long ago and then left it empty — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Nobody lived in America then — no support
- 3. North America had towns long before Europeans came — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. It was a Viking camp — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 13, line 10: «Rich old families were patricians and ordinary citizens were plebeians; the plebeians went on strike by leaving the city until they won more rights.», 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 «leave» (+2); the same thing acted on «city» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a strategy game, America at the start is shown as empty land. What is wrong?
- 1. Nothing, it really was empty — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Many nations lived there already — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Only animals lived there — no support
- 4. Only the Vikings lived there — 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 ✓
How did the Ancestral Puebloans farm in the desert?
- 1. By using huge rivers everywhere — no support
- 2. By buying food from Spain — no support
- 3. By carefully collecting water — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. By not farming at all — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 12: «In the dry Southwest the Ancestral Puebloans built houses of stone and adobe in cliffs and canyons, like Mesa Verde, farmed by carefully collecting the little…», 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 «collect» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the period by which humans are known to have reached the Americas.
- 1. Approximately one thousand years ago — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Approximately three million years ago — no support
- 3. At least fifteen thousand years ago — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Approximately five hundred years ago — 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 indigenous peoples of North America prior to European arrival?
- 1. A single nation with one language — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A province of the Spanish crown — no support
- 3. An uninhabited continent — no support
- 4. Numerous distinct nations with hundreds of languages — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗
Ascertain the principal cause of the great mortality among indigenous peoples following contact with Europeans.
- 1. Volcanic eruptions — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Diseases such as smallpox, against which they had no resistance — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The failure of the bison herds alone, which left every nation starving — no support
- 4. A renewed ice age — 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 Trail of Tears in the 1830s.
- 1. The Cherokee voluntarily emigrated to Europe — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Cherokee were forcibly removed far westward and thousands perished — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It was a trading route of the Inuit — no support
- 4. It was a festival of the Haudenosaunee — 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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