The Maya
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 18 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 · ★★ · right ✓
my uncle says the maya predicted the end of the world in 2012. did they?
- 1. No, they said 3000 — no support
- 2. Yes, and it nearly happened — no support
- 3. No, a long calendar cycle just ended and a new one began — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Yes, it was moved to 2050 — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 12: «The Maya calendar did not predict the end of the world in 2012; one long cycle simply ended and a new one began.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «end» (+2); the same doer «one long cycle» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
A documentary says the Maya vanished without a trace. What is wrong?
- 1. They became Vikings — no support
- 2. Millions of Maya people still live there today — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Nothing, they are all gone and nobody speaks Maya — no support
- 4. They moved to the Moon — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 4: «Many southern cities were abandoned around 1,100 years ago, probably because of droughts, wars and too many people for the land. But the Maya did not vanish: m…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «millions» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓
The Maya and the Indians both had zero. Did one copy the other?
- 1. No, they invented it separately — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. No, the Romans gave it to both — no support
- 3. Yes, India copied the Maya after sailors visited — no support
- 4. Yes, the Maya copied India — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 10: «The Maya counted in twenties and had their own sign for zero, a shell, invented separately from India.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «invent» (+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
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Imagine the Maya could pay for a hat with cacao beans. What were beans being used as?
- 1. Medicine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Bricks — no support
- 3. Money — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Toys for babies — 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 ✗
If the Spanish had not burned the books, what would we probably know?
- 1. The exact date the world will end, written in the books — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing new — no support
- 3. Less about the Maya than we know now — no support
- 4. Much more about Maya history and beliefs — ✓ 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why might a farmer care about an accurate calendar?
- 1. To know exactly when the next bus comes past the farm — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To pay his phone bill — no support
- 3. To know when to plant and harvest — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. To count his birthdays — 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
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Your chocolate bar is sweet; Maya chocolate was not. What was different?
- 1. It was the same as ours — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was bitter, frothy, sometimes with chilli, and had no sugar — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It was made from milk only — no support
- 4. It was frozen like ice cream — 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
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Long droughts hit a big city with too many people. What lesson does the Maya story teach?
- 1. Build taller pyramids and pray harder to the rain god — no support
- 2. Never play ball games — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. Look after the land and water — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Burn more books — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 4: «Pharaohs ruled for about 3,000 years: Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as king, Tutankhamun, a boy king, Ramesses the Great, and at the very end Cleopatra. Meanwh…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «play» (+2); the same thing acted on «board games» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Where does the rubber for the first bouncy balls come from?
- 1. Silkworms in China — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Oil wells in Europe dug in the Middle Ages — no support
- 3. Tree sap, discovered by Native Americans — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Volcano rocks — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why was the shadow snake at Chichen Itza clever?
- 1. It was a real snake — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It showed how well the Maya knew the sun's movements — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It was made by Spanish priests — no support
- 4. It was painted on every day — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Mate says the Maya could only draw pictures, not write. Is he right?
- 1. No, they wrote everything in Latin — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, they had a full writing system of glyphs — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, they had no writing at all, only pictures — no support
- 4. Yes, only cave paintings — 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 region inhabited by the Maya civilisation.
- 1. The Andes of Peru — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The valley of the Nile — no support
- 3. The Great Plains of North America, beside the Mississippi — no support
- 4. Southern Mexico and Central America — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Maya calendar and the year 2012.
- 1. The end of the world was explicitly foretold — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. The calendar was devised by the Spaniards — no support
- 3. The calendar terminated in 1492 — no support
- 4. A long cycle concluded; no end of the world was predicted — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 12: «The Maya calendar did not predict the end of the world in 2012; one long cycle simply ended and a new one began.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «predict» (+2); the same thing acted on «end» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Maya conception of zero?
- 1. It was devised independently and represented by a shell — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It was unknown to them — no support
- 3. It was introduced by Spanish priests — no support
- 4. It was borrowed from India by sea — 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 · right ✓
Ascertain the number of Maya books known to have survived their destruction by Spanish clergy.
- 1. Four — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Four hundred — no support
- 3. None — no support
- 4. Forty — 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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