The first farms and towns
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 2 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 ✓
Chloe reckons one clever bloke invented farming and told everyone. True or nah?
- 1. Yes, and he wrote a book about it — no support
- 2. Yes, a king in Egypt invented it and told the world — no support
- 3. No, farming grew slowly in several places — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. No, farming was brought by aliens — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 2: «Nobody invented farming in one go. It grew slowly, and it began separately in several places: the Middle East, China, Mexico, the Andes and others.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «grow» (+2); the same doer «farming» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
A town grows so much food that half the people do not need to farm. What happens?
- 1. Some people take other jobs like potter or builder — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. All the people move back to hunting — no support
- 3. The extra food is thrown into the sea — no support
- 4. Everyone stops eating so much — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 15: «When farms made more food than needed, some people could have other jobs, such as potter, builder, priest or leader.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «other jobs» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
If farmers had no pots, what problem would they have?
- 1. Storing grain and water would be hard — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. They could not plant seeds — no support
- 3. They could not walk to the fields — score 6
- 4. Their dogs would run away — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 2, line 10: «Settled people made pots of baked clay to store grain, water and oil.», 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 «store» (+2); the same thing acted on «grain» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
A documentary says aliens built Stonehenge. What do historians say?
- 1. Romans built it as a temple — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The stones grew there by themselves — no support
- 3. Farmers moved the stones with ropes, sledges and rollers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Giants carried the stones one by one from Wales on their backs — 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 ✗
Why would a stone wall around Jericho be useful?
- 1. To hold up the roofs of the houses — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To keep the sea out of the town — no support
- 3. To mark a football pitch — no support
- 4. To protect the town and its stored food — ✓ the right answer · 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 6 · ★ · right ✓
dad says bronze came before stone tools lol. is he right?
- 1. No, stone tools came long before bronze — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, bronze is the oldest material people used — no support
- 3. No, iron came before both — no support
- 4. Yes, people started with metal — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did the people of Stonehenge care about midsummer and midwinter?
- 1. They used the stones as a clock for school — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. The seasons mattered for farming and festivals — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The stones told them when the bus came — no support
- 4. They needed to know when to fly — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 13: «Stonehenge in England is a great circle of huge stones raised about 4,500 years ago by farming people using ropes, sledges and wooden rollers.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+2); the same doer «farming people» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Two villages have dogs, sheep and cattle. Which animal did their great-great ancestors tame first, before farming?
- 1. The dog — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The sheep — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. The horse — no support
- 4. The cattle — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 6: «About 12,000 years ago people in the Middle East began planting wheat and barley and keeping sheep and goats.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «sheep» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Why is bronze better than copper for tools?
- 1. Bronze is lighter than air — no support
- 2. Bronze never needs to be made — score -4
- 3. Bronze is harder — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Bronze is softer — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 16: «People learned to melt copper from rocks, and later mixed copper with tin to make bronze, which is harder.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «bronze» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Houses packed so tight you walk on roofs, about 9,000 years ago. Which town?
- 1. Çatalhöyük in Turkey — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Uruk in Iraq — no support
- 3. Stonehenge in England — no support
- 4. Jericho by the Jordan — 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 ✓
Why is it fair to say farming changed people's lives more than almost anything?
- 1. It let people settle, build towns and take new jobs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It made everyone stop eating meat — no support
- 3. It ended all wars for ever — no support
- 4. It meant nobody had to work hard any more, as food grew itself — 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 region in which, approximately twelve millennia ago, the cultivation of wheat and barley is first attested.
- 1. The Middle East — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The southern tip of Africa — no support
- 3. Northern and Western Europe — no support
- 4. North America and Canada — 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 origins of agriculture?
- 1. It was devised by a single individual in one locality — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It originated exclusively in the British Isles — no support
- 3. It arose gradually and independently in several regions — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It was introduced simultaneously throughout the world — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the composition of bronze.
- 1. An alloy of copper and tin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. An alloy of gold and silver — no support
- 3. An alloy of iron and carbon — no support
- 4. A compound of clay and stone — 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
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that a surplus of food was produced by early farming communities. Determine the principal consequence thereof.
- 1. Certain persons were enabled to pursue occupations other than farming — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. All persons were obliged to resume hunting — no support
- 3. The population was obliged to diminish — no support
- 4. Commerce was thereupon prohibited — 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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