Castles, knights and cathedrals

Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 21 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 ✗

my brother says knights were so heavy they got put on horses with a crane lol

1. Yes, but only on Sundays — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, a knight in plate armour could climb on by himself — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. No, knights never rode horses — no support
4. Yes, every knight needed a crane — 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 ✓

Ella says King Arthur was a real king of England in 1300. Right?

1. No, he was a French knight — no support
2. Yes, he ruled England for fifty years — score 2
3. Yes, he built Lincoln Cathedral with his knights — score 3
4. No, Arthur is a legend, not proven history — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 14: «King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are legends, not proven history.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king arthur» (+2); the same thing acted on «legends» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

In a film the Crusaders are all heroes and the other side all villains. What is fairer?

1. The film is exactly right about everything — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Muslims were always the only heroes in every battle — no support
3. Both sides did brave things and cruel things — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nobody actually fought in the Crusades — 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 · wrong ✗

A lord's castle has plenty of water and food for a year. What would attackers most likely find?

1. The attackers would win at once — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The castle would fall in one day — no support
3. A siege would take a very long time — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The castle would have to surrender at night — 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 · right ✓

your castle in the game's got stone walls, its 1450 and the enemy's got cannons. you safe?

1. Not really, cannons can break even stone walls — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Totally safe, stone never breaks — no support
3. Safe, cannons were only ever used on ships at sea — no support
4. Yes, cannons were invented in 1900 — 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 21, line 4: «Picture a castle in a cartoon under siege: in real life the attackers more often just waited for weeks until the defenders ran out of food, and from the 1400s…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «cannons» (+4); the same thing acted on «thickest walls» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

What would a medieval castle really feel like inside?

1. Warm, quiet and bright like a palace — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Empty, nobody lived there — no support
3. Full of electric lights — no support
4. Cold, smoky and busy — ✓ 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 7 · wrong ✗

A boy of seven is sent to serve in a lord's household to learn manners. What is he now?

1. A squire — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A knight — no support
3. A page — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A great lord — 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 do football clubs and towns have badges with shields and animals today?

1. They come from the coats of arms of the Middle Ages — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. They were invented in 2000 — no support
3. Because footballers wear armour — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Because kings still order it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 3: «Their best fighters were knights, rich horsemen trained from boyhood, who wore heavy armour and painted coats of arms on their shields so friends could tell wh…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «wear» (+2); the same thing acted on «heavy armour» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

mate reckons peasants were lazy and just sat about. true or rubbish?

1. Rubbish, they all lived in castles — no support
2. True, they never worked a day in their lives — score 2
3. True, the knights did the farming — no support
4. Rubbish, they worked from sunrise to sunset — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 16

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 16, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 7: «Most people were peasants who worked from sunrise to sunset, lived in small one-room houses and often kept their animals inside in winter for warmth and safety.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «work» (+4); the same doer «peasants» (+4); the same place «sunrise» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · right ✓

Why might a town spend over a hundred years building one cathedral?

1. The plans were lost every year in fires — score 2
2. Stone could only be cut in the middle of winter — no support
3. Builders were paid only once a century — no support
4. It was huge, built by hand, and money came slowly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 17: «Cathedrals were huge and built by hand, and money came in slowly, so many took a hundred years or more to finish.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «build» (+3); the same circumstance (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · wrong ✗

In Europa Universalis your army is mostly knights in 1337. What did real knights need that made them rare?

1. A cannon of their own — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Permission from the Pope each day — no support
3. Lots of money for horses and armour — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A university degree — 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 obligation customarily owed by a lord to the sovereign in exchange for a grant of land under the feudal arrangement.

1. The surrender of his coat of arms — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The payment of all peasants' wages — no support
3. The construction of cathedrals — no support
4. The provision of soldiers — ✓ 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the mounting of a horse by a knight clad in plate armour?

1. Mounting was impossible and he fought on foot — no support
2. He was carried by his squire upon his back — no support
3. He was invariably hoisted by a crane — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. He was capable of mounting unaided — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 12: «The story that knights had to be lifted onto horses by cranes is a myth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lift» (+3); the same circumstance (+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 · wrong ✗

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the city of Jerusalem in the period of the Crusades.

1. It was held sacred by Christians alone — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. It was the capital of England — no support
3. It was of no religious consequence — no support
4. It was held sacred by Christians, Jews and Muslims alike — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 21, line 19: «From 1096 European Christians fought the Crusades to control Jerusalem, a city holy to Christians, Jews and Muslims, and Muslim leaders such as Saladin fought…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «control» (+4); the same doer «european christians» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the principal reason for which castle fortifications declined in military utility from the fifteenth century onwards.

1. The prohibition of castles by the Church throughout Christendom — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The advent of cannon capable of breaching stone walls — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The abolition of knighthood — no support
4. The disappearance of moats through drought — 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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