The Mongols
Tests: 3 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 23 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 ✗
kid in my class says genghis khan was just a cartoon baddie, not real
- 1. He was a Viking from Norway who sailed east — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He was a real ruler who built a huge empire from 1206 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He was an English king — no support
- 4. He was a made-up character from a film — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why would letting everyone keep their own religion help the Mongols rule?
- 1. It doubled the gold in the empire — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It made the horses faster — no support
- 3. Peoples were less likely to rebel — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The Mongols had no army — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A Mongol rider and a knight in heavy armour both set off on a 100 km journey. Who probably arrives first?
- 1. They arrive together — score 4
- 2. Neither, horses cannot go 100 km — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 3. The knight, because armour is faster — score 5
- 4. The Mongol, swapping to fresh horses — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. 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: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «horses» (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why was it easier to carry silk from China to Europe in 1300 than in 1200?
- 1. Someone built a long motorway across the desert — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One power controlled most of the Silk Road and kept it safe — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Silk became lighter — no support
- 4. The sea between them dried up — 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 ✗
What would a messenger without a paiza probably find at a Mongol relay station?
- 1. A ship to sail to Japan — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A free feast and a crown — no support
- 3. No fresh horse for him — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A new empire of his own to rule — 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 ✗
so marco polo made it ALL up yeah? total liar?
- 1. No, every word is proven true — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, he never left his house — no support
- 3. He was really a Mongol prince — no support
- 4. Some parts are doubted, but he described many things accurately — ✓ 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 · ★★ · right ✓
In a strategy game the Mongols take a city that fought back. What did that really often mean for the people there?
- 1. Everyone was given gold — no support
- 2. The city was destroyed and many people died — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 3. The people became Mongol generals — score 3
- 4. Nothing happened to anyone in the city at all — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 23, line 9: «The Mongols used Chinese and Persian engineers to besiege walled cities, and cities that resisted were often destroyed and many people died.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «destroy» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «cities» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
Two hundred years of paying tribute to the Mongols. Which lands did this happen to?
- 1. England and Wales — no support
- 2. Australia — no support
- 3. The lands of Rus, including around Kyiv — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. The Inca Empire, high in the mountains of Peru — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 11: «In 1240 the Mongols destroyed Kyiv, and the lands of Rus paid them tribute, money and goods handed over every year, for about two hundred years.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «lands» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why did Mongol children learn to ride at three or four?
- 1. It was a Chinese custom — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Their whole way of life on the steppe depended on horses — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Horses were their only toys by law — no support
- 4. They had no legs strong enough to walk — 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 · ★★ · right ✓
A friend says the Mongols could not take walled cities, they only fought in fields. What do you say?
- 1. Right, they never even tried to attack a city — score 6
- 2. They could, using Chinese and Persian engineers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 3. Right, they had no weapons — no support
- 4. They only fought at sea — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 23, line 9: «The Mongols used Chinese and Persian engineers to besiege walled cities, and cities that resisted were often destroyed and many people died.», 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 «use» (+2); the same doer «mongols» (+2); the same thing acted on «chinese engineers» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the title conferred upon Temujin in the year twelve hundred and six.
- 1. Kublai Khan, his grandson — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A sultan of Egypt — no support
- 3. Genghis Khan — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Emperor of Rome — 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 circumstances of trade across Asia under the Pax Mongolica?
- 1. All trade was prohibited — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Trade was conducted solely with Japan — no support
- 3. Merchants could travel with comparative safety — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Merchants were obliged to travel by sea around India and Arabia — 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 that is consistent with the established facts concerning the city of Kyiv in the year twelve hundred and forty.
- 1. It was destroyed by the Mongols — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. It was founded by Marco Polo — no support
- 3. It was made the capital of China — no support
- 4. It was untouched by any conflict — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 4: «The conquests were terrible for the cities that resisted, and in 1240 the Mongols destroyed Kyiv, but once the fighting was over traders could cross Asia more…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «destroy» (+2); the same doer «mongols» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the principal advantage conferred upon Mongol forces by each rider's possession of several horses.
- 1. Increased weight of armour — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The capacity to cross the ocean — no support
- 3. Sustained speed through the use of fresh mounts — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Exemption from the payment of tribute — 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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