Explorers: Cook and the Pacific
Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 6 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 28 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 ✓
Lucy says Cook discovered New Zealand. What would a Māori historian say?
- 1. Nobody lived there before Cook came in 1769 — no support
- 2. Our ancestors arrived about 700 years ago — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Tasman was the first person there — no support
- 4. Thank you for finding it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 28, line 13: «The Māori had arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia about 700 years ago; some of their meetings with Cook were friendly and some were violent.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «arrive» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · wrong ✗
Why were Cook's crews healthier than Magellan's?
- 1. They were all younger — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They sailed only in summer — no support
- 3. They ate fresh food and sauerkraut against scurvy — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. They had modern medicine and doctors on board — 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 · right ✓
If Polynesians had no maps or compasses, what did their great voyages show?
- 1. They were some of the greatest sailors in history — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They got lucky every time and never once got lost at sea — no support
- 3. They only sailed a few metres — no support
- 4. Someone else steered for them — 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 · right ✓
Why did Cook carry artists as well as sailors?
- 1. To paint the ship each week — no support
- 2. Cameras were too heavy — no support
- 3. To draw the plants, animals and places they found — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. To make the captain's portrait every single day of the voyage — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 10: «Cook carried scientists and artists, such as the botanist Joseph Banks, who collected thousands of new plants and drew animals like the kangaroo.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «draw» (+3); the same thing acted on «animals» (+3); the same doer «cook» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · right ✓
A cartoon shows Cook planting a flag on an empty beach in Australia. What is missing?
- 1. The Aboriginal people who had lived there for over 50,000 years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nothing is missing, it shows the land exactly as it was before — no support
- 3. Cook's dog — no support
- 4. Kangaroos wearing hats — 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'd cook even need a tahitian guy on the ship
- 1. He was a stowaway — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He did not need anyone — no support
- 3. Tupaia knew the Pacific and helped talk with the Māori — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He was the ship's cook and made very good meals — 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 ✓
What would Cook's crew see if they kept sailing south past the ice?
- 1. The land of Antarctica — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The North Pole — no support
- 3. Australia again — no support
- 4. A warm tropical island — 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 did Cook's maps bring more Europeans to New Zealand?
- 1. They showed gold on every hill — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Good maps made the voyage easier to plan — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. The maps were sold as treasure maps — no support
- 4. The Māori sent the maps to Europe — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 27, line 18: «Old maps had sea monsters and blank spaces where mapmakers did not know what was there, and within about a hundred years European maps showed fairly accurate c…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+3); the same doer «european maps» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
How could a small quarrel over a boat turn deadly in Hawaii?
- 1. Boats were sacred weapons that only kings could touch — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cook ordered a war over it — no support
- 3. It never happened — no support
- 4. Misunderstandings between peoples could turn violent — ✓ 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 10 · wrong ✗
In a game your explorer gets a bonus for 'finding' Tasmania in 1642. Who should get the real credit for knowing it first?
- 1. Nobody, it was empty — no support
- 2. The Aboriginal people of Tasmania — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Captain Cook — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Abel Tasman alone, with his crew of Dutch sailors — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 4: «Think of a new neighbour moving in and telling everyone he found the street: when Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, Aboriginal peop…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «cook» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the method by which Polynesian navigators located islands across the Pacific Ocean.
- 1. Reliance upon printed charts — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Observation of stars, swells and birds — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Communication by radio — no support
- 4. The use of magnetic compasses supplied from Europe — 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 · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition of the east coast of Australia at the time of Cook's landing in seventeen hundred and seventy?
- 1. It had been inhabited by Aboriginal peoples for over fifty thousand years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. It was governed by the Māori — no support
- 3. It was uninhabited — no support
- 4. It was a Dutch colony — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 1: «About 12,000 years ago some people stopped following the animals and started planting seeds and keeping animals near home: they became farmers.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «people» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the means by which James Cook diminished the incidence of scurvy among his crew.
- 1. The prohibition of all sleep at sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The reduction of the crew to ten men — no support
- 3. The provision of fresh food and sauerkraut — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The consumption of sea water — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the death of James Cook.
- 1. He was killed in Hawaii in seventeen hundred and seventy-nine — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. He died in Antarctica — no support
- 3. He died peacefully in London in the company of his family and friends — no support
- 4. He perished at Botany Bay — 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 28, line 14: «Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779 in a fight that started over a stolen boat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kill» (+2); the same thing acted on «cook» (+2); the same place «hawaii» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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