The Industrial Revolution
Tests: 4 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 30 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 ✓
everyone knows watt invented the steam engine watching a kettle boil. yeah?
- 1. Yes, in 1066 — no support
- 2. Yes, he got the idea from his mum's kettle — no support
- 3. No, Newton invented it — no support
- 4. No, he improved engines that already existed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 2: «Steam engines, improved by James Watt, burned coal to boil water and the steam pushed pistons that drove spinning machines, trains and ships.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «improve» (+5); the same thing acted on «steam engines» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · wrong ✗
Edison invented the light bulb all by himself. Is that the full story?
- 1. Yes, entirely alone, in one night — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, many people, such as Joseph Swan, worked on it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, in the Middle Ages — no support
- 4. No, the Romans already had glass light bulbs in their villas — 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 ✓
A family in 1700 makes cloth by hand at home. In 1830 the father works where?
- 1. In a castle — no support
- 2. On a spaceship — no support
- 3. Still only at home, by hand, near the fire — score -2
- 4. In a big mill full of machines — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 5, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 9: «Spinning and weaving machines in big cotton mills made cloth much faster and cheaper, so ordinary people could afford more clothes.», 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 place «big cotton mills» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · wrong ✗
Why do you get Saturday and Sunday off school and many grown-ups get them off work?
- 1. It was always like that, since Roman times — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A computer chose it — no support
- 3. Workers fought together for the weekend — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Railways needed two days to rest — 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 happen to a factory town with no sewers or clean water?
- 1. The factories would make more cloth — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The town would move itself — no support
- 3. People would get sick more often — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nothing, dirt is harmless — 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 ✗
Grandad says the first plane flew for an hour. What's right?
- 1. Planes came before trains — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. It flew round the world without landing even once to take on fuel — no support
- 3. It flew for a whole week — no support
- 4. The Wright brothers' first flight lasted 12 seconds — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 4: «Think of how your gran's gran might have walked for two days to a city that you reach in two hours by train: railways, electric light, telephones, cars and pla…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «arrive» (+5); the same doer «railways» (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · right ✓
Why did coal matter so much to the Industrial Revolution?
- 1. It fuelled the steam engines — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It was used to make cloth — no support
- 3. It was eaten by workers — no support
- 4. It replaced bread — 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 · right ✓
mate wants to know how ppl sent messages before phones.
- 1. By letter, messenger or telegraph — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. By email — no support
- 3. They couldn't send any — no support
- 4. By text message — 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 9 · wrong ✗
A kid of eight in 1830 in a mill and a kid of eight today. What is the biggest difference?
- 1. Both work twelve hours a day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No difference at all — no support
- 3. Today's child works in a mine — no support
- 4. Today the child goes to school, not to work — ✓ 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 10 · wrong ✗
Why did the Industrial Revolution start the problem of climate change?
- 1. It has nothing to do with it; the weather was just the same back then — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Burning coal began to add lots of smoke and gases to the air — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It cooled the Sun — no support
- 4. Trains melted the ice — 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 nation in which the Industrial Revolution commenced, circa seventeen hundred and sixty.
- 1. China — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Great Britain — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. France — no support
- 4. The United States — 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 contribution of James Watt?
- 1. He discovered electricity — score 3
- 2. He constructed the first motor car — score 3
- 3. He substantially improved the existing steam engine — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 4. He invented the first steam engine upon observing a kettle — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 12, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 7: «James Watt greatly improved the steam engine; he did not invent it, as earlier steam engines already pumped water out of mines.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «improve» (+3); the same doer «james» (+3); the same thing acted on «steam engine» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the duration of the first powered aeroplane flight undertaken by the Wright brothers in nineteen hundred and three.
- 1. Twelve whole minutes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Twelve seconds — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Twelve long hours — no support
- 4. Two entire days — 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 · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the attainment of the weekend by labourers.
- 1. It was a consequence of the invention of the telephone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was conferred by the Church in the Middle Ages — no support
- 3. It was secured through collective action by trade unions — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It has always existed — 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
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