The First World War
Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 33 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 ✓
cousin says ww1 kicked off cos one guy got shot. that it?
- 1. Yes, nothing else mattered at all, and nobody else wanted war — no support
- 2. That was the spark, but rival alliances pulled everyone in — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. No, it started in 1939 — no support
- 4. No, it started over football — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 33, line 7: «In June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was shot in Sarajevo, and the alliances pulled one country after another into war.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «pull» (+2); the same doer «alliances» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
If a war will be over by Christmas, why did the soldiers of 1914 find that so wrong?
- 1. It happened in one summer, from June to August — no support
- 2. It ended before it really began — score 5
- 3. It lasted more than four years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. It lasted only a week — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 33, line 9: «Many soldiers believed the war would be over by Christmas 1914, but it lasted more than four years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «last» (+3); the same doer «war» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why could neither side break through on the Western Front for years?
- 1. The trenches were filled with water every day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They were not allowed to move — no support
- 3. Both sides were dug into strong trenches with deadly new weapons — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nobody wanted to win — 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 ✓
Two soldiers from enemy armies kick a football together at Christmas 1914. What does that tell us?
- 1. Ordinary soldiers did not hate each other — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. They had stopped the war for ever and gone home — score 4
- 3. They were on the same team — no support
- 4. It never happened — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 33, line 4: «Yet at Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers from both sides climbed out, sang carols, swapped gifts and even played football, because ordinary soldiers did n…», 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 «hate» (+2); the same doer «ordinary soldiers» (+2); the same thing acted on «each» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
A cartoon shows the First World War fought only by Britain and Germany. What is missing?
- 1. Dinosaurs — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing, only two countries fought, and only for a few days — no support
- 3. The Romans — no support
- 4. Soldiers from many countries and empires around the world — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to food at home if ships bringing grain were sunk by submarines?
- 1. Prices would go down to zero — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. There would be shortages — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. There would be much more food — no support
- 4. Nothing would change at all — 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 ✓
Why might two Ukrainian brothers have ended up on opposite sides in 1914?
- 1. Ukraine was split between Russia and Austria-Hungary — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Ukraine fought against itself on purpose — no support
- 3. That could never happen — no support
- 4. They chose by flipping a coin — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 33, line 14: «Ukrainian lands were split between Russia and Austria-Hungary, so Ukrainians fought in both the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian armies, sometimes on opposite…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «split» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
At 11 a.m. on 11 November people in Britain go quiet for two minutes. Why then?
- 1. It is when the war started in 1914 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is the king's birthday, when he wakes up — no support
- 3. That is the moment the fighting stopped in 1918 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is lunchtime — 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did people call it the war to end all wars?
- 1. It had no fighting — score 5
- 2. It was the very first war — score 6
- 3. It ended every war in history, and there has never been one since — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. They hoped such a terrible war would never happen again — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 33, line 17: «After the war old empires collapsed and new countries appeared on the map, and people hoped it had been the war to end all wars.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «end» (+3); the same thing acted on «wars» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
grandad wears a red poppy in november. why poppies, why not roses?
- 1. Poppies grew on the battlefields of Flanders — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Because of a football club — no support
- 3. Roses were banned — no support
- 4. Poppies are cheaper — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 33, line 18: «A Canadian doctor, John McCrae, wrote the poem In Flanders Fields about the red poppies that grew on the battlefields, and people wear poppies in November to r…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+3); the same doer «red poppies» (+2); the same place «battlefields» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the event commonly regarded as the immediate occasion of the First World War.
- 1. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The sinking of the Titanic — no support
- 3. The invasion of Poland by the armies of Germany and Russia — no support
- 4. The fall of Constantinople — 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 ✗
Ascertain the precise moment at which hostilities ceased in nineteen hundred and eighteen.
- 1. Midnight upon the first day of January — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Noon upon Christmas Day — no support
- 3. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The sixth hour of the sixth day of June — 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Christmas truce of nineteen hundred and fourteen?
- 1. No such event is recorded — no support
- 2. Soldiers of opposing armies ceased fighting locally and exchanged gifts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. All armies withdrew from France — score 6
- 4. The war was formally concluded — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 14, line 11: «The Romans built about 80,000 kilometres of straight, paved roads so armies and messengers could move fast, and many modern roads still follow Roman routes.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «armies» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · 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 wearing of red poppies.
- 1. It celebrates the harvest — no support
- 2. It commemorates those who have died in wars — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. It marks the founding of the United Nations — no support
- 4. It honours the invention of the tank — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 33, line 18: «A Canadian doctor, John McCrae, wrote the poem In Flanders Fields about the red poppies that grew on the battlefields, and people wear poppies in November to r…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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