The Second World War
Tests: 4 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 34 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 yt comments says ww2 was just britain v germany. fix him
- 1. It was only at sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He is right, only two countries — no support
- 3. It was only in America — no support
- 4. It was fought across the world by many countries — ✓ 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 2 · ★★ · right ✓
Why could fear and hard times in the 1930s help dictators?
- 1. Dictators gave every family a big bag of money each week — score 0
- 2. People voted for war on purpose because they liked fighting — no support
- 3. Hard times always make people kinder to each other — no support
- 4. Frightened people were drawn to leaders who promised strength and blamed others — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 7, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 34, line 1: «In the 1930s a huge economic crisis, the Great Depression, left millions without jobs, and in some countries frightened, angry people turned to dictators who p…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «promise» (+3); the same thing acted on «strength» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
If Britain had given up in 1940, what might have happened?
- 1. Nothing at all would have changed — no support
- 2. Germany would have controlled nearly all of western Europe — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The war would have ended happily and everyone would be friends — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. Britain would have conquered Germany soon after — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 34, line 8: «In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war; the Second World War lasted until 1945 and was the largest war in history.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «second world war» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why do millions of people still read Anne Frank's diary?
- 1. It was written by a general after the war — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. It is a big book of maps of Europe — no support
- 3. It shows one real girl's life and helps us understand the Holocaust — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is a funny adventure story about pirates on a desert island — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 34, line 13: «Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, and it tells one girl's story to millions of readers.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «write» (+3); the same thing acted on «diary» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓
Why is it wrong to say Ukraine was not important in the Second World War?
- 1. It was one of the worst hit places, with millions of Ukrainians killed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is right, nothing much happened there — no support
- 3. It stayed neutral like Switzerland — no support
- 4. Ukraine did not exist then, so no Ukrainians took part in the war — 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 ✗
An evacuee aged eight arrives at a farm to live with strangers. How would she most likely feel at first?
- 1. Excited to join the army — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Happy that she would never have to see her family again — no support
- 3. Bored, because nothing at all had changed — no support
- 4. Homesick and scared, but safer from the bombs — ✓ 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 ✓
Why does the world remember the Holocaust every year?
- 1. To celebrate a great victory over Germany in battle — no support
- 2. So that such hatred never happens again — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. It does not; people have forgotten all about it — no support
- 4. Because it is a happy holiday with presents — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 34, line 4: «The Nazis murdered about six million Jews, and many others, only because of who they were; this is called the Holocaust, and we remember it so that such hatred…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «happen» (+2); the same doer «such hatred» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
D-Day needed ships, planes and soldiers from many countries at once. Why so big?
- 1. Landing on a guarded coast needed a huge force — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Only one boat was used — no support
- 3. It was a race — no support
- 4. They were going on holiday — 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 ✗
why did they bother making the UN after the war
- 1. To organise a world football league with teams from every country — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To choose one king to rule the world — no support
- 3. To build more and bigger bombs — no support
- 4. To help countries settle quarrels by talking instead of fighting — ✓ 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 ✗
Why did the atomic bomb make people more afraid of another big war?
- 1. It was much louder than any bomb before — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was made of pure gold — no support
- 3. One bomb could destroy a whole city — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It could only hit ships at sea — 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 · right ✓
Identify the event which in September nineteen hundred and thirty-nine precipitated the Second World War.
- 1. The landing in Normandy — no support
- 2. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — no support
- 3. The German invasion of Poland — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. The attack upon Pearl Harbor — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 34, line 8: «In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war; the Second World War lasted until 1945 and was the largest war in history.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «invade» (+2); the same thing acted on «poland» (+2). · 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 Holocaust?
- 1. A naval engagement in the Pacific Ocean — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. An economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties — no support
- 3. The evacuation of British children — no support
- 4. The murder by the Nazi regime of approximately six million Jews and many others — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the date upon which Allied forces landed upon the beaches of Normandy.
- 1. The fourth of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The first of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine — no support
- 3. The eleventh of November, nineteen hundred and eighteen — no support
- 4. The sixth of June, nineteen hundred and forty-four — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the organisation founded in nineteen hundred and forty-five for the preservation of peace.
- 1. The League of Nations — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The European Union — no support
- 3. The Hanseatic League — no support
- 4. The United Nations — ✓ 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
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