Space: from Sputnik to the Moon
Tests: 2 of 10 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 35 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 ✗
dude says the moon landing was faked in a studio. what do u say
- 1. Only the dog went — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They secretly landed on Mars instead of the Moon — no support
- 3. It was real; hundreds of millions watched and astronauts brought back Moon rocks — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He's right, nobody went and the pictures were made in a film studio — 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 ✗
Who got into space first: a person, a dog or a satellite?
- 1. A dog, then a person, then a satellite — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. A person, then a dog, then a satellite — score 3
- 3. All on the same day — score 3
- 4. A satellite, then a dog, then a person — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 35, line 1: «After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union became rivals in the Cold War, and they raced to be first in space, like two classmates each trying to…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «space» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
Mia says Armstrong was the first person in space. What is right?
- 1. Armstrong was first in space and also the first to walk on the Moon — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Gagarin was first in space; Armstrong was first on the Moon — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Laika was first on the Moon — no support
- 4. Tereshkova was first on the Moon — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 6: «After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union were rivals in the Cold War and raced to be first in space.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «space» (+5); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · wrong ✗
Why is Apollo 13 called a successful failure?
- 1. Nobody at all was on board the ship — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It never landed, but calm teamwork brought the crew home — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It was a success in every way — no support
- 4. It landed on the Moon twice in one trip and won a big prize — 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 footprint on a sandy beach compared with one on the Moon?
- 1. The Moon one is washed away by rain first — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The beach one washes away; the Moon one stays — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Both footprints stay exactly where they are for ever and ever — no support
- 4. Both vanish in a day — 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 · right ✓
Why did one small step get called one giant leap?
- 1. It was a small step for one man but a huge achievement for people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. He tripped on the ladder and fell — no support
- 3. The surface was steep — no support
- 4. Armstrong jumped very high off the ladder, much higher than on Earth — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 13: «Armstrong said: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and about 600 million people watched on television.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «one small step» (+3); the same circumstance (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
your mate says space race = russia only. what about ukraine?
- 1. Ukraine had nothing to do with space — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gagarin was the president of Ukraine — no support
- 3. The chief rocket designer Korolev was born in Ukraine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Ukraine built and launched the Apollo 11 rocket from Kyiv — 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 ✗
Gagarin went round the Earth once in 108 minutes. Roughly how long is that?
- 1. About a week — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. About a day — no support
- 3. Just under two hours — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. About ten minutes — 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 do rivals of the Space Race now often work together in space?
- 1. They never work together — score 4
- 2. Big projects like a space station are easier when countries share the work — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A law on the Moon forces every country in space to work together all the time — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. Space is too small for two — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 5: «Behind every astronaut were thousands of people on Earth, and today the old rivals often work together, with astronauts from many countries living on the Inter…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «work together» (+3); the same doer «old rivals» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
In a cartoon a lone hero builds a rocket in his garage and flies to the Moon. What is more real?
- 1. Thousands of people worked together on Apollo — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Rockets are easy to build at home — no support
- 3. Only the astronauts did any work — no support
- 4. One brave person did it all on his own in a shed — 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 first artificial satellite placed in orbit about the Earth.
- 1. The International Space Station — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Apollo 11 — no support
- 3. Laika — no support
- 4. Sputnik — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the identity of the first human being to journey into outer space.
- 1. Buzz Aldrin — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Valentina Tereshkova — no support
- 3. Yuri Gagarin — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Neil Armstrong — 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 persistence of the footprints left upon the lunar surface?
- 1. They were removed by subsequent missions — no support
- 2. They have been eroded by lunar rainfall and the action of the tides — no support
- 3. They were never made — no support
- 4. They endure owing to the absence of wind and rain upon the Moon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 14: «The astronauts collected Moon rocks and left a flag and footprints, which are still there because there is no wind on the Moon.», 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 «footprints» (+3). · 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 number of persons who walked upon the Moon between nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-two.
- 1. Twelve — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. One — no support
- 3. Twenty-four — no support
- 4. Two — 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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