The United States: a short story
Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 38 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 ✗
why'd they chuck tea in the sea, bit of a waste innit
- 1. It was too hot to drink — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To feed the fish — no support
- 3. They didn't like the taste of British tea at all — no support
- 4. To protest against taxes they had no say in — ✓ 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 ✓
The Declaration said all men are created equal. Why do historians say the words were greater than the reality?
- 1. Slavery continued, and women and Native people did not get equal rights — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Nobody ever read the Declaration — no support
- 3. It was written in French — no support
- 4. Everyone was equal from 1776, and nothing had to change after that — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 3: «On 4 July 1776 they declared independence, saying all men are created equal, though slavery went on, and George Washington led their army to victory and became…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «go on» (+2); the same doer «slavery» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓
Why might a Native American family feel differently about Thanksgiving than other families?
- 1. Thanksgiving is a Native war day — no support
- 2. They have never heard of it, because it is only held in the big cities — no support
- 3. It is their only holiday — no support
- 4. For many Native people it is also a day of mourning for what followed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 9: «Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every November, and for many Native people it is also a day of mourning for what followed.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on «day» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
If a president could stay in power for life, what risk would that bring?
- 1. Nothing, a president who stays longer always gets wiser and better — no support
- 2. He could become like a king, which the founders feared — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 13
- 3. Elections would get more exciting — no support
- 4. The courts would get stronger — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 13, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 12: «George Washington led the American army to victory and became the first president in 1789, and he stepped down after two terms, showing that a president should…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fear» (+4); the same doer «founders» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «king» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Your friend says Jamestown was the first European town in what is now the USA. Is he right?
- 1. No, Boston was founded in 1066 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, it was New York in 1200 — no support
- 3. No, the Spanish town of St. Augustine is older, from 1565 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, nothing in North America was older than Jamestown — 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 ✗
A US court tells the president he broke the law. Why is that possible?
- 1. It is not possible — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The president chose to obey once — no support
- 3. The Constitution makes the parts of government check each other — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Courts are above everyone and make all laws — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Your great-great-grandma sailed past a giant statue holding a torch when she reached New York. Where was she probably going?
- 1. The Moon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ellis Island, to enter the USA — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Botany Bay — no support
- 4. Ellis Island, to leave the USA for ever — 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 ✓
A cowboy film shows the west as empty land waiting for settlers. What is missing?
- 1. The horses — no support
- 2. The Native nations who lived there — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Nothing at all — no support
- 4. The trains — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 6: «In the 1600s and 1700s English settlers founded thirteen colonies on America's east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia, on land where Native nations already…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+5); the same doer «native nations» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
Why did the USA become one of the most powerful countries after the World Wars?
- 1. It was the oldest country in the world — no support
- 2. It ruled all of Europe — no support
- 3. It helped win both wars and grew huge in industry and technology — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. It lost both wars, but Britain and France gave it their colonies — 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 38, line 16: «After helping to win both World Wars, the USA became one of the most powerful countries in the world, and its films, music and technology spread worldwide.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «win» (+3); the same thing acted on «world wars» (+3); the same doer «usa» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
ok so obama 2008, why's that such a big deal
- 1. He was the first president — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He was the first Black president, in a country that once had slavery — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He was from Britain — no support
- 4. He was the youngest person ever — 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the grievance summarised by the phrase no taxation without representation.
- 1. Taxation of the colonists by France — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Taxation imposed by a Parliament in which the colonists had no voice — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The absence of any taxation whatsoever — no support
- 4. The representation of the colonists in London by the chiefs of the Wampanoag — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the significance of George Washington's departure from office after two terms?
- 1. It caused the dissolution of the United States into thirteen separate republics — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It restored British rule — no support
- 3. It made him king — no support
- 4. It established a precedent against the indefinite retention of power — ✓ 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 · right ✓
Ascertain the date upon which the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
- 1. The fourth of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The twenty-fifth of December, sixteen hundred and twenty — no support
- 3. The fourth of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six — no support
- 4. The first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven — 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 westward expansion of the United States.
- 1. It was undertaken by France alone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It occurred upon wholly uninhabited territory awaiting settlement — no support
- 3. It was halted at the Mississippi River — no support
- 4. It entailed the taking of lands belonging to Native 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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