The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 44 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 ✗
Danylo says the Sich was the first democracy in Europe; teacher says «Athens was first». What's the best wording?
- 1. A copy of the Athenian assembly — no support
- 2. Not elected at all, a king ruled it — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. A remarkable elected military brotherhood where only Cossack men voted — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The first democracy ever, with equal votes for all men and women alike — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 41, line 1: «Danylo, a boy in the class, tells history like a football fan: Kyiv is the oldest, the biggest and the best, and anyone who disagrees is an enemy. The history…», 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 thing acted on «old wording» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Danylo's crushed cos the teacher called the sultan letter fake. What's the wise thing to say?
- 1. Repin never painted it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Forget it, it is worthless — no support
- 3. It's 100% real, the sultan cried — no support
- 4. The painting and story are real culture; the letter's history is doubtful — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
Danylo says Cossacks sailed to Istanbul in tiny boats. The teacher doubts it. Who's right?
- 1. Danylo: they raided its outskirts in light boats, though they did not take it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The teacher: Cossacks had no boats — no support
- 3. Danylo: they captured Istanbul, held it for ten years and made it the new Sich — no support
- 4. The teacher: they only sailed on lakes — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Danylo says Khmelnytsky freed Ukraine in 1648 and that's all. What's missing?
- 1. The uprising was in 1991 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing, the story is complete, and everyone in Ukraine was free from that day on — no support
- 3. He lost every battle — no support
- 4. It won autonomy, not lasting freedom, and brought massacres of Jewish communities — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
The teacher's old book says Pereiaslav was a «reunification». What would modern historians say?
- 1. It was exactly a happy reunion — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was a military alliance that each side read differently — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It was a trade deal for fish — no support
- 4. It never happened — 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 ✗
Danylo says after Khmelnytsky everything was fine. What really followed?
- 1. Peace and wealth for a hundred years — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Independence in 1991 — no support
- 3. The Ruin: civil wars and Ukraine split along the Dnipro — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The Mongol invasion — 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 ✓
The teacher calls Mazepa a traitor and Danylo calls him a hero. What's the wise step?
- 1. Show why each side says it and what he tried to protect — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Pick one and ban the other — no support
- 3. Say he never existed — no support
- 4. Flip a coin — 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 ✓
Danylo says Ukraine wrote the first constitution in the world. What's accurate?
- 1. No such paper exists — no support
- 2. The first and longest-lasting constitution ever used in any country on Earth — no support
- 3. A copy of the US one from 1787 — no support
- 4. An early constitution, written in exile and never put into force — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 13
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 13, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 44, line 4: «Then came «the Ruin» of civil wars, Mazepa's switch to Sweden lost at Poltava in 1709, Orlyk's constitution written in exile, and the empire ending the Sich in…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «write» (+5); the same place «exile» (+5); the same thing acted on «constitution» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to Cossack traditions if the Sich was destroyed?
- 1. The Cossacks became Swedes — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. The Sich ended, but songs, dances and memory lived on elsewhere — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nothing, the Sich went on as before — no support
- 4. Every Cossack tradition vanished that day — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 44, line 14: «Catherine II destroyed the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775; some Cossacks went to Ottoman lands (the Danube Sich), and others were later moved to the Kuban, where the…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «cossacks» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Teacher: «Ukraine was Russia till 1991». Danylo: «Ukraine was always free». Fair answer?
- 1. The teacher's fully right — no support
- 2. Danylo's fully right — no support
- 3. Both are right at once — no support
- 4. Neither: Ukrainian lands were long ruled by empires but kept their own culture — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 42, line 16: «The Mongol empire was destructive in its conquests, but afterwards it kept trade routes safe, ran a postal system and allowed many religions.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+5); the same doer «empire» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Danylo says every Ukrainian's a Cossack's descendant, it says so in the anthem. What's the fix?
- 1. The anthem speaks of spirit; most Ukrainians descend from peasants and townsfolk — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. The anthem says nothing about Cossacks — no support
- 3. Cossacks had no children — no support
- 4. True, every family tree has a hetman — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 44, line 16: «Cossack images such as the hopak dance, the forelock and the bulava mace are central in Ukrainian culture, and the anthem calls Ukrainians «of Cossack kin», th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «descend» (+2); the same doer «most ukrainians» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the governance of the Zaporizhian Sich?
- 1. It was governed by a hereditary king — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Its leaders were elected and removable by a council confined to Cossack men — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. All inhabitants, including women and children, enjoyed an equal vote in the council — no support
- 4. It was governed directly from Istanbul — 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 ✓
Identify the principal reason for which the agreement concluded at Pereiaslav in sixteen hundred and fifty-four remains contested.
- 1. The parties understood its nature and obligations differently — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It was signed solely by Sweden — no support
- 3. Its text was composed in Mongolian — no support
- 4. No agreement was concluded — 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 outcome of the battle of Poltava of seventeen hundred and nine.
- 1. Peter I defeated Charles XII and Hetman Mazepa — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Charles XII was crowned King of Ukraine in Kyiv — no support
- 3. The Zaporizhian Sich was restored by the Swedes — no support
- 4. Hetman Mazepa captured Moscow and deposed the Tsar — 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 constitution composed by Pylyp Orlyk in seventeen hundred and ten.
- 1. It abolished the office of hetman — no support
- 2. It governed Ukraine for two centuries — no support
- 3. It was an early document limiting the hetman's power, never put into force at home — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. It was the first constitution of the United States and was later copied in Philadelphia — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 13: «In 1710 Pylyp Orlyk, Mazepa's successor in exile (living abroad, unable to go home), wrote the «Pacts and Constitutions» limiting the hetman's power; it was an…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «power» (+2); the same thing acted on «early constitution» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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