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The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 46 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 ✓

Danylo says Ukraine went independent in 1917 and everybody agreed. What's more exact?

  • 1. It declared independence in 1918, but many armies fought over the country — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 2. Ukraine never declared anything before 1991 — score 3
  • 3. Yes, everybody agreed and peace came at once to every town and village — no support
  • 4. Russia gave it freedom as a present — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 39, line 16: «Canadian soldiers fought in both World Wars, for example at Vimy Ridge in 1917 and on D-Day in 1944, which gave Canada a stronger sense of being its own nation.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fight» (+2); the same doer «canadian soldiers» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · wrong ✗

Teacher says «no Ukrainian state before 1991». What should Danylo show?

  • 1. Nothing, the teacher's right, Ukraine was always only a part of somebody else's state — ← Mova's choice · score 16
  • 2. A Eurovision trophy — no support
  • 3. The Roman Empire map — no support
  • 4. The Ukrainian People's Republic of 1917–1921, short-lived but real — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 16, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 1: «When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917, Ukrainians in Kyiv set up a council, the Central Rada, and in January 1918 declared an independent Ukrainian People'…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «ukraine» (+4); the same thing acted on «state» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

«300 kids stopped the entire Bolshevik army at Kruty, end of story» — fix it.

  • 1. They destroyed the whole army, and the Bolsheviks never came back to Ukraine again — no support
  • 2. A few hundred fought bravely, delayed the advance briefly, and many died — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. Nobody fought at Kruty — ← Mova's choice · score 10
  • 4. Kruty was in France — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 46, line 7: «At Kruty in January 1918 a few hundred defenders, among them student volunteers, fought a much larger Bolshevik force; many young men died, the advance was del…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fight» (+5); the same place «kruty» (+5). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · wrong ✗

Danylo goes «Skoropadsky was just a German puppet, full stop». Wise reply?

  • 1. He was a Swedish king — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. He relied on Germans but also founded lasting institutions — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. He beat the Germans single-handed — no support
  • 4. Yes, he did nothing at all and nothing he made outlived him — 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 · right ✓

If the 1919 Act of Unity had lasted, where would Lviv have been in the 1930s?

  • 1. In a united Ukrainian state, not in Poland — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. In Canada — no support
  • 3. Under the sea — no support
  • 4. In the Ottoman Empire — 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 Petliura was a pure hero, no questions allowed. What would a historian say?

  • 1. He lived in ancient Rome — no support
  • 2. He was only a villain, nothing else — no support
  • 3. Questions about history are forbidden, because heroes must never be doubted — ← Mova's choice · score 1
  • 4. Many honour him, but the pogroms debate is real and should be named — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 11: «Old writers said Babylon had Hanging Gardens on terraces (wide steps of earth, one above another), one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, but no one ha…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «doubt» (+2); the same doer «historians» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

in a cartoon Makhno beats everyone with his cart-gun and lives happy ever after. fix?

  • 1. He became president of France — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. He fought several sides but lost to the Bolsheviks and died abroad — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. That's exactly what happened — no support
  • 4. He never had any carts — 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 ✗

Danylo says the Soviets banned Ukrainian from day one. What's the full story?

  • 1. It was never touched at all — ← Mova's choice · score 7
  • 2. Yes, banned from day one, nothing in Ukrainian was ever printed in Soviet times — no support
  • 3. Only the Pope banned it — no support
  • 4. In the 1920s it grew, then in the 1930s it was reversed and writers were shot — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 44, line 2: «In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky led a huge uprising and built a Cossack state, the Hetmanate; it is a hero's story with dark pages too, because the war brought terr…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «state» (+2); the same thing acted on «story» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · wrong ✗

«10 million died in the Holodomor, everyone knows that», Danylo says. What's the honest move?

  • 1. Say nobody died — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Refuse to talk about it — no support
  • 3. Say 20 million, it sounds stronger — no support
  • 4. Use the newer estimates of about 3.5 to 5 million; the truth is terrible enough — ✓ 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 · right ✓

Teacher calls it «a famine in the USSR». What did he add to be truthful?

  • 1. That it was man-made and many countries call it genocide — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. That it happened in Brazil — no support
  • 3. That it was caused only by weather — no support
  • 4. That it never really hurt anyone — 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 11 · wrong ✗

Danylo says the 1937–38 purges only hit Ukrainians. What's fair?

  • 1. Only Germans were arrested — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. All Soviet peoples suffered; Ukraine was hit very hard — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Nobody was ever arrested — no support
  • 4. Only Ukrainians were touched — 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 12 · wrong ✗

Danylo says western Ukraine was free between the wars. what's the fix?

  • 1. It was an independent kingdom — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It was split among Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. It was ruled by the Sich — no support
  • 4. It was part of Canada — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Ukrainian People's Republic proclaimed by the Central Rada?

  • 1. It declared full independence on the twenty-second of January, nineteen hundred and eighteen, amid a contested civil war — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 2. It was established by referendum in nineteen hundred and ninety-one — score 4
  • 3. It was founded by the Cossacks of the Sich under Bohdan Khmelnytsky in sixteen hundred and forty-eight and lasted until the destruction of the Sich — score 4
  • 4. It was a province of the Austrian Empire — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 6: «The Zaporizhian Sich below the Dnipro rapids was a Cossack stronghold where the council (rada) elected and could remove its leaders; only Cossack men had a voi…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «council» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the principal cause of the famine of nineteen hundred and thirty-two to nineteen hundred and thirty-three in Soviet Ukraine, hereinafter the Holodomor.

  • 1. Soviet policies of grain seizure, collectivisation and restriction of the movement of peasants — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The invasion of Ukraine by Nazi Germany — no support
  • 3. A volcanic eruption which obscured the Sun — no support
  • 4. The emigration of farmers to Canada — 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 ✗

Select the response consistent with the estimates of the majority of demographers in respect of deaths during the Holodomor.

  • 1. Approximately ten thousand persons — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Precisely twenty million persons — no support
  • 3. Approximately three and a half to five million persons — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. No deaths whatsoever — 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 ✗

Ascertain which institution, founded in nineteen hundred and eighteen under Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky, continues to exist.

  • 1. The Zaporizhian Sich — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The West Ukrainian People's Republic — no support
  • 3. The Central Rada — no support
  • 4. The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences — ✓ 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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