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Chornobyl and independence in 1991

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 48 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 Ukrainian poets beat the USSR with poems. What's fairer?

  • 1. Only Russian poets wrote then — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Poets had nothing to do with anything that happened in the Soviet Union — no support
  • 3. They didn't bring it down alone, but they kept the culture alive — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Yes, one poem toppled the USSR — 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 ✓

Danylo says Chornobyl killed millions; teacher says only 31. Who's right?

  • 1. Neither: 31 died quickly, and long-term deaths are debated — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 2. The teacher, and nobody else ever died of it, not even years later — no support
  • 3. Both, it killed exactly 31 million — score 6
  • 4. Danylo, millions — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 48, line 3: «Danylo said Chornobyl «killed millions», and the teacher said «only 31 died»; both were wrong in opposite ways: about 31 died in the first months, while later…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+4); the same doer «31» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

«moscow hid chornobyl from literally everyone» — is that right?

  • 1. Sweden caused the accident — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Nobody ever found out — no support
  • 3. Totally wrong, they warned everyone at once on the radio and on television — no support
  • 4. Mostly: they announced it briefly, but hid the danger for days — ✓ 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 4 · right ✓

If the authorities had warned Kyiv at once, what might have happened?

  • 1. Fewer people would have been outside at the parade — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Nothing could have been different — no support
  • 3. Sweden would have closed — no support
  • 4. The reactor would not have exploded — 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 ✗

Danylo says the Bible predicted Chornobyl because of the name. Wise reply?

  • 1. The Bible mentions Kyiv's metro — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The name was invented in 1986 — no support
  • 3. It's a proven prophecy that scientists have checked — no support
  • 4. It's an interesting coincidence, not a prediction — ✓ 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 6 · wrong ✗

«Nobody can ever go near Chornobyl again, it's dead forever». fix it.

  • 1. It's a holiday beach now — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. People live there normally in big cities — no support
  • 3. Correct, no living thing is there, not even grass, insects or birds — no support
  • 4. Guided visits were possible before the war, and wildlife came back — ✓ 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 ✓

Danylo says Ukraine fought a war to win independence in 1991. What's true?

  • 1. It took a long ten-year war against the Soviet army in the mountains — no support
  • 2. It was won peacefully, by parliament's vote and a referendum — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
  • 3. Ukraine has never been independent — no support
  • 4. Russia's army handed it over in a battle — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 14, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 48, line 4: «On 24 August 1991 the Ukrainian parliament declared independence, and on 1 December over 90% of voters said yes, with majorities in every region, Crimea includ…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «win» (+5); the same doer «vote» (+4); the same thing acted on «independence» (+3); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · right ✓

Danylo says Crimea voted no in 1991. teacher shows the map. What's on it?

  • 1. A majority in every region voted yes, Crimea included — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Only Kyiv voted yes — no support
  • 3. Crimea didn't vote at all — no support
  • 4. Everyone voted no — 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 ✗

«Ukraine had the 3rd-biggest nuclear army and could nuke anyone». What's more exact?

  • 1. Ukraine built them all itself in secret factories near Dnipro and Kharkiv — ← Mova's choice · score 9
  • 2. It used them in 1993 — score 4
  • 3. Ukraine never had any — no support
  • 4. The weapons were on its soil, but Moscow held the launch controls — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 47, line 16: «Soviet Ukraine suffered three famines: 1921–1923, 1932–1933 (the Holodomor) and 1946–1947, the last after drought and war damage, made worse by grain exports.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+5); the same doer «soviet ukraine» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

Danylo says the hryvnia is the oldest money in the world. Fix it.

  • 1. Yes, the first coin ever — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The name is from Kyivan Rus, the money is from 1996, and older coins exist — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The hryvnia is a Swedish coin — no support
  • 4. It was invented in 2014 — 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 Cossacks chose blue for sky and yellow for wheat. What did they find?

  • 1. The flag was chosen by Eurovision — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The flag was red and black — no support
  • 3. The colours come from Galician arms of 1848; the sky-wheat idea came later — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Exactly what the Cossacks decreed — 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 after 1991 Ukraine got rich at once. his dad laughs. Why?

  • 1. Ukraine joined the EU in 1992 — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Prices never changed — no support
  • 3. Everyone got a free car — no support
  • 4. The 1990s brought hyperinflation, closed factories and poverty — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the accession of Ukraine to independence in nineteen hundred and ninety-one?

  • 1. It was rejected by a majority of voters in every region — no support
  • 2. It was conferred by the United Nations without a vote — no support
  • 3. It was achieved through a prolonged war against the Soviet army lasting nearly a decade and costing many lives — no support
  • 4. It was declared by parliament and confirmed by a referendum in which over ninety per cent voted in favour — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 48, line 4: «On 24 August 1991 the Ukrainian parliament declared independence, and on 1 December over 90% of voters said yes, with majorities in every region, Crimea includ…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «declare» (+4); the same doer «ukrainian parliament» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the undertaking given to Ukraine pursuant to the Budapest Memorandum of nineteen hundred and ninety-four in exchange for the relinquishment of nuclear weapons.

  • 1. Immediate membership of the European Union — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The construction of a new nuclear arsenal — no support
  • 3. The transfer of Crimea to Turkey — no support
  • 4. Assurances by the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia to respect its borders — ✓ 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 ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the immediate fatalities resulting from the Chornobyl accident of nineteen hundred and eighty-six.

  • 1. Several million persons died within the first week — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Approximately thirty-one persons died within the first months, while long-term fatalities remain debated — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. No person sustained any harm whatsoever — no support
  • 4. Precisely one hundred thousand persons died upon the first day, and none thereafter from any illness — 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 4 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the origin of the state emblem of Ukraine known as the tryzub.

  • 1. It was copied from the flag of Sweden — no support
  • 2. It appears upon coins of Volodymyr the Great — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 3. It was introduced by the Ems decree — no support
  • 4. It was designed for the Eurovision contest — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 48, line 14: «The tryzub (trident) appears on coins of Volodymyr the Great; it became the state emblem in 1918 and again in 1992, and its original meaning is debated.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «appear» (+2); the same place «coins» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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