China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall

Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 52 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 ✗

Mei: «the First Emperor was the greatest ever». Teacher: «a tyrant». What is wisest?

1. He never really lived — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Only a great hero — no support
3. He was both a unifier and a harsh tyrant — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Only a cruel tyrant who did nothing useful at all — 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 ✗

bro says every clay soldier is a copy of a real guy's face. proven?

1. Not proven; each face is different, which is the real wonder — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yes, each one has a name tag with the soldier's real name — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. No, all the faces are the same — no support
4. Yes, they are real soldiers turned to clay — 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 27, line 14: «Spanish soldiers called conquistadors conquered huge lands in the Americas looking for gold, and native peoples lost their land and freedom.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «spanish soldiers» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

A video says the tomb is never opened because of a deadly curse. What is the real reason?

1. A curse proven by scientists — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Careful preservation of what is inside — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It has already been emptied — no support
4. It is under a lake — 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 ✓

crap, my poster says «Great Wall: the only building you can see from space». fix it?

1. Change it to «visible from the Moon» — no support
2. It's a myth; it's too narrow to see by eye from orbit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. It's true, it glows at night — no support
4. It's true, but only in winter when snow lies on top of it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 9: «The Great Wall is very long but only a few metres wide, and astronauts, including China's Yang Liwei in 2003, said they could not see it with the naked eye (wi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+2); the same place «orbit» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

The teacher says the Qin built the Wall; Mei says the Ming. Who is right?

1. Only Mei — no support
2. Only the teacher — no support
3. Neither; the Romans built it — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Both partly; different dynasties built different parts — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 14: «Emperor Hadrian built a wall about 117 kilometres long across northern Britain to mark the empire's edge and control movement.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «build» (+5); the same thing acted on «wall» (+3). Against it: a different doer (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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mei says no enemy ever got past the Great Wall. What would the teacher answer?

1. The Mongols conquered China and the Manchus came through in 1644 — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Only dragons got past — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. She is right; nobody got past — score 3
4. Only the Romans got past, by sailing round the end of it into the sea — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 52, line 11: «The walls helped control borders and trade, but enemies did get past: the Mongols conquered China, and the Manchus, a people from the north-east, came through…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «get past» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

If coins and weights were different in every region, what would happen to trade?

1. Coins would disappear — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It would be slower and more confusing — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nothing at all — no support
4. It would be faster — 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 friend says Zhang Qian «discovered the West» and Marco Polo was later. What is fairer?

1. Marco Polo was first to everything — no support
2. Zhang Qian went west to Central Asia much earlier; Marco Polo went east — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Neither ever travelled — no support
4. Zhang Qian reached London, Paris and Rome long before any European came to China — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 15: «Zhang Qian travelled west for the Han emperor around 138–126 BC, was held prisoner by the Xiongnu, horsemen of the northern steppe, for about ten years, and br…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «zhang» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

The teacher uses «Cai Lun invented paper in 105 AD»; Mei read about older finds. What did both learn?

1. Paper came from Rome — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Dates can change with new discoveries — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Old paper is fake — no support
4. Books are always wrong — 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 6, line 14: «Egyptians made a kind of paper from the papyrus reed that grew by the Nile, and our word paper comes from papyrus.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+3); the same doer «word paper» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why might Britain have copied China's idea of exams for officials?

1. Because exams are fun — no support
2. To build a wall — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. To sell more tea — no support
4. To choose officials by learning, not only by birth — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 14: «Emperor Hadrian built a wall about 117 kilometres long across northern Britain to mark the empire's edge and control movement.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «build» (+2); the same thing acted on «wall» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why do Chinese characters get called «Han characters»?

1. A famous film used that name — no support
2. They were invented in 1905 — no support
3. Han means «brush» — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. The Han dynasty was so long and important — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 52, line 13: «The Han dynasty, 206 BC–220 AD, was so important that the majority people of China call themselves Han, and Chinese characters are «Han characters»; China also…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «han dynasty» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the measures attributed to Qin Shi Huang subsequent to the unification of 221 BC.

1. The establishment of an elected parliament with members from every province — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The introduction of paper currency — no support
3. The abolition of all written language — no support
4. The standardisation of script, coinage, weights and axle widths — ✓ the right answer · 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 2 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the testimony of astronauts concerning the Great Wall.

1. It is not discernible to the unaided eye from orbit, being too narrow — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It is visible from orbit solely at night — no support
3. It is visible from Mars in fair weather — no support
4. It is the sole structure visible from the Moon — 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 ✗

Ascertain the principal reason for which the main tomb of the First Emperor remains unopened.

1. Its submersion beneath the sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Its contents having been removed in antiquity — no support
3. The preservation of its contents by archaeologists — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A curse attested by scientific inquiry — 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 · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the contribution of Cai Lun?

1. He improved the manufacture of paper, older specimens having been recovered — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He invented paper ex nihilo in the year 105 — no support
3. He introduced papyrus from Egypt by way of the caravan routes of Central Asia — no support
4. He prohibited the use of paper — 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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