China: the Song and the Mongols

Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 55 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 says the Song had the first factories. What is the more exact claim?

1. No workshops at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Large workshops, iron works and the first paper money — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Factories with robots and moving belts, just like today — no support
4. Car factories — 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 ✗

The teacher compares Hangzhou with London at that time. What does the gap teach?

1. Hangzhou was empty — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. London was much bigger, with more than a million people — no support
3. Song cities were far bigger than European ones then — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Both were tiny villages — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Mei repeats from an old drama that foot binding was beautiful. What would her mum and the teacher say?

1. It was healthy exercise that the doctors told every single family to do — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It is still the law — no support
3. It made girls run faster — no support
4. It was a harmful custom that hurt girls; old customs can be wrong — ✓ 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 ✓

Mei says «China absorbed the Mongols», the teacher «the Mongols ruled China». Wisest?

1. A Mongol dynasty ruling China through a Chinese-style state — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. The Mongols never came — score 1
3. Only Mei is right — no support
4. China conquered Mongolia and made it a province ruled from the south — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 55, line 2: «Then came the Mongols. Genghis Khan's riders attacked northern China from 1211, and his grandson Kublai Khan finished the conquest in 1279 and founded the Yuan…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «rule» (+5); the same thing acted on «china» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓

dude says marco polo never went to china cos he didn't mention the wall. convinced?

1. Yes, it is proven he stayed at home in Venice the whole time and made it up — no support
2. He went to Japan instead — no support
3. He invented China — no support
4. Most historians think he went; his details fit Chinese records — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 55, line 9: «Marco Polo said he served Kublai Khan for 17 years; some doubted it because he did not mention the Great Wall or tea, but most historians think he really went,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fit» (+2); the same doer «details» (+2); the same thing acted on «chinese records» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓

Mei says the Mongols never lost a battle. What would the teacher list?

1. Japan in 1274 and 1281, Ain Jalut and Vietnam — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Only the Great Wall, where the Ming stopped them — no support
3. Only Waterloo — no support
4. Nothing; she is right — 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 ✓

If storms had not hit the Mongol fleets, what might have changed?

1. The invasions of Japan might have gone differently — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Nothing could change — no support
3. Gunpowder would vanish — no support
4. The Song would rule Japan — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 23, line 15: «Kublai Khan's fleets twice tried to invade Japan, in 1274 and 1281, and both attempts failed, partly because of storms.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «invade» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «japan» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The teacher says the plague came from China, Mei says from Europe. What do scientists now say?

1. Definitely from Europe — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Definitely from America — no support
3. It probably started in Central Asia — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 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

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Mei says the Chinese drove out the Mongols in one day. What is true?

1. The Romans drove them out — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It took one afternoon — no support
3. The Mongols are still in charge — no support
4. It took years of war after floods, famine and rebellions — ✓ 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Mei points at the map: «Mongolia is part of China». What did she mix up?

1. Mongolia and Tibet — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nothing; she is right — no support
3. Mongolia, a country, and Inner Mongolia, a region of China — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Mongolia and Japan — 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 ✗

Why would a canal linking the north and south be so useful in China?

1. It keeps out enemies — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It is only for fishing — no support
3. It moves grain and goods along the country — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It makes rain — 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 ✗

Identify the institution which renders the Song dynasty notable in the history of currency.

1. The first gold coin bearing a portrait of the reigning emperor — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The adoption of Spanish silver dollars — no support
3. The abolition of every form of money — no support
4. The first paper money issued by a government, the jiaozi — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the foundation of the Yuan dynasty.

1. It was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang in 1368 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It was proclaimed by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC — no support
3. It was founded by the Manchus in 1644 — no support
4. It was established by Kublai Khan upon completion of the conquest of the Song in 1279 — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the present scholarly view of Marco Polo's account?

1. Most historians accept that he went, his details corresponding to Chinese records — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
2. It is universally held to be a fabrication — no support
3. It is known to describe Japan rather than China — no support
4. It was composed in Chinese by Kublai Khan — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 55, line 9: «Marco Polo said he served Kublai Khan for 17 years; some doubted it because he did not mention the Great Wall or tea, but most historians think he really went,…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «marco» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the original signification of the Japanese term kamikaze.

1. The rising sun — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Imperial fleet — no support
3. Brave warrior — no support
4. Divine wind — ✓ 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

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