China: the Qing and the Opium Wars

Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 57 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 ✓

Mei says the Qing were just Chinese; the teacher says foreigners. What is wisest?

1. Only Chinese, the Manchus are a myth made up by later writers — no support
2. British rulers in Chinese clothes — no support
3. A Manchu dynasty that ruled through Chinese institutions — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Only foreigners who changed nothing — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. 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 same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mongol dynasty» (+3); the same action «rule» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mei says Kangxi ruled longer than anyone in the world. What fixes it?

1. He ruled only ten years — ← Mova's choice · score 14
2. Qianlong ruled 100 years — score 9
3. Exactly right, nobody in any country ever ruled longer than him — score 3
4. Longest in Chinese history; Louis XIV ruled 72 years — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 14, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 57, line 2: «Its emperors Kangxi and Qianlong ruled about sixty years each, and in 1793 Qianlong told a British envoy that China already had «all things». Then Britain kept…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «rule» (+4); the same doer «emperors» (+3); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

lol the emperor told the king of England «we got everything, go home»?? real?

1. Yes, Qianlong wrote that China had all things — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. No, China begged for British goods — no support
3. Yes, but it was a joke letter — no support
4. No, the letter was invented by a film — 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 ✓

The teacher says the Opium War was just «a trade war». What is fairer?

1. It was a friendly football match — no support
2. It was about the price of tea cups — no support
3. China attacked London first, so Britain had to defend itself — score 4
4. It was a war that protected the British opium trade — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 34, line 8: «In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war; the Second World War lasted until 1945 and was the largest war in history.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «second world war» (+2); the same thing acted on «largest war» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

If China had not destroyed the opium in 1839, what problem would have gone on?

1. Silk would have run out — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nothing at all — no support
3. British opium still flooding in and harming people — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The Great Wall would have fallen down from neglect and old age — 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 ✗

Mei says Hong Kong was always Chinese. What fact must be added?

1. It was never a city — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. It was always Japanese — no support
3. It was a British colony for over 150 years — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It was always British — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 56, line 1: «The Ming dynasty, from 1368 to 1644, moved the capital to Beijing and built the Forbidden City, a palace of red walls and golden roofs. Mei says it has 9,999 r…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «forbidden city» (+2). Against it: 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

The teacher had never heard of the Taiping Rebellion. Mei says «it was small». Both?

1. It was huge, one of the deadliest wars in history — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It never happened — no support
3. It was small, just a fight between two villages — no support
4. It lasted one week — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 10: «Confucius was a teacher who lived about 2,500 years ago and taught that people should be kind and honest, respect their parents and teachers, and that rulers s…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «teacher» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

A cartoon shows Cixi as a pure villain who sank the navy with a boat. What do historians say?

1. She was a cartoon only — no support
2. She never had any power — no support
3. She was a clever, powerful ruler; how much the navy suffered is debated — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. She built a real warship out of marble and sailed it against Japan herself — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 13: «In 1932–1933 millions died in Soviet Ukraine in a famine caused by Soviet policy: forced collectivisation (making farmers give their land and animals to big st…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «debate» (+3); the same doer «historians» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mei: «China always beat Japan». What happened in 1894–1895?

1. China took Tokyo — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Japan won and took Taiwan — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nobody fought — no support
4. They both lost to Britain — 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 ✓

the Boxers were bulletproof right? my bro saw it in a game

1. Yes, but only on Sundays — no support
2. No, they had no beliefs at all and fought only for money and food — no support
3. No; some believed rituals protected them, but bullets did not stop — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Yes, their armour was magic — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 57, line 15: «The Boxers, named after the martial arts they practised, attacked foreigners and Chinese Christians in 1899–1901; some believed their rituals made them bulletp…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «believe» (+2); the same doer «some» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mei says the last emperor ended up a gardener. Is that a film fantasy?

1. No, after prison Puyi really worked at a botanical garden — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yes, a pure invention — no support
3. No, he became a footballer — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Yes, he died as emperor — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 57, line 4: «The century was also full of change: a huge civil war, a powerful empress dowager, a lost war with Japan, the Boxer uprising, and finally a two-year-old boy, P…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same doer «old boy» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal outcome of the First Opium War as established by the Treaty of Nanjing of 1842.

1. The annexation of Japan by the Qing — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The British withdrawal from all of Asia — no support
3. The end of the Qing dynasty — no support
4. The cession of Hong Kong Island and the opening of five ports — ✓ 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 founders of the Qing dynasty.

1. British merchants who governed from Canton — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Manchus who ruled through Chinese institutions while keeping Manchu customs — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Ming admirals returned from Africa — no support
4. Mongols who abolished every Chinese institution — 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 reply of the Qianlong Emperor to the embassy of 1793?

1. China accepted a permanent British embassy — score 6
2. China wished to purchase British warships — score 8
3. China possessed all things and required no British goods — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 18
4. China offered Hong Kong in exchange for opium — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 18, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 57, line 7: «In 1793 Lord Macartney came from Britain asking for more trade and an embassy in Beijing; the Qianlong Emperor answered that China possessed «all things» and h…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «possess» (+4); the same doer «china» (+4); the same thing acted on «things» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the circumstances in which Puyi ascended the throne and subsequently relinquished it.

1. Enthroned in 1644 by the Manchus; abdicated in 1700 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Enthroned in 1949; abdicated in 1997 — no support
3. Enthroned in 1908 at the age of two; abdicated in 1912 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Enthroned at forty after the Boxer victory — 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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