China: 1911, 1949 and Mao
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 58 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 Sun Yat-sen ended the empire all by himself. What is fairer?
- 1. He was a Qing general — no support
- 2. He led the republic, but many groups made the revolution — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Exactly right, he fought alone — no support
- 4. He was born after 1949 — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 58, line 1: «In 1911 an uprising in the city of Wuchang toppled the Qing, and in 1912 China became a republic with Sun Yat-sen as its first, provisional president. Mei says…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «many groups» (+4); the same action «make» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
«students saved china in 1919» says Mei. accurate claim?
- 1. Yes, they crowned a new emperor and ended the war — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, they won a war — no support
- 3. No, nothing happened in 1919 — no support
- 4. They changed ideas and writing, not saved China — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
Mei says only the Communists fought Japan. What would a fair historian answer?
- 1. Both fought; the Nationalists fought most big battles — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Only the Americans fought, with ships and planes in the Pacific — no support
- 3. Correct, nobody else fought — no support
- 4. Nobody fought Japan — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 58, line 2: «Then China broke apart under warlords, students marched in 1919, and Japan invaded, in 1931 and fully in 1937. Mei says only the Communists fought Japan; the t…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «nationalists» (+4); the same action «fight» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
The teacher says China and Japan still argue about the war. About what?
- 1. Who won the 1894 football match — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Where the Great Wall ends — no support
- 3. Who invented paper — no support
- 4. How to remember and teach it — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mei: «in 1949 China stood up and became free». What would a fair summary add?
- 1. The emperor came back — no support
- 2. It ended foreign humiliation for many, and began one-party rule — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. China became a colony — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Nothing, it was the end of history — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 58, line 1: «In 1911 an uprising in the city of Wuchang toppled the Qing, and in 1912 China became a republic with Sun Yat-sen as its first, provisional president. Mei says…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «china» (+4); the same action «become» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Mei's grandfather calls Mao a hero; her grandmother remembers being sent to a village. Who is right?
- 1. Only grandfather; grandmother forgot — no support
- 2. Only grandmother; Mao did nothing — no support
- 3. Both memories are real; Mao unified China and caused huge suffering — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Neither; Mao is a legend — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 58, line 3: «In 1949 Mao Zedong won the civil war and declared the People's Republic; the Nationalists went to Taiwan. Mei's grandfather says Mao made China strong; her gra…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «memories» (+4); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
a poster says «Great Leap Forward: fast progress!» what really happened
- 1. China landed on the Moon and planted a flag — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing changed at all, it was just a poster — no support
- 3. Everyone got rich and had loads to eat for years — no support
- 4. A famine in which tens of millions died — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why can a policy's name be misleading?
- 1. Policies have no names, only long numbers and dates — no support
- 2. Names are always lies chosen to fool everybody — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. A name says what was hoped, not what happened — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. Names are chosen by children in a school contest — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 58, line 8: «Japan occupied Manchuria in 1931 and began full war on China in 1937; millions of Chinese died before Japan's defeat in 1945. The Nanjing massacre of 1937–1938…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «china» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
The Cultural Revolution was «about culture», says Mei. What is truer?
- 1. It built thousands of new museums for old paintings and books — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It invented Chinese opera — no support
- 3. It taught everyone to paint — no support
- 4. It harmed culture: books and temples were destroyed — ✓ 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 says Deng made everyone rich. What fixes it?
- 1. Correct, there are no poor people — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Hundreds of millions left poverty, but not everyone got rich — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Deng made everyone poor — no support
- 4. Deng never did any reforms — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 57, line 1: «The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, ruled from 1644 to 1912. Mei says the Qing were Chinese like all the others; the teacher says «foreign rulers». The wise a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «manchus» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Could a game of table tennis alone make two countries friends?
- 1. Yes, the winner gets to choose which country is its friend — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, America lost on purpose so China would be happy — no support
- 3. No; it was a sign, politics did the real work — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, because the game never happened at all in 1971 — 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 date and the person associated with the proclamation of the People's Republic of China.
- 1. 10 October 1911, Sun Yat-sen — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 1978, Deng Xiaoping — no support
- 3. 4 May 1919, Chiang Kai-shek — no support
- 4. 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong — ✓ 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 forces that resisted the Japanese invasion of China.
- 1. The Communists exclusively, without any Nationalist participation — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Both the Nationalists and the Communists, the former in most major battles — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The warlords exclusively, under Puyi — no support
- 4. No Chinese forces 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the consequences of the Great Leap Forward?
- 1. The restoration of the Qing dynasty — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The immediate industrial supremacy of China over Britain and America — no support
- 3. A famine causing tens of millions of deaths by most estimates — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A sustained surplus of grain — 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 the principal feature of the policy commenced by Deng Xiaoping in 1978.
- 1. The return of Hong Kong in 1978 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The abolition of all trade with the West — no support
- 3. The opening of China to markets and foreign investment — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The closure of all schools — 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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