China: modern China, space and contested topics

Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 9 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 59 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 China will be the richest country in the world next year. What should she check?

1. Which country has more pandas and more high-speed trains — no support
2. The difference between total size and wealth per person — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Only how many people live in China's biggest cities — no support
4. Nothing: if the economy is big, every person is rich — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 59, line 5: «China's economy grew very fast from about 1980 to the 2010s; counted in US dollars it is now the world's second biggest, after the USA; but shared out among ab…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «economy» (+5); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The teacher calls China's poverty reduction «only propaganda». Who is mostly right?

1. Neither: there was never any poverty in China to reduce — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Mei: World Bank numbers show it is real and huge — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Both: it happened, but only for people living in Beijing — no support
4. The teacher: the World Bank just copied China's own numbers — 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 says China sent a man to space before America. What is the honest version?

1. China was third, in 2003; the USSR and the USA went in 1961 — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Mei is right: China sent its first astronaut up in 1950 — no support
3. China has never sent anyone to space, only robots and probes — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. China and America sent their first astronauts on the same day — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 8: «Isaac Newton explained that gravity makes an apple fall and keeps the Moon going around the Earth, and his laws of motion are still used to send rockets into s…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+3); the same place «space» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓

OMG mei says the chinese rover found aliens on mars!!

1. Yes, but they ran away before it took a photo — no support
2. No; it found signs of ancient water, which is not life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
3. No, coz the rover crashed and never landed at all — no support
4. yes!! little green men waved at the camera lol — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 59, line 2: «Mei is proud and sometimes says too much: «richest country next year», «ended poverty», «found life on Mars». The teacher checks: the World Bank numbers on pov…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+3); the same doer «rover» (+3); the same thing acted on «signs» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓

The teacher thought the ISS was the only space station. What did Mei teach him?

1. Tiangong is a Chinese station built on the Moon in 2022 — score 7
2. There are no space stations at all, only rockets — no support
3. China has its own station, Tiangong, finished in 2022 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. The ISS itself was built and is owned only by China — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 59, line 11: «China completed its Tiangong space station, whose name means «Heavenly Palace», in 2022; Chinese astronauts live there in turns.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «china» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «tiangong space station» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Mei says «Taiwan is a province of China»; a classmate shouts «Taiwan is a country!». What did the teacher wisely do?

1. Give Mei a prize, because she said it first and loudest — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. Tell the class that one side is stupid and move on to the next topic — score 6
3. Send the classmate out of the room for shouting at Mei — score 4
4. Stop the shouting, explain both views and the undisputed facts — ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 53, line 1: «Mei says China gave the world paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder, the «four great inventions». This time the teacher agrees completely: all four were f…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «mei» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

If someone says «Tibet was always part of China» and another says «Tibet was always free», what is the fair reply?

1. The second is a plain fact that every historian agrees with — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Neither matters, because nobody lived in Tibet before 1950 — no support
3. Both are positions; it is contested and history was complicated — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The first is a plain fact that every historian in the world agrees with — 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 ✗

Mei says nothing happened in 1989. What is widely documented?

1. Protests in Tiananmen Square ended by the army, with many killed — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A big football final in Tiananmen Square watched by millions — no support
3. Nothing at all: she is right, and all the photos and films are fakes — no support
4. A new dynasty began, with an emperor crowned in the square — ← Mova's choice · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 9, 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 «qing» (+5); the same action «start» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Why might some events not be taught in every country?

1. Nobody remembers anything that happened more than ten years ago — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Textbooks always run out of pages before the last hundred years — no support
3. Governments choose what schools teach, and some topics are sensitive — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. All events are taught in every country, so this never really happens — 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 the Hong Kong protests were caused by foreigners. How should a teacher answer?

1. Describe the events, the bill and the law, and say views divide — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Refuse to say that anything happened in Hong Kong — no support
3. Agree with Mei completely and say nothing more about it in class — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Say Mei is a liar in front of the whole class — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 53, line 1: «Mei says China gave the world paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder, the «four great inventions». This time the teacher agrees completely: all four were f…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «agree» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓

In a heated class argument about politics, what keeps friends friends?

1. Facts first, name the dispute, no insults — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Pretend nothing exists — no support
3. Never talk to each other again — no support
4. Whoever shouts loudest wins — 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 ✓

Identify the position of the People's Republic of China among states that have sent persons into space by their own means.

1. The third, following the USSR and the United States — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The second, preceding the United States by two years — no support
3. The first, preceding both the USSR and the United States — no support
4. The fifth, following India, Japan and the United States — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the achievement of the Chang'e 4 mission in January 2019?

1. The first landing of persons upon the Moon — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The completion of the Tiangong station — no support
3. The first soft landing upon the far side of the Moon — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The first return of samples from Mars — 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 · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the governance of Taiwan since 1949.

1. It has been a colony of Britain, administered from Hong Kong until the year 1997 — no support
2. It has been governed by Japan, its status being settled by a treaty of 1949 — no support
3. It has been governed separately with its own elected government, its status being contested — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. It has been administered directly from Beijing, with no elected government of its own — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 59, line 12: «Taiwan has been governed separately since 1949 by the Republic of China, with its own elected government; the People's Republic considers it part of China, and…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «govern» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the finding of the Zhurong rover in respect of the planet Mars.

1. The remains of an ancient settlement — no support
2. Rivers of liquid water flowing at present — no support
3. Conclusive evidence of living micro-organisms — no support
4. Signs of ancient water, but no evidence of life — ← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 59, line 2: «Mei is proud and sometimes says too much: «richest country next year», «ended poverty», «found life on Mars». The teacher checks: the World Bank numbers on pov…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sign» (+3); the same thing acted on «ancient water» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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