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From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries

Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 66 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 ✓

Ollie's mum says the famous guess is 150 mates. Is 150 a law of nature?

  • 1. No, it is a guess that is still argued about — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. No, the real number is exactly 5, it's in all the books — no support
  • 3. Yes, science proved it exactly in a lab — no support
  • 4. Yes, the 151st friend just vanishes from your life — 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 ✗

Liam thinks chiefs only ever took things from people. What did the potlatch show?

  • 1. Potlatches were tax offices — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Chiefs never gave anything — no support
  • 3. Many chiefs gained respect by giving — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Chiefs were chosen by coins — 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 ✓

Ethan asks why people wanted kings. What is the best answer?

  • 1. Nobody ever wanted kings; they just appeared — score -2
  • 2. People wanted someone to do all their homework — no support
  • 3. Kings promised protection and organised the extra food — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
  • 4. Kings came down from the sky and everyone obeyed them — score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 12, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 66, line 8: «Farming made extra food that could feed soldiers, priests and builders; kings promised protection and collected part of the harvest, and Egypt became one kingd…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «promise» (+3); the same thing acted on «protection» (+3); the same doer «kings» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Darius's grandad says Cyrus let people keep their gods, bro. Why was that smart?

  • 1. It stopped all trade inside the empire — no support
  • 2. It meant nobody ever paid any taxes — no support
  • 3. It helped a huge empire stay calm — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 4. It made the empire much smaller and weaker — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 66, line 4: «Leaders were not always takers. On the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, chiefs won respect by giving huge gifts at feasts called potlatches. Darius's grandad…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «huge empire» (+3); the same action «stay» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sam paints the map one colour in EU4 and says «just conquer everything». What would real rulers tell him?

  • 1. Painting the whole map one colour always brought peace — ← Mova's choice · score 9
  • 2. Empires never broke up once the map was painted — score 9
  • 3. Conquest was always easy and cheap, so go for it — no support
  • 4. Holding land was the hard part; rebellions and costs grew — ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 66, line 1: «Sam plays an empire game and paints the whole map his colour: «easy, just conquer everything». Amir guesses the globe has like 300 countries. Kofi thinks borde…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «paint» (+3); the same thing acted on «whole map» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Giulia's nonna says Italy is younger than her cathedral. How?

  • 1. Italy is 5,000 years old, so nonna is wrong — no support
  • 2. Cathedrals in Italy were all built last year — score 4
  • 3. Nonna is just joking; Italy is older than any building — no support
  • 4. Italy became one country in 1861; the cathedral is older — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 66, line 11: «Italy became one country in 1861 and Germany in 1871; the idea that each people should have its own country spread in the 1800s.», 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 «italy» (+2); the same thing acted on «one country» (+2); the same place «1861» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Amir guesses like 300 countries on the globe. Better guess?

  • 1. About 12 or so — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. About 1,000, easy — no support
  • 3. About 195 — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. About 51, max — 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 ✗

What would happen if a border were drawn straight through a people's land?

  • 1. The land would slowly turn into a lake — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. Everyone would happily move to one side — no support
  • 3. Families and peoples could be split apart — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Nothing, because borders never change anything for anyone — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 17: «By the 1000s the Norse lands had become Christian kingdoms and raids faded; in 1066 a Norwegian king was defeated in England, and the Normans, descendants of V…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «norse lands» (+3); the same action «become» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Björn's name means son of Erik. What would his sister Freya's surname end in?

  • 1. She would have no surname at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. -son, exactly like Björn's — no support
  • 3. -dóttir, meaning daughter — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. -ski, as in Polish names — 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 ✓

Emma asks if a federation is like a team of teams. Is she right?

  • 1. No, it is a type of football — no support
  • 2. Yes, and every team has its own army and money — no support
  • 3. No, a federation has no government — no support
  • 4. Yes, regions run some things and the country runs others — ← 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 66, line 15: «In a federation, states or regions run some things and the national government runs others; the US, Switzerland, Germany, India and Australia are federations.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+2); the same doer «states» (+2); the same thing acted on «things» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Jamal: «English, British, Black and a Villa fan, is that allowed?» What is true?

  • 1. Only footballers are allowed to be several things — no support
  • 2. No, you must pick only one, like a football team — no support
  • 3. Yes, most people belong to several groups at once — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 4. Only if you live in London, not in Birmingham — 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 66, line 5: «Many countries are young: Giulia's nonna, Italian for grandma, jokes that Italy is younger than her favourite cathedral. And people belong to many groups at on…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «belong» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the approximate date at which Egypt was united as a single kingdom.

  • 1. Circa nineteen forty-five — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Circa five hundred CE — no support
  • 3. Circa three thousand one hundred BCE — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Circa eighteen sixty-one of the common era — 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 policy of the Persian kings towards subject peoples.

  • 1. Subject peoples were exempted from all obligations, including tribute — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Subject peoples were obliged to abandon their religions and to worship the gods of Persia — no support
  • 3. Subject peoples were frequently permitted to retain their religions upon payment of tribute — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Subject peoples were relocated in their entirety to Europe — 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 many present-day borders in Africa?

  • 1. They follow the ancient walls and roads constructed by the Roman Empire across the continent — ← Mova's choice · score 12
  • 2. They were chosen by referendum in every village — no support
  • 3. They were frequently drawn by European powers following the conference of 1884 to 1885 — ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 4. They have remained unaltered since the Stone Age — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 66, line 1: «Sam plays an empire game and paints the whole map his colour: «easy, just conquer everything». Amir guesses the globe has like 300 countries. Kofi thinks borde…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «follow» (+4); the same doer «borders» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the number of member states of the United Nations at its foundation in 1945.

  • 1. One hundred and ninety-three — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Three hundred — no support
  • 3. Twelve — no support
  • 4. Fifty-one — ✓ 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

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