Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 69 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 ✓

Danylo's grandma says their great-great-grandparents were serfs. What would they not be allowed to do?

1. Leave the landlord's land freely — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Eat bread or grow any vegetables — no support
3. Have names of their own — no support
4. Sing songs in church on Sundays — 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 ✗

«slavery ended 1865 done» says Ethan's mate. What would Ethan say?

1. Yeah, correct: it ended everywhere in the world on the very same day — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Nah, slavery never really existed in the first place — score 4
3. Nah, it actually ended back in 1066, with the Normans — no support
4. Not everywhere; it ended at different times and forced labour still exists — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 69, line 1: «Ethan's friend says slavery ended in 1865, done. Jaden thinks Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and changed everything alone. Ella asks: once rights are won, t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «end» (+3); the same doer «slavery» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Kiri says NZ was first for women's votes, sweet as. Why did Swiss women wait until 1971?

1. Swiss women simply did not want to vote until 1971 — score 3
2. The Swiss had no elections at all before 1971 — no support
3. Rights came step by step, at different times in different countries — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They didn't wait: Swiss women voted first of all, in 1800, before anyone — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 69, line 3: «Think of a staircase: each step was won by people who pushed for it. Serfs, farmers tied to a landlord's land, were freed in the Russian Empire, including much…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «women» (+3); the same action «vote» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓

Lily asks since when kids have rights. What would happen without the 1989 Convention?

1. Children would have weaker promises of school, safety and a voice — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Nothing, kids always had all rights — no support
3. Children would get the vote — no support
4. Adults would lose their rights — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 69, line 9: «In 1989 the UN agreed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, promising school, safety, health and a voice; almost every country in the world has joined it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «promise» (+3); the same thing acted on «school» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★★ · right ✓

Ryan: «kids my age worked in MINES?? no way». Is child labour over?

1. Yes, robots do all the work now, so kids don't have to anymore — no support
2. Yes, it ended everywhere in the world in 1833 — no support
3. No; well over 100 million children still work, mostly on farms — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. It never happened, it's just in old stories — 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 69, line 10: «In the 1800s many children worked in factories and mines; Britain's Factory Act of 1833 banned children under 9 from textile mills, and well over 100 million c…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «work» (+2); the same doer «many children» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓

Grace asks what Eleanor Roosevelt did. Were human rights written by one country?

1. Yes, only by France, after its revolution — no support
2. Yes, only by America, and the rest just signed it — no support
3. No, people from many countries wrote them together — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. They were never written down, only spoken — 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 38, line 11: «On 4 July 1776 the colonies declared independence, saying all men are created equal, with rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, though slavery…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «women» (+2); the same thing acted on «equal rights» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Jaden says Rosa Parks just sat down and changed everything by herself. Fair?

1. It happened in 1066, so nobody remembers — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She was really the bus driver, not a passenger — no support
3. She was brave, and part of a planned movement with many people — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yes, nobody else helped her at all, she did it all on her own — 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 ✗

Thabo asks how Mandela went from prison to president. What is the truest summary?

1. It all happened in one week in 1994 — no support
2. Decades of struggle ended apartheid, then all races voted in 1994 — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. He escaped from prison and took over the government by force — no support
4. He was president first, then he went to prison for 27 years — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 69, line 13: «Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and elected president in 1994 in South Africa's first election open to all races.», 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 thing acted on «president» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Alfie asks why some buildings have no ramps. What would a campaigner say?

1. Wheelchairs were only invented last year — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Access was won by campaigning, and some old places still lack it — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Ramps are not allowed by law in most old buildings in Britain — no support
4. Nobody needs ramps, so builders leave them out — 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 ✗

Aarav says Akbar let all faiths talk, like a group chat. Why was this wise for his empire?

1. It stopped all trade, which kept the empire quiet — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. It made everyone in the empire follow the very same religion — score 1
3. Respecting many faiths helped a mixed empire stay peaceful — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. It made him lose his throne at once to his son — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 14, line 3: «Rome held this empire together with a professional army, the legions, and with straight paved roads. It is like a giant train network: the faster soldiers and…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hold» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «empire» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓

Ella thinks rights won always stay. If people stop protecting rights, what can happen?

1. Rights get stronger alone — no support
2. Rights turn into money — no support
3. They can be lost, as in Germany in 1933 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Nothing, rights last for ever — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 41, line 7: «The legend of Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and their sister Lybid was written down in the Primary Chronicle; the river Lybid and the hills Shchekavytsia and Khorevytsia…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «river» (+3); the same thing acted on «real people» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

In EU4 you click a button to «abolish serfdom». In real life, what did it take?

1. Nothing, serfs just freed themselves overnight — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A football match between the serfs and the lords — no support
3. Decades of pressure, reform and struggle by many people — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. One click by one king, and it was done that same afternoon — 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 year in which serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empire, inclusive of much of present-day Ukraine.

1. Seventeen seventy-six — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nineteen eighty-one — no support
3. Eighteen sixty-one — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Eighteen forty-eight — 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 · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the abolition of slavery.

1. It was abolished in Mauritania in 1807, before all other countries — no support
2. It was abolished everywhere simultaneously in 1865, by agreement among all governments of the world — no support
3. It was never practised outside Europe at any time — no support
4. It was abolished at different dates in different countries, and forced labour persists illegally — ← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 69, line 7: «Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1834; the US ended slavery in 1865, Brazil in 1888, and Mauritania made it illegal…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «forced labour» (+5); the same property (+3). · 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 drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

1. It was proclaimed by a medieval monarch in the year 1215 — no support
2. It was written by a single French lawyer and adopted by every government without amendment — no support
3. It was prepared by persons from many countries under the chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. It was drafted exclusively by Chinese scholars — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 51, line 14: «Laozi is the traditional author of the Dao De Jing, a short book about following the natural «Way» (Dao); his very long life is a legend, and some historians d…», 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 «laozi» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the lesson most accurately drawn from the ending of German democracy in 1933.

1. Rights are guaranteed in perpetuity — no support
2. Democracies cannot ever end — no support
3. Elections are invariably unnecessary — no support
4. Rights and democratic institutions may be lost unless protected — ← 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 69, line 2: «What really happened: Britain banned slavery in most of its empire in 1834, the US in 1865, Brazil in 1888 and Mauritania only in 1981, and forced labour still…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+3); the same thing acted on «rights» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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