What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge

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

Lesson 77 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 ✓

Wiremu: "My nan went to kōhanga reo, a language nest. Te reo Māori was nearly lost, chur." ("Chur" means cheers, yeah, in NZ slang.) What does this show?

1. A language that nearly died can come back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Māori was never in any danger at all — no support
3. Lost languages can never return once they start to fade — no support
4. Language nests are for birds only, chur — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 77, line 1: «When two rivers meet, the water mixes into something new, but some fish from each river are lost; when peoples met, they too made new things, like jazz, Haitia…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «burned books» (+5); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

In Europa Universalis, Kai's missionary converts a province and the old religion vanishes in one click. What did real history often look like?

1. Nobody ever changed religion — no support
2. Missionaries never went anywhere — no support
3. Old languages and customs often survived quietly at home, and some came back — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Old ways always vanished in a single day, just as they do in the game, with nothing left — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 16: «Historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) wrote the «History of Ukraine-Rus», arguing with evidence that Ukrainian history runs on from Kyivan Rus, and in 1917…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lead» (+3); the same doer «history» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lucía: "We're a mix of peoples, innit." Her mate from Haiti: "Same, we speak Kreyòl, sak pase!" ("Sak pase" means what's up, in Haitian Creole.) What's the big idea?

1. Mixing always destroys everything — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Meetings of peoples created new cultures and languages — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Creole languages are just broken French with mistakes — no support
4. Every culture is pure and has never been mixed with any other — 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 ✓

Jaden's grandad: "Jazz, that's real cool, daddy-o." ("Daddy-o" is old slang for mate.) Where did jazz come from?

1. A computer program — no support
2. African American communities, mixing African rhythms and European instruments — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Royal orchestras in Vienna, who played it for the emperor and his court at night — no support
4. Ancient Greek theatres — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 77, line 9: «Jazz and blues grew among African American communities, mixing African rhythms with European instruments; reggae and hip-hop also came from such mixing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mix» (+2); the same thing acted on «african rhythms» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Callum: "Fish and chips is 100% British, nothing foreign in it, mate." His mate: "Nah, the fish came with Jewish families from Portugal." Who's right?

1. Neither: it came from China — no support
2. The mate: fried fish came with Jewish immigrants from Portugal and Spain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Both: it grew on trees in Britain — no support
4. Callum: it was invented by the Queen herself and served at the palace on Fridays — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 77, line 10: «Fried fish came to Britain with Jewish immigrants from Portugal and Spain; Japanese tempura grew from Portuguese cooking in the 1500s; where chicken tikka masa…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «come» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mia's cousin: "Aztecs never wrote books, they just did pyramids, mid." ("Mid" means not very good.) What's the correction?

1. The Aztecs wrote millions of books, and every single one survives today — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Aztec books are in every library — no support
3. They made books, but fewer than 20 from before the conquest survive — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. The Aztecs had no writing of any kind — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 7, line 3: «The Indus people wrote short signs on little stone seals with animals on them, but nobody can read their writing yet, like a locked diary with no key.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «write» (+2); the same doer «people» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ruby's dad: "Quinine? That's in tonic water, innit. Came from Britain." What's more exact?

1. It was invented in 2000 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It was made in a London lab from nothing — no support
3. It comes from the sea — no support
4. It came from cinchona bark, known to Andean peoples — ✓ 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 ✗

Ella: "Māori are about 1 in 6 New Zealanders. So they're growing again, sweet as!" ("Sweet as" means great.) Is she right?

1. No, Māori were never in New Zealand — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Yes, many Indigenous peoples are growing again after falling — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Yes, but only because of tourists — no support
4. No, Māori have disappeared and only a few words of their language are left — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 40, line 13: «The Māori arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, from Polynesia about 700 years ago and are famous for carving, tattooing, the haka and their navigation.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «māori» (+2); the same place «aotearoa» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Nikos: "The Parthenon marbles should come home, re!" ("Re" is a Greek call like mate.) His British friend: "They're safe in the museum, though." What's the honest summary?

1. The marbles were made in London — score 3
2. It is still debated who should keep them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Nobody cares about them anymore — no support
4. Greece has already got them all back from London — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 77, line 4: «Some questions are still argued today, like who should keep the Parthenon marbles, and some have been settled by respect, like closing the climb on Uluru.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same thing acted on «parthenon marbles» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Ava's Aussie uncle: "Back in the day we all climbed Ayers Rock, no worries." What changed in 2019?

1. The rock was sold to a company — no support
2. Climbing was made compulsory for every visitor — no support
3. Climbing Uluru was banned to respect the Anangu people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 18
4. The rock was moved to Sydney on huge trucks for the tourists — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 18, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 77, line 15: «Uluru in Australia, once called Ayers Rock, is sacred to the Anangu people, and climbing it was banned in 2019 to respect them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «ban» (+4); the same doer «climbing» (+4); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Oliver, whose family is from a former empire, asks Amara, whose family is from a former colony: "Is it my fault?" Best answer?

1. Yes, and Amara must blame him — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. History has nothing to teach anyone — no support
3. Yes, it is entirely his fault — no support
4. No; history helps us understand and treat each other fairly now — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

What would have happened if cinchona bark had never left the Andes?

1. Nothing at all would change — no support
2. Malaria would have disappeared on its own, since bark never really helped anyone — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. Europeans would have invented chocolate — no support
4. Many more people in the world would have died of malaria for centuries — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 77, line 3: «Knowledge flowed both ways: Andean peoples knew that cinchona bark helped with fever, which gave the world quinine against malaria, and maize, potatoes and rub…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cinchona bark» (+3); the same action «help» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the language which was revived as a language of everyday use at approximately the commencement of the twentieth century.

1. Ancient Egyptian — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Latin, in the city of Rome — no support
3. Hebrew — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Sumerian — 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 ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the survival of books from Mexico and Central America produced prior to the Spanish conquest?

1. Fewer than twenty survive, many having been burned or lost — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. All survive in the British Museum — no support
3. Several thousand survive intact in the libraries of Mexico City — no support
4. None were ever produced — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 77, line 11: «Fewer than 20 books from before the Spanish conquest survive from Mexico and Central America, because many were burned by Spanish priests or lost.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «burn» (+3); the same thing acted on «many» (+3). · 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 origin of quinine.

1. It derives from the bark of the cinchona tree, known to Andean peoples — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. It derives from seawater — no support
3. It derives from the leaves of the tea plant — no support
4. It was synthesised in London without any natural source — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 63, line 3: «Think of lending a friend a sticker: you trust them because you know them. With strangers you need more: written promises, laws everyone can see, fair weights…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). 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 status of the dispute in respect of the Parthenon marbles.

1. It remains contested between Greece and the British Museum — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. No party has ever claimed the marbles — no support
3. The marbles were destroyed in the nineteenth century — no support
4. It was resolved by the full return of the marbles — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, 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 action «contest» (+2); the same thing acted on «status» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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