Kings, queens and emperors

Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 9 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 19 of the myths 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 ✗

"napoleon was a short angry midget lol everyone knows" What's the best reply?

1. You're right, he was the shortest grown man in the whole of France — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nobody knows, so you can say whatever you like — no support
3. He was short only when he sat on a horse — no support
4. He was about average height; British cartoons made him look tiny — ✓ 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 2 · right ✓

A film shows Nero playing a violin while Rome burns. What is wrong with the scene?

1. He should be playing it in a different part of Rome — no support
2. Nothing, the film is exactly like the history books say it happened — no support
3. Violins did not exist then, and Tacitus says he was away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. It should be a guitar, which the Romans loved — 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 19, line 9: «Nero could not have played the fiddle while Rome burned in the year 64, because the fiddle had not been invented; the Roman historian Tacitus says he was away…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same doer «roman historian» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · right ✓

Your teacher's quote card says "Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake!" How could you raise it kindly?

1. Rip the card off the wall at break time — no support
2. "That's rubbish, Miss, everybody knows it's fake!" — no support
3. Say nothing, because quote cards are always right — no support
4. "Miss, I read there's no evidence she said it. Could we check?" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 1: «Ruby is sure Napoleon was tiny and bossy because of it, Henry swears Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and the quote card on the wall says Marie Antoinette told…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «quote card» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

Gemma says Cleopatra was "Egyptian like the pyramid pharaohs". What would you add?

1. She was the very first pharaoh of all, long before the pyramids were built — no support
2. She built the Great Pyramid for her tomb — no support
3. She was Roman and never set foot in Egypt — no support
4. She ruled Egypt, but her family was Greek and came much later — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 4: «Napoleon was about average height, the "cake" line has no evidence she said it, and Cleopatra's family was Greek; the true stories are often stranger and more…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «family» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · wrong ✗

"Henry VIII was a fat slob his whole life, look at the pictures" What do the pictures miss?

1. The painters made him look thinner than he really was — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He was fat because he was ill from birth — no support
3. The pictures are of a different king called Henry — no support
4. As a young king he was tall, strong and good at sport — ✓ 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 6 · wrong ✗

Maisie mixes up two stories about wooden teeth. Which is true?

1. Both of them had wooden teeth made by the same man — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Elizabeth I had wooden teeth carved from oak — no support
3. Washington had wooden teeth painted white — no support
4. Neither had wooden teeth; Washington's were teeth, ivory and metal — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 13: «George Washington's false teeth were made from human teeth, animal teeth, ivory and metal, not wood; Elizabeth I's teeth were said to be blackened, probably fr…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «false teeth» (+3); the same action «make» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

In a video game, a king orders anything he wants and nobody can say no. What would a real king have needed?

1. The support of nobles, money, armies and the law — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nothing at all, because kings were above every single rule — no support
3. Only a big golden crown and a very loud commanding voice — no support
4. A vote of all the children in the kingdom, held every spring — ← 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 19, line 8: «There is no evidence that Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake"; a similar line about a great princess appears in a book by Rousseau written when she was a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «child» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · right ✓

Felix's poster says "Julius Caesar, first emperor of Rome". What should it say?

1. Julius Caesar, first king of Rome — score -1
2. Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome; Augustus was the first emperor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
3. Julius Caesar, first emperor of Egypt — score -1
4. It is right, so it should not change — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 9, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 19, line 15: «Julius Caesar was made dictator of Rome (a leader given total power for a time) but was never emperor; his adopted son Augustus became the first Roman emperor…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «adopted son» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «first roman emperor» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

"Victoria never smiled once, my nan said" How could you check?

1. Ask which colour dress she wore most often in photographs — no support
2. Read her diaries and letters, which show her laughing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. It cannot be checked at all, so just believe what your nan says — no support
4. Count how many smiles there are in her painted portraits — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 17: «Queen Victoria looks stern in photographs partly because people were expected to look serious in photos then; her diaries and letters show she laughed and enjo…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «show» (+3); the same doer «diaries» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

Amira tells the Lady Godiva story as fact. What is the wise thing to say?

1. She never lived, so the whole story is a lie — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It's a legend written long after; Peeping Tom was added later — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Only the part about the horse is a legend — no support
4. Every word is true because it's in a famous painting — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the stature of Napoleon Bonaparte?

1. His height was never recorded by any contemporary — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He exceeded two metres in height — no support
3. He was of approximately average height for a Frenchman of his era — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He was of exceptionally diminutive stature by the standards of any 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 · right ✓

Identify the principal reason for which the account of Nero playing the fiddle during the conflagration of Rome cannot be accurate.

1. The fiddle had not been invented at that time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. The fire occurred during the reign of another emperor — no support
3. Musical performance was prohibited during fires by law — no support
4. Nero was demonstrably incapable of music — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 9: «Nero could not have played the fiddle while Rome burned in the year 64, because the fiddle had not been invented; the Roman historian Tacitus says he was away…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «invent» (+5); the same thing acted on «fiddle» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the first emperor of Rome.

1. Cleopatra conferred the imperial title upon Caesar — no support
2. Nero was the first to hold the imperial title — no support
3. Augustus became the first Roman emperor in 27 BC — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. Julius Caesar was crowned the first Roman emperor — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 15: «Julius Caesar was made dictator of Rome (a leader given total power for a time) but was never emperor; his adopted son Augustus became the first Roman emperor…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «first roman emperor» (+3); the same place «27» (+3); the same action «become» (+2); the same doer «adopted son» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

It is given that an anecdote concerning a monarch was first recorded by his adversaries a century after his death. Determine the appropriate evaluation of such an anecdote.

1. It constitutes weak evidence and requires corroboration — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It constitutes conclusive proof by reason of its antiquity — no support
3. It must be presumed true unless disproved — no support
4. It must be presumed to state the opposite of the truth — 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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