Ancient times and famous stories

Tests: 4 of 10 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 9 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 21 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 ✗

"pyramids = slaves getting whipped, i saw it in a film" What would you tell your mate?

1. Aliens built them, so there were no workers — score 3
2. Digs suggest mostly paid, fed workers; films add the whips — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Romans built them with slaves from Britain — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. The film is right; we even have old photos of the whipping — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 1: «Isaac is sure the pyramids were built by whipped slaves, Leila knows thumbs down meant death in the arena, and Lucy's cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs. F…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «build» (+3); the same circumstance (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · right ✓

A video game shows every gladiator fight ending in death. Why would a real owner avoid that?

1. Romans did not know how to use swords — no support
2. Gladiators were not allowed to touch each other — no support
3. The crowd always wanted both fighters to walk out alive and well — no support
4. Trained gladiators were expensive, so losing one cost a lot — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 7: «Many gladiators were expensive trained fighters, and many fights did not end in death; nobody knows exactly which thumb signal the Romans used, and "thumbs dow…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «many gladiators» (+1); 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 3 · right ✓

Owen says Romans had vomitoriums for being sick at feasts. What was a vomitorium for?

1. Storing leftover food after feasts — no support
2. Training gladiators before fights — no support
3. Letting crowds pour out of a stadium — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. Keeping lions under the arena — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 8: «A Roman vomitorium was a wide passage that let crowds pour out of a stadium or theatre, not a room for being sick.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pour out» (+4); the same doer «crowds» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

Ava's art book shows a white Greek statue. What would it have looked like long ago?

1. Covered in mud to protect it — score 5
2. Exactly the same as now, bare and white all over — no support
3. Painted in bright colours that later wore off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. Painted black all over — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 1: «Isaac is sure the pyramids were built by whipped slaves, Leila knows thumbs down meant death in the arena, and Lucy's cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs. F…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «paint» (+4); the same place «bright wrong colours» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · right ✓

"The Trojan Horse 100% happened, it's in a really old poem" What's the fairest reply?

1. Troy was real, but the horse is a legend with no evidence — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. It happened, because old poems like that one are always true — no support
3. Troy never existed at all — no support
4. The horse was real but Troy was made up — 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 21, line 10: «Troy was a real city in what is now Turkey, but there is no evidence for the wooden horse, which comes from ancient poems and legends.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «troy» (+3); 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 6 · wrong ✗

Grace says Druids built Stonehenge. What does the timing show?

1. The Druids finished building it just before the Romans came — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Druids built it in the Middle Ages — no support
3. The Druids and Stonehenge appeared on the same day — no support
4. It was begun over 2,000 years before Druids are mentioned — ✓ 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 7 · wrong ✗

Lucy's cartoon shows a caveman riding a T. rex. What is wrong?

1. Cavemen rode the smaller dinosaurs, just never the big T. rex — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. T. rex lived in caves with humans — no support
3. Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before humans — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nothing, cartoons are always correct — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 1: «Isaac is sure the pyramids were built by whipped slaves, Leila knows thumbs down meant death in the arena, and Lucy's cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs. F…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «dinosaurs» (+3); the same action «ride» (+2); the same doer «cavemen» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

Bella says witches were burned at Salem. How could she put it right?

1. People were hanged there; burning happened in other places — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Salem is a made-up town from a film — no support
3. Nobody was ever accused of witchcraft at Salem, not even once — no support
4. They were burned at Salem every single year — ← Mova's choice · 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 21, line 13: «In the Salem witch trials of 1692, nineteen people were hanged and one man was crushed to death with stones; nobody was burned there, though witches were burne…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «burn» (+4); the same thing acted on «witches» (+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 ✗

"ur wrong ezra, frogs in milk is just a dumb story" Who is fairer?

1. Both are wrong, because frogs live only in milk — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. The friend: nobody ever put frogs in milk — no support
3. Ezra: it is proven to keep milk fresh — no support
4. Ezra is partly right; it's reported in some villages, but not proven to work — ✓ 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 20, line 1: «Mrs Brown tells the class that in Columbus's time everyone thought the world was flat, and your older cousin grins that Einstein failed maths. Both stories are…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «both» (+3); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

Your friend thinks all Stone Age people lived in caves. What could you show them?

1. A photograph of a cave taken during the Stone Age — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A modern house with stone walls — no support
3. A cartoon of a family in a cave — no support
4. Remains of huts and camps found in the open — ✓ 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the appearance of ancient Greek statuary at the time of its creation.

1. It was exclusively painted black — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It was invariably left as unpainted white marble — no support
3. It was uniformly gilded with gold leaf — no support
4. It was frequently painted in vivid colours — ✓ 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

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the function properly ascribed to the Roman structure designated a vomitorium.

1. A cell for the confinement of animals — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A kitchen for the preparation of feasts — no support
3. A chamber reserved for illness during banquets — no support
4. A passage permitting the rapid exit of crowds — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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 the chronological relationship between humans and the large dinosaurs?

1. Humans and large dinosaurs coexisted for several thousand years — score 4
2. The large dinosaurs became extinct approximately two thousand years ago — score 5
3. Humans appeared shortly before the extinction of the large dinosaurs — ← Mova's choice · score 10
4. The large dinosaurs became extinct approximately sixty-six million years before humans appeared — ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 21, line 16: «The last big dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, and humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «appear» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «humans» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that the persons condemned at Salem in the year 1692 were put to death. Ascertain the manner in which nineteen of them were executed.

1. By burning — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. By hanging — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. By exile at sea — no support
4. By drowning — 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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