The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 28 of the politics 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 ✗
Jake in Florida says: «y'all, ten seconds on Sudan and then football, so it's no big deal, right?» How do you correct it?
- 1. Right, little news time means a small war, because the news always shows the biggest ones longest — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is one of the world's biggest crises; little news time doesn't mean small — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is a football rivalry, not a war — no support
- 4. Sudan's war ended in 2023 — 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 ✓
Sam's friend from Durban says: «ja, but famine is just old history, hey.» How do you correct him?
- 1. Famine means eating too many sweets — no support
- 2. Famine only happens in winter — no support
- 3. Famine was reported in Darfur in 2024; it happens when wars block food — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 4. Famine stopped forever in 1900, when farmers learnt to grow enough food for everyone — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 28, line 8: «In 2024 food experts reported famine in a big camp in Darfur, in western Sudan, and news reports said the city of El Fasher fell to the RSF in late 2025 after…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «famine» (+4); the same action «report» (+3); the same circumstance (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · right ✓
Someone mutters: «why should I care, Sudan's miles away, sod it.» What is the fair reply?
- 1. Millions of people like you lost their homes; caring and learning still count — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It doesn't affect any real people, because only soldiers live in the places where the fighting is — no support
- 3. Caring about it is against the rules — no support
- 4. Sudan is closer than your street — 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 · wrong ✗
What would happen to deliveries if ships kept avoiding the Red Sea?
- 1. Parcels would arrive faster — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing would change — no support
- 3. Goods would take longer, because ships go round Africa — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Ships would sail over Egypt — 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 5 · right ✓
Priya's auntie says: «do the needful and give to Yemen also.» Priya asks: «but the war is in Gaza, no?» What is the best answer?
- 1. Yemen has had its own long war since 2014, one of the worst crises — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. The charity got the country's name wrong — no support
- 3. Yemen has no war at all, so the charity is collecting money for a country that is fine — score 3
- 4. Yemen is a city inside Gaza — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 11: «Yemen has had a war since 2014 between the Houthis and the government, which was backed by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia; the UN called it one of the world's…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «yemen» (+1); the same thing acted on «war» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
A strategy game shows eastern Congo as nothing but mines, with no people. What is the real picture?
- 1. The mines belong to Antarctica — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Congo has no metals at all — no support
- 3. Millions live there, and fighting over mines has hurt families for decades — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Eastern Congo is an empty desert, so the game is right that only the mines matter there — 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 ✗
Chloe's dad in Ottawa, holding his double-double, asks: «why can't they just fly help into Myanmar?» What made help hard?
- 1. The civil war since the 2021 coup made getting aid in difficult — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Earthquakes never need help — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 3. Nobody lives in Myanmar — no support
- 4. Myanmar has no airports at all, so planes have nowhere to land in the whole country — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 17: «Taxes pay for things like schools and roads, benefits are money the government gives to people who need help, and a budget is the government's plan for raising…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «help» (+2); the same action «need» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · wrong ✗
Tyler in Miami says: «Haiti's war is two armies, right?» How do you correct it?
- 1. There is no trouble in Haiti — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is mostly armed gangs controlling streets, with foreign police sent to help — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Two armies from Europe fight there over the island, and Haiti's own people have left — no support
- 4. Haiti is at war with Kenya — 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 9 · wrong ✗
Fatima asks her aunt: «Won't they shoot you?» Which answer is true?
- 1. Aid workers are never in any danger, because every fighter in every war always obeys the rules — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Aid workers carry the biggest guns — no support
- 3. The logo makes bullets bounce off — no support
- 4. The rules of war protect aid workers, but 2023 and 2024 were the deadliest years for them — ✓ 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 10 · wrong ✗
Ethan in Calgary groans: «more wars than almost any time since World War Two? I'm dead, I'm out.» What is a helpful reply?
- 1. Only adults are allowed to care — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's normal to feel overwhelmed; you can still learn, be kind and help a charity — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It's fake, because wars are disappearing all over the world and there are fewer now than ever before — no support
- 4. Hide from every news story forever — 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 11 · wrong ✗
Which sentence about Rwanda and M23 is fair?
- 1. Everyone agrees Rwanda had nothing to do with it, including the UN experts who went and looked — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Rwanda said it leads M23 itself — no support
- 3. UN experts said Rwanda backed M23; Rwanda denied it and said it was protecting its border — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. M23 is a football club — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the parties to the war which commenced in Sudan in April 2023.
- 1. The United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, acting jointly against Egypt — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The armed forces of Sudan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Two rival national football associations — no support
- 4. The Republic of Sudan and the Commonwealth of Australia — 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 ✓
State the number of persons reported by the United Nations to have been displaced from their homes in Sudan.
- 1. In excess of twelve million — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. None whatsoever in any region — no support
- 3. Approximately twelve hundred — no support
- 4. Approximately twelve persons in all — 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 the principal reason for the comparatively scant coverage of Sudan?
- 1. The absence of any conflict whatsoever in Sudan since the conclusion of a peace agreement in the year 2023 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The lesser importance of the lives of its inhabitants — no support
- 3. The danger to, and difficulty of access for, reporters, combined with lesser familiarity among viewers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A prohibition upon any mention of Sudan in all broadcasts — 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 4 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established reports concerning shipping in the Red Sea.
- 1. Following attacks by the Houthis, many vessels were diverted around the African continent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Vessels were conveyed overland across Egypt upon specially constructed railways, avoiding the sea entirely — score 3
- 3. The Red Sea was drained so as to permit passage — no support
- 4. All shipping throughout the world ceased permanently — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 28, line 10: «The Houthis, an armed group that controls much of Yemen, attacked ships in the Red Sea, saying they acted for Gaza; the US and UK struck back, and many ships w…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «houthis» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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