Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★

Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 102 of the religion ethics 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 ✗

Bro in the group chat: "Moses was Joseph's dad, innit, they both did Egypt." What do you reply?

1. No, Joseph lived long before; Moses led the people out much later — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Yeah, that's right, they were dad and son and lived at the very same time — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. No, neither of them ever went to Egypt — no support
4. No, Moses was Joseph's son, born in prison — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 57, line 2: «Picture Ollie and his dad under the apple tree with a small hole, a lolly-stick cross and Captain the goldfish; Ollie says, «Bye Captain, you were the best swi…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «ollie» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

"Hanukkah's lowkey the Jewish Christmas, it's the same thing," says Kai. Best-reasoned reply?

1. Yes, both festivals remember the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yes, because both are always held on 25 December each year — no support
3. No, Hanukkah is actually a Muslim festival that ends Ramadan — no support
4. No: it remembers the Temple made holy again — ✓ 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 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Gran: "I've told you a MILLION times, Pentecost is the day Jesus was born!" What is right?

1. Pentecost is the day of the Last Supper — no support
2. She's right, Pentecost is his birthday — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Pentecost is the day he went to Egypt — no support
4. Christmas is his birth; Pentecost is the Holy Spirit coming, after Easter — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 45, line 14: «Jesus taught going to the person first to put things right.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Lily: "Jesus was at a Hanukkah thing? No way, that's literally impossible." Is she right?

1. No, Jesus started Hanukkah himself on the very day that he was born — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Yes, Hanukkah was only invented a long time after the year 1900 — no support
3. Yes, the Gospels say Jesus never once went up to Jerusalem at all — score 1
4. No; John's Gospel puts him at the Feast of Dedication, Hanukkah — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 80, line 4: «Lily asks, «Will I ever stop missing Mum?», and the honest answer is that she may always miss her a little, but the pain softens and happy memories grow; Chris…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «god» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★★ · right ✓

A cartoon shows Noah's Ark sailing past the Tower of Babel with Moses waving from the deck. What's the slip?

1. Only that the Ark should be painted blue — no support
2. Nothing, they all happened on the same day — no support
3. Moses should be steering, not waving — no support
4. Noah's flood comes before Babel, and Moses lives ages after both — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 102, line 7: «Moses lived long after Joseph; he led the Israelites out of Egypt (the Exodus), and on the journey God gave the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

"Easter's always the same date, mate, like Christmas." Is it?

1. Yes, it's always on 1 April — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, it's on any random day that the vicar of each church chooses — no support
3. Yes, it's always 25 March — no support
4. No, Easter moves each year because it is fixed by the moon — ✓ 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

Dev: "Eid's fixin' to be in summer again, it's ALWAYS summer." What's the catch?

1. Eid moves about eleven days earlier each year, so over years it passes through every season — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Eid only happens once every eleven years — no support
3. Eid is always on New Year's Day — no support
4. Eid really is always in summer — 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 ✗

Maya says, "Muslims believe the Qur'an is God's word." Her friend says, "Say it's God's word, full stop, or you're being rude." What is fair?

1. Maya: she says what Muslims believe, kindly and truly — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. The friend: Maya is being rude by adding "Muslims believe" — score 3
3. Maya should call it just a made-up book to be really honest — no support
4. Nobody should ever talk about other people's faiths at school — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 102, line 5: «When you speak about any faith, say what its followers believe: "Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead", "Muslims believe the Qur'an is God's word"; a fa…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «speak» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Sam's family have Shabbat from Friday sunset. Sam says, "So Shabbat's on Friday, done." What did he miss?

1. It lasts the whole week from one Friday to the next — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. It's actually held on a Sunday morning instead — score 0
3. Nothing, Shabbat is only ever kept on a Friday — no support
4. It ends at Saturday sunset — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 65, line 13: «Jewish families «sit shiva», a week of mourning at home, when friends visit with food and comfort; mourners say the Kaddish, a prayer praising God.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jewish families» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+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 ✗

Teacher: "Paul's road to Damascus came, er, before Jesus was born — no wait, after Pentecost." Which is true?

1. After Pentecost, as she said last — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. On Christmas Day, the day Jesus was born — score 0
3. On the very same day as Noah's flood — no support
4. Before Jesus was born, as she said first — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 99, line 8: «Jesus said to speak to the person privately first, then bring others; "Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓

"Diwali is just for Hindus, nobody else bothers," says Leo. What is the fact?

1. Hindus, Sikhs and Jains all keep Diwali — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
2. Nobody keeps Diwali any more, it stopped long ago — score 9
3. Leo is right, only Hindus keep Diwali at all — score 10
4. Only Muslims keep Diwali, at the end of Ramadan — score 9

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 102, line 18: «Diwali, the autumn festival of lights, is kept by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains; Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of lights; Eid al-Fitr ends Ramadan; Wesak (Vesak) i…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «diwali» (+3); the same action «keep» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the sequence which correctly orders the following figures by their place in the biblical narrative.

1. Joseph, Moses, Jacob, Abraham — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Jacob, Abraham, Moses, Joseph — no support
4. Moses, Abraham, Joseph, Jacob — 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 ✗

Ascertain the total number of candles lit during the eight nights of Hanukkah, the helper candle being lit on every night.

1. 36 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 40 — no support
3. 72 — no support
4. 44 — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓

Select the explanation most accurate as to why Ramadan does not occur in a fixed season.

1. Ramadan is fixed in the same week of every solar year — no support
2. The date of Ramadan is chosen anew each year by lot — no support
3. The Islamic calendar follows the moon and is about eleven days shorter than the solar year — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
4. Ramadan is held only in years of a full harvest — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 102, line 16: «The Islamic calendar follows the moon and is about eleven days shorter than the sun's year, so Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr move earlier each year and can fall in a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «islamic calendar» (+4); the same property (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which statement most accurately expresses the respectful reporting of a religious belief?

1. One which presents the belief as held by all people everywhere, without any exception at all — no support
2. One which avoids naming the faith in question entirely — no support
3. One which attributes the belief to its followers, as in "Christians believe", without mockery — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
4. One which declares the belief false — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 102, line 5: «When you speak about any faith, say what its followers believe: "Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead", "Muslims believe the Qur'an is God's word"; a fa…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «believe» (+3); the same doer «christians» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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