The birth of Jesus
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 12 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 ✗
lil bro: «3 kings came on camels cos the Bible says so». what does it actually say
- 1. Shepherds brought gold, frankincense and myrrh — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Exactly three kings came, named in the Bible — no support
- 3. Wise men came with three gifts; it never says three or kings — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Twelve kings came with twelve gifts — 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 12, line 13: «Wise men (magi) from the East followed a star and brought gold, frankincense and myrrh (two sweet-smelling tree gums); the Bible does not say there were three…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «bring» (+2); the same thing acted on «gold» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · wrong ✗
Ella says Mary was told about the baby by a shepherd. Put her right.
- 1. It was John the Baptist's father — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was the angel Gabriel — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It was the innkeeper's wife — no support
- 4. It was King Herod in a letter — 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 · right ✓
Muslim classmate: «We honour Jesus as a prophet too. What do Christians believe he is?»
- 1. The son of King Herod — no support
- 2. Only a wise teacher like any other — no support
- 3. An angel sent down from heaven in a human disguise — no support
- 4. God the Son who became human, God with us — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 5: «Christians believe that in Jesus God himself became a human being (the Incarnation) — «Emmanuel, God with us» — and came humbly, close to poor and ordinary peo…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+4); the same doer «god» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · wrong ✗
«why would God's son be born next to cows lol, makes no sense». Best answer for the olympiad?
- 1. It was a mistake because the inn lost the booking — no support
- 2. Christians believe God chose to come humbly, close to ordinary people — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Rich people always had babies in stables then — no support
- 4. It shows God did not care where he was born — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 13: «Solomon built the first great Temple in Jerusalem as a house for worshipping God, yet he prayed that even the heavens cannot contain God, much less a house.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «contain» (+4); the same thing acted on «god» (+4). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · right ✓
Why might the angels have gone to the shepherds first?
- 1. Shepherds were the richest and most important people nearby — no support
- 2. The king had ordered them to wait for it — score 2
- 3. Shepherds were the priests of Bethlehem — no support
- 4. Good news came first to ordinary, looked-down-on workers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 12: «Shepherds were ordinary, often looked-down-on workers, and Christians note that the good news came to them first.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «good news» (+3); the same action «come» (+1); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
New kid at school fled a war with her family. How does the Christmas story connect?
- 1. Jesus' family were refugees in Egypt too — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Jesus' family stayed safely at home in Nazareth — no support
- 3. The story says that refugees must always go back — no support
- 4. The wise men were refugees running from Egypt — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 4: «Wise men from the East followed a star with gold, frankincense and myrrh, while jealous King Herod tried to kill the child, so the family fled to Egypt as refu…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «egypt» (+4); the same doer «family» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · right ✓
Joseph hardly says a word in the story. What does he show?
- 1. Quiet faithfulness: he protects Mary and the child — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. That he was angry and left them — no support
- 3. That he was too shy to speak to anyone — no support
- 4. That he did not care about the baby — 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 ✗
dad lost me at the shops for an hour n went mental. is there a Bible story like that
- 1. The wise men losing the star for a week — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Jonah lost inside the big fish — no support
- 3. The lost sheep found in the desert at night — no support
- 4. The boy Jesus missing for three days, found in the Temple — ✓ 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 9 · right ✓
«Jesus asked loads of questions in the Temple so kids should never obey parents». Is that right?
- 1. Yes, he never went back to Nazareth — no support
- 2. Yes, the Bible says questions replace obeying — no support
- 3. No, because he never asked any questions — score 3
- 4. No, he also went home and obeyed his parents — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 18: «After being found in the Temple, Jesus went home to Nazareth and obeyed his parents.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «obey» (+4); the same thing acted on «parents» (+4); the same doer «jesus» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
Judge: «What does it mean to say God is Emmanuel?»
- 1. That God is far away, high above the stars, and never comes near — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. That in Jesus God came to live among people — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. That God lives only in the Temple — no support
- 4. That God is a king like Herod — 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 · right ✓
What did Herod feel about the newborn king?
- 1. Pity and a wish to help the poor — no support
- 2. Joy and a wish to give gifts — no support
- 3. Jealous fear for his own throne — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Nothing, he never heard of him — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 14: «King Herod was jealous and tried to kill the baby, so Jesus' family escaped to Egypt as refugees.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king herod» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal reason for which Joseph and Mary undertook the journey to Bethlehem.
- 1. A census decreed by the Roman authorities — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Attendance at a festival in the Temple — no support
- 3. Flight from the persecution of King Herod — no support
- 4. Employment in the carpentry trade — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the doctrine of the Incarnation?
- 1. That Jesus was solely an exemplary teacher — no support
- 2. That Jesus was an angel in human appearance — no support
- 3. That God resides exclusively within the Temple at Jerusalem — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 4. That God the Son assumed a truly human nature in Jesus — ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 5: «Christians believe that in Jesus God himself became a human being (the Incarnation) — «Emmanuel, God with us» — and came humbly, close to poor and ordinary peo…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «god» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain, pursuant to the Gospel account, the gifts presented by the magi.
- 1. Silver, a lamb and linen — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gold, frankincense and myrrh — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Bread, wine and oil — no support
- 4. A crown, a sceptre and a robe — 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 · wrong ✗
It is given that the infant was placed in a manger. State the nature of the said object.
- 1. A shepherd's portable tent — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A trough from which animals feed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A cradle of carved wood — no support
- 4. An upper room of an inn — 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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