Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

Tests: 8 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 9 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 4 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 · ★★ · right ✓

my cousin reckons Abraham was only a Jewish thing, nothing to do with Muslims. right?

1. No, only Muslims know about Abraham — score 4
2. No, Jews, Christians and Muslims all honour Abraham as a father of faith — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 18
3. Yes, and Christians have never heard of him — score 4
4. Yes, only Jews know about Abraham — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 18, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 1: «God called Abram (later Abraham) to leave his home for a land God would show him, promising to make him a great nation with descendants as many as the stars; J…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «honour» (+4); the same thing acted on «abram» (+4); the same property (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Yusuf, who is Muslim, says, "We call him Ibrahim." What does this show?

1. Christians should not talk about Ibrahim — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The three faiths share Abraham as a common root, a reason for respect — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Muslims copied the story of Abraham out of a film and changed his name — no support
4. Ibrahim must be a different man — 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 ✓

Your family moves to a new country and you don't know anyone. Mum says, "We'll trust God and take it one step at a time." Who is she like?

1. Abraham, who set out without knowing every step — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Jacob, who tricked his old father to get a blessing — no support
3. The builders of Babel, who wanted fame and glory — no support
4. Esau, who took his revenge on his twin brother 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

Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓

New kid sits alone at lunch, my mate goes "ignore him, we don't know him." what would Abraham do

1. Ask him to pay for a seat first — no support
2. Wait till a teacher says he's alright, then maybe talk to him — no support
3. Ignore him, strangers are trouble — no support
4. Welcome him, as Abraham welcomed the three strangers — ← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 2: «Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age, but Isaac, whose name means "he laughs", was born; Abraham also welcomed three strangers with food and…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «welcome» (+4); the same thing acted on «three strangers» (+4); the same doer «abraham» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗

My brother copied my homework and got a gold star, and he goes "ha, I won". What does Jacob's story say?

1. Cheating only matters if a teacher sees — no support
2. Cheating may win for a while but breaks trust — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He was right, winning the gold star is all that matters — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Cheating is fine if it gets you a prize — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 9: «God told Abraham to look at the stars and try to count them: his descendants would be as many.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «stars» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓

Eli, who has no religion, says: "The story where God tells Abraham to kill his son is horrible." What is a respectful answer?

1. It is a hard story; many read it as showing God does not want child sacrifice, since he stopped Abraham — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 18
2. It's a funny story, you're taking it too seriously — score 8
3. Yes, so Christians think hurting children is fine — score 4
4. You're not allowed to say that about the Bible — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 18, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 3: «In a hard story, God told Abraham to offer Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead; many read it as showing that God does not want child sacrifice a…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «want» (+4); the same doer «god» (+4); the same thing acted on «child sacrifice» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Your little sister says: "Grandad was so mean to Dad years ago, they'll never make up." What story gives hope?

1. Cain and Abel, who never got to make peace at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Tower of Babel, where people were scattered — no support
3. Jacob and Esau made peace after many years — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Noah's flood, which covered the whole earth — 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 · ★★ · right ✓

"I messed up so bad, God won't wanna know me now," says your friend after lying to his mum. Which story helps?

1. Jacob's ladder: God was still with Jacob after his mistakes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. Sarah: she laughed at God's promise — score 8
3. The flood: everyone left outside the ark was lost in the waters — score 5
4. Babel: God scatters the proud — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 4, line 3: «In a hard story, God told Abraham to offer Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead; many read it as showing that God does not want child sacrifice a…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «god» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓

Mum says "My doctor says I can't have more children, but we'll see." A gran says, "Sarah's story says nothing is too hard for God." What did Sarah do first?

1. She laughed in doubt, then her son Isaac was born — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. She counted the stars every night — score 3
3. She refused to believe it and left Abraham to live on her own — no support
4. She asked the strangers for medicine — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 10: «Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age; their son was named Isaac, meaning "he laughs".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «laugh» (+2); the same doer «sarah» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓

Olympiad judge: "Why might Jacob have been given the name Israel after wrestling all night?"

1. He wanted to hide from Esau with a new name — no support
2. Struggling honestly with God is part of faith — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. He won a fighting competition — no support
4. His old name was too hard to say — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 17: «Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «struggle» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓

Judge's follow-up: "Esau had every reason for revenge. Why is his hug the stronger choice?"

1. Revenge would have kept the family broken; forgiveness healed it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Because Esau had forgotten what happened — no support
3. Because forgiveness means just pretending nothing had ever gone wrong — no support
4. Because Jacob had paid him a lot of money — 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 ✗

Identify the principal virtue exemplified by Abraham in departing from his homeland at the divine command.

1. Obedience to the express instructions of his earthly father — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Ambition to establish himself as a ruler over other nations — no support
3. Desire to escape a famine which had afflicted his homeland — no support
4. Trust in God without knowledge of every particular — ✓ 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 · right ✓

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the regard in which Abraham is held.

1. He is honoured exclusively within the Islamic tradition — score 8
2. He is honoured exclusively within the Christian tradition — score 8
3. He is honoured as a father of faith by Jews, Christians and Muslims — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
4. He is regarded by all three faiths as a figure of no significance whatever — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 14, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 1: «God called Abram (later Abraham) to leave his home for a land God would show him, promising to make him a great nation with descendants as many as the stars; J…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «honour» (+4); the same thing acted on «abram» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «jews» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the means by which, according to Genesis, Jacob obtained the birthright and blessing belonging to Esau.

1. By the voluntary and cheerful gift of Esau — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. By victory over Esau in single combat — no support
3. By deception practised upon his brother and his father — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. By lawful purchase from the father, Isaac — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the conduct of Esau upon meeting Jacob after many years?

1. He declined to speak with his brother at all — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. He demanded payment in compensation for his loss — no support
3. He embraced his brother rather than exacting vengeance — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. He reclaimed his birthright by force of arms — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 4, line 14: «Jacob and Esau were twin brothers, the sons of Isaac and Rebekah.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «jacob» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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