The environment
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 47 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 ✗
Your cousin says, "Climate change is just the Sun getting closer, so it's not our fault." How do you put it right?
- 1. He is right, and it is really the Moon's fault as well — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He is right, and so nothing at all can be done about it — no support
- 3. He is right, the Sun gets a little closer to us every summer — no support
- 4. The earth is warming mainly because of human activity — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Friend: "recycling's pointless, it's just one can, who cares lol." Which reply is best-reasoned?
- 1. Recycling is good because the teacher said so, end of story — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One can is small, but millions of people's habits add up — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. You're right, so I'll throw all my cans away — no support
- 4. You're stupid, so I won't listen to you — 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 ✓
Mum: "Get in the car, the shop's only 5 minutes' walk but I can't be bothered." What is the best thing to suggest?
- 1. Walk this time: it is short, healthy and better for the air — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Drive, because walking is never good for you, even a little bit — no support
- 3. Drive, but leave the engine running at the shop — no support
- 4. Stay home and never buy anything again — 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 ✗
A classmate who is not religious asks, "Why should I care about the planet if I don't believe God made it?" What is a good answer?
- 1. Because God will punish you if you don't — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 2. You shouldn't, because the planet is only meant for believers — no support
- 3. It is the only home for all of us and for people after us — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. You can't care unless you are a Christian — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 10: «Psalm 100 calls all the earth to «make a joyful noise» and to worship God with gladness and thanks.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «psalm» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
The football field at the park is churned to mud because every team plays on it every day. What is the best idea?
- 1. Ban everyone from ever playing football there again — no support
- 2. Let the strongest team in the park have it all the time — no support
- 3. Agree a shared timetable so the grass can recover — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Keep on playing every day and hope it fixes itself — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 43, line 11: «When a team wins a prize and one member did most of the work, some say share equally as a team and some say share by effort.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «share» (+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 6 · ★ · right ✓
"Who cares about people in 100 years, I won't be alive, sod 'em." What is wrong with this argument?
- 1. It is too kind to future people — no support
- 2. It ignores fairness to people who will live after us — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Nothing, because only living people count — no support
- 4. It uses far too many numbers and dates to make its point — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 47, line 13: «Future generations are the people who will live after us; fairness includes not using up what they will need.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
A judge asks: "Is it fair for poor countries to pay as much as rich ones for climate damage?" Which answer is best?
- 1. Who cares, it's all about money anyway — no support
- 2. Yes, everyone must always pay exactly the same — no support
- 3. Many say no, as rich countries caused more of it and can afford more, though it is disputed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 4. No, poor countries should never do anything at all — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 39, line 4: «They also test an answer by changing the details (what if it were a stranger, not a friend?) and, when they say "it depends", they say on what.», 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 (+4); the same doer «answer» (+3); the same thing acted on «stranger» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Your sister says, "Reuse means putting it in the recycling bin." How do you correct her?
- 1. She is right, reuse and recycle mean exactly the same thing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Reuse means throwing it out and then forgetting all about it — no support
- 3. Reuse means using a thing again, like refilling a bottle — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Reuse means going out and buying a new one of the same thing — 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 ✓
A boy in Sydney wants to stop the beach getting more plastic. Which plan is best?
- 1. Pick up litter safely and get his family to use fewer plastic things — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Throw the plastic out to sea on a windy day — no support
- 3. Ask the fish to avoid the plastic — no support
- 4. Bury the plastic in the sand where no one sees it — 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 ✗
"Greta's a total idiot for skipping school." What is weak about this point?
- 1. It uses lots of facts about the climate that are simply untrue — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It gives far too many reasons on both sides of the argument — no support
- 3. It is much too polite and careful about what it says of her — no support
- 4. It attacks the person instead of discussing her reasons — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Which is the best summary of Christian stewardship?
- 1. Only priests are asked to care for the earth — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The earth belongs to people to use up as they wish — no support
- 3. The earth does not matter at all, because heaven matters more — no support
- 4. The earth is God's gift and people must care for it well — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Christian doctrine of stewardship in respect of the natural world?
- 1. Humanity is the absolute proprietor of the earth and may dispose of it at will — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The care of the earth is the exclusive responsibility of the clergy — no support
- 3. Humanity is entrusted with the care of a creation which belongs to God — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The natural world is held to be without moral significance — 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 principal cause to which the present warming of the earth is attributed.
- 1. The respiration of an increased population of animals — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A progressive diminution of the distance between the earth and the Sun — no support
- 3. An increase in the frequency of volcanic eruptions — no support
- 4. Human activity, in particular the combustion of coal, oil and gas — ✓ 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 ✓
Whereas a common resource is exploited by each party solely for its own advantage, ascertain the outcome which the expression "the tragedy of the commons" denotes.
- 1. The resource is degraded to the detriment of all who depend upon it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The resource is transferred to the ownership of the state — no support
- 3. The resource is abandoned by all parties at the outset — no support
- 4. The resource is enlarged in proportion to the number of its users — 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 ✓
Of the three principles of waste reduction, select that which is generally held to afford the greatest benefit, together with the reason.
- 1. Reduction, inasmuch as an article never produced requires no disposal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. None, inasmuch as the conduct of individuals is of no consequence — no support
- 3. Reuse, inasmuch as all newly manufactured articles are harmful to the earth — no support
- 4. Recycling, inasmuch as it permits unrestricted consumption — 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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