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The history of space exploration

Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 29 of the space 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 ✓

Jayden says "Americans were the first people in space". What should you tell him?

  • 1. No, Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union was first, in 1961 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Yes, Neil Armstrong was the first, in 1961, before Gagarin — no support
  • 3. Yes, the Shuttle went first in 1957 — no support
  • 4. No, a Briton was first, in 1991 — 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 ✗

grandad reckons people go to the Moon all the time now. true?

  • 1. No, nobody has walked there since 1972 — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Yes, astronauts visit it every year or so — ← Mova's choice · score 1
  • 3. No, nobody has ever gone further than the space station — no support
  • 4. Yes, there is a Moon base there now with people living in it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 8: «The far side of the Moon is not dark; it gets just as much sunlight as the near side, we simply never see it from the Earth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+3); the same thing acted on «moon» (+2). 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 3 · right ✓

Which is true about the first artificial satellite?

  • 1. It was a beeping metal ball launched by the Soviet Union — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
  • 2. It was a US rocket that carried a small dog round the Earth — no support
  • 3. It was the International Space Station — no support
  • 4. It was a German V-2 weapon — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 7: «On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite (a machine people put in orbit round Earth), a metal ball that beeped rad…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «launch» (+3); the same thing acted on «sputnik» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · wrong ✗

Why is the V-2 a sad part of space history?

  • 1. It carried the very first astronauts up into space and then crashed — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It was built only by children — no support
  • 3. It was a weapon built partly by prisoners, thousands of whom died — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. It never reached space — 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

Test 5 · wrong ✗

A cartoon shows Laika coming home a hero and wagging her tail. What is wrong?

  • 1. Laika was really a cat called Félicette, not a dog at all — ← Mova's choice · score 7
  • 2. Laika never went into space — no support
  • 3. Laika lived on the Moon — no support
  • 4. Laika died in space within hours; there was no way back — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 3: «Space history has dark pages too: the first rocket to reach space was a wartime weapon built partly by prisoners, the dog Laika never came home, and two Shuttl…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «laika» (+4); the same thing acted on «dog» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · right ✓

Who were the first people to land on the Moon?

  • 1. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins — no support
  • 3. Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova — no support
  • 4. Helen Sharman and Tim Peake — 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 ✓

Why did the end of the Shuttle flights in 2011 matter less for the space station?

  • 1. Nobody was living on the station at that time — no support
  • 2. The Shuttle was never used to build or visit it — no support
  • 3. The station was closed down in 2011 as well — no support
  • 4. Other spacecraft kept taking crews there — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 13: «NASA's Space Shuttles flew from 1981 to 2011, but two were lost with their crews, Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003; after 2011 Russian Soyuz capsules, a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same thing acted on «crews» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · right ✓

If you met Tim Peake, what could you ask him about?

  • 1. His stay on the space station in 2015-2016 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. His flight past Neptune — no support
  • 3. His time on Mars — no support
  • 4. His walk on the Moon with Neil Armstrong in 1969 — 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 ✗

Which countries built the International Space Station together?

  • 1. Britain and Australia — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 2. The USA, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada — ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 3. The USA alone — score 6
  • 4. Russia and China — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 29, line 14: «The International Space Station has had people living on board without a break since November 2000, built by the USA, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada together.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «build» (+4); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

my mate says the first flight on another planet was a plane on the Moon lol

  • 1. No, it was the helicopter Ingenuity on Mars — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. No, it was a drone on Jupiter — no support
  • 3. Yes, a small plane flew on the Moon back in 1969 — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 4. No, it was a balloon on Venus — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 14: «In April 2026 the Artemis II mission was reported to have flown four astronauts around the Moon, the first crew to go there since 1972; they did not land.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly» (+3); the same place «moon» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · wrong ✗

Why are reusable rocket boosters a big deal?

  • 1. They make rockets fast enough to fly to other stars — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. They make the astronauts lighter so they can float — no support
  • 3. They let rockets fly up without needing any fuel at all — no support
  • 4. Landing and reusing them saves building new ones — ✓ 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 ✗

Identify the person who became the first human being to travel into space, on 12 April 1961.

  • 1. Michael Collins — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Yuri Gagarin — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Neil Armstrong — no support
  • 4. Valentina Tereshkova — 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 ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the satellite Sputnik 1?

  • 1. It was the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
  • 2. It was the first space station, occupied since 2000 — no support
  • 3. It was the first crewed spacecraft, launched by the USA in 1961 — no support
  • 4. It was the first rover to land on Mars — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 14, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 7: «On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite (a machine people put in orbit round Earth), a metal ball that beeped rad…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+6); the same action «launch» (+4); the same thing acted on «sputnik» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the number of persons who walked upon the surface of the Moon between 1969 and 1972.

  • 1. Twelve — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Twenty — no support
  • 3. Two — no support
  • 4. Six — 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 ✗

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the Space Shuttle programme.

  • 1. It carried the first astronauts to the Moon — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It continues to operate at the present time — no support
  • 3. It operated from 1957 to 1969, during which period no Shuttle was ever lost — no support
  • 4. It operated from 1981 to 2011, and two Shuttles were lost with their crews — ✓ 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

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