The seasons and the tilt of the axis
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 2 of the world 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 ✗
If the Earth's axis were not tilted at all, what would happen?
- 1. Every day would be twice as long — no support
- 2. Every place would have a long summer — no support
- 3. There would be almost no seasons — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The Earth would stop going around the Sun — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 1: «The Earth travels around the Sun once a year, and its axis is not upright but tilted, always leaning the same way in space.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «earth» (+2); the same place «sun» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
A girl in Kyiv and a boy in Cape Town talk in December. Which is true?
- 1. It is winter for her and summer for him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Both have autumn — no support
- 3. Both have summer — no support
- 4. Both have winter — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Which is true about the seasons?
- 1. They come from the tilt, not from the distance to the Sun — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. They come from the distance to the Sun, not from the tilt — score 2
- 3. They come from the Moon going around the Earth — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. They come from the Sun moving up and down — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 5: «The seasons do not come from the Earth being nearer to or farther from the Sun: the Earth is in fact closest to the Sun in early January, in the northern winte…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «seasons» (+4); the same place «earth» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a model, a tilted ball goes around a lamp. When is its top half warmest?
- 1. When the ball spins fastest — score 4
- 2. When the top half leans away from the lamp — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 3. When the top half leans towards the lamp — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. When the ball is farthest from the lamp — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 3: «Half a year later the northern half leans away: the Sun stays low, days are short, and it is winter, while the southern half has summer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lean away» (+4); the same doer «northern half» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
At noon your shadow is very long. Which season is it most likely to be?
- 1. It cannot depend on the season — no support
- 2. Summer — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Any season near the equator — no support
- 4. Winter — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 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 2, line 17: «When the Sun is low in the sky, shadows are long; when it is high, shadows are short.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
A town in Norway has the Sun in the sky at midnight. What season is it there?
- 1. Summer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 2. Deep winter — score 10
- 3. It never happens there — no support
- 4. Late autumn — no support
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 2, line 2: «For part of the year the northern half leans towards the Sun: there the Sun climbs high, days are long, and it is summer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «summer» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why does a slanting Sun make the ground cooler?
- 1. The light has to cool down on the long way here — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The same light is shared by more ground — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The slanting light has no heat in it — no support
- 4. The Sun is farther away at a slant — 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 ✓
Why is it that the north and the south never have summer at the same time?
- 1. When one half leans towards the Sun, the other leans away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The Sun can only shine on one pole a year — no support
- 3. The south is always farther from the Sun — no support
- 4. The Moon brings winter to one half — 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
A plant grows best when the Sun is high and the days long. In which season will it grow fastest in the north?
- 1. Late autumn — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The season makes no difference — no support
- 3. Summer — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Winter — 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 · ★ · right ✓
why's it so cold in winter if the Sun's still out
- 1. The sunlight comes in low and slanted, so it warms less — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Winter clouds soak up all the Sun's heat — no support
- 3. The Sun gives out less heat in winter — no support
- 4. The Sun is much farther away from us in winter than in summer — 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
its summer here in july, so wots it in australia then
- 1. Winter, because the southern half leans away from the Sun — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Summer too, it's summer everywhere in July — no support
- 3. Spring, because it's always a season ahead there — no support
- 4. Autumn, because Australia is closer to the Sun — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Leo says we get summer cos we're closer to the sun. true?
- 1. Yes, the Earth swings close to the Sun every July — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, it's the Moon's distance that makes summer — no support
- 3. Yes, summer comes when the Earth is nearest the Sun — no support
- 4. No, it's from the tilt; we're closest to the Sun in January — ✓ 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
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
a video said the Earth's axis flips over every winter to make the seasons. right?
- 1. Yes, it flips every winter and turns back again in summer — no support
- 2. No, the axis flips only once every ten years — score 2
- 3. Yes, but only by a small wobble each month — no support
- 4. No, the axis keeps pointing the same way all year — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 8: «The axis keeps pointing the same way in space all year round.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «point» (+2); the same doer «axis» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal reason for the occurrence of the seasons upon the Earth.
- 1. The inclination of the Earth's axis relative to its orbit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The alteration in the Sun's emission of heat — no support
- 3. The variation in distance between the Earth and the Sun during the year — no support
- 4. The passage of the Moon around the Earth — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that the Northern Hemisphere is inclined towards the Sun. State the season then prevailing in the Southern Hemisphere.
- 1. Summer — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No season whatsoever — no support
- 3. Winter — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Spring — 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 response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the date of the Earth's closest approach to the Sun.
- 1. It occurs in early January, during the northern winter — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It occurs at the spring equinox in March — no support
- 3. It occurs in early July, during the northern summer — no support
- 4. It occurs at the autumn equinox in September — 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 ✓
Determine the reason for which oblique sunlight warms the ground to a lesser degree than sunlight arriving from overhead.
- 1. It is distributed over a greater area of ground — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It travels a shorter distance from the Sun — no support
- 3. It contains a greater proportion of cold rays — no support
- 4. It is reflected entirely by the atmosphere — 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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