The United States and its states
Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 2 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 44 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 ✗
A girl in Texas flies to the capital of her country. Where does she land?
- 1. Houston — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Austin — no support
- 3. Washington, D.C. — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. New York City — 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 ✗
A boy in Hawaii wants to visit the largest state by car. Why can he not drive there?
- 1. The largest state is Texas, which is too far — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cars are not allowed in Hawaii — no support
- 3. Alaska has no roads at all — no support
- 4. Hawaii is a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific — ✓ 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 3 · right ✓
A paper boat is dropped into the Mississippi in Minnesota and floats all the way down. Where does it end up?
- 1. In the Gulf of Mexico — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. In the Great Lakes — no support
- 3. In the Pacific Ocean — no support
- 4. In Hudson Bay in Canada — 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 family drives from New York west to Colorado. Which do they cross before reaching the high Rockies?
- 1. The Great Lakes and then the whole of Alaska — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Pacific coast and the islands of Hawaii — no support
- 3. The Gulf of Mexico and the Florida coast — no support
- 4. The Appalachians and the Great Plains — ✓ 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 5 · wrong ✗
A boy in Florida calls his aunt in California at 8 o'clock in the evening his time. What time is it for his aunt?
- 1. 11 o'clock at night — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 5 o'clock in the afternoon — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 8 o'clock in the evening — no support
- 4. 8 o'clock in the morning — 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 6 · wrong ✗
Which state would be best for seeing glaciers, moose and very long summer days?
- 1. Florida — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hawaii — no support
- 3. Alaska — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Arizona — 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 · wrong ✗
Which is true about Washington, D.C.?
- 1. It is the capital and is not part of any state — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is the largest city of the country — no support
- 3. It is in the state of Washington on the Pacific — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. It is in the middle of the Great Plains — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 44, line 1: «The United States of America is a huge country in North America made of 50 states; its capital is Washington, D.C., which is not in any state, and its largest…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «state» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · wrong ✗
A girl in Arizona sees cacti and very little rain all year. In which region does she live?
- 1. The snowy North-east — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Great Lakes region — no support
- 3. The rainy Pacific North-west — no support
- 4. The desert Southwest — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗
Which list gives places from east to west across the United States?
- 1. New York, California, Colorado — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. New York, Colorado, California — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Colorado, New York, California — no support
- 4. California, Colorado, New York — 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 ✗
it's 9 in the morning in new york, what time in LA then
- 1. 12 noon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 9 in the morning — no support
- 3. 3 in the morning — no support
- 4. 6 in the morning — ✓ 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 · right ✓
which state is way up north next to canada n is the biggest
- 1. Alaska — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Hawaii — no support
- 3. Florida — no support
- 4. Texas — 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 12 · right ✓
my cousin says New York City is the capital of the USA. true?
- 1. No, the capital is Washington, D.C. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Yes, and Washington is a state — no support
- 3. No, the capital is Los Angeles — no support
- 4. Yes, it is the biggest so it is the capital — 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 44, line 1: «The United States of America is a huge country in North America made of 50 states; its capital is Washington, D.C., which is not in any state, and its largest…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «capital» (+4); the same thing acted on «washington» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · wrong ✗
a kid in my class reckons Hawaii's next to Florida. right?
- 1. Yes, it is beside Florida in the Atlantic — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, it is in the Gulf of Mexico — no support
- 3. No, Hawaii is volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, Hawaii is in the Great Lakes — 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 ✗
State the number of states constituting the United States.
- 1. Forty-eight — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fifty — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Fifty-two — no support
- 4. Thirteen — 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 ✓
Identify the capital of the United States.
- 1. Washington, D.C. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Chicago — no support
- 3. New York City — no support
- 4. Los Angeles — 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the largest state of the United States by area.
- 1. Alaska — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. California — no support
- 3. Hawaii — no support
- 4. Texas — 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 it is noon on the West Coast of the United States. Ascertain the hour on the East Coast.
- 1. Six o'clock in the evening — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nine o'clock in the morning — no support
- 3. Three o'clock in the afternoon — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Noon likewise — 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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