The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 45 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 boy in Melbourne and his cousin in London both look out of the window in January. What do they see?
- 1. Winter in both cities — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Winter in Melbourne and summer in London — no support
- 3. Summer in Melbourne and winter in London — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Summer in both cities — 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 · ★ · right ✓
A girl in Sydney says her city is the capital of Australia. What is true?
- 1. Australia has no capital city — no support
- 2. Sydney is the largest city but Canberra is the capital — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. She is right, Sydney is the capital — no support
- 4. Melbourne is both the capital and the largest city — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 10: «Canberra is the capital of Australia, though Sydney is its largest city.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sydney» (+4); the same thing acted on «largest city» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
A girl in Toronto sees a map that shows the country north of the United States, full of lakes and forests. Which country is it?
- 1. New Zealand — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Canada — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Australia — no support
- 4. Ireland — 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 zoo keeper shows an animal that has fur, feeds its young on milk and lays eggs. Where does it come from in the wild?
- 1. Canada — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Scotland — no support
- 3. Australia — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Ireland — 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 ✗
If you flew from London to Wellington in June, what would you need to pack for the arrival?
- 1. Clothes for a dry desert — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Warm winter clothes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Only clothes for the spring — no support
- 4. A swimsuit for the summer heat — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Which is true about the United Kingdom?
- 1. It includes Ireland and its capital is Dublin — no support
- 2. It lies in the Southern Hemisphere — no support
- 3. It includes Scotland and Wales and its capital is London — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. It is the second-largest country in the world — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 1: «The United Kingdom is made of four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on islands off the north-west of Europe; its capital is London on th…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «capital» (+4); the same thing acted on «london» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
A boy in Auckland goes hiking and sees glaciers, volcanoes and deep fjords on the same holiday. Where is he?
- 1. New Zealand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Ireland — no support
- 3. The Australian Outback — no support
- 4. Florida — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why do few people live in the Outback?
- 1. It lies under the sea at every high tide — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is covered with thick dark forests — no support
- 3. It is far too cold to build any houses — no support
- 4. It is very hot and has little water — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Which animal lives in the wild in New Zealand but not in Canada?
- 1. A kiwi — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. A beaver — no support
- 3. A bear — no support
- 4. A moose — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 17: «The kiwi is a flightless bird of New Zealand.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «kiwi» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
christmas in sydney is it snowy or what
- 1. Yes, December is winter there — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, it snows there every single Christmas — no support
- 3. No, it is summer there in December — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is spring there in December — 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 ✓
capital of oz, is it sydney
- 1. Yes, Sydney is the capital — no support
- 2. No, it is Melbourne — no support
- 3. No, it is Wellington — no support
- 4. No, it is Canberra, though Sydney is the largest city — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 10: «Canberra is the capital of Australia, though Sydney is its largest city.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sydney» (+1); the same thing acted on «largest city» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
my mate says Ireland's part of the UK. true?
- 1. Yes, Dublin is in England — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, Northern Ireland is part of Scotland — no support
- 3. No, Ireland is its own country; only Northern Ireland is in the UK — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, all of Ireland is in the UK — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Jake reckons the kiwi's a fruit bat from Australia. right?
- 1. No, it is a marsupial from the forests of Canada — no support
- 2. Yes, it lives in a pouch — score 4
- 3. Yes, it is a bat that flies at night — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. No, the kiwi is a flightless bird of New Zealand — ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 29, line 2: «A bat flies, but it has fur and feeds its babies milk, so it is a mammal; a whale lives in the sea, but it breathes air with lungs and feeds its calf milk, so…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fly» (+4); the same doer «bat» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the constituent parts of the United Kingdom.
- 1. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. England and Scotland alone — no support
- 3. England, Wales and Ireland alone — no support
- 4. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland — 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 capital of Australia.
- 1. Sydney — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Melbourne — no support
- 3. Perth — no support
- 4. Canberra — ✓ 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 ✓
Identify the months constituting summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
- 1. December, January and February — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. September, October and November — no support
- 3. June, July and August — no support
- 4. March, April and May — 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 kangaroo?
- 1. A mammal that lays eggs — no support
- 2. A marsupial whose young develop in a pouch — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A reptile of the Outback — no support
- 4. A flightless bird of New Zealand that lays eggs — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 5: «Because Australia and New Zealand were cut off by the sea for millions of years, they have animals found nowhere else: kangaroos and koalas, which carry their…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «kangaroos» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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