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Countries, peoples and languages of the world

Tests: 6 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 9 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 46 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 · right ✓

A girl in Montreal, Quebec, chats with her neighbours in a language that is not English. Which language is it most likely?

  • 1. French — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. German — no support
  • 3. Spanish — no support
  • 4. Maori — 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 ✗

Which is true about languages?

  • 1. Every country has exactly one language — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. All languages come from English — no support
  • 3. There are only about 195, one for each country — no support
  • 4. There are about 7,000, and some are spoken by very few people — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗

A small country lies completely inside the city of Rome. Which is it?

  • 1. Monaco — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Vatican City — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. San Marino — no support
  • 4. Luxembourg — 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 · right ✓

A boy in London notices that the German word Haus looks like the English house. Why?

  • 1. English took all its words from German last century — score 4
  • 2. English and German are related Germanic languages — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 3. All languages in the world have the same words — score 4
  • 4. German is a dialect of English — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 46, line 5: «Languages are related like families: English, German and Dutch are cousins in the Germanic family, so many words look alike, such as water and Wasser; Ukrainia…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «languages» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · wrong ✗

Were there languages in North America and Australia before English arrived?

  • 1. Yes, many native languages — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. No, people there had no languages at all — no support
  • 3. Only one language was spoken in each land — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 4. No, those lands were empty until English came — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 4: «English is the main language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and most of Canada, because people from Britain settled…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «lands» (+4); the same doer «aboriginal languages» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

Which country covers the most land on Earth?

  • 1. The United States — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. China — score 3
  • 3. Canada — score 3
  • 4. Russia — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «united states» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · right ✓

If you met people from ten different countries, which language would most of them most likely have learned at school as a second language?

  • 1. Latin — score 6
  • 2. English — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 3. Mandarin Chinese — score 6
  • 4. Welsh — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 46, line 13: «English is the language most widely learned as a second language.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «english» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

Which statement about countries with the most people is true?

  • 1. Australia has many more people than India — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Russia has more people than India and China together — no support
  • 3. Canada has more people than China and Japan — no support
  • 4. India and China each have over a billion — ✓ 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 9 · wrong ✗

Which pair of languages are close relatives?

  • 1. French and Chinese — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Ukrainian and Arabic — no support
  • 3. English and Japanese — no support
  • 4. Spanish and Italian — ✓ 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 10 · right ✓

A pen pal writes from Kyiv in a Slavic language. Where does she live?

  • 1. In Ukraine, in eastern Europe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 2. In Canada, in North America — no support
  • 3. In Ireland, in western Europe — score 7
  • 4. In Australia, near the coast — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 46, line 17: «Ukraine is a large country in eastern Europe, its capital is Kyiv and its language, Ukrainian, is a Slavic language.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same place «eastern europe» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · wrong ✗

smallest country in the whole world which

  • 1. New Zealand — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Vatican City — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Ireland — no support
  • 4. Monaco — 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 · wrong ✗

why's spanish n italian sound kinda the same

  • 1. Both grew from German — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Both grew from Latin, so they are Romance languages — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. They borrowed words from English — no support
  • 4. Spain and Italy have always shared one single language — 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 · right ✓

my brother says English has the most native speakers. true?

  • 1. No, Spanish has the most of all — no support
  • 2. No, Mandarin Chinese has the most native speakers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 3. Yes, English has the most native speakers — no support
  • 4. Yes, more than any other two together — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 12: «Mandarin Chinese has the most native speakers of any language.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mandarin chinese» (+2); the same thing acted on «native speakers» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · right ✓

Olivia reckons Canada only speaks English. right?

  • 1. No, Canada's language is Spanish, like in Mexico next door — no support
  • 2. Yes, English is the only one — no support
  • 3. Yes, French is banned there — no support
  • 4. No, Canada has two official languages, English and French — ← 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 46, line 14: «Canada has two official languages, English and French.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «canada» (+1); the same thing acted on «two official languages» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the largest country of the world by area.

  • 1. Russia — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Canada — no support
  • 3. The United States — ← Mova's choice · score 2
  • 4. China — 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «united states» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the smallest country of the world.

  • 1. Vatican City — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Luxembourg — no support
  • 3. Monaco — no support
  • 4. Malta — 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 · wrong ✗

Identify the language possessing the greatest number of native speakers.

  • 1. English — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Spanish — no support
  • 3. Mandarin Chinese — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Hindi — 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 Romance languages.

  • 1. They derive from Greek, as Spanish and German — no support
  • 2. They derive from the Slavic languages — no support
  • 3. They include English, German and Dutch — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 4. They derive from Latin, as Spanish, French and Italian — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 4: «English is the main language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and most of Canada, because people from Britain settled…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «english» (+2); the same thing acted on «main language» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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