Map reading puzzles
Tests: 8 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 49 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 ✗
Sam walks north out of his door, turns right at the corner and then turns right again. Which way is he walking now?
- 1. West — no support
- 2. North — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. South — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. East — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 41, line 5: «On most maps north is at the top, south at the bottom, east on the right and west on the left; a compass helps to find north outside, because its magnetic need…», 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). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
Two towns are 12 centimetres apart on a map where 1 centimetre is 10 kilometres. A bus drives 60 kilometres an hour. How long is the trip in a straight line?
- 1. 2 hours — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 12 hours — no support
- 3. 6 hours — no support
- 4. 1 hour — 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 ✓
In the evening you see the Sun going down straight ahead of you. Which way are you looking, roughly?
- 1. West — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. North — score 6
- 3. South — score 6
- 4. East — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1, line 4: «The Sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west because the Earth turns from west to east, the way trees seem to run backwards when you look out of a mov…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «seem» (+4); the same thing acted on «way» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
A boy in Melbourne stands with his back to the midday Sun. Which way is he facing?
- 1. North — no support
- 2. East — no support
- 3. South — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. West — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 2: «Directions turn with you: if you face north, east is on your right and west on your left; if you turn around to face south, east is now on your left.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «face» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
On a map the school is 3 centimetres east of the house and the shop 3 centimetres west of the house. The scale is 1 centimetre = 100 metres. How far is the school from the shop?
- 1. 300 metres — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 600 metres — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 100 metres — no support
- 4. 0 metres — 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 ✗
Two maps show the same park. On the first, 1 centimetre is 10 metres; on the second, 1 centimetre is 1 kilometre. Which shows the benches and paths in detail?
- 1. The second map — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. Both the same — score 5
- 3. The first map — ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 4. Neither of them — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 41, line 7: «A map shows a place from above and much smaller than it really is.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «show» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «map» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A boat floats down a river without rowing, and the river runs from the hills to the sea. Where will the boat drift?
- 1. Towards the hills — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. First to the sea, then back to the hills — no support
- 3. Towards the sea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nowhere, it stays still — 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 ✓
At night in the forest you see the North Star straight in front of you. Which direction is on your right?
- 1. East — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. South — no support
- 3. West — no support
- 4. North — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 6: «If you face north, east is on your right, west on your left and south behind you.», 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 «east» (+2); the same place «right» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
On a map the forest is 4 centimetres south of the river and the scale is 1 centimetre = 500 metres. What does a walker crossing from the forest to the river do?
- 1. Walks 2 kilometres north — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Walks 2 kilometres south — score 5
- 3. Walks 500 metres north — no support
- 4. Walks 4 kilometres north — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 49, line 3: «The scale turns map centimetres into real distances: on a map where 1 centimetre is 2 kilometres, a path of 5 centimetres is 10 kilometres; walking about 4 kil…», 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 action «walk» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
facing north, turn right, which way am i facing now
- 1. East — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. South — no support
- 3. North — no support
- 4. West — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
midday in melbourne, which way does my shadow point
- 1. North — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. West — no support
- 3. South — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. East — 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 scout leader said moss always grows on the north side of trees. true?
- 1. No, moss grows on any side, so it is no good guide — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. No, moss always grows on the south side — score 6
- 3. Yes, but only in winter — no support
- 4. Yes, that is the best way to find north — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 49, line 5: «Moss on one side of a tree is not a safe guide, because moss grows wherever the bark stays shady and damp; the Sun, the stars and a compass are far more reliab…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grow» (+4); the same doer «moss» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★★ · right ✓
Ella says rivers flow towards the mountains. right?
- 1. Yes, rivers flow up into the mountains — score 4
- 2. No, rivers flow from higher land to lower land, away from the mountains — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
- 3. Yes, the water is pulled by the peaks — no support
- 4. No, rivers do not flow at all — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 14, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 14: «Rivers always flow from higher land to lower land, so a river flows away from the mountains.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «flow» (+4); the same place «higher land» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «rivers» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a person faces south. Ascertain the direction lying to that person's left.
- 1. West — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. North — no support
- 3. South — no support
- 4. East — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that one centimetre upon a map represents two kilometres. Determine the real distance represented by five centimetres.
- 1. Ten kilometres — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Seven kilometres — no support
- 3. Two and a half kilometres — no support
- 4. Five kilometres — 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 direction in which shadows point at noon in Australia.
- 1. North — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. South — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. West — no support
- 4. East — 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 moss upon trees.
- 1. It grows only where sunlight falls — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It grows only upon the north side — no support
- 3. It is not a reliable guide to north — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It grows only upon the south side — 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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