--- title: Languages and peoples on the map — how Mova does on the tests · Geography description: Lesson 25 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/) / 25 # Languages and peoples on the map **Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 9 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 25 of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/). ### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1} Why does Romanian look a bit like Italian although they are far apart? - **1.** Italy once ruled all of Romania until 1900 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** They are not alike at all — no support - **3.** Romanians copied Italian from books — no support - **4.** Both grew out of Latin — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t1/) ### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2} why tf do they speak Arabic in Morocco, it's miles from Arabia - **1.** It was brought by the British — no support - **2.** Moroccans invented Arabic first and took it east to Arabia later — no support - **3.** Arabic spread across North Africa after the 600s — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** Arabic is spoken everywhere hot — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 10: «Arabic spread from Arabia across the Middle East and North Africa, as far as Egypt and Morocco, after the 600s, while Turkic languages spread from Central Asia…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «spread» (+2); the same doer «arabic» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t2/) ### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3} My brother says English and Hindi aren't related at all. Right? - **1.** Yes, Hindi is related only to Chinese — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, both are in the Indo-European family — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, they have no shared roots — no support - **4.** No, Hindi grew out of English — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t3/) ### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4} In the game, every location has one tidy culture. What was real life like? - **1.** All of Europe spoke Latin until 1800 — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Every village spoke exactly one language, as in the game — score 3 - **3.** Places often mixed languages, and courts used yet another one — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Languages never changed in 500 years — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 5: «In Europa Universalis 5 each location gets one culture, painted in neat patches. Real places were rarely so tidy: towns spoke one language and villages another…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «speak» (+2); the same thing acted on «one language» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t4/) ### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5} Why is Portuguese spoken in Brazil? - **1.** Brazil is right next to Portugal — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Brazilians chose it in a vote in 2000 — no support - **3.** Brazil was a Portuguese colony — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Portuguese grew up in the Amazon — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t5/) ### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6} Why would a ruler in India use Persian? - **1.** Indians spoke no language of their own — score 1 - **2.** It was a respected language of poetry and government — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** Persian was the only language spoken anywhere in India — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** The British forced it on India when they arrived — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 18: «Persian was a language of poetry and government far beyond Persia, used at the courts of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «persian» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same thing acted on «language» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t6/) ### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7} Mia says Quechua died out with the Inca. Put her right. - **1.** Several million people in the Andes still speak it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It is spoken only in Mexico today — no support - **3.** She is right, nobody has spoken it since the Spanish came — no support - **4.** It became the main language of Spain — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t7/) ### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8} If a village's children all start speaking a big national language, what may happen to the village's own language? - **1.** Nothing, languages never disappear — no support - **2.** It will become the world's most spoken language — score 6 - **3.** It may become endangered and die out — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It will turn into Latin — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 6: «Latin America means the countries of the Americas where languages that grew from Latin are spoken, mainly Spanish and Portuguese, and sometimes French.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «languages» (+4); the same action «grow» (+2); the same place «latin» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t8/) ### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9} Can a people exist without its own country? - **1.** No, every people in the world has its own country — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** No, a people disappears without a state of its own — no support - **3.** Yes, but only on small islands — score 5 - **4.** Yes, like the Kurds, split between several states — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 11: «Brazil received about 4.9 million enslaved Africans, more than any other country, and in 1888 it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «last country» (+4); the same doer «population» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t9/) ### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10} An Arab, an Indian and a Chinese trader meet in a port. What helps them talk? - **1.** A family of languages — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A shared trade language, a lingua franca — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Each speaking his own language louder — no support - **4.** A different alphabet — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t10/) ### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11} Serbian can be written in two ways. Which two? - **1.** Chinese characters and Cyrillic — no support - **2.** Cyrillic and Latin letters — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Arabic and Devanagari — no support - **4.** Latin letters and Greek — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 14: «Languages are written in different scripts, such as the Latin alphabet, Cyrillic (used for Russian), Arabic, Devanagari and Chinese characters, and Serbian can…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «cyrillic letters» (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t11/) ### Test 12 · wrong ✗ {#t12} How did English become so widespread when it was once a small language of one island? - **1.** It was always spoken everywhere, even before Britain had ships — no support - **2.** Latin turned into English across Europe — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Everyone voted for it in 1500 — no support - **4.** It spread with the British Empire and later with the USA — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 25, line 7: «Languages that grew from the same ancestor form a family, and English, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Persian all belong to the Indo-European family, while Mandar…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+3); the same doer «languages» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the principal reason for which Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian exhibit marked mutual resemblance. - **1.** Each is written in the Cyrillic script — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Each was deliberately constructed from the others by scholars — no support - **3.** Each is descended from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Each is employed in a single sovereign state — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a lingua franca? - **1.** A language confined in its use to the French Republic — **← Mova's choice** · score 11 - **2.** The most ancient member of any family of languages, from which the others descend — no support - **3.** A language lacking any written form whatsoever — score 3 - **4.** A language employed for communication between persons of differing first languages — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 4: «When people with different first languages need to trade or rule, they use a shared one, a lingua franca, like Swahili on the East African coast or Persian at…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «languages» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the number of languages presently spoken. - **1.** Approximately seven hundred thousand, of which none whatsoever is endangered — no support - **2.** Exactly one per sovereign state — no support - **3.** Approximately seventy, all of which are secure — no support - **4.** Approximately seven thousand, of which nearly one half are endangered — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 3: «About 7,000 languages are spoken today, and nearly half are endangered, because children grow up speaking a bigger language instead. New Guinea alone has over…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «half» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} It is given that a people of over thirty million persons is divided chiefly between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria and possesses no state of its own. Ascertain the people thus described. - **1.** The Armenians — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The Basques — no support - **3.** The Kurds — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The Persians — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/e4/) - ← previous: [24. Population and cities](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/24-population-and-cities/) - next →: [26. Food and farming around the world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/)