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title: Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 27 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 10 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there

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**Tests:** 3 of 10 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 7 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 27 of the history 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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/).

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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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Magellan = first guy round the world, done. agree?

- **1.** No, he was killed on the way; his crew finished it — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** No, Columbus went round first — no support
- **3.** Yes, and he did it twice — no support
- **4.** Yes, he sailed all the way home and was given a castle — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 3: «Months later, starving and sick, the crew reached the Philippines, where Magellan was killed fighting the local leader Lapulapu, so Magellan himself never sail…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sail» (+4); the same doer «magellan» (+4); the same thing acted on «way» (+4). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 1, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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You fly round the world westward and keep a diary without ever changing it. What do you find at home?

- **1.** Your diary is one day behind — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11
- **2.** Your diary is one week ahead — no support
- **3.** Nothing is different — no support
- **4.** You have lost a year — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 4: «In 1522 one battered ship, the Victoria, came home with 18 men, and they found their diaries were one day behind, like a lap of a race where you lose a sunrise…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «diaries» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «one day» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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If Magellan's sailors had had lots of lemons on board, what would probably have changed?

- **1.** Far fewer would have died of scurvy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They would have sailed backwards — no support
- **3.** Nothing at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** They would have reached Asia in a day — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 4: «The cities slowly emptied, probably as rivers changed course and the climate dried. Later, kingdoms grew along the Ganges, the Buddha taught about suffering an…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «change» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, 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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Why would a ship of only 18 men struggle to sail home?

- **1.** A big ship needs many hands to sail it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** Ships sailed better empty — score 5
- **3.** 18 men ate too much food — no support
- **4.** Small crews were forbidden by the king of Spain — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 16: «About 600 years ago the admiral Zheng He sailed huge Chinese ships to India, Arabia and East Africa, and brought back gifts including a giraffe.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sail» (+3); the same thing acted on «huge chinese ships» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Your friend's game says 'Discover Philippines'. What would Lapulapu say?

- **1.** Nothing, nobody lived there — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** We were waiting for you to come and give us a name — no support
- **3.** His people already lived there and knew it well — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Thank you for finding us — no support

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**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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Why did Magellan think the Pacific would be a short crossing?

- **1.** He had a perfect map of it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He planned to swim — no support
- **3.** He thought it was a lake — no support
- **4.** Nobody in Europe knew how huge it was — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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proper rough voyage innit, what did they even eat at the end

- **1.** Fresh pizza — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Sawdust and leather, when the food ran out — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Fresh meat and lemons from every island they passed — no support
- **4.** Only chocolate — no support

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**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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why did the voyage prove the Earth was bigger than people thought?

- **1.** They saw the Earth from space — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** They measured it with a rope — score -1
- **3.** The Pacific alone took months to cross — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The ships got smaller — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 19, line 6: «Legend says their god told them to build their city where they saw an eagle on a cactus, and the eagle on the cactus is on Mexico's flag today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+3); the same doer «people» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Hockey fans in Toronto shout Canada. What were they actually shouting, long ago?

- **1.** A French word for cold — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** An Iroquoian word for village — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A Spanish word for sea — no support
- **4.** An English word for beaver — no support

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**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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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A map has a sea monster drawn in the middle of an ocean. What does it most likely mean?

- **1.** It was a famous restaurant — no support
- **2.** There was an island shaped like a monster — score 5
- **3.** A real monster lived there — no support
- **4.** The mapmaker did not know what was there — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 18: «Old maps had sea monsters and blank spaces where mapmakers did not know what was there, and within about a hundred years European maps showed fairly accurate c…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «know» (+4); the same doer «mapmakers» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/t10/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the individual under whose command the vessel Victoria completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.

- **1.** Christopher Columbus — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Juan Sebastián Elcano — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Ferdinand Magellan — no support
- **4.** Jacques Cartier — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the fate of Ferdinand Magellan?

- **1.** He perished in the Strait that bears his name — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** He returned to Spain in triumph — no support
- **3.** He was slain in the Philippines in an engagement with Lapulapu — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He settled in Canada — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 2: «He found a stormy passage at the tip of South America and came out onto an ocean so calm that he named it the Pacific, meaning peaceful, never guessing it was…», 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 (+4); the same action «name» (+3); the same doer «ferdinand» (+3). 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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Ascertain the cause of the discrepancy of one day observed in the records of the returning crew.

- **1.** Their westward circumnavigation entailed one fewer sunrise — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A day spent in harbour unrecorded — no support
- **3.** An error in the calendar of Spain — no support
- **4.** The loss of a page of the ship's log — no support

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**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/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the etymology of the name Canada.

- **1.** It derives from kanata, an Iroquoian word for village — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It derives from the Spanish for nothing here, said by early sailors — no support
- **3.** It derives from a Latin word for cold — no support
- **4.** It derives from the name of a French ship — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/e4/)

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