--- title: The age of science — how Mova does on the tests · History description: Lesson 29 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 2 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/history/29-the-age-of-science/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/) / 29 # The age of science **Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 8 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 29 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/29-the-age-of-science/). 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/29-the-age-of-science/). ### Test 1 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t1} bro says the sun goes round the earth u can literally see it move. what's the real deal - **1.** The Earth spins and goes round the Sun, so the Sun only seems to move — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** He's right, the Sun goes round us, as anyone can see every single day — no support - **3.** Both go round the Moon — no support - **4.** Neither moves at all — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 8: «The Aztecs believed the sun needed offerings to keep moving and made human sacrifices, often of war captives, and neighbouring peoples feared and hated them fo…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «move» (+5); the same doer «sun» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/29-the-age-of-science/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Galileo saw moons going around Jupiter. Why did that upset the old idea that everything circles the Earth? - **1.** Here were things clearly circling something else — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Jupiter's moons were circling the Earth, like everything — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** It had nothing to do with it — no support - **4.** It proved Jupiter was flat — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 2: «In 1543 Copernicus wrote that the Earth goes round the Sun, Galileo's telescope found moons circling Jupiter, and Newton showed that the same gravity pulls an…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «circle» (+3); the same doer «moons» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/29-the-age-of-science/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} An old book says heavy things always fall faster. What would a scientist of this age do? - **1.** Drop things and measure what really happens — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Believe the old book just because it is so very old — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Ask the king to decide — no support - **4.** Burn the book and guess — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 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 18, line 9: «Spanish priests burned many Maya books, thinking them dangerous, and only four are known to survive.», 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 action «think» (+2); the same thing acted on «books» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). 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/29-the-age-of-science/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} If smallpox no longer exists anywhere in the wild, why do we not vaccinate children against it today? - **1.** Smallpox is now completely harmless to children — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Children cannot have vaccines — no support - **3.** There is no smallpox left to catch — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The vaccine was lost a long time ago — 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/history/29-the-age-of-science/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Newton's laws come from the 1600s. Why do rocket engineers still use them? - **1.** They are perfectly exact in every possible case — no support - **2.** They are required by law — no support - **3.** Rockets were invented by Newton — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** They describe motion and gravity very well — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 8: «Isaac Newton explained that gravity makes an apple fall and keeps the Moon going around the Earth, and his laws of motion are still used to send rockets into s…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «rockets» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/history/29-the-age-of-science/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t6} Darwin's finches on different islands had different beaks. What is the best explanation? - **1.** Over many generations each kind changed to suit its own food — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Each bird grew a new beak in a week — no support - **3.** Someone glued on new beaks — no support - **4.** They all came from different planets far across space, long ago — 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/history/29-the-age-of-science/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} A cut was left dirty in 1700 and a cut is washed clean today. Which is more likely to get infected, and who explained why? - **1.** The clean one; Darwin showed soap causes disease — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Both the same; germs do not exist — no support - **3.** The clean one; Newton showed water is dangerous — no support - **4.** The dirty one; Pasteur and Koch showed germs cause infection — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 29, line 3: «Microscopes revealed tiny living things in a drop of water, and in the 1800s Pasteur and Koch proved that germs cause many diseases, which is why washing your…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cause» (+2); the same thing acted on «many diseases» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/29-the-age-of-science/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8} Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. What does that show? - **1.** Great discoveries can come from anyone, and she was the first to win two — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** Women were only allowed one science — no support - **3.** She bought the prizes — score 6 - **4.** Prizes were given out to everybody who did science then — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 29, line 17: «Marie Curie, born in Poland and working in France, discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium and was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, in…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «marie» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+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/history/29-the-age-of-science/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t9} A cartoon shows Galileo inventing the telescope. What is more accurate? - **1.** Telescopes came after the Moon landing — no support - **2.** Telescopes were invented in the Netherlands; he improved one and turned it to the sky — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 14 - **3.** He invented telescopes and glasses — score 9 - **4.** Newton gave him one — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 14, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 29, line 7: «The telescope was invented in the Netherlands in 1608, and Galileo built better ones and turned them to the sky.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «invent» (+5); the same place «netherlands» (+5); the same thing acted on «telescope» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/29-the-age-of-science/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10} Why did seeing microbes help people later understand disease? - **1.** It showed a hidden world of tiny living things — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It had nothing to do with disease — no support - **3.** It proved diseases come from the stars and the Moon — no support - **4.** It showed water was poisonous — 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/history/29-the-age-of-science/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Two friends argue about whose idea is right. What is the scientist's way to settle it? - **1.** The louder one wins — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The older one wins — no support - **3.** Flip a coin — no support - **4.** Do a fair test and look at the results — **✓ 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/history/29-the-age-of-science/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the astronomer who in fifteen hundred and forty-three advanced the proposition that the Earth revolves about the Sun. - **1.** William Harvey — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nicolaus Copernicus — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Isaac Newton — no support - **4.** Charles Darwin — 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/history/29-the-age-of-science/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the scientific method? - **1.** The testing of hypotheses by experiment and measurement — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The settling of questions by majority vote — no support - **3.** Deference to the authority of ancient texts — no support - **4.** Reliance upon the opinion of rulers — 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/history/29-the-age-of-science/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the disease of smallpox. - **1.** It was eradicated by vaccination in nineteen hundred and eighty — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** It was never a cause of death — no support - **3.** It remains common throughout the world — no support - **4.** It was cured by the consumption of citrus fruit in great quantity — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 4: «Jenner's vaccine against smallpox led to the disease being wiped out completely in 1980, Darwin explained how living things slowly change over many generations…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wipe out» (+5); the same thing acted on «disease» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/29-the-age-of-science/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Ascertain the distinction first achieved by Marie Curie among the recipients of the Nobel Prize. - **1.** She was the first person born in France to receive it — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** She received the prize for literature — no support - **3.** She was the first person to decline the prize — no support - **4.** She was the first person to receive two such prizes — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/29-the-age-of-science/e4/) - ← previous: [28. Explorers: Cook and the Pacific](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/) - next →: [30. The Industrial Revolution](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/)