--- title: US elections and the president, as reported — how Mova does on the tests · Politics description: Lesson 16 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/) / 16 # US elections and the president, as reported **Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 16 of the politics 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/). 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} «y'all, why they counting states not people, that's delulu» (delulu = believing something not real). What is the real reason? - **1.** Counting people is against the law in America, so only states can be counted — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** The president is chosen by state electors, not by adding up all votes — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** People do not vote in America — no support - **4.** The map is just for fun — no support **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 15, line 14: «People of any age can believe false things they see online; correcting someone in front of others can embarrass them, and embarrassed people often dig in.», 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 thing acted on «people» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Ruby: "That's like losing a game you scored more in!" What is a fair reply about 2016? - **1.** The rules counted states, and both sides knew them before the game — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Trump got fewer electors — no support - **3.** Clinton actually got fewer votes, so she lost fair and square on both counts — no support - **4.** Votes were never counted — 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} Grandad says 2020 was "stolen"; the teacher says it was checked many times. What did the reported checks find? - **1.** Recounts, audits and court cases did not find fraud big enough to change the result — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 13 - **2.** Congress refused to confirm it, so the old president stayed on for another four years — score 3 - **3.** Courts found the result was wrong and swapped it — score 6 - **4.** No checks were ever done — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 13, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 11: «It was reported that recounts, audits (careful checks) and dozens of court cases did not find fraud, meaning cheating, big enough to change the 2020 result, an…», 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 action «change» (+3); the same doer «recounts» (+3); the same thing acted on «2020 result» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} In class a boy calls 6 January "a protest" and a girl calls it "a riot". What is the best way to think about it? - **1.** One word is banned, so ignore it — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Only the girl may speak — no support - **3.** Both words mean exactly the same thing, so it does not matter which one you use — no support - **4.** Ask what each word claims, and look at what was reported — **✓ 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} The morning after the 2024 election, Ava texts a crying face and Leo a party popper. What is true? - **1.** One of them must stop being friends, because you cannot share a class with the other side — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Leo did not know who won — no support - **3.** Friends can feel opposite things about the same news and still be friends — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Ava voted in the election — 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} «Harris lost?? but Trump was already prez before, so that's not allowed fr» What is wrong? - **1.** A president may serve two terms even with a gap between them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** He was never president before — no support - **3.** Nobody can ever be president twice, so the result must have been a mistake — no support - **4.** He served 2021 to 2025 — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 15: «Mr Trump, president before from 2017 to 2021, is one of only two presidents to serve two terms that were not one after the other.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mr trump» (+3); the same thing acted on «two terms» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Uncle Ray from Alabama: "I'm fixin' to switch this off, he's wreckin' the country!" (fixin' to = about to). What could you ask him? - **1.** Which decision do you mean? — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 14 - **2.** Who is your favourite news reader? — no support - **3.** Why is the TV so loud tonight? — no support - **4.** What colour is your cap today? — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 14, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 4: «A good habit for loud dinners: ask "which decision do you mean?", tell opinions from facts, and check a clip twice if it makes you very angry.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «mean» (+4); the same thing acted on «decision» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Dylan sees a donkey sticker on a car and an elephant on his uncle's cap. What do they show? - **1.** Which state they live in, since each state has its own animal — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Which of the two big parties each one supports — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Their favourite zoo animals — no support - **4.** That they work on a farm — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 2: «That is why the map on election night turns states red or blue: red usually means the Republicans, whose symbol is an elephant, and blue the Democrats, whose s…», 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 thing acted on «states» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} «that video of the prez saying rude stuff ate, 1M likes» (ate = did really well). What does his sister say to do first? - **1.** Believe it because it is on TikTok — no support - **2.** Share it to see who agrees with you before you decide — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** Check where it came from and look for the full video — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Like it because a million people did — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 12: «On 6 January 2021, news reports said, while Congress met to confirm the result, a crowd of Donald Trump's supporters broke into the Capitol; people were hurt,…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «meet» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} What would happen if a candidate won only the biggest five states? - **1.** The election would be repeated — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** They might still fall short of 270 electors — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** They would win automatically — no support - **4.** The other states would not vote — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 14: «A campaign is everything a candidate does to win votes, like posters, speeches and knocking on doors (canvassing); damaging someone's poster is wrong even if y…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «candidate» (+4). The right option, 2, 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} On TV a man puts his hand on a Bible and repeats words after a judge. What is happening? - **1.** A court case is starting, and the man is promising to tell the whole truth — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Votes are being counted — no support - **3.** A new president is taking the oath of office on Inauguration Day — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** A party is choosing a leader — 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the number of electors whose votes are required for the election of the President of the United States. - **1.** One hundred, two per state — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Two hundred and seventy — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Fifty, one for each state — no support - **4.** Five hundred and thirty-eight — 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the outcome of the presidential election of 2016, as reported? - **1.** The candidate who received the most popular votes also secured the most electors, as had occurred in every previous election — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** The election was decided by a referendum — no support - **3.** One candidate received approximately three million more popular votes, whereas the other secured a majority of electors — **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** No candidate secured any electors — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 11, line 2: «When candidates talk over each other, it is like both players serving at once: the fans cheer, but nobody at home can follow the ball.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «candidates» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the presidential election of 2020, as reported. - **1.** Judicial proceedings reversed the result in favour of the candidate who had lost, after which Congress certified the amended result — score 5 - **2.** No recount or audit was undertaken in any state — no support - **3.** Congress declined to certify any result — score 2 - **4.** Recounts, audits and judicial proceedings did not identify fraud sufficient to alter the result, which Congress certified — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 11: «It was reported that recounts, audits (careful checks) and dozens of court cases did not find fraud, meaning cheating, big enough to change the 2020 result, an…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «change» (+3); the same thing acted on «2020 result» (+3); the same doer «recounts» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Determine the date upon which the term of office of a newly elected President of the United States commences. - **1.** The sixth day of January — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The twentieth day of January — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The fourth day of July — no support - **4.** The first day of January — 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/e4/) - ← previous: [15. 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