--- title: Explorers and how the world was mapped — how Mova does on the tests · World description: Lesson 98 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 13 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/) / 98 # Explorers and how the world was mapped **Tests:** 6 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 8 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 98 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/). 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} A sailor measures the Pole Star higher and higher in the sky each night. Which way is the ship sailing? - **1.** South — **← Mova's choice** · score 9 - **2.** West — score 9 - **3.** North — **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **4.** East — score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 42, line 14: «All the oceans are joined together, so a ship can sail from one to another.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ship» (+5); the same action «sail» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2} Columbus called the people he met «Indians». What does this name show about his belief? - **1.** He thought he had reached Africa — no support - **2.** He thought he had reached Asia — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** He thought he had sailed home — no support - **4.** He knew he was in a new continent — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 98, line 9: «In 1492 Columbus sailed west hoping to reach Asia but reached islands in the Caribbean.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «reach» (+5); the same receiver «asia» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3} Which explorer's journey happened first? - **1.** Leif Erikson's voyage to North America — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean — no support - **3.** Cook's mapping of New Zealand — no support - **4.** Amundsen's journey to the South Pole — 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4} A ship returned home in 1522 after sailing all the way round the Earth. What did this prove to everyone? - **1.** That the oceans join and the Earth can be sailed round — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** That the Earth is flat with an edge — no support - **3.** That Asia and America are the same land — no support - **4.** That the Sun goes around the Earth — 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} At local noon a navigator's clock, set to home time, shows 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Where is the ship? - **1.** 45 degrees east of home — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** 45 degrees west of home — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Exactly at home — no support - **4.** 3 degrees west of home — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 4: «The Sun helps when there is no compass: it rises roughly in the east and sets roughly in the west; in the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland it stands…», 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 place «east» (+2); 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Why did the poles and Everest stay unreached long after the coasts were mapped? - **1.** Kings did not allow anyone to go there — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nobody knew that the poles existed at all — no support - **3.** They were hidden under the ocean — no support - **4.** The cold, ice and height made them deadly hard to reach — **✓ 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} A clock on a ship loses one hour during a long voyage. What happens to the longitude the sailors work out? - **1.** It is wrong by 1 degree — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is wrong by 15 degrees — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It is wrong by 360 degrees — no support - **4.** It is still exactly right — 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Which is true about Polynesian navigators? - **1.** They sailed only along coasts, within sight of land — no support - **2.** They crossed the ocean by steamship — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** They found tiny islands without compasses — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** They used maps made by Captain Cook — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 98, line 6: «Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific by reading the stars, the waves and the flight of birds.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cross» (+4); the same thing acted on «pacific» (+2); the same doer «polynesian navigators» (+1). 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Why can we now map places no explorer ever walked? - **1.** Every place has now been walked by explorers — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Old maps were already complete — no support - **3.** Ships can sail over mountains today — no support - **4.** Satellites photograph the whole Earth from space — **✓ 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10} who got to the south pole first - **1.** Roald Amundsen's team, in 1911 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Edmund Hillary, in 1953 — no support - **3.** Captain James Cook, around 1770 — no support - **4.** Lewis and Clark, in 1806 — 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} how'd sailors work out longitude at sea back then - **1.** By counting the stars at midnight — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** By looking at the colour of the water — no support - **3.** By measuring how deep the sea was — no support - **4.** With an accurate clock comparing local time with home time — **✓ 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t12} Leo says Columbus was the first European to reach America. true? - **1.** Yes, no European had been there before — no support - **2.** Yes, he landed in North America in 1492 — score 2 - **3.** No, Magellan got there first — no support - **4.** No, Vikings led by Leif Erikson reached it about 500 years earlier — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 98, line 7: «Vikings led by Leif Erikson reached North America about a thousand years ago.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lead» (+3); the same thing acted on «vikings» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t13} my sister reckons Magellan sailed all the way round the world himself. right? - **1.** Yes, he sailed round and came home a hero — score 3 - **2.** Yes, he did it twice — no support - **3.** No, the voyage never got around the world — no support - **4.** No, his expedition did, but Magellan died on the way — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 98, line 11: «Magellan's expedition made the first voyage around the world, from 1519 to 1522; Magellan died on the way.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+4); the same place «way» (+4); the same doer «magellan» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the voyage of Columbus in 1492? - **1.** He sailed west hoping to reach Asia but reached islands in the Caribbean — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 14 - **2.** He sailed around the world and returned to Spain — score 6 - **3.** He sailed south and reached the South Pole — score 8 - **4.** He sailed east and reached the coast of China — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 14, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 98, line 9: «In 1492 Columbus sailed west hoping to reach Asia but reached islands in the Caribbean.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «reach» (+3); the same thing acted on «islands» (+3); the same place «caribbean» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the team which first reached the South Pole, together with the year thereof. - **1.** Hillary and Norgay, in 1953 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Captain Robert Scott's team, in 1912 — no support - **3.** Roald Amundsen's team, in 1911 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Magellan's team, in 1522 — 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning latitude and longitude. - **1.** Latitude tells how far north or south; longitude how far east or west — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Latitude tells how far east or west; longitude how far north or south — score 3 - **3.** Both tell only how high a place is — no support - **4.** Both tell only how far a place is from the sea — no support **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 98, line 16: «Latitude tells how far north or south a place is; longitude tells how far east or west.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «latitude» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} It is given that the Earth turns 15 degrees of longitude every hour. Determine the difference in longitude between two places whose local times differ by two hours. - **1.** Seven and a half degrees — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Thirty degrees — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Fifteen degrees — no support - **4.** Sixty degrees — 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/e4/) - ← previous: [97. Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/) - next →: [99. Transport: from horses to planes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/)