Dates, engagements and weddings
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 13 of the adult life 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.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · right ✓
Your little brother asks "is date night cos they're sick of us?" Put him right.
- 1. No, couples need time together to stay close — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, parents go out to get away from children — no support
- 3. No, date night is when they pay the bills — no support
- 4. Yes, but only when children are naughty — 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
Test 2 · wrong ✗
"Numbers by the kettle, bedtime half eight, no screens after seven, back by eleven." Who is Mum most likely talking to?
- 1. The plumber — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Your teacher — no support
- 3. The neighbours' dog — no support
- 4. The babysitter — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 4: «Picture a cold January evening in Manchester: Mum bangs the boiler and says "It's packed in again", Dad sighs "the plumber can't come till Thursday, and it'll…», 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 circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
Gran at Sunday lunch: "So, any girlfriend then?" Your cousin mumbles "Gran!" and stares at his plate. What is the kind thing to do?
- 1. Ask Gran to tell everyone at the table all of his secrets — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Laugh and tell everyone at school — no support
- 3. Change the subject and let him keep it private — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Keep asking until he answers — 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
Test 4 · right ✓
A girl in your class says "my sister's meeting a boy off the internet, so I can too". Is that right?
- 1. No, children should never meet anyone they only know online — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, as long as it is in the daytime — no support
- 3. Yes, if the boy seems nice in his messages — no support
- 4. No, but only because the internet is slow — 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
Test 5 · wrong ✗
overheard on the phone: "Did you see the rock on her finger?? Finally! When's the big day?" What is the gossip about?
- 1. Someone has found a big stone in the garden — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Someone has got engaged with a ring — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Someone has hurt her finger — no support
- 4. Someone is going rock climbing — 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
Test 6 · right ✓
Your cousin says "engaged means they're married already". What is true?
- 1. No, engaged means they have promised to marry later — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, but only if there is a ring — no support
- 3. No, engaged means they have split up — no support
- 4. Yes, engaged and married mean exactly the same thing — 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
Test 7 · right ✓
At the reception Auntie Pat leans over: "Eleven years! I thought he'd never ask." Is she being mean?
- 1. No, it is usually friendly wedding gossip about a long wait — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, she is trying to stop the wedding — no support
- 3. Yes, she wants the couple to split up and is saying so in front of everyone — no support
- 4. No, she is reading out the menu — 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
Test 8 · wrong ✗
Uncle Dev keeps saying his jokes to the mirror and muttering "they'll hate it". How can you help?
- 1. Hide his notes so he can't read them — no support
- 2. Tell him best men never speak — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. Tell him the speech will be terrible — no support
- 4. Listen to his practice speech and laugh at the jokes — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 3: «Picture a wedding in a hotel near Galway: your cousin is a bridesmaid in a matching dress, Uncle Dev shakes over his best man's speech, a guest whispers "about…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «speak» (+2); the same doer «best man» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · right ✓
Your brother says "Mum's crying, the wedding must be going wrong". Put him right.
- 1. Grown-ups can cry happy tears when they feel love and pride — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 2. Crying always means something has gone badly wrong with the day — no support
- 3. She is crying because weddings are boring — no support
- 4. She is crying because the food was cold — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 15: «Grown-ups sometimes cry "happy tears" when they feel strong happy feelings like love or pride.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cry» (+4); the same doer «grown ups» (+4); the same thing acted on «happy tears» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
"Two weeks in Santorini, just the two of 'em, lucky so-and-sos." What are they going on?
- 1. A school trip — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. A business trip for work — score 3
- 3. A family holiday with all the cousins — no support
- 4. Their honeymoon — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1, line 10: «A meeting is when people at work gather, in a room or on a video call, to talk through plans and decide things; many go on too long and leave less time for the…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «meeting» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · right ✓
At a wedding, which person is a page boy most like?
- 1. A bridesmaid, but a young boy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. The best man's father — no support
- 3. The person who marries the couple — no support
- 4. The waiter at the reception — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 14: «Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «bridesmaids» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the state of being engaged to be married.
- 1. Two persons have been introduced for the first time — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Two persons have promised to marry one another — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Two persons have resolved to separate — no support
- 4. Two persons have been lawfully married by a registrar — 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal function of the best man upon the occasion of a wedding.
- 1. To assist the groom and deliver a speech — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. To prepare the wedding breakfast — no support
- 3. To conduct the couple upon their honeymoon — no support
- 4. To officiate at the ceremony of marriage — 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the term "honeymoon"?
- 1. A period of one month during which honey is consumed — no support
- 2. A holiday undertaken by a couple immediately subsequent to their wedding — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. A holiday undertaken by all guests of the wedding — no support
- 4. A celebration held prior to an engagement — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 13: «A bank statement lists everything that went in and out of an account, and grown-ups check it for mistakes and fraud.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «bank statement» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the course of conduct appropriate to a minor in respect of persons known solely through the internet.
- 1. Such persons ought to be met only in the company of a friend — no support
- 2. Such persons may be met provided their messages are courteous — no support
- 3. Such persons ought never to be met in person — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Such persons may be met provided it is daylight — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 7: «A babysitter is a trusted person who looks after children while parents are out, and parents leave phone numbers and rules so the babysitter knows who to call.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «trusted person» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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