A new baby in the house
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 19 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Overheard: "He was up at one, three, half four and six. I'm a zombie." Who is "he" most likely?
- 1. A burglar trying to get in through the back door — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A teenager playing video games — no support
- 3. A dog barking at the postman — no support
- 4. A newborn baby waking to feed — ✓ 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
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Your little sister says, "The baby cries 'cos it hates us." Put her right.
- 1. It cries because it wants to go back to hospital — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She's right, the baby is cross with all of us — no support
- 3. Crying is how babies say what they need — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. She's right, babies hate older children — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dad, bleary: "Sorry mate, I forgot your football, I'm knackered." What is going on?
- 1. Dad has been out at parties every night — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Dad does not care about football any more — no support
- 3. Dad has stopped loving his older children — no support
- 4. Dad is worn out from the baby's nights — ✓ 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
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Gossip at the gate: "Poor Josh, everyone just coos over the baby, he's got his nose right out of joint." What does it mean?
- 1. Josh is proud of being a big brother — no support
- 2. Josh has a cold and a blocked nose — no support
- 3. Josh has broken his nose playing football in the yard — no support
- 4. Josh feels left out and jealous — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 3: «In Vancouver, Dad yawns over his cereal, the changing bag by the door is stuffed with nappies, and Mum calls from the sofa, "She's feeding, can you give us a m…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old josh» (+3); the same action «feel» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
A boy in Dublin says, "I'm the baby's godfather, so I'm her dad now." Put him right.
- 1. He is right, godparents become the baby's parents — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. He is right, but only on Sundays — no support
- 3. A godfather is the baby's grandad — no support
- 4. A godparent takes an interest; he is not her dad — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 9: «A parent's new partner is not a new mum or dad; if they marry or live together, they become a step-parent.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same thing acted on «step parent» (+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 6 · ★ · right ✓
Your mate says, "Liam's adopted, so his mum's not his proper mum." Put him right.
- 1. Liam has to go back home one day — no support
- 2. He's right, only birth mums count as real mums — no support
- 3. He's right, until Liam turns eighteen — no support
- 4. His adoptive mum is his real mum in every way — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 8: «When Mum says "We're just friends", she means they are friends, not boyfriend and girlfriend, and you can believe her.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mum» (+4); the same thing acted on «friends» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mum on the phone: "She might be with us a week or a few years, depends how things go at home." What is she talking about?
- 1. A foster child staying with them — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. An adopted child who stays forever — no support
- 3. A new baby born in the family — no support
- 4. A cousin on a summer visit — ← Mova's choice · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 4: «These things are worrying, but they are almost never anyone's fault at home, and most families get through them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «things» (+4); the same place «home» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Mum, checking the bank app: "No takeaways for a bit, love, I'm on maternity pay now." Why?
- 1. Takeaways are bad for the new baby — no support
- 2. Pay is often lower during maternity leave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Mum has been sacked from her job — no support
- 4. The baby has spent all the money — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 19: «Some people take a second job because low pay or rising prices make one job not enough, which leaves very little time to rest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «low pay» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dad, holding his nose: "Nappy number nine today. Pass the wipes and the cream, quick." What is normal here?
- 1. Dad is using far too many nappies — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A baby needs many nappy changes a day — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The baby should be using the toilet — no support
- 4. The baby is ill and needs a doctor straight away — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Your sister insists, "Paternity leave means Dad's been fired." Put her right.
- 1. She is right, but it is only for a month — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is time off work to be with the new baby — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is a holiday Dad has to pay for — no support
- 4. She is right, Dad has lost his job — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Gran: "Sunday, church at eleven, he's having water poured on his head, so behave." What is happening?
- 1. The baby's first swimming lesson — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A wedding in the family — no support
- 3. The baby's christening — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The baby's first birthday party — 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 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the frequent nocturnal waking of a newborn infant?
- 1. It is invariably a sign of serious illness requiring immediate admission to hospital — score 2
- 2. It arises from a deliberately acquired bad habit — no support
- 3. It arises from the infant's need for frequent feeding, its stomach being small — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. It arises from the infant's dislike of its family — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 19, line 6: «Crying is a baby's only way to say it is hungry, wet, cold or tired, and the night waking slowly gets better over a few months.», 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 «stomach» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal distinction between adoption and fostering.
- 1. Adoption is permanent by law, whereas fostering is ordinarily temporary — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Adoption applies only to newborn infants — no support
- 3. Fostering confers the status of birth parent — no support
- 4. Fostering is permanent by law, whereas adoption is temporary — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 11: «Adoption makes a child, by law, a permanent member of a new family, and the adoptive parents are the child's real parents.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «adoption» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Pursuant to the provisions customary in Britain, paternity leave is best characterised as which of the following?
- 1. A permanent cessation of employment — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A period of leave granted only to mothers — no support
- 3. A period of leave from employment, usually two weeks, granted to a new father — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A period of unpaid holiday taken abroad — 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 4 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning jealousy felt by an older sibling towards a newborn.
- 1. It is very common and does not signify that the older child is loved less — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. It is rare and signifies a serious problem — no support
- 3. It signifies that the parents prefer the newborn to the older child in every respect — score 2
- 4. It ought to be concealed from the parents — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 19, line 8: «Feeling jealous of a new baby is very common, and parents still love the older child just as much.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «love» (+2); the same thing acted on «older child» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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