Screens, diets, sofas and late nights
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 29 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 sister says "Grandad wasn't asleep, he said he was only resting his eyes!" Put her right.
- 1. He was napping; "resting my eyes" is a joke for falling asleep — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. He really was just closing his eyes for a second and heard every word — no support
- 3. He was doing an eye exercise — no support
- 4. He was listening to the radio — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 16: «A big meal and a warm room make many adults sleepy, and "I was only resting my eyes" is a classic joke for a nap.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «rest» (+4); the same thing acted on «eyes» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
Overheard: "Signed up to the gym in January, 40 quid a month, been twice. Twice!" What does the speaker mean?
- 1. He keeps paying but hardly ever goes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He goes to the gym twice every day — no support
- 3. He has saved a lot of money — no support
- 4. The gym is free for him — 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 · right ✓
Ava, 11, cries because her post got "only 9 likes" and her friend's got 50. What is true?
- 1. Likes measure attention, not how good a person is — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Ava is less liked as a person than her friend is — no support
- 3. The friend with 50 likes is a better person — no support
- 4. Ava should post more until she gets 100 — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 8: «On social media, "likes" can start to feel like a score of how popular you are, but they measure attention, not a person's worth; most apps are for 13 and over.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «measure» (+2); the same doer «likes» (+2); the same thing acted on «attention» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · wrong ✗
Dad, hopping round the kitchen: "Ow, son of a— sorry, sorry, didn't mean that." What happened?
- 1. He was singing a song in the kitchen while he was cooking tea — no support
- 2. He was talking to the dog — no support
- 3. He nearly swore after hurting himself and felt embarrassed — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. He was telling a story about his son — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 6: «When Dad says "There's someone I'd like you to meet", he means he has a new partner he cares about and wants you to know.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «dad» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · right ✓
Mum yawning at breakfast: "Shouldn't have watched three episodes." What is the link?
- 1. Watching TV always makes adults hungry in the morning — no support
- 2. The programme was about yawning — no support
- 3. She did not watch anything last night — score 6
- 4. Staying up late watching TV made her tired — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 3: «Example: in a house in Brisbane, a "For Sale" board goes up out the front. Every Saturday the kids race to tidy their rooms before strangers come for a viewing…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mum» (+6); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
You say "Five more minutes" back to Mum who's been on her phone two hours. She laughs: "Fair point." Which is a good idea?
- 1. A screen-free game or walk together — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Both of you staying on screens all night — no support
- 3. Hiding her phone in the bin — no support
- 4. Shouting that she is a hypocrite — 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 · wrong ✗
Auntie: "I can't, I'm on this new juice diet, just juice for three weeks." Gran: "Faddy nonsense." What does Gran think?
- 1. Auntie should drink more juice — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Juice is the best food for adults — no support
- 3. It is a sensible healthy plan — no support
- 4. It is a fad diet that will not last — ✓ 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 8 · right ✓
Your mate: "My mum and dad sleep in different rooms cos of the snoring, they must be getting divorced." Is that right?
- 1. No, sleeping apart because of snoring is normal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, snoring is a sign of an argument — no support
- 3. No, they are sleeping in a tent — no support
- 4. Yes, separate rooms always means a divorce is coming — 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 9 · wrong ✗
Mum at midnight, scrolling: "Floods, war, prices up again..." What would most help her?
- 1. Sharing every story with the family — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Putting the phone down and getting some sleep — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Reading more news until she feels better — no support
- 4. Turning up the brightness of the screen — 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 · right ✓
Cousin Tom says "Eating cake makes you naughty." What should you tell him?
- 1. Food is not good or bad behaviour; sweets are for sometimes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Only grown-ups get naughty from cake — no support
- 3. He is right, so you should never eat cake again in your life — no support
- 4. Cake makes you naughty only on weekdays — 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 ✗
Dad after his first parkrun: "That nearly killed me, but I feel brilliant now." Why does he feel brilliant?
- 1. He won a big prize for coming first — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He did not really run at all — no support
- 3. He is pleased the run was cancelled — no support
- 4. Exercise releases chemicals that lift mood — ✓ 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal reason for which parents restrict the duration of their children's use of electronic screens.
- 1. Screens are harmful exclusively to adults — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Excessive use is detrimental to sleep, mood and play — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Electronic devices are damaged by prolonged operation — no support
- 4. Children are incapable of operating such devices — 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 ✓
Select the response that most accurately characterises the practice known as "doomscrolling".
- 1. The prolonged reading of distressing news, which tends to worsen mood — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The writing of letters of complaint to newspapers — no support
- 3. The careful study of weather forecasts prior to undertaking a long journey — no support
- 4. The deletion of all applications from a telephone — 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 ✓
It is given that a person discontinues attendance at a gymnasium while continuing to pay the monthly subscription. Ascertain the most probable explanation.
- 1. Habits are easily begun but difficult to sustain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Payment is obligatory only for absent members — no support
- 3. The gymnasium prohibits attendance after January — no support
- 4. The subscription constitutes a form of exercise — 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 · wrong ✗
Determine what is thereby asserted when an adult who has been asleep declares "I was only resting my eyes".
- 1. A request that the lights be extinguished — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A report that the adult was awake throughout — no support
- 3. A medical statement concerning an eye condition — no support
- 4. A humorous denial that the adult had fallen asleep — ✓ 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
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