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Votes, parties and the people in charge

Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 31 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 ✗

Your brother says «The Prime Minister makes all the laws on his own.» Put him right.

  • 1. The King makes laws and MPs just watch — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 2. The police make laws and judges sign them — no support
  • 3. MPs debate and vote on laws in Parliament — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. Yes, the Prime Minister writes every law alone — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. 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 action «make» (+4); the same thing acted on «child» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Overheard on the phone: «Popped into the church hall on the way to work, put my cross in, job done.» What did she do?

  • 1. She signed up to clean the hall — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. She went to a church service — no support
  • 3. She posted a parcel for work — no support
  • 4. She voted at a polling station — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Uncle at the telly: «Bloody politicians, all promises and no delivery.» What is he grumbling about?

  • 1. He wants politicians to deliver leaflets — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. He thinks politicians break their promises — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. He thinks the post is always late — no support
  • 4. He is angry about a parcel he ordered that never came — 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 school gate: «She's voting for the greens, can you believe it? Lovely woman otherwise.» What is the kind way to think about this?

  • 1. People can pick different parties and still be good — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Green is the only colour anyone should vote for — no support
  • 3. Picking another party makes her a bad person — no support
  • 4. Mums are not allowed to talk about voting — 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 ✗

If there were no taxes, what would happen to free schools and ambulances?

  • 1. They would be free because hospitals are rich — no support
  • 2. They would carry on exactly the same as they do now — no support
  • 3. They would not exist, because taxes pay for them — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. They would be paid for by the Prime Minister — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 6, line 10: «Council tax is paid by each household to the local council and pays for bins, street lights, libraries, parks and care for older people.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+2); the same thing acted on «council tax» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Your cousin in Leeds says «Grandad HAS to tell us who he voted for, he's family.» Is that right?

  • 1. No, a vote is secret, even from family — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. No, because Grandad isn't allowed to vote — ← Mova's choice · score 7
  • 3. Yes, family must always share their votes — score 4
  • 4. Yes, but only at Christmas dinner — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 3: «Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue about the government until the gravy goes cold. Later Grandad winks at you: «Who I voted for i…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «vote» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «leeds» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Your friend says «NHS means you pay the doctor yourself, innit.» Put him right.

  • 1. No, NHS doctors are all volunteers who never earn anything — no support
  • 2. Yes, but only children have to pay — no support
  • 3. Yes, you pay the doctor every time you go — score 1
  • 4. No, NHS care is free when you need it, paid by taxes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 14: «The NHS is the UK's National Health Service: medical care free when you need it, paid for by taxes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+2); the same doer «nhs» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

A girl in your class moved from Poland last year. The news is arguing about immigration. Which is true?

  • 1. She should be kept away from the class — no support
  • 2. The news is about real families like hers — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The news has nothing to do with real people — no support
  • 4. Immigration means people moving to new houses — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 15: «Immigration means people moving to live in another country; countries have rules about it, and people disagree about those rules.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same doer «immigration» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

In the USA, who has the job that the Prime Minister has in the UK?

  • 1. The President — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The Sheriff — no support
  • 3. The Mayor — no support
  • 4. The Queen — 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 ✗

Mia, aged 10, wants the park swings fixed and the law changed. What can she do?

  • 1. Wait until she is 18 to say anything — ← Mova's choice · score 3
  • 2. Write a letter to her local MP — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Go and vote at the polling station — no support
  • 4. Nothing, children have no say at all — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 1: «A newborn baby changes a whole house. It has a tiny stomach, so it needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, and crying is the only way it can say…», 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 action «say» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dad mutters «Taxman takes a third, I swear.» Mum: «And who drives on the roads, eh?» What is Mum pointing out?

  • 1. Dad doesn't pay any tax at all — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. Roads are paid for by the car makers — no support
  • 3. The taxman drives on Dad's roads for free — no support
  • 4. Taxes pay for things Dad uses, like roads — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 12, line 4: «Grown-ups grumble about chores because the work never ends and much of it is invisible, so a family that shares the jobs is a calmer family.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «grown ups» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the principle of the secret ballot?

  • 1. Only children are permitted to know how votes are cast — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Every elector must declare the vote to the family — no support
  • 3. No elector is obliged to disclose how he or she has voted — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. The vote of each elector is published the following day — 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 institution in which elected representatives debate and vote upon proposed legislation in the United Kingdom.

  • 1. Parliament — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The National Health Service — no support
  • 3. The council tip — no support
  • 4. The polling station — 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 · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning taxation.

  • 1. It is collected solely to finance political parties — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It is levied upon earnings and spending and finances public services — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. It is a voluntary gift that only wealthy persons provide to the nation — no support
  • 4. It is retained by the Prime Minister for personal use — 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that relatives disagree vehemently regarding the government. Determine the most appropriate characterisation.

  • 1. Evidence that one relative has committed an offence — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Proof that one of the political parties is wicked — no support
  • 3. A common and legitimate difference of political opinion — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. A matter which the law forbids families to discuss — 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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