The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced

Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 45 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 ✗

Grandad: «Queen's death certificate said 'old age'. 96, she'd done her bit.» What should you do with other rumours about how she died?

1. Share them all, because some of them might be true — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Believe the ones with the most likes — no support
3. Trust the official record, not the rumours — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Ask the family what really happened — 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 ✗

Auntie Jen: «Meghan made Kate cry before the wedding — or was it the other way round?» What's the honest answer?

1. They both cried because of the dress — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Two claims, no proof, so we don't know — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It was definitely Meghan who cried — no support
4. It was definitely Kate who cried — 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 ✗

Mum: «The royals were all rushing up to Balmoral the day she died. Who was late, eh?» What's the decent thing?

1. Blame whoever arrived after she died — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Leave a grieving family alone, flight times aren't character — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Check all the flight times on the internet and post them online — no support
4. Work out who was late and tell everyone — 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 ✓

Nan: «Harry loved being a soldier. Two tours of Afghanistan.» Which is confirmed?

1. He left the army in disgrace after just one year of training — score 3
2. He is still a serving soldier today — score 8
3. He served about ten years, with two Afghan tours — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
4. He never went to Afghanistan at all — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 45, line 19: «Prince Harry served about ten years in the Army, including two tours of Afghanistan, and founded the Invictus Games for wounded service people.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «serve» (+3); the same doer «prince harry» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Big sister: «The royals are all fighting in Instagram comments lol!» What's really there?

1. William blocked Harry on all the apps — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Official accounts post photos and news, no comment fights — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Kate and Meghan argue under every photo — no support
4. The King replies to Harry's posts every day with long messages — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Your mate in March 2024: «Kate's been replaced by a lookalike, ha!» A week later she shares her cancer news. What's the lesson?

1. The lookalike story turned out to be right — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Jokes about famous people never matter — no support
3. Wild guesses about someone's health can be cruel — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It's fine because she'll never see it — 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 ✓

Grandad: «The King's had cancer — I reckon it's really bad, he's hiding it.» What's the right reply?

1. We know what was announced; guessing more isn't okay — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He's right, they always hide the bad news from the public — no support
3. We should ask the hospital to tell us — no support
4. The King must be dying, they said so — 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 ✗

Dad: «Andrew? There's all sorts on the internet about him.» How should you talk about it?

1. Tell everyone your own guess about him — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Repeat the internet stuff, it's all public anyway, so it's fine — no support
3. Make up a funny meme about him — no support
4. Say what was officially announced and stop there — ✓ 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 9 · ★★ · right ✓

Auntie Bev: «Harry flew back the same day after the coronation, says it all!» What does a flight actually tell you?

1. Where he went, not what he felt — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. That he was thrown out of the party — no support
3. That Meghan told him to come home — no support
4. That he hates his whole family — 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 ✗

Big brother: «The edited photo PROVES Kate was hiding something!» Is that right?

1. Yes, the agencies said she was hiding something serious about her health — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Yes, editing a photo always hides a secret — score 6
3. No, lots of photos are edited; that doesn't make rumours true — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. No, the photo wasn't edited at all — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 1: «Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand. It feels as if something big is being hidden, but most of…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «something» (+4); the same action «hide» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Mum, January 2025: «It was reported Kate said she's in remission.» What does «it was reported» tell you?

1. It's a rumour that nobody has checked — no support
2. It's a guess made by a fan account on TikTok — no support
3. It's something Mum made up herself — ← Mova's choice · score 10
4. The news came from reliable reporting of her words — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «mum» (+3); the same thing acted on «friends» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises information attributed to «a royal source»?

1. It is an anonymous claim which cannot be independently verified — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It is a statement the person concerned has publicly confirmed — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. It is evidence admitted in proceedings before a court of law — no support
4. It is a formal communication issued on behalf of the monarch — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, 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 thing acted on (counts against) (-2); a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason for which speculation concerning the illness of a public figure ought to be avoided.

1. Public figures are legally exempt from all forms of illness — no support
2. Speculation is permitted only by registered medical practitioners — no support
3. The illness of a public figure is invariably less serious than reported — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. The details of a person's health are private save as she chooses to disclose them — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 4: «Some illnesses, like cancer, are serious and take months of treatment, and some checks, like scans and tests, are only there to be careful.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «illnesses» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Princess of Wales in 2024.

1. She announced a cancer diagnosis and a course of chemotherapy, and later its completion — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. She relinquished her title in consequence of her illness — no support
3. She was replaced at public events by a person of similar appearance and bearing for several months — no support
4. She declined to make any statement whatsoever concerning her health — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 11: «In September 2024 she announced she had finished chemotherapy, and in January 2025 it was reported that she said she was in remission, meaning there was no sig…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «announce» (+2); the same doer «princess» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that two published accounts of a private disagreement contradict one another and no proof exists. Determine the appropriate conclusion.

1. That the earlier account must be correct — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. That the truth of the matter is not known — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. That both accounts must be correct — no support
4. That the later account must be correct — 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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