Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa
Tests: 7 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 53 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 ✓
Mia's mate: "Saw it on telly, that boy band are ALL secretly brothers, swear." Her cousin checks: they aren't. What happened?
- 1. A story grew and changed as it was passed on — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The TV was hiding the truth on purpose — no support
- 3. Her cousin checked the wrong band online — no support
- 4. The band are lying about their families to the fans — 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 ✗
Freya laughs at an old clip of a presenter falling off a stage years ago. Next day a girl at school is teased about an old mistake. What links them?
- 1. It's only teasing if it's on TV — no support
- 2. Nothing; famous people's mistakes are different and don't count — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Laughing at old mistakes can hurt, on TV or in the playground — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The girl should have been on TV too — 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 43, line 13: «Teasing people about who they like can stop them being friends at all.», 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 «people» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Auntie Sue, sipping tea: "Course they're splitting, sources close to them said so on the telly this morning." How sure is it?
- 1. Not sure; nobody named has said it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Sure, the couple must have told them — no support
- 3. Sure, because Auntie Sue believes it — no support
- 4. Totally sure, because it was on the telly — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Big sister: "The breakfast lot are SO fake, they don't even like each other." Mum: "Well, it's a job, love." What does Mum mean?
- 1. They are paid to be friendly on air, whatever they feel — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. They work for free because they like the sofa — no support
- 3. They're all actors who never read the news — no support
- 4. They hate each other and fight off camera every single morning — ← Mova's choice · 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 13, line 1: «Grown-ups who like each other a lot "go out" together, which means they are boyfriend and girlfriend, or partners, and get to know each other to see whether th…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «each» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ava's brother: "New haircut's on the news, must be massive." What's the more likely truth?
- 1. The singer begged the news to cover it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The programme needed to fill a few minutes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Haircuts are top news in every country — no support
- 4. The haircut broke the law somehow — 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 ✓
Grandad, grumbling: "That host asked her how much she weighs, live on telly! Disgraceful." Who is right?
- 1. Grandad; people's bodies are their own business — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The host; it was only a joke, so it's fine — no support
- 3. The host; famous people must answer anything they're asked — no support
- 4. Nobody; weight is a normal thing to ask — 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 ✓
Leo: "Everyone was cracking up, so the jokes must've been well funny." What could be going on?
- 1. The audience is laughing at Leo at home — no support
- 2. Jokes on TV are tested on scientists first — no support
- 3. Studio audiences are always the funniest people in the country — no support
- 4. A warm-up act and added laughter make the audience laugh — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 53, line 17: «Studio audiences are warmed up by a comedian and sometimes extra laughter is added later, so laughter does not prove a joke is funny.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «add» (+5); the same thing acted on «extra laughter» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Mum, watching a star apologise: "Hm. Let's see what he does next week." Why does she say that?
- 1. She thinks next week's show will be funnier — no support
- 2. An apology is judged by what someone does next — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. She is sure he will say sorry twice — no support
- 4. She wants to watch him on TV again next week — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 53, line 16: «A public apology is judged by what the person does next; saying sorry in front of millions is hard.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «judge» (+3); the same thing acted on «public apology» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dad: "Two pop stars at war online again, I bet their managers love it." What does Dad suspect?
- 1. Pop stars are not allowed online at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The war is between two real countries — no support
- 3. The managers are fighting each other too — no support
- 4. The feud may be helping them get attention — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Max, watching Grandma name every royal guest: "Do you know the King, Nan?!" Nan laughs. Why?
- 1. She is only pretending to know the names — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. She used to work in the palace kitchen — no support
- 3. She knows names from TV and magazines, not the people — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. She does know him, but it's a secret — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 53, line 13: «Knowing all the names at a royal wedding comes from watching TV and reading magazines; it is not the same as knowing the people.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+2); the same thing acted on «names» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Theo's mate: "Footballers are thick, they never say anything interesting." What is the fairer view?
- 1. They are trained to be careful, because words get twisted — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 13
- 2. They save interesting things for their pets — score 4
- 3. He's right; footballers cannot think at all, they only kick — no support
- 4. Footballers are banned from talking about football to anybody — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 13, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 53, line 18: «Footballers and other stars are trained to say safe, boring things, because one wrong word can become a headline.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «train» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «footballers» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Evie, staring at a magazine: "Why does she look all spotty on telly? She's gone rank." Put her right.
- 1. The TV cameras paint spots on people — score -3
- 2. Real skin has spots; her online photos were filtered — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Spotty skin means she stopped being famous — no support
- 4. She has caught a terrible illness overnight and nobody knows — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 53, line 15: «Photos online are often smoothed with filters; real skin has lines and spots, and nobody looks like a filter.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «lines» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «real skin» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal purpose for which celebrated persons customarily appear as guests upon television chat programmes.
- 1. The resolution of private disputes before the public — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The promotion of a forthcoming film, book or tour — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The fulfilment of a legal obligation owed to broadcasters — no support
- 4. The selection of a new presenter for the programme — 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 · wrong ✗
Select the response that is consistent with the established understanding of a report attributed to "sources close to" a celebrated couple.
- 1. It is a judgment delivered by a court of law — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is an official statement issued by the couple — no support
- 3. It is a certainty, being broadcast on television — no support
- 4. It is an unverified claim from an unnamed person — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
Whereas a presenter speculates, upon the basis of a single photograph, that a public figure is expecting a child, determine the appropriate characterisation of such conduct.
- 1. Unkind conjecture concerning a private matter — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. An obligation of the broadcaster under law — no support
- 3. A customary courtesy extended to all guests — no support
- 4. A confirmed announcement of a medical fact — 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 ✗
Ascertain the conclusion which may properly be drawn from the laughter of a studio audience.
- 1. It establishes that the programme is broadcast live — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It does not of itself establish that the jokes are amusing — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It indicates that the audience has been paid to weep — no support
- 4. It proves conclusively and beyond doubt that the jokes are amusing — 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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