Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 61 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 ✗
Lily from Glasgow: «Ma says the queue at the post office was a mile long, nae kidding. How long was it, like?» What's the sensible reading?
- 1. Short, as she was being sarcastic about it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. About 1,000 people in a line — no support
- 3. A long queue, but nowhere near a mile — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Exactly one mile of people — 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 ✗
Jayden: «No cap, Mrs Patel's always rude, she shouted at me once in Year 2.» What's wrong with his claim?
- 1. Mrs Patel was being kind when she shouted — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One time years ago is not «always» — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He should have said «sometimes rude» instead — no support
- 4. Nothing, once is enough to prove always — 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 ✓
Kitchen door shuts, low voices, then Mum comes out with red eyes and says «Gran's in hospital, we'll know more tomorrow.» What should you do now?
- 1. Ask if you can help and wait for news — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Ring Gran's hospital ward yourself straight away — no support
- 3. Tell your class Gran is very ill — score 7
- 4. Listen at the door to find out more — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 3: «Scene: in Vancouver, Mum puts a hand on Dad's arm: «Not in front of the kids.» The kitchen door closes and the voices go low. Your little sister presses her ea…», 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 action «need» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Bruv in the group chat: «Free 1000 coins!! jus send ur login, ends in 5 mins!!» How many scam signs are in it?
- 1. Two: the coins and the spelling — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One: the spelling is wrong — no support
- 3. None, it ends soon so it's real — no support
- 4. Three: a prize, a rush, a login — ✓ 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 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Overheard on the bus: «Our Jade's moving to Spain — no wait, sorry, to Spalding, near Boston.» Where is Jade moving?
- 1. Spain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Boston — no support
- 3. Near Spain — no support
- 4. Spalding — ✓ 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 6 · ★★★ · right ✓
Your cousin, whose mum and dad split up last year, says «if I'm proper good they'll get back together.» What's the kind, true reply?
- 1. That's not how it works, and it was never your fault — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. No, because your parents don't love you — no support
- 3. Only if you also do all the chores — no support
- 4. Yes, if you try very hard they will — 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 ✓
Gran from Cardiff, tamping: «That parcel text wants £1.99 by tonight or they send it back, the cheek!» What's going on?
- 1. The post office has lost her parcel by mistake — no support
- 2. A free gift that she must pay for quickly — no support
- 3. A scam using a rush to get her card details — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. A real delivery firm being rude to her — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 14: «Volunteering means working without pay to help a good cause, like Gran's shift at the charity shop.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «gran» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Your mate: «Your dad told me he's 'a bit under the weather'. Is he dying or what?» What does the phrase mean?
- 1. He is very seriously ill in hospital — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He is sad about the weather forecast — no support
- 3. He feels a bit poorly, like a cold — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He is soaked from standing in the rain — 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 ✗
Headline: «Prince in SHOCK snub!» The story says he «appeared not to wave» at one person. What do we really know?
- 1. He was rude on purpose to the whole crowd — no support
- 2. He refused to meet the person ever again — no support
- 3. He hates that person and said so — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. In one photo he seems not to wave — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 16: «You can think a footballer's pay is unfair without hating the person who gets it, and making videos online is a kind of work too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «person» (+2); the same action «hate» (+1). 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 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Mum, on nights all week, says «I'm grand, love» but nods off mid-sentence twice. What's really going on?
- 1. She is completely fine and wide awake — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 2. She is pretending so you'll go out — score 8
- 3. She is bored of talking to you — score 10
- 4. She is very tired from her shifts — ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 23, line 3: «Picture a Saturday in Toronto: Mum grabs her keys again and says, "I'm popping round to Gran's to do her tablets and her tea." She goes every day, after work,…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «mum» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
A street story grew in three steps. Put them in order, first to last: A «Number 4 bought a giant telly, must've won the lottery!» B «Number 4 got a big parcel» C «Number 4 got a new telly»
- 1. C, B, A — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A, C, B — no support
- 3. B, C, A — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. B, A, C — 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 ✗
Determine which reading of the utterance «I have told you a million times» is accurate.
- 1. An understatement of a larger figure — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. An exaggeration meaning «many times», not a count — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A precise count of one million instances — no support
- 4. A count of one thousand instances — 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 person most appropriately consulted regarding whether a cough medicine may be taken alongside existing tablets.
- 1. A pharmacist — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A school friend — no support
- 3. A bus driver — no support
- 4. A newsagent — 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 ✓
A rumour grows from «a van was outside» to «he was evicted». Select the version most likely closest to the truth.
- 1. The first and plainest version: a van was outside — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The middle version, as an average of the others — no support
- 3. Whichever version was told by the most people — no support
- 4. The latest version, because it has been repeated most — 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 ✗
Select the statement consistent with the established facts concerning children whose parents separate.
- 1. The separation is never the child's fault — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Good behaviour can reverse a separation — no support
- 3. Children must choose a parent at once — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. The child's behaviour is usually the cause — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 14: «Custody, or "arrangements", means deciding where children live and when they see each parent; if parents cannot agree, a mediator (a trained helper who helps t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «parent» (+3); the same doer «children» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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