Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 31 of the arts 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 mate goes, "Some people just have origami hands, I don't, so I quit." What is the best answer?
- 1. Paper is made to be almost impossible to fold neatly by hand — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only people who grew up in Japan are able to do origami well — no support
- 3. It is a skill you practise — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He is right, neat folding is a gift that you are either born with or not — 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 ✗
What would happen if you left a bowl of flour paste out for a week?
- 1. It would turn into paper — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It would turn into stronger glue — no support
- 3. It would stay fresh for months — no support
- 4. It would go mouldy and smell — ✓ 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 ✗
A kid from Texas says, "Y'all, slime's just glue, it can't hurt nobody." What is true?
- 1. Shop slime is never glue — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Some activators make skin sore — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Slime is safe to eat in small bits because it is made of glue — no support
- 4. Glue cannot hurt your skin at all, whatever it is mixed with — 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 ✓
In a cartoon, a boy makes a solid clay brick dragon and it comes out of the kiln perfect. What would usually go wrong?
- 1. Thick clay can crack in the kiln — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It would turn to glass — no support
- 3. Nothing at all, because solid clay is always the strongest kind — no support
- 4. The dragon would melt into a puddle of clay on the kiln shelf — 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 · right ✓
Your little brother picks up a glue gun and says, "It's only glue, innit." What do you say?
- 1. He should touch the tip first to see if it is working properly — no support
- 2. It is fine as long as he does it very quickly and carefully — no support
- 3. It burns, get an adult — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Glue guns are toys made for kids, so he can use it by himself — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 4: «Some craft tools bite: needles prick, hot glue guns burn, candle wax for egg painting is hot and some slime mixes make skin sore, so those jobs are done with a…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «hot glue guns» (+3); the same action «burn» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
Your Irish friend calls Sofiia's egg "deadly" ("deadly" means brilliant). How did she avoid smudging?
- 1. Wax blocked the dye — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. She used a computer printer and a sheet of shiny stickers — no support
- 3. She painted the lines with a tiny brush very fast before it dried — no support
- 4. She bought it from a shop already decorated and just signed 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 ✓
Callum says "that wee needle's out to get me" ("wee" means small). Which is true?
- 1. Thimbles cause pricks — no support
- 2. Only clumsy people ever get pricked when they sew buttons — no support
- 3. Needles move by themselves when you are not looking at them — no support
- 4. Pricks come from sewing towards your fingers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 11: «Most needle pricks come from pushing the needle towards your own fingers; a thimble protects the pushing finger, and needles go back in a pincushion.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «own fingers» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · wrong ✗
Ava says her clay join was "sweet as" yesterday ("sweet as" means fine). Why did it fall off?
- 1. Someone in the cupboard pulled the handle off during the night — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Drying clay shrank and pulled apart — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Clay always falls apart in the end, whatever you do to join it — no support
- 4. The kiln was too hot — 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 ✓
Jack teases Rohan for knitting on the bus. What is the wise move for Rohan?
- 1. Keep knitting, let jokes slide — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Pretend he was not knitting and hide it under his seat — no support
- 3. Throw his knitting needles and wool at Jack to make him stop — no support
- 4. Stop knitting for ever so that nobody can tease him again — 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 ✓
Max says, "Bruh, scissors are scissors" ("bruh" means come on). Which is true?
- 1. All scissors cut everything equally well — no support
- 2. Paper blunts fabric scissors, so they are kept for cloth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. Fabric scissors are made for paper — no support
- 4. Felt makes scissors sharper — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 16: «Fabric scissors are kept only for cloth, because cutting paper or card makes the blades blunt.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+5); the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on «fabric scissors» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · wrong ✗
Tom from Leeds thinks the paper fish was made by a printer. What is the correction?
- 1. It was really cut by a robot in a factory in Xi'an — no support
- 2. It was drawn with a pen — no support
- 3. Nobody in the world is able to cut paper that finely by hand — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. Skilled cutters work by hand — ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 16: «Fabric scissors are kept only for cloth, because cutting paper or card makes the blades blunt.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cut» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «paper» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal reason for which thick masses of clay are liable to fracture during firing.
- 1. Thick clay is poor quality — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Thick clay is too heavy to be supported upon the shelves within the kiln — no support
- 3. Trapped water becomes expanding steam — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The kiln is insufficiently hot to fire clay of considerable thickness — 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following most accurately characterises the method by which pysanky are decorated?
- 1. Wax is applied to resist dye, repeated from lighter to darker colours — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Adhesive images are affixed to the shell — no support
- 3. Patterns are printed upon the egg by machine — no support
- 4. Pigment is applied with a fine brush in a single layer — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 15: «Ukrainian pysanky are made by drawing patterns in wax, dyeing the egg, and repeating from light to dark colours; the wax keeps the dye off.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «repeat» (+2); the same place «light» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · 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 the use of a hot glue gun by children.
- 1. Only adults may own one — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only under adult supervision — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It may be used without supervision, being merely an adhesive for crafts — no support
- 4. It presents no hazard whatsoever provided that it is used rapidly — 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 procedure most appropriate for joining two pieces of clay.
- 1. The pressing of one piece upon the other without preparation — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The drying of both pieces prior to their combination — no support
- 3. The scoring of both surfaces, application of slip, and pressing together — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The application of adhesive tape until the clay dries — 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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