Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 35 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 · right ✓
Your mate goes, "Singing someone else's song is stealing, innit." What is the best answer?
- 1. Only famous singers are allowed to do covers, not school kids — score 6
- 2. Covers are only allowed when you sing quietly in the shower — no support
- 3. Covers are normal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. He is right, nobody is allowed to sing anybody else's songs — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 7: «A cover is a new performance of someone else's song; covers are normal, and when they are released, the songwriters are named and paid.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «covers» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · wrong ✗
What would happen if Sophie entered her traced fox in a drawing competition as her own?
- 1. She would win because tracing is skill — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It would be fine because she coloured it — no support
- 3. Nothing, competitions allow any tracing — no support
- 4. It would be dishonest, because she claimed it as original — ✓ 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 says "that's literally theft, cringe" about fan art. What is a fair reply?
- 1. He is right, fan art is always illegal and people get arrested for it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Credited fan art is usually fine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Only creators may draw it — no support
- 4. Fan art is only allowed in Korea and Japan, not anywhere else — 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 ✗
In a cartoon, a boy changes the hat on the Mona Lisa and sells it as his own painting. What is wrong?
- 1. It is fine if he sells it cheaply — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is still clearly the same picture, passed off as his — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The Mona Lisa is not a real painting — no support
- 4. Nothing, a new hat makes it new — 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 ✗
A Gen Z kid says, "Old Mickey's free now, so all Disney is free, slay" ("slay" means awesome). What is the correction?
- 1. Only the Disney songs are free, the characters are not — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only the 1928 Mickey is free — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She is right, everything Disney has made is now free to use — no support
- 4. Nothing about Mickey is free, not even the very oldest cartoon — 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 ✓
Thandi says "eish, Van Gogh copied" (eish means oh no). What is the fair view?
- 1. Learning from others openly is how art grows — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He hid where his ideas came from — no support
- 3. Copying is always fraud — no support
- 4. Van Gogh should not be famous — 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 · wrong ✗
Your friend copies three sentences about Frida Kahlo word for word for homework. What would be the honest fix?
- 1. Change the font and colour so that it looks different from the website — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Use another website — no support
- 3. Rewrite it in her own words — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Add one sentence of her own at the end so the teacher cannot tell — 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 ✗
Kai says "chur, they stole it and got 10k likes" (chur here means cheers, said sarcastically). Which is true?
- 1. All the likes go to the real artist automatically anyway — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Once any art is posted online, it belongs to anyone who finds it — no support
- 3. He keeps the right to credit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Likes go to the artist — 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 ✗
A Limerick girl says two pop songs are "a robbery, grand" because of a few shared notes. What is fair?
- 1. Only old songs may share notes — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Similar notes are common, so it is not always copying — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Any shared note proves theft — no support
- 4. Songs must never share any notes — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 11: «Songs often share a few notes or chords, because music uses a limited number of notes; whether two songs are too alike is argued, sometimes in court.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «share» (+5); the same thing acted on «few notes» (+2); the same doer «songs» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
Ana's friend shouts "Copycat!" at her Klimt-style cat. What is the difference Ana means?
- 1. Style borrowed, picture new — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Copying is fine as long as you add a cat to the famous picture — no support
- 3. Being inspired means that you traced the picture very carefully — no support
- 4. There is no difference at all between being inspired and copying — 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 11 · right ✓
A man in a gallery paints a copy of a famous painting, smaller than the original. Why the size rule?
- 1. So his copy cannot pass as the real painting — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Because big paintings are not allowed — no support
- 3. So it fits in his bag — no support
- 4. So the original does not get jealous — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 10: «The Louvre lets registered artists copy paintings in its galleries, with rules about size so the copies cannot pass as the originals; selling a copy as the rea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pass» (+5); the same doer «copies» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal circumstance in which the tracing of a drawing becomes dishonest.
- 1. Where the tracing is subsequently coloured by the person who traced it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Where the tracing is performed for the purposes of practice at home — no support
- 3. Where it is displayed at home — no support
- 4. Where it is presented as original — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following most accurately characterises plagiarism?
- 1. The use of freely available facts in one's own words — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The making of fan art with credit to its source — no support
- 3. The presentation of another person's words or work as one's own — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The performance of a song written by another person — 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 the earliest Mickey Mouse.
- 1. Every version of the character became free for public use in 2024 — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. No version of the character may ever be used by the public in any form — no support
- 3. Only post-2024 versions are free — no support
- 4. Only the 1928 version became free in the US in 2024 — ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 13: «The first Mickey Mouse, from the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie, became free for anyone to use in the United States in 2024, but later Mickeys and Disney's bran…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+5); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the distinction between being inspired by a work and copying it.
- 1. Inspiration makes a new work; copying reproduces — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Inspiration is for professionals — no support
- 3. Copying is permitted wherever a work is altered by thirty percent — no support
- 4. Inspiration and copying are identical in every respect and in law — 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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