Starting a band
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 4 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, "real musos never get nervous, mate." Is he right?
- 1. Yes, nerves disappear forever after your very first gig, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, many top performers say they get nervous before shows — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No, only famous people ever get nervous — no support
- 4. Yes, nerves mean you are not a real musician — 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 the drummer and bass player both quit the night before the gig?
- 1. The audience would not notice anything — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The songs would lose the beat and low notes that hold them up — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The band would sound better without them — no support
- 4. Nothing, the singer could easily do all of it alone with a microphone — 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 ✓
The drummer in Houston yells, "Y'all fixin' to practise or what?" ("fixin' to" means about to). What does he want?
- 1. The band to stop chatting and start playing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The band to practise more chatting — no support
- 3. The band to go home for the night — no support
- 4. The band to fix the broken drum kit — 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 Brisbane the singer calls Lachie a "galah" (a fool, from a noisy parrot). What is she cross about?
- 1. He has not turned up — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He is singing her part — no support
- 3. He brought a noisy pet parrot to the band practice — no support
- 4. His guitar is so loud she can't hear herself — ✓ 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 ✗
Chloe says "yeah nah, no arguing." Does she agree with arguing?
- 1. Yes, she wants a big argument about it all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, in Australia "yeah nah" means no — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She is not sure yet, so she says both words — no support
- 4. Yes, in Australia "yeah nah" means yes please — 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 ✓
A cartoon shows a band whose speaker squeals because it is "haunted". What is really going on?
- 1. The microphone is picking up the speaker in a loop — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Squeals mean the song is a hit — no support
- 3. The speaker is laughing at the band — no support
- 4. Ghosts get into speakers at night and make them squeal at the band — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 14: «Feedback is a loud squeal that happens when a microphone picks up sound from a speaker and loops it round and round, louder each time.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pick up» (+2); the same doer «microphone» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Josh says, "Loud music can't hurt your ears if you like it." What is true?
- 1. Liking a song makes your ears stronger, so it can't do them any harm — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only music you hate can hurt your ears — no support
- 3. Loud sound damages hearing whether you like it or not — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Drums are too quiet to hurt anyone — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Your cousin says, "No band name, no band, end of." What is the best reply?
- 1. Play first, the name can come later or change — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A band with no name cannot play music — no support
- 3. Bands are not allowed to change names — no support
- 4. He's right, the name always has to come first, before anything 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 9 · ★ · right ✓
Rahul's band has one old keyboard, a phone and some buckets. What should they do?
- 1. Start playing now with what they have — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -4
- 2. Only practise when they own real guitars — score -4
- 3. Wait until they can afford to buy a full studio — no support
- 4. Give up because buckets are not instruments — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 4, line 17: «A setlist is the list of songs a band plans to play.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «play» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-4); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Which plan sounds most like a band that will last?
- 1. Everyone does exactly what they like and never meets — no support
- 2. They talk, vote or take turns choosing songs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. The founder decides everything without asking — no support
- 4. The loudest player in the band always gets their way — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 16: «Many famous bands have split up after arguments about who decides things; good bands talk, vote or take turns.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same thing acted on «turns» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Lad in Liverpool says, "Our kid's drum kit is boss, la!" ("our kid" means brother, "boss" means great). What is he saying?
- 1. His brother's drum kit is great — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. His boss owns a drum kit — no support
- 3. The drum kit belongs to the teacher — no support
- 4. His child is learning drums — 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 ✗
Identify the principal cause of the high-pitched sound denominated "feedback" in amplified performance.
- 1. The ingress of moisture into the electrical cables — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The structural failure of the loudspeaker apparatus owing to excessive volume — no support
- 3. The production of an exceptionally high note by the vocalist — no support
- 4. The recurrent capture by a microphone of sound emitted by a loudspeaker — ✓ 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 statements most accurately characterises the term "rhythm section"?
- 1. The audience members positioned nearest the stage — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The vocalists entrusted with the uppermost parts — no support
- 3. The bass and drums jointly responsible for sustaining the beat — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The portion of a score in which the rhythms are notated — 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the early performances of the Beatles.
- 1. The group commenced its career at the Eurovision Song Contest before performing in any club — no support
- 2. The group performed exclusively its own compositions from the outset — no support
- 3. The group performed numerous songs by other composers in clubs in Hamburg — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. The group declined to perform in any club whatsoever — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 10: «The Beatles played many cover songs in clubs in Hamburg before they became famous for their own songs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «many cover songs» (+2); the same place «clubs» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the course of action most conducive to the continued existence of a band.
- 1. The subordination of all members to the loudest performer — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The abandonment of any arrangement for joint rehearsal — no support
- 3. The making of decisions jointly, by discussion, vote or rotation — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The vesting of all decisions in the founding member alone — 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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