MovaReporting back: done, half done, could not, went wrong
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-11-05, commit 610eccd1d
Lesson 20 of the commands 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.
Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓
Josh said "done!" about the dishes, and the big pan sat greasy all night. What should he have said?
- 1. "Done, but the big pan's still soaking" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Nothing, Mum can look for herself — no support
- 3. "Not done," since one pan was still left — no support
- 4. "Done!" was right, pans don't count — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 8: «A good report says what is done and what is left: "done, but the big pan's soaking".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «soak» (+1); the same doer «big pan» (+1).
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Mia found the shop shut, said nothing, and there was no milk for breakfast. What went wrong?
- 1. Dad should have gone there himself — no support
- 2. Nothing at all, Mia did her best — no support
- 3. The shop should have stayed open — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 4. She didn't say she couldn't get it — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 9: «If you could not do a job, say so and why: "I couldn't, the shop was shut".», 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 «shop» (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Your cousin from Ohio: "homework? yeah I did it, no cap." He did half. Was that a true report?
- 1. No; he should say he did none of it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No; "I did half" was the truth — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes; half is close enough to all — no support
- 4. Yes; "no cap" means only half done — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
"omg Ava told her mum she'd fed the hamster all week, it was starving, her mum went mental." What is the real lesson?
- 1. A fake "yes" about a job hurts the pet and gets found out — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Never get a hamster, because they always end up starving — no support
- 3. Hamsters can go a whole week without any food, so it's fine — no support
- 4. Her mum overreacted, since it was only a little hamster — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Theo broke a glass and told Mum "it went slightly wrong in the kitchen." Is that a good report?
- 1. Yes: "slightly wrong" says quite enough for Mum to know — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. No: say it's a broken glass, and where the bits are — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No: he should say nothing at all to anybody — no support
- 4. Yes: as long as he swept the bits under the mat — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 18: «A messenger with a real emergency ("Mum says come NOW, the bath's overflowing!") is right to cut in; you stop safely, say what happens to your own job ("I'll f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
The office was empty, so Sam gave the note to the dinner lady and went to play. What was missing?
- 1. Waiting in the office until someone came — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Taking the note home to give to his mum — no support
- 3. Reading the note to see what it said — no support
- 4. Going back to tell Miss what happened — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓
Ruby found her three leaves and went home, and her Scout leader waited ages. What did "report back" mean?
- 1. Find more leaves the next weekend — no support
- 2. Come back and show what she found — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 3. Write about the leaves at home — no support
- 4. Phone the leader the next morning — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 8: «A good report says what is done and what is left: "done, but the big pan's soaking".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «good report» (+4).
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
Mum, after her call: "right, where were we with the shed?" You did half before Grandad needed you. What else should you say?
- 1. Whether you'll finish the floor later or hand it over — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. That it's done, since the shelf was the main bit — no support
- 3. Nothing more, Mum can see the floor for herself — no support
- 4. That Grandad ruined the whole afternoon for you — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 3: «Real jobs get interrupted. Grandad needs a hand, the phone rings, the fire alarm goes. "Never leave a job half done" is a myth. What matters is the report afte…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «finish» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1).
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
Little brother hears Mum say "fix your face" and fetches the glue. What did she really mean?
- 1. Fix your hair before school — no support
- 2. Mend a crack in your face — no support
- 3. Stop pulling that face — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Wash your face with soap — no support
Why: It applied a rule: lesson 20, line 15 («"Fix" means mend; "fix your face" means stop pulling that face; "fixin' to" (US South, Texas) means about to.»), joined by «mean». Its condition Event _ fix patient=face | quoted matched the question's Event _ fix patient=face | quoted. Its conclusion, so: Event _ pull patient=face. Option 3 says it (Event you pull patient=face), the only option that does.
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Kai lined up the moment Miss said "as soon as you're done, line up", leaving his sums. What went wrong?
- 1. He finished but forgot to line up — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He went before he had finished — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He went too slowly after finishing — no support
- 4. Nothing, "as soon as" means at once — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
The class robot showed "Task complete", but it stopped short of the star. Miss: "did yours reach the star?" What do you say?
- 1. "It's the robot's fault, Miss, not ours" — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. "We don't know, nobody was watching" — no support
- 3. "Yes, the screen said task complete, so it did, Miss" — no support
- 4. "No, it says complete but it stopped short" — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Bethan, Cardiff: "I'm tamping, Mam's called me, finish the hoovering, cwtch?" You finish it. Mam: "hoovering done?" Best answer?
- 1. "Bethan did all of it herself, Mam" — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. "Not done, Bethan left in the middle" — no support
- 3. "Done: Bethan did half and I finished it" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. "I did all of it on my own, Mam" — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Whereas a minor has washed all dishes save a single pan which remains soaking, identify the report most consistent with the facts.
- 1. That no part of the task has been done at all — no support
- 2. That the task was performed by another party — no support
- 3. That the dishes are done, the pan still soaking — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. That the dishes are done without any exception — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 1: «Reporting back means telling the person who gave you a job how it went. There are four honest answers: done; done but something is left ("the big pan's soaking…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «big pan» (+4); the same action «soak» (+3).
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that an errand to purchase milk could not be performed, the premises being closed. Ascertain the proper conduct of the minor.
- 1. Disclosure of the non-performance and its cause — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Silent omission of any mention of the errand — no support
- 3. Deferral of the errand without informing anyone — no support
- 4. False assertion that the milk was purchased — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Pursuant to an instruction to deliver a note to an office subsequently found unattended, determine the party to whom a report is properly owed.
- 1. The first adult met in the corridor — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The teacher who issued the instruction — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No party, the office being unattended — no support
- 4. The parent of the minor at day's end — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the statement most accurately characterising the instruction "as soon as you are done, line up".
- 1. Lining up is required only upon a bell sounding — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Lining up is required at some indefinite later time — no support
- 3. Lining up is required directly upon completion — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Lining up is required prior to completion — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
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