MovaTone and sarcasm
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-11-05, commit 610eccd1d
Lesson 27 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Auntie: "a child should never interrupt grown-ups, full stop." Your little cousin is reaching for a hot pan while Mum chats on the phone. What now?
- 1. Cut in at once and stop the cousin — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Write Mum a note about the hot pan — no support
- 3. Whisper so Mum isn't disturbed by it — no support
- 4. Wait till Mum's call is over, as Auntie said — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 11: «A passed-on permission like "Auntie said we can…" that suits the messenger should be checked first: "I'll just ask her."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «auntie» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
Dad, putting on Gen Alpha slang: "front door's wide open, it's giving igloo, no cap." What does he want?
- 1. Shut the front door, it's letting the cold in — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Build an igloo in the hall with him for a laugh — no support
- 3. Leave it open, he loves the cold air — no support
- 4. Say "no cap" back and keep on drawing — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 4: «Cats do not take orders: you lift them down gently or leave it to a grown-up. A parrot yelling "shut the door!" is only copying. And a pet in danger beats any…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «door» (+2); the same action «shut» (+1).
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Zara shut the door and went back to her half-done colouring: "where was I?" What is best?
- 1. See where she stopped and carry on from there — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Start the whole picture again from scratch, neatly — no support
- 3. Ask Dad to finish the colouring for her — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Rip it up, the interruption spoiled it all — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 9: «Checking is not rude: "I'll just ask Dad" is a fair answer to a strange message.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+2); the same receiver «dad» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
Big brother, Ontario, as you eye his last Timbits: "knock yourself out, bud, I'm stuffed, eh." What does he mean?
- 1. You can have them, go ahead — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He is cross you even asked — no support
- 3. You must not touch his food — no support
- 4. He wants you to hit yourself — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Mate, cackling: "get lost, bruv, you're bare jokes!" Rafi stomps off home in a huff. What went wrong?
- 1. Rafi should have told his mum on him — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Rafi should have walked off home even faster — no support
- 3. It was a friendly joke, not a real order — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. His mate really did want him to leave — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 4: «In real life you DO interrupt when someone is about to get hurt: "Stop! Get down off there!" is right, and so is running to tell a teacher, even if a mate call…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Gossip: "did u hear?? Mr Okafor told Liam 'go on then, climb the fence, see what happens', and Liam DID and the fence fell on the whole class!" What is the real lesson?
- 1. Teachers want kids to climb fences — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Never go near any fence at all — no support
- 3. Fences fall on whole classes all the time — no support
- 4. "Go on then" in that voice means don't — ✓ 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
In that gossip, which part is probably blown up?
- 1. That Liam climbed the fence — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. That the fence fell on the whole class — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. That Mr Okafor said "go on then" — no support
- 4. That Mr Okafor was cross with Liam afterwards — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Teenager at the servo, scowling, as kids crowd round his bike: "rack off, the lot of ya!" What is smart?
- 1. Laugh, since he must just be joking — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Say "make us" and stay round the bike — no support
- 3. Back off and leave him and his bike alone — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Ask him to teach them to ride it — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Mum, Bristol, as the cat paws at the fish tank: "oh, you finish yer drawing, my lover, while the cat goes fishing. Proper job." What does she want?
- 1. Finish the drawing, then check on the cat — no support
- 2. Stop drawing and get the cat off the tank — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Draw the cat fishing, it's a proper job — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. Hang on a tick and then keep drawing — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 11: «When you drop a job for an interruption, say whether you will finish it later, hand it over, or leave it, and when you come back check where you were.», 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 thing acted on «job» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Grandpa, Ohio: "back in my day we walked a hundred miles to school, so quit bellyaching and walk the two blocks." What does he really want?
- 1. Count the miles he walked as a kid — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Wait for Grandpa to give you a lift — no support
- 3. Walk the hundred miles like he did — no support
- 4. Stop moaning and walk to school — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓
Teacher, Singapore, at the classroom door: "eh, hurry along lah, don't block the corridor, can or not?" What does she want?
- 1. Stop and wait in the corridor — no support
- 2. Go back to your seat at once — no support
- 3. Run as fast as you possibly can — no support
- 4. Keep moving through the door — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It applied a rule: lesson 27, line 17 («"Hurry up" means go faster; "no hurry" means take your time; "hurry along" means keep moving.»), joined by «mean». Its condition Event _ hurry attrs=along | quoted matched the question's Event _ hurry along=lah | says→#3 quoted. Its conclusion, so: Event _ keep. Option 4 says it (Event you keep), the only option that does.
Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓
Dad, Glasgow, as you carry a full bowl of soup and the dog starts barking: "aye, very good, spill it all ower the new carpet, wee man." What do you do?
- 1. Run so you get there before it spills — score 5
- 2. Slow down and set the bowl down safely — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 3. Spin round fast to shout at the dog — no support
- 4. Tip a bit out so it is not so full — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 3: «Sarcasm often arrives as an interruption: "oh sure, finish your game while the bath floods" cuts right into your game and means stop now and turn the taps off.…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «knife» (+3); the same action «put down» (+2).
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Where a parent, observing a child swinging a bat in proximity to glazing, declares "Go on then, break it", identify the conduct thereby required of the child.
- 1. The deliberate breakage of the glazing as instructed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The cessation of swinging and withdrawal from the glazing — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The continuation of the activity with increased vigour — no support
- 4. An inquiry as to the consequences of the breakage — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the statement that most accurately characterises the utterance "I have told you a million times".
- 1. An assertion that the child is untruthful — no support
- 2. A precise enumeration of the occasions — no support
- 3. Hyperbole denoting numerous occasions — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A statement that no instruction was given — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 12: «In someone else's house their parents' orders count for guests too, even when your friend passes them on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pass on» (+4); the same thing acted on «messages» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers.
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Whereas the expression "get lost" is uttered by an irate stranger, determine the response most properly to be made.
- 1. Prompt departure without argument — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Refusal, accompanied by a verbal challenge — no support
- 3. Laughter, the expression being regarded as jest — no support
- 4. A request for directions to a given place — 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 ✗
It is given that a child's game is interrupted by the sarcastic observation "finish your game while the bath floods". Identify the proper sequence of conduct.
- 1. Pausing of the game, then closure of the taps — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Completion of the game, then inspection of the bath — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Inquiry as to the person who left the taps running — no support
- 4. Disregard of the remark, it being merely sarcastic — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 10: «A sarcastic interruption like "oh sure, finish your game while the bath floods" means stop and deal with the problem now; you stop safely first, by pausing the…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «finish» (+4); the same thing acted on «game» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers.
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