MovaWho is addressed and who is only mentioned
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-11-05, commit 610eccd1d
Lesson 4 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 ✗
Your mate: "Dad said 'sit!' so I sat, 'cos you always do what you hear." What went wrong?
- 1. He should have sat on a chair, not the floor — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was for the dog, not for him — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He should have sat only after the dog did — no support
- 4. Nothing, you obey every order you hear — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
The whole class charged to the door when Miss said "table 3, line up". What went wrong?
- 1. They forgot to bring their bags — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only table 3 was told to move — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nobody at all was told to move — no support
- 4. They lined up much too slowly — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Big sister in Georgia, US, to you and your brother: "y'all better clean up before Mom's home." Who cleans?
- 1. Both of you — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Mom, when she gets home — no support
- 3. Only the one she is facing — no support
- 4. Only your brother — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
The doorbell goes and Mum shouts "someone get the door!" Lee thinks "someone else will", and so do the others. Nobody goes. What should have happened?
- 1. Nobody, because no name was said — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mum should have gone, as she rang the bell — no support
- 3. All of them should go to the door at once — no support
- 4. One of them, Lee or another, goes to the door — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Your mate says: "the advert said 'buy now', so we have to." What do you tell him?
- 1. No, adverts are only for grown-ups to obey — no support
- 2. No, adverts just try to sell things — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Yes, but only if it is on today — no support
- 4. Yes, if the telly says so, you must — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 17: «Adverts say "call now" and "buy today" to sell things; they are not orders to you.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sell» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «things» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3).
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Miss, quietly, to the teaching assistant: "could you grab the glue sticks from the cupboard?" You sit nearest the cupboard. Best?
- 1. Leave it, she asked the assistant — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Ask the assistant to get you one too — no support
- 3. Shout "I'll get them!" over her — no support
- 4. Grab them, because you are nearest — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mrs Patel is halfway through reading a story when the fire alarm goes. "Everyone, stop. Line up at the door." Who lines up, and when?
- 1. Only the kids nearest to the door — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Everyone, once the story is finished — no support
- 3. Everyone, at once, story or no story — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Only Mrs Patel, to check the corridor — 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 4, line 14: «"Everyone" means each person; "not everyone" means only some, so it is up to you.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «person» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Coach: "Ava, Zain, Lucy, water break. Rest of you, keep passing." You are Zain. What do you do?
- 1. Have your water break — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Fetch water for the whole team — no support
- 3. Wait until your name is called — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 4. Keep passing the ball — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 4, line 17: «Adverts say "call now" and "buy today" to sell things; they are not orders to you.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «call» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Game chat: "you, the one with the blue hat, follow me." Your character wears a red hat. What do you do?
- 1. Carry on with your own task — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Tell everyone to follow her — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. Follow the speaker anyway — no support
- 4. Change your hat to blue — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 3: «"Tell Jack to come in" gives you the job of telling; Jack is the one who comes in. "Not you, Sam" takes Sam out of it, even if the next words say "you get them…», 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 action «tell» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mum, on the phone to you at half five: "tell Dad to switch the oven off at six." What do you do?
- 1. Switch it off at six and say nothing — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Tell Dad now, so he switches it off at six — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. Switch the oven off yourself right away — no support
- 4. Tell Dad at seven that it was at six — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 4, line 3: «"Tell Jack to come in" gives you the job of telling; Jack is the one who comes in. "Not you, Sam" takes Sam out of it, even if the next words say "you get them…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «tell» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 8.
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Miss, to a boy shouting out: "James, not now." Then to the class: "the rest of you, pencils down." You are not James. What do you do?
- 1. Put your pencil down — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Keep on writing — no support
- 3. Pick your pencil up — no support
- 4. Stop shouting out — ← Mova's choice · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 17: «Adverts say "call now" and "buy today" to sell things; they are not orders to you.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «call» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
You are on table 2 and Miss says "table 3, line up". You honestly can't hear if she said 2 or 3. Best?
- 1. Line up anyway, just in case it was you — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ask one quick question: "table 2 or 3, Miss?" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Stay put and never ask, asking is rude — no support
- 4. Shout to the whole class to line up too — 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 · wrong ✗
Identify the party upon whom the obligation to sit is thereby imposed when a parent, facing the household dog, pronounces its name followed by the word "sit".
- 1. The parent who issued the command — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Every person present in the hallway — no support
- 3. The child nearest to the parent — no support
- 4. The dog exclusively — ✓ the right answer · 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 ✗
Whereas a parent directs a child to "tell Jack to come in for his tea", ascertain the respective obligations of the child and of Jack.
- 1. Both persons are to come in forthwith together — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. The child comes in; Jack remains outside the house — no support
- 3. The child conveys the message; Jack thereupon comes in — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Jack conveys the message; the child thereupon comes in — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 3: «"Tell Jack to come in" gives you the job of telling; Jack is the one who comes in. "Not you, Sam" takes Sam out of it, even if the next words say "you get them…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come in» (+2); the same doer «one» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers.
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a teacher, addressing two pupils, states "not you, Sam; Ella, you get them". Determine which pupil is to fetch the scissors.
- 1. Neither pupil — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Sam — no support
- 3. Ella — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Both pupils — 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 response consistent with the established usage of "someone needs to walk the dog" when addressed to three children.
- 1. No obligation arises, no person having been named — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The speaker alone is obliged to walk the dog — no support
- 3. One unnamed person ought to undertake the walk, and any child may volunteer — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. All three children are obliged to walk the dog simultaneously — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
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