MovaOrder and sequence
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-11-05, commit 610eccd1d
Lesson 8 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 reckons "eat after you've washed your hands" means eat first, 'cos "eat" comes first. Is he right?
- 1. Yes, but only when it's Nan who says it — no support
- 2. No, it means you don't eat at all today — no support
- 3. Yes, the first word said is the first job — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. No, "after" makes the washing come first — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 2: «Words like "first", "then", "after", "before" and "once" tell you the order, and that order is not always the order the words are said in: "eat after you've wa…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «words» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4.
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if you tipped the flour in before beating the eggs?
- 1. A lighter, fluffier cake than usual — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing different at all, it all mixes — no support
- 3. A lumpy mess, just as Mum warned — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The eggs would cook right there in the bowl — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
The fire alarm goes. Ollie says, "lemme just grab my Switch, bro." What's the best answer?
- 1. Yes, if it's sitting right by the door — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, grab your coat instead, it's cold — no support
- 3. Yes, but be really quick about it — no support
- 4. No, leave everything and walk out now — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
A cartoon robot is told "from the top" and starts singing from the line where it stopped. What's wrong?
- 1. It should climb up to the top of the stage — no support
- 2. It should start again from the very beginning — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Nothing, that is just what "from the top" means — score 6
- 4. It should start from the very last line — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 8, line 4: «"From the top" means start again from the very beginning, not from where you stopped.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «beginning» (+4); the same action «start» (+2).
Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓
Big sister in Manchester: "once you've finished your tea, our kid, we're off to the park." When do you go?
- 1. After your tea is finished — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Before tea, to get there first — no support
- 3. Instead of having tea today — no support
- 4. During tea, eating on the way — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Dad: "teeth, then bed, no messing." You're tucked up in bed and your teeth aren't done. What now?
- 1. Pretend you did them already — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Stay put, it's too late now — no support
- 3. Do them first thing in the morning — no support
- 4. Get up and do your teeth — ✓ 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 ✗
Mid-game, Mum shouts: "pause it and come and eat, now!" What's the right order?
- 1. Finish the level, then pause it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Pause the game, then go to the table — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Switch the console off at the wall — no support
- 4. Leave it running and go and eat — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
Jaden says, "the tutorial said A then B, so I'll mash both at once, same thing innit." What happens?
- 1. The game gives him an extra life for it — no support
- 2. It may not work, as B needs you in the air — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. He'll glide twice as far as normal — no support
- 4. Same thing, both buttons work any time — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 12: «In a game, "press A to jump, then hold B in the air" means B only works once you are in the air.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «work» (+4); the same doer «b» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3).
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
Coach in Glasgow: "first warm up, then the drills, then a wee match." The kids want the match first. What does the coach expect?
- 1. Warm-up, drills, then the match — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Just the match, the rest is optional — no support
- 3. The match first, as the kids want — no support
- 4. Drills, warm-up, then the match — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
"I've told you a million times, shoes off before you come in!" What's the real order?
- 1. Shoes off first, then come in — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Come in and keep your shoes on — no support
- 3. Come in, then take your shoes off — no support
- 4. Take your shoes off a million times — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
You're halfway through laying the table, forks done and knives not, when Mum calls you to help Nan. Your brother takes over. What do you tell him?
- 1. It's all done, so don't worry about it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing; he'll work it out for himself — no support
- 3. Forks are done, the knives still need doing — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Start again from the beginning, to be safe — 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 ✓
Pursuant to the instruction "Consume your meal subsequent to washing your hands", identify the action to be performed first.
- 1. Neither action, the instruction being void — no support
- 2. Both actions, performed simultaneously — no support
- 3. The consumption of the meal — no support
- 4. The washing of the hands — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · 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 8, line 2: «Words like "first", "then", "after", "before" and "once" tell you the order, and that order is not always the order the words are said in: "eat after you've wa…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wash» (+4); the same thing acted on «hands» (+2).
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that a choral director, having halted a performance, requests a resumption "from the top". Ascertain the point at which the performance is to resume.
- 1. At the commencement of the piece — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. At the precise point of interruption — no support
- 3. At the chorus nearest the interruption — no support
- 4. At the final line of the piece — 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 ✗
Identify the sense in which the word "then" is employed in the utterance "I shall call round then", made immediately after permission has been granted.
- 1. In place of that circumstance — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. In consequence of that circumstance — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Subsequently, after a stated activity — no support
- 4. Prior to that circumstance arising — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the obligations imposed by a fire evacuation procedure comprising five enumerated steps?
- 1. Possessions may be retrieved prior to the commencement of the first step — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The steps may be performed in whatever order the pupil finds most convenient — no support
- 3. Only the final step, the calling of names, is in fact obligatory — no support
- 4. All steps are to be performed in the stated order, without retrieval of possessions — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
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