MovaPriority and urgency
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-11-05, commit 610eccd1d
Lesson 9 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 ✗
Lily shouted "coming!" after "this minute, young lady" and finished her level. What went wrong?
- 1. She should have asked what Mum wanted first — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She should have saved first, and she did — no support
- 3. Nothing, saying "coming" counts as going — no support
- 4. She said she was coming but did not come — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Ryan dropped his half-built Lego tower all over the floor the second Dad said "when you get a minute, sort the recycling". What was off?
- 1. Wrong job: Dad wanted the Lego sorted — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Too much hurry: it could wait for a gap — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nothing: Dad's words meant right now — no support
- 4. Too slow: he should have run even faster — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓
Thandi's mum, Cape Town: "I'll fetch you now now." Thandi's gran: "I'll ring you just now." Who is coming sooner?
- 1. Neither, they are both just being polite — no support
- 2. Gran, because "just now" means this second — no support
- 3. Both, at exactly the same moment — no support
- 4. Mum, because "now now" means quite soon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 5: «Watch the small words too: in South Africa "just now" means in a while and "now now" means soon; in Yorkshire "now then!" is a hello; "now, now" is said to cal…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2); the same property (+1).
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A cartoon shows a boy finishing his football match while his dad shouts "drop everything, Nan's fallen!" The boy says "one sec". What should the cartoon show?
- 1. The boy putting the controller down and running — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The boy telling Dad to ring someone else — no support
- 3. The boy asking Dad to say "please" first — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. The boy finishing the match, then going — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 17: «"Ask your dad" means go and get Dad's answer; "ask him to wait" means pass the request on; "don't ask" means let's drop the subject.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same receiver «dad» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Sophie says "no rush" means she can skip ringing Nan. Is she right?
- 1. Yes, if Nan does not ring back again — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, "no rush" means ring her this minute — no support
- 3. Yes, "no rush" means it does not matter — no support
- 4. No, "no rush" is about when, not whether — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Chloe's teacher: "phonics folder first." Chloe starts on the colouring because it's easier. Is that OK?
- 1. Yes, an easy job can always go first — no support
- 2. No, "first" put the folder at the top of the list — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No, she should not do the colouring at all — no support
- 4. Yes, as long as she finishes both jobs — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 4: «Then the half-done job does not vanish. You finish it later, hand it over or drop it, and you say which: "the dog's still not fed, I'll do it now". "Never inte…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «finish» (+2); the same thing acted on «job» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers.
Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓
Kai, mid-essay, hears the smoke alarm. His teacher shouts "everybody out!" What happens to the essay?
- 1. He leaves it and goes; it gets finished later — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. He finishes his last sentence, then goes — score 0
- 3. He takes the essay with him to finish outside — score 2
- 4. He stays to save it, since the alarm may be a drill — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 9, line 14: «After an interruption, say what happened to the half-done job: finish it later, hand it over, or drop it.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «finish» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2).
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Gran is on the phone. Ellie bursts in shouting "Gran! can I have a biscuit?" Is that a good interruption?
- 1. Yes, any question is fine to cut in with — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, children must never interrupt at all — no support
- 3. Yes, because Gran never minds biscuits — no support
- 4. No, a biscuit can wait until the call ends — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Mum, wrapping a present: "bloody hell, the milk's boiling over! grab the pan off, quick!" You were drying the cups. What now, and after?
- 1. Grab the pan with the cup still in your hand — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Put the cup down, deal with the milk, then finish drying — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Deal with the milk, then forget about the cups — no support
- 4. Finish the cups first, then look at the milk — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
After the flood scare, Mum asks: "right, where were we?" You were feeding the dog. What do you say?
- 1. "The dog's fed," even though it was not — score 7
- 2. "I hadn't fed the dog yet, I'll do it now" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 3. "Can we start the whole day again?" — no support
- 4. "Nothing, we were just talking about baths" — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 4: «Then the half-done job does not vanish. You finish it later, hand it over or drop it, and you say which: "the dog's still not fed, I'll do it now". "Never inte…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «dog» (+4).
Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓
Coach on the pitch, Scotland: "Rory! off the pitch, now, the ref's blown for lightning." Rory is about to score. What now?
- 1. Leave the ball and walk off right away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Score first, then walk off quickly — no support
- 3. Wait to see a flash of lightning first — no support
- 4. Ask the ref if the goal still counts — 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 ✗
Whereas a parent instructs that a minor task be performed "when you get a minute", determine the period within which the obligation is properly to be discharged.
- 1. At an indefinite future time of the minor's choosing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. At no time, the instruction being merely courteous — no support
- 3. Immediately, to the exclusion of every other activity — no support
- 4. At a convenient interval later the same day — ✓ 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 ✗
It is given that an instruction to feed an animal is subsequently overtaken by notice that a bath is overflowing. Identify the action to which priority is thereby properly accorded.
- 1. The awaiting of further instruction from the parent — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The simultaneous performance of both actions — no support
- 3. The feeding of the animal, as the earlier instruction — no support
- 4. The termination of the flow of water from the taps — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the statement that most accurately characterises the proposition that one must never interrupt another person.
- 1. It applies to adults only and never to minors in any case — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is incorrect, interruption being proper in urgent or dangerous circumstances — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is correct without exception in every circumstance whatsoever — no support
- 4. It is correct save where refreshments are urgently desired — 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 ✗
Pursuant to an instruction of the South African variety to perform a task "just now", ascertain the time at which performance is expected.
- 1. At no time, the phrase being a mere courtesy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Forthwith, to the exclusion of all other activity — no support
- 3. After an interval, in due course rather than forthwith — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Prior to the issuing of the instruction itself — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown.
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