Vocabulary in context
Tests: 3 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 20 of the english 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. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · wrong ✗
«famished means full up, deffo». What context clue proves this wrong?
- 1. After a long walk you'd be hungry, not full — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nobody walks that far — no support
- 3. Famished is a word for a colour that is used in old books — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 4. The word starts with F — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 1: «A suffix is a few letters added to the end of a word that change its job or meaning. «-ful» means full of (hopeful), «-less» means without (useless), «-ness» m…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · wrong ✗
★★★ «Maya's luminous watch was the only thing they could see in the dark cave.» What does luminous mean, and which clue shows it?
- 1. Broken, because they were in a cave — no support
- 2. Big, because it could be seen — no support
- 3. Expensive, because it was the only one — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Glowing, because it could be seen in the dark — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 1: «Inference means working out what the writer means but does not say. «Lily slammed the door and threw her bag on the floor.» The text never says «angry», but sl…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «clues» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
Leo: «treacherous means pretty, cos paths are pretty». What is the problem?
- 1. Nothing, his meaning works perfectly well in the sentence — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He ignored the clues about loose stones and steep drops — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Paths can't be pretty — no support
- 4. He spelt it wrong — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · right ✓
★★★ «The puppy was not famished, but he was certainly peckish.» Which is closest to the meaning of peckish?
- 1. A little hungry — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Not hungry at all — no support
- 3. Very, very hungry — no support
- 4. Thirsty — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
★★★ Put these from least to most unhappy: heartbroken, glum, miserable.
- 1. heartbroken, glum, miserable — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. glum, miserable, heartbroken — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. glum, heartbroken, miserable — no support
- 4. miserable, glum, heartbroken — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
In a cartoon, a teacher says «The road is treacherous» and the kids think it's a road that tells lies. What is true?
- 1. Treacherous only means telling lies — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Treacherous means bumpy and fun — no support
- 3. Roads can lie — no support
- 4. Here treacherous means dangerous — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
«the servo's shut, we'll have to push the ute» (ute is Aussie for pickup truck). Why push it?
- 1. They want exercise — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They probably need petrol and the petrol station is closed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The ute is too clean — no support
- 4. A servo is a broken engine, so the ute won't start without it — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · right ✓
Mia's mum: «Your nan's been curt with me all day.» How has Nan been talking?
- 1. Short and unfriendly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Loud and happy — no support
- 3. In a funny accent — no support
- 4. Kind and chatty — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
What would happen if you stopped reading every time you met a new word?
- 1. The words would get easier on their own — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. You'd read much faster — score 4
- 3. Reading would be slow and you'd lose the story — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. You'd never meet new words again — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 8, line 5: «Some words are traps on their own. «Occasion» has two c's and only one s; «musician» keeps the c of «music». When stuck, ask: what is the root, how does it end…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «words» (+2); the same place «own» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
«barely means with no clothes on, like bare, innit». Is it?
- 1. Yes, and the voice had no clothes — no support
- 2. No, barely means only just — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Yes, barely and bare always mean the same — score 7
- 4. No, it means very loudly — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 20, line 12: ««Barely» means only just, as in «barely a whisper»: very quiet.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal means by which a reader may determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word without recourse to a dictionary.
- 1. Reference to the length of the word alone, longer words generally denoting larger things — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Omission of the sentence altogether — no support
- 3. Consideration of the context in which it appears — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Examination of the book's cover — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
It is stated that the path was «treacherous, full of loose stones and steep drops». Select the response that most accurately characterises «treacherous».
- 1. Hazardous — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Picturesque and pleasing to the eye of any traveller passing along it — no support
- 3. Level and even — no support
- 4. Brief in length — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the meaning of «famished» as employed in the sentence «The children were famished after the long walk».
- 1. Exhausted and in need of a lengthy period of sleep before supper — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Extremely hungry — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Lost upon the way — no support
- 4. Joyful and excited — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning synonyms?
- 1. Synonyms are words of opposite meaning, as are hot and cold or big and small — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 2. Synonyms are words that sound alike — score 6
- 3. Synonyms share a similar meaning but may differ in strength or feeling — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Synonyms are identical in every respect — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 20, line 15: «Synonyms have similar meanings, but often different strength or feeling: glum is a quiet, gloomy sort of sad, miserable is very unhappy, and heartbroken is the…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «synonyms» (+3); the same thing acted on «similar meanings» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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