Listening: following talk, asking good questions
Tests: 1 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 50 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 ✗
Your mate says, "Listening's easy, you just sit there and shut up." Put him right.
- 1. It only means looking at whoever is speaking — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It means remembering every word, in order — no support
- 3. It means thinking about and checking what is said — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He is right: keeping silent is all it takes — 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 2 · wrong ✗
What would happen if you tried to write every word in your notes?
- 1. You would catch the main idea better — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. You would fall behind and miss ideas — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Your notes would come out shorter — no support
- 4. The teacher would slow down for you — 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 3 · wrong ✗
Mia's summary says, "A storm hit the town, which was totally boring." What is wrong?
- 1. It names the town — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It mentions the storm — no support
- 3. It is far too short — no support
- 4. It adds her opinion — ✓ 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 4 · wrong ✗
A cartoon kid says, "Zoning out means you're lazy, bruv." ("Bruv" means brother or mate.) Fix it.
- 1. He's right; only lazy kids ever zone out — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Grown-ups never zone out, only children — no support
- 3. Once you zone out, you can't tune back in — no support
- 4. Everyone zones out; you can refocus — ✓ 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 5 · right ✓
Nan in Cardiff: "Listen now, cariad, first wash your hands, then lay the table, then call your dad." ("Cariad" is Welsh for love or darling.) What do you do second?
- 1. Put the kettle on — no support
- 2. Wash your hands — no support
- 3. Call Dad — no support
- 4. Lay the table — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 5: «A hyphen is a short join inside words, and it can change the story: a "man-eating shark" eats people, but a "man eating shark" is a man having shark for dinner…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «put» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
Jayden, rough: "Oi, what'd she say? I was on me phone." What should he have done?
- 1. Scrolled faster to finish sooner — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing; phones help you listen — no support
- 3. Put the phone away and listened — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Asked again, louder, later on — 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 teacher talks for five minutes about volcanoes, lava and ash, with one funny story about her holiday in Italy. What was the main idea?
- 1. Volcanoes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A funny story she told — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Her holiday — no support
- 4. The country of Italy — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 2: «Every letter has a starting point and a direction. Isla starts her «d» at the bottom and pushes up; her teacher says «start at the top». Many letters, a, d, g,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+1); the same doer «teacher» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · wrong ✗
Ahmed asks, "Miss, what does 'erupt' mean?" What kind of question is it?
- 1. A clarifying question — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A silly question — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. A rude question — score 2
- 4. A trick question — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 50, line 15: «Asking questions shows interest; it does not mean you are slow.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
The teacher says, "First read the page, then underline three verbs, then draw a picture." You start drawing straight away. What went wrong?
- 1. You skipped the first two steps — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. You did every step just right — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. You read too much of the page — no support
- 4. Drawing always has to come first — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 23, line 10: «Steps in instructions are numbered so you do them in the right order.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «steps» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
Kayla, Gen Z: "Bestie said the trip's Friday, no wait, she said Thursday." Which day did her best friend say in the end?
- 1. Neither day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Thursday — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Both days — no support
- 4. Friday — 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 11 · wrong ✗
Instructions: "Stand up, turn left twice, then turn right once." You start facing the board. Which way do you face at the end?
- 1. A quarter turn to the right of the board — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Straight at the board again — no support
- 3. A quarter turn to the left of the board — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Straight at the back wall — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the practice of restating, in one's own words, what a speaker has said.
- 1. Projecting — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Debating — no support
- 3. Interrupting — no support
- 4. Paraphrasing — ✓ 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response that most accurately characterises the main idea of a talk.
- 1. The final instruction issued — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. That which the talk principally concerns — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The most humorous anecdote it contains — no support
- 4. The opening word uttered by the speaker — 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 · right ✓
It is given that a pupil has failed to understand part of an explanation. Identify the most appropriate course of action.
- 1. Ask a question about the specific part — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Commence the task without further thought — score 2
- 3. Declare the explanation wholly useless — no support
- 4. Remain silent in the hope of eventual clarity — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 50, line 4: «When you do not get it, ask a clear question about one part: "Which part?" helps much more than "I don't get any of it."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Determine which of the following ought to be excluded from a summary of a news report.
- 1. The writer's own opinions — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The principal facts reported — no support
- 3. The place where events occurred — no support
- 4. The persons who were involved — 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
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