Soft words for hard things: relations and family
Tests: 7 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 2 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 13 of the euphemisms 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 · ★ · right ✓
Divorce announcement: "Citing irreconcilable differences, the couple will divorce." Why are they divorcing?
- 1. They say they can no longer get on — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They have different jobs in different towns — no support
- 3. They are moving countries — no support
- 4. They want to save money — 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 ✗
Gossip: "His lady friend? Oh, she's been round every day since Easter." Who is she?
- 1. His sister — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. His cleaner — no support
- 3. His carer — no support
- 4. His girlfriend — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
Uncle at a barbecue: "Ask the boss, mate", pointing at his wife. What is "the boss" here?
- 1. His old mum — no support
- 2. The cook at the grill — no support
- 3. His wife — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. His manager — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 7: «"Other half" means husband, wife or partner (everyday, UK).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «husband» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
News: "The prince, who has been estranged from his family, flew home alone." What is true?
- 1. He and his family are not in contact — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He was lost — no support
- 3. He is a stranger to all of them now — no support
- 4. He was adopted — 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 ✗
Teen: "nah he's footloose and fancy-free now, dumped her last week." What does it tell you?
- 1. He is dancing barefoot — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He is single now — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He is away on holiday — no support
- 4. He lost his shoes — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Wedding reply card: "Name: ___ Plus-one: ___". What goes in the second blank?
- 1. The guest you are bringing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A second gift — no support
- 3. A second address — no support
- 4. Your age, with one year added — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Aunt: "Your cousin? Black sheep, love. Don't ask." What is the aunt saying?
- 1. The cousin is the family's shame — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The cousin has dark hair — no support
- 3. The cousin works on a sheep farm up north — no support
- 4. The cousin is the oldest — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Friend: "Mum and Dad are taking some time apart. Dad's at Gran's." What is likely happening?
- 1. Gran is ill — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They are redecorating — no support
- 3. Dad is on holiday at the seaside — no support
- 4. The parents are separating — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · right ✓
Status update: "Relationship: it's complicated." What is the person saying?
- 1. The relationship is unclear or messy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They have no relationship at all — no support
- 3. They are learning maths — no support
- 4. They are married and happy — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Old aunt, rough: "Thirty and still on the shelf, poor thing." What does she mean (unkindly)?
- 1. She thinks the woman is tidy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The woman works in a library — no support
- 3. The woman cannot reach the shelf — no support
- 4. She thinks the woman is too old to marry — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
Kid: "We're a blended family, I got 2 stepsisters." What is true?
- 1. There is a stepparent with children — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The family likes making fruit smoothies — no support
- 3. The sisters are twins — no support
- 4. The family is mixed-race — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Gossip: "Them two? On a break again. Back together by Friday, you'll see." What is the gossip saying?
- 1. They are resting at work — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They broke a plate — no support
- 3. They have split up for now but may get back together — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. They are on holiday together at the seaside this week — 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 meaning most accurately conveyed by the expression "significant other" as employed in formal American correspondence.
- 1. A person of considerable public importance — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A person's romantic partner — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A person's eldest son or daughter — no support
- 4. A person's principal business associate — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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 an individual's family is a "single-parent family". Ascertain which of the following is thereby established.
- 1. The children are raised by one parent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Neither parent has contracted marriage — no support
- 3. The family resides in isolation — no support
- 4. The household comprises a single child — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 5: «"Single-parent family" means a family where one parent raises the children.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «raise» (+3); the same doer «one parent» (+3); the same thing acted on «children» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established usage of the phrase "living in sin" in former times.
- 1. Residence in a disreputable district of a town or city — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cohabitation without the solemnisation of marriage — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Habitual misbehaviour of children — no support
- 4. Conduct in breach of criminal law — 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 most accurately characterises a remark by a parent that she and her sibling are "not close"?
- 1. The siblings were not born as twins — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The siblings are not related by blood — no support
- 3. The siblings have a poor or distant relationship — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The siblings reside at a considerable distance — 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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