Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 14 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mum on the phone: "Sorry, she's tired, she's been screaming for an hour." What is going on?
- 1. The child is sleeping — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The child is having a tantrum — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The child is resting quietly — no support
- 4. The child went jogging — 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 ✗
Neighbour, rough: "Your lad's a bloody handful, he's kicked my fence again." What is the neighbour saying?
- 1. The boy has big hands — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The boy is strong — no support
- 3. The boy is helpful — no support
- 4. The boy is hard to control — ✓ 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 ✓
News: "Police attended a domestic in Mill Road last night." What did the police deal with?
- 1. A violent quarrel at home — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. A broken shop window — no support
- 3. A lost dog in the street — no support
- 4. A car crash — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 1: «Families are complicated, and people use soft words so they do not have to explain quarrels, divorces or who lives with whom.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «quarrels» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Classmate: "Dad's a weekend dad now, I see him Sat and Sun." What is true?
- 1. Dad lives with him all week — no support
- 2. His parents live apart — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Dad is away on a holiday — no support
- 4. Dad works only at weekends — ← Mova's choice · 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 14, line 3: «Family words soften hard situations too: a police «domestic» is a fight at home, and a «weekend dad» only sees his children at weekends.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «weekend dad» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Teacher's note: "Freddie made a bad choice at lunch and pushed a friend." What really happened?
- 1. Freddie chose the wrong friend — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Freddie chose cold pasta — no support
- 3. Freddie pushed someone and misbehaved — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Freddie forgot his lunch — 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 ✗
Mum, exhausted: "He's not even 3 and he's a total threenager." What does she mean?
- 1. He acts very grown-up and helpful — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He is defiant and moody — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He is thirteen — no support
- 4. He is very tall — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Aunt: "Kids gone to uni, house is so quiet. Proper empty nester now." What has happened?
- 1. Her children have moved out — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Her birds flew south — no support
- 3. Her pets ran away from home — no support
- 4. She sold her furniture — 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 ✓
Grandma laughing: "Oh, he's high-spirited, that one!" as he jumps on the sofa. What is she saying?
- 1. He is noisy and unruly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He believes he saw a ghost — no support
- 3. He is good at high jumps — no support
- 4. He is very happy and calm — 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 ✗
Babysitter text: "bit of a meltdown at bedtime but she's asleep now" What happened at bedtime?
- 1. The heating broke down — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She had a tantrum — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Her ice lolly melted — no support
- 4. She fell asleep straight away — 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 ✗
Dad, snapping: "Right, naughty step, now. Three minutes." What is happening?
- 1. It is a game — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The child is being punished — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The child is going upstairs to bed — no support
- 4. The step is broken — 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 ✓
Mum to cousin: "Don't worry, it's the terrible twos, it'll pass." What does she mean?
- 1. The twins are terrible — no support
- 2. Two is a bad number — no support
- 3. Something bad will happen twice more before it stops — no support
- 4. The toddler's bad behaviour is a normal stage — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 19: «"The terrible twos" means the difficult stage of a toddler around age two.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «difficult stage» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Parenting leaflet: "Co-parenting works best when both parents agree on bedtimes." Who is the leaflet for?
- 1. Teachers — no support
- 2. Parents of twins who share all the work of bedtime — no support
- 3. Parents who live apart but raise children together — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 4. Grandparents — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 7: «"Co-parenting" means parents who are apart still raising their children together.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «parents» (+4); the same action «raise» (+2); the same thing acted on «children» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
Uncle: "Strong-willed? He's a stubborn little mule!" What do both phrases mean?
- 1. The child is defiant — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The child is very clever — no support
- 3. The child likes animals — no support
- 4. The child is very strong — 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 when a carer states that a child is "going through a phase".
- 1. The child is studying lunar cycles — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The child is exhibiting temporary undesirable behaviour — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The child is transferring to another institution — no support
- 4. The child is undergoing rapid physical growth — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the established usage of the term "time out" in respect of the discipline of young children.
- 1. A brief period of enforced solitude as a sanction — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. An interval of recreation out of doors — no support
- 3. A cessation of timekeeping during a game — no support
- 4. An early dismissal from school — 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 ✗
It is stated that a child has been described as "spirited". Ascertain the quality thereby most probably intended.
- 1. A belief in supernatural beings — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Constant cheerfulness and calm — no support
- 3. Wilfulness and difficulty of management — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. An unusual fondness for beverages — 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 · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the instruction "use your words" addressed to a young child?
- 1. The child is to cease crying or striking and state the request — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The child is to compose a written letter — no support
- 3. The child is to enlarge his vocabulary by learning new words daily — no support
- 4. The child is to recite a poem aloud — 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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