Cheating in games and sports
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 341 of the everyday 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 ✓
Luis on the phone: «not coming round, u always reset when ur losing». What would win Luis back?
- 1. Let Luis reset too — score 1
- 2. Buy a new game — score 1
- 3. Say sorry and promise to play every game to the end — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Say Luis is a sore loser and he resets too — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 341, line 1: «Games only work if everyone plays by the rules. Ben in Austin pressed the reset button every time he was losing a video game with his friend Luis. One day Luis…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
«I always skip numbers in hide n seek, they never notice». What is likely?
- 1. They notice, call it cheating and stop playing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. They think it's really clever and start to copy it — no support
- 3. They never notice — score -6
- 4. They count faster too — score 2
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 276, line 2: «A cash machine (an ATM in the USA, a cashpoint in the UK) asks for a secret number called a PIN. Use it with an adult, and cover the keypad with your other han…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «secret number» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
Teacher, cold: «Why is your quiz score in blue when everyone used black?» What's the honest answer?
- 1. «Someone else changed it» — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. «You must have written it in blue yourself, miss, it was like that» — no support
- 3. «I changed it. Sorry, I'd rather be in the middle honestly» — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. «My pen ran out» — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 341, line 11: «Changing a score doesn't change what you know.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «change» (+2); the same thing acted on «score» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · right ✓
Mum, reading the record: «20 mins? You can't even tell me who's in the story.» What should the boy do?
- 1. Own up and set the timer properly from now on — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Say the timer was broken — no support
- 3. Make up the story's names quickly and hope — no support
- 4. Say the story had no people in 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 5 · wrong ✗
Kid in the yard: «I faked sick on sports day last year and the year before, worked both times, so it's fine». What is true?
- 1. It's fine since it worked two years running and nobody got hurt — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It still lets the team down and leaves him not trying — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It's fine if you're slow — no support
- 4. It only matters on big days — 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 ✗
Teammate, annoyed: «we lost by ONE point cos you got whispered answers». What is the best reply?
- 1. «You're right, sorry, team» — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. «It wasn't my fault at all, honest» — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. «The quizmaster was mean to us» — no support
- 4. «You should've whispered louder» — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 341, line 1: «Games only work if everyone plays by the rules. Ben in Austin pressed the reset button every time he was losing a video game with his friend Luis. One day Luis…», 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 7 · wrong ✗
Teacher: «I can hear beeping, Callum.» What is the right next step for Callum?
- 1. Say it's his watch going off — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Say everyone has one — no support
- 3. Hide it in his sleeve — no support
- 4. Put the calculator away, own up and practise — ✓ 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 8 · right ✓
Sister after blind man's buff: «you're peeking, I saw your head tip back!» What helps most?
- 1. Stop the game — no support
- 2. Say sorry and play with the blindfold properly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Peek less obviously next time, just a tiny gap — no support
- 4. Say she's a liar — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 336, line 4: «In the end he woke Mum and told her, and said sorry to his sister. On Saturday he went to confession at church: «Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.» The prie…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Which is the best thing to say when you lose a game you badly wanted to win?
- 1. «This game's rubbish» — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. «That doesn't count» — no support
- 3. «You cheated, I saw you!» — no support
- 4. «Well played, can we have another go?» — ✓ 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 10 · right ✓
Ben lost his race but ran it honestly. What did he gain?
- 1. His team's trust and his own pride — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nothing at all — no support
- 3. A gold medal for trying so hard — no support
- 4. A day off 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
Test 11 · wrong ✗
«just say ur leg hurts, you'll come last anyway». What is the wise answer?
- 1. Okay, a sore leg is a good excuse — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Run anyway; last after trying beats faking — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Say your arm hurts instead — no support
- 4. Ask Mum for a note — 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 ✗
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the resetting of a game by a participant who is losing.
- 1. It constitutes a legitimate tactic — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It constitutes cheating and commonly causes other participants to cease playing — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is of no consequence to other participants — no support
- 4. It is permissible where the game is electronic, since no physical object is affected — 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 ✓
Identify the principal consequence of the feigning of an injury in order to avoid participation in a race on behalf of a team.
- 1. The team is deprived of a runner and the pupil acts dishonestly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The team gains an advantage, since a slower runner is thereby replaced by another — no support
- 3. No consequence of any description ensues — no support
- 4. The pupil is thereby rendered a faster runner — 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the alteration of a score subsequent to its recording?
- 1. It alters the record but not the knowledge of the pupil — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It improves the knowledge of the pupil, since the higher mark encourages him — no support
- 3. It is permissible where unobserved — no support
- 4. It is required by the rules of the quiz — 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 ✓
Determine the conduct most conducive to the continuance of friendships when a game is lost.
- 1. The accusation of the winner of dishonesty — no support
- 2. The completion of the game and the congratulation of the winner — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. The refusal to play on any future occasion — no support
- 4. The interruption of the game prior to its conclusion — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 341, line 7: «Losing well, by finishing the game and shaking hands, keeps friends.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «finish» (+2); the same thing acted on «game» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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