Breaking things and hiding the pieces

Tests: 7 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 14 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 342 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 ✓

Mrs Reid's dog won't come out from under the bed. «It was only a banger, mate» says an older boy. What's true?

1. Dogs like loud bangs — score 0
2. It badly scared a lady and her dog and damaged her porch — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. It was harmless fun, a banger is only a noise and it's over in a second — score 3
4. Only fireworks harm anyone — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 12: «A tail tucked between the back legs usually means the dog is frightened.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «frighten» (+2); the same thing acted on «dog» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Neighbour, holding a ball: «This has JAMIE written on it. Know anything about my window?» What should Jamie do?

1. Say someone stole his ball last week — score 6
2. Say the wind must have blown the ball — no support
3. Own up, say sorry and help pay — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Hide upstairs until the man goes away — ← Mova's choice · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 60, line 3: «Sharing and taking turns are not only kind but clever: a game where one player keeps the ball soon has nobody left to play with, while a game everyone enjoys k…», 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 «leave» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Mum, pale: «why is the keyboard sticky and dead??» What should the boy say?

1. «I spilled juice yesterday and didn't tell you. Sorry» — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. «The cat walked on it» — no support
3. «It's just old» — no support
4. «It was like that already when I came home from school, honest» — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 329, line 7: «When nobody came to pick up a girl in Texas, she walked home alone; her mum arrived late and panicked, and the police were called before the girl was found saf…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «arrive» (+2); the same doer «mum» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Older boys: «come on, we did it last week and no one got caught». What is the wise answer?

1. Fine, but at a different house this time — no support
2. Fine, if no one got caught — no support
3. Only if I don't throw it — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. No, it hurts people, and I'm going to football — ✓ the right answer · 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 340, line 8: «The answers in the back of a book teach you nothing; doing the working does. A teacher can spot copied answers: every answer is right, but there is no working.», 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, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★★ · right ✓

Friend's mum on the phone: «My son says the crack wasn't there before he lent it.» What helps most now?

1. Say her son did it — no support
2. Hang up — no support
3. Say sorry, tell the truth and offer to pay — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. Stick to the story and say nothing more — 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 336, line 1: «Little lies at home usually start small: Owen in Leeds took two chocolate biscuits from the tin before tea and said he hadn't. Mum saw the crumbs on his jumper…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓

Jamie: «I already confessed once, so I can't go again, it's too embarrassing». What did the priest teach?

1. He's right, once is enough — no support
2. He should wait a whole year before going back, so the priest forgets him — no support
3. Go again: forgiveness doesn't run out, and put it right too — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. Confession only works once — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 342, line 3: «The shame was heavy. He went to confession again, and the priest said what Mum said: everyone slips, forgiveness does not run out, but each time you must put i…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «put» (+3); the same property (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Head teacher: «The whole class stays in until someone owns up about the window.» What would a fair pupil who did it do?

1. Keep quiet, it's only one short break — no support
2. Ask his friends to own up for him — score 3
3. Blame the caretaker for leaving it — ← Mova's choice · score 11
4. Own up, so the others don't pay — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 340, line 3: «When Max let his mum build his project for the school competition and said he did it, the teacher asked him how he made the tower, and he didn't know. The towe…», 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 «go away» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓

Library lady: «This page is torn. Who had this book?» The girl did. What is best?

1. Tell her, so the book can be mended — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Push the book back on the shelf — no support
3. Tear the page out fully — no support
4. Say it came torn from the shelf — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 257, line 6: «A stranger in a car at a school gate in Arizona told a girl her mum had sent him to collect her; she ran back to the teacher instead, and the police later foun…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same receiver «girl» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓

Mrs Reid, cool: «So you're the boy.» What is the best way to begin putting it right?

1. Say it was only a joke — no support
2. Say sorry and offer to paint the porch and walk the dog — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Run away again — score 4
4. Say the older boys made him do it and he didn't want to — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 339, line 13: «When something has been taken from a shop, the fair way is to go back with a grown-up, give it back and say sorry yourself.», 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 10 · ★★★ · right ✓

Which is TRUE about hiding damage?

1. It often makes the damage worse and the people sadder — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. Things hidden are never found — no support
3. It is fine if the thing was cheap — no support
4. It always keeps you out of trouble if you hide it well — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 342, line 1: «Jamie in Glasgow broke Mum's favourite mug and hid the pieces in the bin. She found them when she emptied it, and she was sad about the mug but sadder that he…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «make» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Dad, about the scratched car: «Nobody saw anything? Really?» The scratch was from his son's bike. What is the brave choice?

1. «Some kid on the street» — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. «It was me with my bike. Sorry, can I help polish it?» — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. «Maybe a bird did it» — no support
4. Say nothing and go out — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

Why did the street look at Jamie differently after the firecracker?

1. Trust in him was broken and has to be earned back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. They thought he was brave and grown-up for doing it — no support
3. They liked loud bangs — no support
4. They didn't know him — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 266, line 5: «A boy in California crossed a street while looking at his phone; he never saw the car turning towards him, and it hit him and broke his leg.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «break» (+2); the same doer «street» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · 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 concealment of damage caused accidentally.

1. Concealment has no bearing upon the trust of others — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Concealment invariably prevents any consequence — no support
3. Concealment is permissible where the article is of low value and readily replaced — no support
4. Concealment commonly aggravates both the damage and the distress of the owner — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 341, line 4: «Winning by cheating is not really winning: the others stop the game, stop trusting you, and you have not got any better at anything.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «trust» (+2); the same doer «others» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the principal harms resulting from the discharge of a firecracker at the door of an elderly neighbour.

1. Harm solely to the reputation of the street — no support
2. Harm solely to the person discharging it — no support
3. Fear caused to the occupant and her animal, and damage to the property — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. No harm, the noise being of short duration and the door being undamaged — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 53, line 2: «Feelings show in the body: anger can make your face hot, your fists tight and your heart race; fear can give you «butterflies» in your tummy and make you want…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «fear» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the teaching concerning a penitent who repeats a wrong after a former confession?

1. Forgiveness remains available, but reparation is required on each occasion — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. A second confession is prohibited — no support
3. Repetition relieves the penitent of any duty of reparation — no support
4. Forgiveness is available on a single occasion only — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 339, line 14: «People who have confessed can slip again; forgiveness does not run out, but each wrong must be put right.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «forgiveness» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Determine which measures are most conducive to the gradual alteration of a habit of misconduct.

1. The concealment of all future misconduct — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Remaining entirely idle at home — no support
3. A single promise never to err again — no support
4. The avoidance of companions who incite it and the provision of occupation for idle time — ✓ 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

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