Accidents told too late
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 343 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 ✓
Grandad, squinting: «Who's been sitting on my specs?» What's the kind and honest answer?
- 1. «Me, by accident. Sorry, I'll read you the paper» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. «Maybe the dog» — no support
- 3. «You sat on them yourself, Grandad, I saw you do it» — score 6
- 4. «They were like that» — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 343, line 1: «An accident is not a sin; hiding it can grow into one. Leo in Vancouver sat on Grandad's glasses, bent them, and put them back in the case. Grandad couldn't re…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «read» (+5); the same thing acted on «paper» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mum, lifting the rug: «WHAT is this? When did this happen??» What should the girl say?
- 1. «The paint fell from the ceiling» — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. «It was already there when I came in» — no support
- 3. «The dog did it» — no support
- 4. The truth, and offer to help scrub it — ✓ 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 ✓
Bro: «just bin the bits, Dad'll never notice the gnome's gone». What is wiser?
- 1. Buy a gnome secretly and swap it in the garden — no support
- 2. Tell Dad and say sorry; hidden bits turn up — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Bury them deeper — no support
- 4. Blame the fox — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 338, line 1: «Taking something that is not yours is stealing, even when it is small. Harry in Manchester grabbed a handful of sweets from the pick-and-mix because nobody was…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «say» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Dad downstairs: «Why is there a WET PATCH on the ceiling?!» What helps most now?
- 1. Say it was always there — no support
- 2. Hide more towels — score 6
- 3. Tell him about the bath straight away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Say it's raining inside the house again — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 343, line 2: «Leo let the bath overflow while he played a game, mopped it with towels and hid them. Nobody noticed — until a wet patch spread across the ceiling downstairs.…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same property (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Kid: «I've never told about the stuff I break and I've never been caught». What's true?
- 1. It's fine if he's careful — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Things usually turn up, and hiding makes them worse — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He'll never be caught — no support
- 4. Hiding always works for small things if you're careful — 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 ✓
Little kid at after-school club, crying: «Who smashed our tower?» The boy did, cross. What should he do?
- 1. Own up, say sorry and help rebuild it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 2. Say towers are boring — score 11
- 3. Walk away — score 2
- 4. Say a big kid did it and ran off outside — score 11
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 11, tied with another option at 11 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 195, line 4: «Example: a boy in Ohio breaks a window and says «It wasn't me» because he is scared. Now he must invent more lies to cover the first one, and when the truth co…», 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 «say» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mum: «The fish is floating on its side. Have you been changing the water?» What's the honest answer?
- 1. «Every day, I promise» — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. «It just got old» — no support
- 3. «Fish do that» — no support
- 4. «No, I didn't. I'm sorry» — ✓ 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 ✓
Classmate: «That's not my ruler, that's got YOUR name on it». What is the fix?
- 1. Say the names got swapped by magic in the night — no support
- 2. Keep both rulers — no support
- 3. Say he's mistaken — no support
- 4. Tell him the truth and give him a new ruler — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 335, line 16: «After a lie, keep telling the truth, and trust will grow back slowly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «truth» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dad, plunger in hand: «Who broke the flush?» The boy did and is embarrassed. What should he do?
- 1. Pretend to be asleep — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Say it was the plumber who broke it last time — no support
- 3. Say it broke by itself — no support
- 4. Own up; embarrassing things are still better told — ✓ 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 ✓
Which is TRUE about telling about an accident at once?
- 1. It often stops it getting worse and is easier to forgive — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. It never makes a difference — no support
- 3. It is only for big accidents — no support
- 4. It always gets you a bigger punishment than hiding it would — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 343, line 5: «Most accidents are easy to forgive; hiding them is what causes trouble.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
«Did u tell anyone u broke Grandad's glasses?» «Nope, put em back in the case». What will most likely happen?
- 1. Glasses heal in the case — no support
- 2. Nothing happens — no support
- 3. Grandad finds them bent and needs new ones anyway — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Grandad never wears them — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 211, line 5: «Being shorter, taller, wearing glasses or a hearing aid is normal, and nobody should be teased for it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wear» (+2); the same thing acted on «glasses» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the concealment of an overflow of bath water.
- 1. Water may penetrate the floor and damage the ceiling of the room beneath — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Overflows occasion no damage whatsoever — no support
- 3. Concealed water evaporates overnight without consequence of any kind — no support
- 4. Towels invariably absorb the entire quantity — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 343, line 7: «Water from an overflowing bath can soak through the floor and damage the ceiling below.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «damage» (+2); the same thing acted on «ceiling» (+2); the same doer «water» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal reason for which a spillage ought to be reported without delay.
- 1. It may be remedied more readily whilst fresh — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It may thereby be concealed far more effectively — no support
- 3. Delay has no bearing whatsoever upon the remedy — no support
- 4. It ceases to be a spillage after a short interval — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises reparation for the accidental breaking of the spectacles of a grandparent?
- 1. It is required only where the grandparent so demands — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It may consist solely in the payment of money — no support
- 3. It may consist in acts of service, such as reading aloud, as well as in money — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is unnecessary where the breakage was accidental — 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 ✗
Ascertain the most probable outcome of the burial of the fragments of a broken garden ornament.
- 1. The fragments are never discovered once they are buried in soil — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The fragments are commonly discovered at a later date — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The ornament is thereby restored — no support
- 4. The owner is thereby compensated — 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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