Leaving someone out
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 347 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
«his trainers are well old lol, does his mum buy em at a jumble sale». What's the kind reply?
- 1. «Ha, yeah, and his shoes are older than my dad» — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. «Mine are newer» — no support
- 3. «Leave it, it's nothing to do with who he is» — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. «Say it louder» — 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 ✗
Kai: «I said sorry for teasing last month, so laughing at her answer doesn't count». What's true?
- 1. It doesn't count after one sorry, the first covers it — no support
- 2. It's a new slip and still needs a sorry — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She should toughen up — no support
- 4. Laughing at answers is fine — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 347, line 8: «Laughing at someone's wrong answer stops them trying.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «wrong answer» (+3); the same action «laugh» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Head teacher, calm: «Why did you say she couldn't be the princess?» What's the right way forward?
- 1. Say it was only a game, princesses aren't real anyway — score 5
- 2. Say everyone says it — score 7
- 3. Understand it was wrong, say sorry and play fairly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Say nothing — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 347, line 6: «Saying someone can't be or do something because of their skin colour is wrong and hurtful.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «skin colour» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mum on the phone: «Our son missed the bus because someone hid his bag.» The boy who hid it was joking. What should he do?
- 1. Blame his mates for it — no support
- 2. Say it was really funny — ← Mova's choice · score 11
- 3. Say the bag hid itself — score 11
- 4. Own up and say sorry — ✓ the right answer · score 11
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 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 238, line 5: «Example: a boy in Sydney finds a syringe in the park. He does not touch it, puts his bag next to it to mark the spot and runs to tell his mum, who calls the 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 «tell» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 11. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lads at football: «no girls, she'll be rubbish». She's the best scorer in Year 5. What's true?
- 1. Only if she's in goal — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She can only watch — no support
- 3. Girls can play as well as anyone, so let her in — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Girls can't play football — 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 ✓
Teacher: «Someone said something about Owen's body in the changing room. He won't change now.» What is right for the boy who said it?
- 1. Say nothing — score 3
- 2. Say it was only a joke and nobody else seemed to mind — no support
- 3. Own up, say sorry and say something true and kind — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Say Owen is too sensitive — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 347, line 9: «Words about someone's body can hurt deeply and for a long time. A boy called «fat» in the changing room began hiding when he changed, and the teacher talked to…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «say» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
«guess what, Sam still has a teddy!!» – the whole class laughs. What does that do?
- 1. Nothing, everyone knows — no support
- 2. Helps Sam grow up — no support
- 3. Breaks Sam's trust and gets him teased — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 4. Makes Sam popular — score 11
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 347, line 1: «Kai in Perth teased a boy because his clothes were old, to make the others laugh. The boy stopped coming out at playtime, and his mum told the teacher. Kai sai…», 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 «tease» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Kid: «I laughed at her wrong answer and she never noticed, so no harm». What's true?
- 1. Wrong answers are funny — no support
- 2. No harm done if she didn't look round, she never knew — no support
- 3. She might have; laughing at mistakes stops people trying — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. It's only harmful in tests — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 347, line 8: «Laughing at someone's wrong answer stops them trying.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stop» (+2); the same doer «laughing» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Girl next to her: «can I use your red?» What is the kind answer?
- 1. «Sure, here» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. «Only if you pay» — no support
- 3. «After I'm done with all of them» — no support
- 4. «No, get your own» — 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 leaving someone out because they're different?
- 1. It hurts them and says nothing true about them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It's fine if they are new — no support
- 3. It's only wrong if a teacher sees — no support
- 4. It keeps groups strong, everyone knows who's in — 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 ✓
«just say sorry, then you can do it again». Why is that wrong?
- 1. Only grown-ups say sorry — score 4
- 2. Sorries don't matter — no support
- 3. A real sorry means trying not to do it again — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Sorry works every time — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 126, line 19: «A real sorry includes saying what you did and trying to put it right.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «sorry» (+4); the same doer «real sorry» (+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 exclusion of a child from a role in play on account of skin colour.
- 1. It is wrong only where a teacher is present — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is of no consequence to the child excluded — no support
- 3. It is permissible within imaginative play, since the roles assigned are not real ones — no support
- 4. It is wrong and hurtful, skin colour determining nothing of what a person may be — ✓ 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal effect upon a pupil of laughter directed at his incorrect answers.
- 1. He ceases to make errors — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. He becomes less willing to attempt answers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It has no effect whatsoever — score 2
- 4. He becomes more confident — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 121, line 18: «When the head teacher walks into the classroom, pupils stop talking and look up, and some schools ask them to stand.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stop» (+2); the same doer «pupils» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · 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 disclosure to a class of a private matter confided by a friend?
- 1. It constitutes a breach of trust which exposes the friend to ridicule — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It strengthens the friendship, since the matter is now openly known to all — no support
- 3. It is permissible where the matter is trivial — no support
- 4. It constitutes a harmless amusement — 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 ✗
Determine the proper response of a child who, having ceased to tease others, subsequently repeats such conduct.
- 1. He ought to conceal the repetition — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. He ought to regard the earlier apology as sufficient — score 3
- 3. He ought to apologise once more and make amends on this occasion also — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. He ought to abandon all effort to improve — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 203, line 23: «A smile or a laugh does not prove the other person thinks the joke is funny; many children laugh just to hide that they are hurt.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+2); the same doer «many children» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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