Spoiling and losing things
Tests: 2 of 10 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 361 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 ✗
«only leaving my bike for 1 min, no one's gonna nick it». What's wise?
- 1. Lock it, even for a minute — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Leave it by the road, it's fine — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. Leave the key in the lock for later — no support
- 4. It's fine to leave it for one minute — score 3
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 361, line 2: «Isla left her bike unlocked outside the shop «for one minute», and it was stolen. Nobody punished her — losing the bike was the punishment. Dad bought a second…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+2); the same thing acted on «bike» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mum: «Who left the fridge open? The milk's off!» It was you. Best reply?
- 1. «Ask Dad» — no support
- 2. «The milk was old anyway» — no support
- 3. «The fridge always does that by itself» — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. «Me, sorry, I'll close it properly» — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 219, line 5: «A girl in Manchester leaves the fridge open while she decides on a snack; her dad explains that the fridge warms up and must work harder, so now she decides fi…», 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 doer «fridge» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
«so cross i snapped all my crayons lol». What happens next?
- 1. They grow back — no support
- 2. They draw better broken — ← Mova's choice · score -7
- 3. You have no crayons to draw with — ✓ the right answer · score -9
- 4. Mum buys you new ones straight away — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score -7, against -9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 119, line 11: «A pet can snap if a toddler pulls it, so a dog and a toddler together are watched.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pull» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 3, scored -9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
«it's ONLY paper, why's everyone so mad». The pages had your maths on. Which is true?
- 1. Paper is free, so tearing it costs nothing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Teachers like planes — no support
- 3. Your work was torn out, not just paper — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nobody needs maths books — 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 · ★ · right ✓
tore pages from my book last term and nobody noticed, «it worked last time, so it's fine». Is it?
- 1. No, you were lucky, and the work was still lost — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, books have spare pages — no support
- 3. Only in maths books — no support
- 4. Yes, if nobody noticed last term then it's fine — 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 took my xbox for a WEEK, she's so unfair». You'd torn up your book. Which is true?
- 1. She's just being unfair to you for no reason at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's the consequence of what you did, not unfairness — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She wanted the Xbox — no support
- 4. It's random — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
bath's running, you go to check your phone «for a sec». What should you do?
- 1. Check the phone for ten minutes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Turn the taps up full — no support
- 3. Go downstairs and wait — no support
- 4. Stay with the bath — ✓ 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 ✓
bro: «you scribbled on my picture you idiot!» You did, when you were cross. Best move?
- 1. Call him an idiot back — no support
- 2. Say sorry and help him draw a new one — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Tear it up so it's gone — no support
- 4. Say it looks much better now with your scribbles — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, 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 the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same property (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
«£5, saw a toy, bought it, it's rubbish, now I can't get the comic». Lesson?
- 1. Comics are always a waste — no support
- 2. Money is only for toys and sweets — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. Think before you spend — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Always buy the first thing — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 95, line 10: «Small toys must be kept away from babies, because small things can choke them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
You've stopped sulking after the console row. What's the next step?
- 1. Sulk a bit longer to be sure — no support
- 2. Say sorry and put right the damage — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Pretend it never happened — no support
- 4. Wait in your room for Mum to say sorry first — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 357, line 5: «Each slip back needs the same honest steps — own up, say sorry, put it right — and a plan to make the next slip less likely.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same property (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal reason for which the withdrawal of a privilege following damage to school property is not to be regarded as revenge.
- 1. It is a consequence proportionate to the conduct and not an act of retaliation — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It has no connection with the conduct — no support
- 3. It is undertaken chiefly for the benefit and convenience of the parent concerned — no support
- 4. It is imposed at random — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the leaving of a bicycle unlocked in a public place?
- 1. It has no effect upon the risk of theft — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is entirely safe provided that the period is under one minute — no support
- 3. It greatly increases the likelihood of theft — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It deters thieves — 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 given that a child, having been punished, sulked and later ceased to sulk. Select the step most consistent with making amends.
- 1. The child disregards the matter — no support
- 2. The child awaits an apology from the parent before taking any further step — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. The child apologises and repairs or replaces what was spoiled — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The child resumes sulking — 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 357, line 5: «Each slip back needs the same honest steps — own up, say sorry, put it right — and a plan to make the next slip less likely.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+2); the same thing acted on «same honest steps» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
State the consequence most commonly associated with the destruction of one's own possessions in anger.
- 1. The person is deprived of them once calm returns — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. No consequence follows — no support
- 3. The possessions are replaced by the parent without any cost to the child — no support
- 4. The anger is permanently cured — 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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