Giggles, skipping and the collection plate
Tests: 3 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 364 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 ✓
mate during prayers pulls a face, «don't laugh, don't laugh…» you snort. Best move?
- 1. Laugh louder, it's funny anyway — no support
- 2. Look away, breathe, say sorry after — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Pull a face back — no support
- 4. Leave the church — 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 347, line 2: «Kai felt good about changing — and a few weeks later slipped. His friend got a wrong answer in maths and Kai laughed out loud. She stopped putting her hand up.…», 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
«took 50p off the plate last week and no one saw, it worked last time, so it's fine». Is it?
- 1. Yes, if no one saw you take it then it's fine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, churches have loads — no support
- 3. No, it was taken from the church; give it back — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Only if you put it in next week — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Priest: «Is there anything else you want to tell me?» You've left out the worst one. What's right?
- 1. Say no and hurry out — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Tell him that too — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Tell him next year — no support
- 4. Tell him that someone else did the worst one — 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
«I went to confession so I don't have to say sorry to my brother now». What's true?
- 1. Confession covers everyone, including your brother — no support
- 2. Only if he asks — no support
- 3. You still need to say sorry to him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 4. Brothers don't need sorrys — 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 364, line 10: «After confession, you still give back what you took and say sorry to the person you hurt.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
«Sunday school's boring, I'm hiding in the park, cover for me». Best answer?
- 1. OK, but only this week — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No; tell Mum honestly you don't want to go — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. OK, I'll tell your mum that you're ill — no support
- 4. Hide with him — 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 ✓
Mum whispers «Phone. Now.» in the middle of the service. What's the best response?
- 1. Put it in your pocket and keep playing — no support
- 2. Hand it over and say sorry later — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Turn the brightness down — no support
- 4. Say you were reading the Bible — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 353, line 1: «At a party in Toronto, Leo slipped a second goody bag into his coat while nobody was looking. Nobody caught him — but at the door the last little girl got noth…», 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 question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
cousin copying the loud choir lady and everyone's sniggering. She turns round. Best move?
- 1. Pretend you're coughing so she doesn't notice — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Stop, and say sorry to her after — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Blame your cousin loudly — no support
- 4. Copy her too — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
sweets for the prize are on the table, bag's open. «no one'll notice a few». What's right?
- 1. Take a few, it's an open bag anyway — score 2
- 2. Leave them; they're for the prize — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Take one each for your friends — score 3
- 4. Swap them for worse sweets — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 359, line 3: «Promises to friends let them feel safe and plan. Promises to yourself are how you reach the things you want. Both are broken in the same quiet way — by choosin…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same thing acted on «sweets» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
after church kids racing up the aisle near the lit candles. What's the risk?
- 1. The carpet gets dusty — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The vicar gets out of breath — no support
- 3. No risk, candles are stuck down — no support
- 4. Burns or fire if a candle falls — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
After an honest confession, Matthew feels light. His sister asks «so you can keep the coin now?». Best answer?
- 1. Only if it's small — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, I still give it back — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, I'm forgiven — no support
- 4. Yes, God doesn't mind coins — 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 ✗
Identify the principal reason for which a sin deliberately omitted from confession tends to leave the penitent troubled.
- 1. The priest is unable to hear any confession which has been only partial — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Omitted sins are automatically forgiven — no support
- 3. Confession has no effect upon guilt — score 0
- 4. The guilt is not addressed, and the relief of honest confession is not attained — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 364, line 5: «Confession brings forgiveness and real relief, but it works only when you are honest, and it does not replace putting it right with the people you wronged.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «confession» (+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 · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between absolution and the restitution of a coin taken from a collection?
- 1. Absolution transfers ownership of the coin to the penitent — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Absolution does not remove the obligation to restore what was taken — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Absolution and restitution are mutually exclusive — no support
- 4. Restitution is required only in the case where the taking is discovered — 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 ✓
It is given that a child, unwilling to attend Sunday school, concealed himself in a park. Select the response consistent with honesty.
- 1. The child bears no responsibility for the parent's worry — no support
- 2. The child acted prudently in concealing himself — score 3
- 3. The child ought to have feigned an illness in order to avoid the class — score 3
- 4. The child ought to have stated his unwillingness openly to his parent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 67, line 10: «An allergic child visiting a home with a pet tells the parent first and can bring their medicine.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «parent» (+3); the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «allergic child» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
State the principal hazard arising from children running in proximity to lit candles.
- 1. No appreciable hazard — no support
- 2. The risk of burns and of fire — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The risk of disturbing the dust — no support
- 4. The risk of extinguishing the candles — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 130, line 15: «The birthday child blows out the candles alone, because it is their special moment.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «blow out» (+2); 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
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