Jake, always in bruises
Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 372 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 ✗
«Jake's got a massive shiner, he must've won a fight, legend». What's more likely true?
- 1. A bruise always means you won the fight, whatever happened — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only winners get bruises — no support
- 3. Bruises mean you are the strongest — no support
- 4. A bruise only shows someone got hurt, not that they won — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
«Mum's crying again cos of my eye, it's not even that bad, why's she upset». Best answer?
- 1. She worries every time you get hurt — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. She is cross the peas are gone — score 2
- 3. She is really upset about something else at work, not your eye — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Mums like crying — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 129, line 5: «A girl in Edinburgh knocks a vase off a shelf at her friend's house; she tells the mum at once and says sorry, and the mum is far less upset than if she had fo…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Year 3s scatter when you walk past. Your mate says «that's respect, mate». Is it?
- 1. Yes, it means all of them like you a lot and want to be your friends — no support
- 2. No, that's fear, and fear keeps people away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. It means they want to play — no support
- 4. Yes, that's real respect — 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 326, line 15: «Keep away from ant hills and never sit on a fire ant nest; fire ants in parts of the USA and Australia sting many times.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same action «keep away» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
«he punched a wall after we lost lol, wall 1 Jake 0». What's the real lesson?
- 1. Walls are fine to punch if you're angry — score 6
- 2. Walls always win; anger needs a safer place to go — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Losing a match means you must go and hit something hard — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 4. He should have punched a softer wall — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 372, line 5: «After losing a match, Jake punched a wall and broke his wrist: six weeks in a cast, no football, no writing, and the wall was completely fine. Worse, his littl…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «match» (+2). Against it: 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
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Your little brother gets in a fight and says «you do it all the time». What's best?
- 1. Admit it and change what you do, not just what you say — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Show him how to win next time — no support
- 3. Tell Mum he's lying — no support
- 4. Tell him he's far too young to be getting into fights at all — ← 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 372, line 5: «After losing a match, Jake punched a wall and broke his wrist: six weeks in a cast, no football, no writing, and the wall was completely fine. Worse, his littl…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «brother» (+4); the same action «tell» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Supply teacher: «I've heard all about you, troublemaker». You've done nothing. What's the wisest move?
- 1. Tell her what you've heard people say about her — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. Show her she's wrong by how you act today — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Walk straight out of the classroom in a huff — score 2
- 4. Prove her right since she already thinks it — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 320, line 23: «When a friend tells you something sad about their family, listen kindly, keep it private and remind them they can talk to a trusted adult.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «friend» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
«a tough lad like you doesn't need spelling help». Is that right?
- 1. No, asking for help is strong, not soft — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Yes, tough people already know how to spell everything — no support
- 3. Yes, spelling is for Sam only — no support
- 4. Only if nobody finds out — 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 344, line 4: «Blaming also stops you getting better. When Archie blamed the teacher for a bad mark, Mum looked at his rushed book; he had to redo the work, and only when he…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «ask» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
«everyone picks Jake first so he must be the best player». What else could be true?
- 1. They are all his cousins — no support
- 2. They might be scared not to pick him — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 3. He pays them to pick him — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. He is the only one in the class who has proper football boots — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 372, line 3: «The Year 3s hid behind the climbing frame whenever Jake walked past, and everyone picked him first at football because they were scared not to. It felt powerfu…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pick» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
A bruise that started purple is now yellow-green a week later. What is happening?
- 1. It is a new bruise on top — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. The body is slowly clearing the bruise — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. The skin underneath has caught a nasty infection — no support
- 4. The bruise is getting worse and spreading — no support
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 372, line 1: «Jake turned up on Monday with a purple bruise on his cheek. By Wednesday Jake had told different people four different stories about it: a fight, a goalpost, a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «bruise» (+2); the same thing acted on «goalpost» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
«yours is bigger, mine's darker» — Jake and Maddie at lunch with their bruises. What did Lily see that they didn't?
- 1. That their bruises were not real — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. That bruises look nice — no support
- 3. That they should both go and get more bruises to win — no support
- 4. That being proud of being hurt is really sad — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Jake helped a little one get a ball off the roof. Next day the Year 3s asked him to play in goal. Why?
- 1. Kindness made them stop being scared of him — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They had nobody else at all — no support
- 3. They wanted him to climb up and fall off the roof — no support
- 4. He told them they had to — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 372, line 5: «After losing a match, Jake punched a wall and broke his wrist: six weeks in a cast, no football, no writing, and the wall was completely fine. Worse, his littl…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «jake» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distinction between being feared and being esteemed?
- 1. Fear is the principal foundation of friendship — score 2
- 2. Fear causes others to keep their distance, whereas esteem draws them nearer — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Esteem may be obtained only through physical strength — no support
- 4. Fear and esteem are entirely identical in their effects upon the conduct of others — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 372, line 9: «People who are feared are often lonely, because fear keeps others away.», 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 «fear» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the consequence that most commonly follows the striking of a wall with a closed fist in anger.
- 1. Injury to the bones of the hand or wrist, the wall remaining undamaged — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. No consequence of any kind — no support
- 3. The complete and lasting dissipation of all the anger which was felt by the person — no support
- 4. Damage to the wall, the hand remaining uninjured — 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 younger sibling commences fighting after observing an elder sibling do so. Identify the principal reason.
- 1. Younger children imitate conduct more readily than they heed instruction — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Younger children are invariably more aggressive — no support
- 3. Fighting is transmitted from one generation to another by inheritance alone — no support
- 4. The younger sibling was instructed to fight — 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 · right ✓
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning a bruise.
- 1. It is an injury involving bleeding beneath the skin, and not a distinction — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It indicates strength of character — no support
- 3. It is incapable of causing any distress to others, such as parents or siblings — no support
- 4. It is evidence of victory in a contest — 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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