Jake and the head teacher
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 373 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 at the head's office AGAIN lol, he's got his own chair». Is that a good kind of famous?
- 1. Yes, the head likes him best — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, it means he's important, and the head likes having him there — no support
- 3. It means he is a monitor — no support
- 4. No, being a regular there is not something to be proud of — ✓ 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 ✗
Mr Pryce: «Tell me exactly what happened, from the start». Why does he ask that?
- 1. To fill in time before home time — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Because he wasn't listening — score 5
- 3. To trick Jake into confessing to something he didn't do — score 5
- 4. To find out the facts and the real reason — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 272, line 6: «A boy in Melbourne rode his bike without his helmet just to the shop; he hit a kerb, fell head first and needed weeks in hospital to recover from a head injury.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «head» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
«it was over the queue?? that's well stupid» — Jake's mate. What's the lesson?
- 1. The other boy was right — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Queues are worth fighting for — no support
- 3. Jake should push harder next time so he gets to the front of the queue — no support
- 4. Many fights are about almost nothing when you look closely — ✓ 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 4 · right ✓
«it's not FAIR I can't go to the zoo, the fight was last week!» What's true?
- 1. Consequences can come later and still come from the fight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. The zoo trip is only for good children, by law, so it is fair — no support
- 3. Old fights don't count — score -2
- 4. He should go anyway and hide — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 373, line 2: «The week after a fight, Jake lost his place on the school trip to the zoo. He cried in the toilets, because it felt unfair. When the class came back with photo…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «arrive» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
Kid in class: «ha, Jake's got a baby card to leave the room». What's the kind thing to do?
- 1. Take the card off him for a joke, he'll get it back later — score 4
- 2. Laugh along with them — no support
- 3. Tell the teacher he doesn't need it any more — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Don't tease him; using a calm card is smart — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 370, line 3: «Standing by someone takes many shapes. When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits with her at lunch. Lily stays with Chloe in the nurse's…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same receiver «friends» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
Jake's dad, after school calls: «that's half a day's wages gone». What does Jake learn?
- 1. His dad is just in a bad mood about something at work — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. His choices cost his family too — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. School should pay his dad — no support
- 4. Work doesn't matter — 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 ✗
«the head was a fighter too?? no way». Why might Mr Pryce tell Jake this?
- 1. To give him fighting tips — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To show him that change is possible — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To show off about all the fights he won when he was a boy — no support
- 4. To make him laugh at teachers — 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 ✓
«on report = loser card». What did it really become for Jake?
- 1. A card that nobody ever bothered to read — score -4
- 2. A punishment that never ended, all through the year — no support
- 3. Proof that he was getting better — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. A list of every single mistake he made — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 40, line 4: «Bacteria grow fastest in warmth, between about 40 °F and 140 °F (5 °C and 60 °C). In good conditions their number can double every 20 minutes, so one becomes 6…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «one» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Jake's been good for a month but a dinner lady still says «watch him, that one». Why?
- 1. Jake has not really changed at all, he's only pretending — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. People's view changes slower than behaviour does — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She has been told to say it — no support
- 4. Dinner ladies never like anyone — 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 ✗
Mr Pryce made Jake a buddy for the Year 2s. Your mate says «giving him a job? he should be punished!». What's the point?
- 1. He was the only one free — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Trust and responsibility can help a fighter calm down — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is a hidden punishment — no support
- 4. The Year 2s needed a big bodyguard in the playground — 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 ✓
Teacher asks: «When you feel the anger rising in class, Jake, what could you do?» Best answer?
- 1. Show my calm card and step out to cool off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Hit the desk instead of hitting a person, then sit down — no support
- 3. Shout until it goes — no support
- 4. Keep it in until home time — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 373, line 4: «The fourth time the school called Jake's dad in, Dad said in the car: «I lost half a day's pay for this.» Jake had never thought that his fights cost his famil…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal purpose of a card permitting a pupil to withdraw temporarily from a lesson upon becoming angry.
- 1. To record the pupil's misconduct for the head teacher — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To permit the pupil to regain composure before anger results in conflict — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To permit the pupil to avoid those lessons which the pupil considers tedious — no support
- 4. To signify that the pupil is in a position of authority — 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 ✗
It is given that a pupil frequently involved in fights is entrusted with the supervision of younger pupils at play. Ascertain the most probable effect.
- 1. An increase in fighting among the younger pupils placed in the pupil's care — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. A reduction in fighting, the pupil having responsibilities to protect — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No effect whatsoever upon the pupil's conduct — no support
- 4. The immediate exclusion of the pupil from school — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 285, line 6: «A boy in Leeds kept quiet when a friend showed him a knife in his bag; a few days later another pupil was cut in a fight, and he wished he had told a teacher.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wish» (+1). Against it: the same doer «pupil» (-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 · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the summoning of a parent to school on account of a child's misconduct.
- 1. It is without cost of any kind to the family — no support
- 2. It invariably results in the child's expulsion — no support
- 3. It is undertaken solely for the amusement of the parent who is summoned to school — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 4. It may occasion the parent a loss of working time and of earnings — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 363, line 13: «When parents are called to school, it is to solve a problem together, not to shame the child.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the alteration of a pupil's reputation?
- 1. It depends solely upon the pupil's physical strength — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It generally proceeds more slowly than the alteration of the pupil's conduct — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is accomplished within a single day — no support
- 4. It is impossible once a reputation has been established among staff and pupils — 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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