Respect: how it is earned
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 385 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 ✗
Kieran: «everyone respects me cos I'm the hardest on the street». Sam's wise reply?
- 1. I respect you most of all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Then fight me to prove it — no support
- 3. They're scared of you, mate — that's not respect — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah you're well respected, mate, everyone thinks so — 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 · right ✓
«just batter someone in Year 6, then nobody'll mess with u». Is that how respect works?
- 1. Only if you win — no support
- 2. Only if they're bigger — no support
- 3. No, it just makes people scared and keeps away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Yes, it always works, people do whatever you say after — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 385, line 1: «Jake had always thought respect came from your fists. Then he went in goal for the Year 3s' lunchtime match, dived full length in the mud and saved a penalty.…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep away» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
Little kid at the gate: «Jake! Are you in goal again Friday?» What earned Jake that?
- 1. Being loud in the dinner hall — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fighting their big brothers to show them who's boss — no support
- 3. Taking their crisps — no support
- 4. Playing well and being kind to them — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗
Sam, after assembly: «my voice was all shaky, so embarrassing». His mate says?
- 1. Next time shout it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was brave — you did it anyway — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, everyone laughed at you though — no support
- 4. You should've just not bothered — 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 · wrong ✗
Connor: «I only hit her cos it's all for equality innit». Why do his mates go quiet?
- 1. They didn't hear him — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They all agree with him — no support
- 3. Hurting someone and making excuses loses respect — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. They think it's funny that he did it and got away with it — 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 ✗
«Lily's boring, she never slags anyone off». What's the real reason people trust Lily?
- 1. She's got nothing to say about anything — no support
- 2. She's only nice to teachers — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. She's scared of everyone in the class, even the teacher — score 7
- 4. She won't talk about you behind your back either — ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 370, line 9: «A good friend can say no to a bad idea, like revenge, and still be a friend.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «good friend» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
Uncle at the boxing club: «never in the street, only in here». What's the reason?
- 1. In the ring there are rules and a ref; in the street people get badly hurt — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. You don't get paid in the street — no support
- 3. The street is too cold to fight in — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Street fights are too easy for a real boxer to bother with — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 382, line 3: «Then Sam asked Maddie the question nobody had asked: «Why do the streets even fight?» Maddie opened her mouth and shut it again. «Because... they're Station Ro…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «streets» (+4); the same action «fight» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · right ✓
Chloe: «yeah she won the run, well good, but I'm still not sitting with her». Is that fair?
- 1. Yes, trust takes longer to come back than respect — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, because girls who run are odd — no support
- 3. No, she has to sit with her, it's on the seating plan — no support
- 4. No, Chloe is just jealous — 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 9 · right ✓
Jake to Sam: «tbh I respect u, u never act hard». What does this show?
- 1. Being honest about yourself earns respect — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Sam should start acting hard like the others do — no support
- 3. Respect only comes from fighting — no support
- 4. Jake is making fun of Sam for being soft — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 385, line 3: «Kieran still thought being the hardest kid on the street earned respect. But people only did what he said when he was standing there, and laughed at him when h…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «earn» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
Teacher: «Maddie, what got you that medal?» Best answer?
- 1. Being scarier than the other runners at the start — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Elbowing people at the start — no support
- 3. Getting up early and training for weeks — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Luck, nothing else — 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 ✗
Kieran wants real respect. What should he try?
- 1. Making the little ones pay him — score 2
- 2. Getting a scarier gang name than anyone else — score 1
- 3. Doing something well and being decent to people — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Starting a bigger fight with somebody tougher — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 383, line 1: «Kieran's group told him that to «prove he was loyal» he had to throw a stone at a Station Road window. He did it, the glass cracked, and a toddler inside screa…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kieran» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «fight» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal distinction between respect and fear as described.
- 1. Respect endures in a person's absence, whereas fear secures obedience only in his presence — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Fear is a more durable form of respect — score 0
- 3. Respect and fear are indistinguishable in practice, both securing obedience at all times — no support
- 4. Fear is earned by effort and respect by force — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 385, line 4: «Jake's uncle, who boxes at a club, said the wisest thing of all: «The best boxers are the ones who never fight outside the ring. Strength you control earns res…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «earn» (+2); the same thing acted on «fear» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the means by which respect is earned?
- 1. Through the intimidation of younger pupils — no support
- 2. Through effort, skill, honesty, kindness and courage — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Through the avoidance of all public activity — no support
- 4. Through the demonstration of physical dominance over others — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 385, line 6: «Respect is earned by effort, skill, honesty, kindness and courage.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «effort» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that a pupil, having struck another, offers a justification in terms of «equality». Select the response consistent with the established facts.
- 1. The justification tends to diminish further the respect of his peers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The justification is without any effect upon his peers — no support
- 3. The justification restores fully the respect of his peers — no support
- 4. The justification renders the act praiseworthy — 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 ✓
State the principle conveyed by the observation that the best boxers do not fight outside the ring.
- 1. Boxers are prohibited from all physical activity — no support
- 2. Controlled strength confined to a regulated setting earns respect — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Strength ought to be exercised wherever provocation arises — no support
- 4. The ring is the sole place in which a person may lawfully be injured — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 385, line 4: «Jake's uncle, who boxes at a club, said the wisest thing of all: «The best boxers are the ones who never fight outside the ring. Strength you control earns res…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «earn» (+2); the same doer «strength» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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