Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 393 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 ✗
crowd: «FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT». you're at the back. best move?
- 1. Start filming — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Walk away and get a teacher — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Push to the front to see better — no support
- 4. Chant louder so they keep going — 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 ✓
«lol got it all on my phone, sending to the group». What's true?
- 1. It's fine, it's just a video, everyone does it — no support
- 2. It proves who won — score 1
- 3. Teachers love those videos — no support
- 4. Sharing it can shame people and land you in trouble — ← 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 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 98, line 7: «A group of girls in Leeds shared a mean photo of a classmate in a group chat; it spread to the whole school, the girl was very upset, and the girls who shared…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «group» (+5); the same action «share» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Kieran: «I only laughed, I didn't do nothing». Is that right?
- 1. Laughing stops fights — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, laughing is just watching, not fighting — no support
- 3. Yes, only punches count — no support
- 4. Laughing and cheering helped push the fight on — ✓ 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 ✗
Freddie: «I'm not going on me own to get sir». What can Sam do?
- 1. Say «chicken» and stay — score 3
- 2. Go with him, so they both get there — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Go film it instead — no support
- 4. Tell him to stay and watch it with you — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 391, line 2: «Jake's dad told him «stand up for yourself with your fists», and Kieran's uncle said «if you don't hit back you'll be a target forever». Jake tried it and got…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «sam» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «tell» (+1). 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 5 · ★★ · right ✓
Maddie to the crowd: «show's over, get lost». Why might it work?
- 1. Fighters calm down when nobody's watching — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It makes the fighters angrier — no support
- 3. Crowds always obey Maddie — no support
- 4. The crowd will turn round and fight Maddie instead — 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 ✗
«don't, Maddie» — it's Chloe, who never talks to her. Maddie stops. What made it work?
- 1. Chloe called a teacher over — score 3
- 2. Maddie was tired from running about — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. A quiet word from someone unexpected — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Chloe threatened her — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 214, line 7: «When her parents split up, a girl in California believed it was her fault and stopped seeing her friends; it was not her fault at all, and talking to both pare…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «girl» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
girl pushed over, everyone's walked off. What's kind and useful?
- 1. Find the pusher and push back — no support
- 2. Help her up, ask if she's OK, stay or get an adult — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Leave her, it's not your fight, someone else will help — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Laugh so she doesn't feel bad — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 286, line 6: «A girl in Florida was left to watch her little brother by the pool and went inside for a minute to get a drink; he slipped in, and only her mum's quick swim sa…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «girl» (+5); the same action «leave» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
two Year 4s scrapping, you're a big Year 6 they look up to. Best?
- 1. Say «pack it in» calmly, and get a teacher if they keep going — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Grab them both by the collar and drag them apart yourself, quick — no support
- 3. Film it to show their mums — no support
- 4. Pick a side and help your mate win — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
boy on the ground holding his head after falling on the kerb. What's right?
- 1. Tell him to walk it off and have a drink of water, it's only a bump — score 4
- 2. Help him up and carry on playing — score 4
- 3. Get an adult straight away; head injuries can be serious — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Leave him, he'll be fine in a minute — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 371, line 2: «Jake, who fights about everything, heard a boy call his football team rubbish. His fists itched and his face went hot. For the first time in his life he counte…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «boy» (+5); the same action «leave» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
«not my business, I just watch». Which is true?
- 1. Watching is always harmless — no support
- 2. Bystanders change nothing, whatever they do — no support
- 3. Bystanders can stop or worsen a fight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 4. Only teachers can make a difference — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 374, line 13: «People watching a fight can get hurt by accident too.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «fight» (+2). Against it: the same doer «people» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
teacher asks: «Who saw what happened behind the mobile?» You did. Best?
- 1. Make it sound worse — score -3
- 2. Say what you saw, nothing more — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Blame the Station Road boy for all of it — no support
- 4. Say nothing, it's snitching — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 345, line 1: «Letting someone take your punishment is like stealing from them: you take their good name and their free time. Finn in Cork drew with chalk on the school wall,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same thing acted on «nothing» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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 · wrong ✗
Identify the principal reason for which a gathering of onlookers tends to prolong a physical altercation.
- 1. The onlookers invariably join the altercation themselves — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The onlookers summon assistance too promptly — no support
- 3. The participants are reluctant to withdraw before an audience — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. An audience has no bearing upon the participants whatsoever — 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 · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the recording and dissemination of a fight by means of a mobile telephone?
- 1. It may humiliate those involved and render the person recording liable to sanction — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It brings the fight to a swifter conclusion — no support
- 3. It is a recommended method of reporting incidents to a member of staff — no support
- 4. It is a neutral act carrying no consequence for 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Whereas two pupils are exchanging blows, select the response of a child bystander most consistent with established guidance concerning safety.
- 1. The prompt summoning of a responsible adult — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Physical intervention between the combatants — no support
- 3. Encouragement of the more deserving party to the dispute — no support
- 4. The capture of video evidence at close range — 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 ✓
It is given that a pupil was injured upon striking his head against a kerb. State the conclusion consistent with the established facts concerning bystanders who cheered.
- 1. They bear no connection whatever to the harm that occurred — no support
- 2. They are exempt from blame because they did not themselves strike a blow — no support
- 3. Their encouragement formed part of the conduct that led to the harm — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. They acted as neutral observers only — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 202, line 9: «Many rumours are untrue or twisted, and repeating one makes you part of the harm.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «part» (+5); the same action «make» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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