The best friend who moves away
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 463 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 ✓
«she's not answered for 2 weeks, she's forgot me, I'm done with her». What's wiser?
- 1. Talk and find a new time, she's just busy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Send her angry messages — no support
- 3. Block her straight away so she knows how it feels — no support
- 4. Tell everyone she's fake — 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 ✓
Lily: «if I make friends with Priya it's like cheating on Maddie». Is she right?
- 1. No, but she must hide it — score 2
- 2. Yes, you can only have one real best friend at a time — score 3
- 3. Yes, unless Maddie agrees in writing — score 3
- 4. No, a new friend doesn't betray an old one — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 463, line 3: «Lily keeps saying no to Priya, a new girl who wants to be friends, because «Maddie's my best friend». On a call, Maddie says, «Make new friends, you dafty, I h…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «betray» (+3); the same doer «new friend» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
If Lily rings at 8am on Saturday in England, what is it like in Perth?
- 1. Sunday morning — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Already Saturday afternoon or evening — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Still Friday night — no support
- 4. Exactly 8am — 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 ✓
Jake: «Ryan said we'd hang out and we didn't, he's a liar». What's fairer?
- 1. It's just harder without seeing each other daily — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Jake did something wrong — no support
- 3. Ryan was always planning to dump him once he'd moved — no support
- 4. Friends who move always lie — 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 · ★★ · right ✓
«letters are dead old-school, nobody does that». What did Sam and Ade find?
- 1. Letters only work in Nigeria — no support
- 2. Letters never arrive — no support
- 3. Letters cost too much to send — no support
- 4. Letters were slow but special — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 463, line 11: «Letters and parcels are slow, but they can keep a friendship going for years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «letters» (+4); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Your mate's moving to Canada and says «we'll game every Friday». What should you check first?
- 1. That your mate pays for it — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. That the game is the newest — no support
- 3. Nothing at all — score 5
- 4. That your parents are OK with it — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 57, line 4: «If anything about a touch, a picture or a secret gives you an «uh-oh» feeling, say no if you can, get away, and tell a trusted adult; it is never the child's f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «anything» (+4); the same action «give» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Kieran teased Maddie for years, then says he'll miss her. What's going on?
- 1. He wants her cupcake — score 4
- 2. Goodbyes often show how people really feel — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. He's being sarcastic — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. He's planning one last big prank before she goes — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 462, line 3: «At midnight at a sleepover, Chloe gets homesick and wants to go home. «Don't be such a baby,» says one girl. Chloe phones her mum anyway. Next time she stays t…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «friends» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
In a film, best friends who move apart stay exactly the same forever with no effort. What's real?
- 1. You need a spaceship to stay friends — score 2
- 2. Friends always forget each other — score 2
- 3. Distance never changes anything — no support
- 4. Friends far away need effort and flexibility — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 383, line 9: «Refusing to join a fight is not betrayal; a true friend does not ask you to get hurt or hurt others.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Maddie says she's «wearing thongs to school». Lily gasps. What should Lily do?
- 1. Hang up in shock — no support
- 2. Ask what the word means there — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Report Maddie to the teacher — no support
- 4. Pretend she understood — ← Mova's choice · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 384, line 3: «Not every visit was bad news. Sam saw a fight in the street, and an officer asked him what he had seen. His voice wobbled, but he said only what he really saw…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «see» (+3); the same doer «lily» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Imagine Lily refused all new friends until Maddie came back. What would most likely happen?
- 1. Priya would move to Perth — no support
- 2. Lily would be lonely for years — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Lily would be happier — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Maddie would come back sooner — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 196, line 5: «A girl in Leeds told her friend her new haircut looked fine when the friend asked, even though she did not love it; the friend was happy, and nothing bad came…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓
«mia talks proper weird now, saying y'all». What's happened?
- 1. She's in a play — no support
- 2. She's forgotten English — no support
- 3. She's just showing off to look cool — no support
- 4. She picked up words from where she lived — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 458, line 4: «Mia's grandma in Georgia has a cockerel called Colonel who chases anyone in shorts. «He's fixin' to get you, sugar,» Grandma laughs — «fixin' to» is Southern U…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «learn» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the measure most likely to sustain a friendship following the relocation of one friend to another continent.
- 1. Communication exclusively by surface mail once a decade — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The abandonment of all new friendships — no support
- 3. An agreed and regular arrangement for communication — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. An undertaking never to change one's activities — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the formation of a new friendship whilst a former close friend resides abroad?
- 1. It necessarily terminates the former friendship — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. It is prohibited until the former friend returns — score 4
- 3. It requires the written consent of the former friend — score 4
- 4. It does not constitute a betrayal of the former friend — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 463, line 4: «Not every friendship survives a move. Jake's best friend Ryan moves across town and changes school. «We'll still hang out,» Ryan says. They meet twice, then st…», 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 «best friend» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Given that it is eight o'clock on Saturday morning in the United Kingdom, ascertain the time of day in Western Australia.
- 1. Precisely eight o'clock on Saturday morning — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Morning of the following Sunday — no support
- 3. Night of the preceding Friday — no support
- 4. Afternoon or evening of the same Saturday — ✓ 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
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning friendships that diminish after one party changes school.
- 1. They fade solely because one party has lied — score 2
- 2. They cannot fade if both parties are sincere — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. They fade only when a quarrel has first occurred — score 2
- 4. They may fade without fault on either side — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 463, line 10: «Some friendships fade after a move even when nobody did anything wrong, and you can still be glad of them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fade» (+2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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