Feuds between families
Tests: 2 of 10 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 474 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 ✗
«your lot and their lot don't talk, so you can't be mates with him, end of». Is that fair on the kids?
- 1. No, so the kids should fight too — no support
- 2. Yes, families always know best about friends — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. Yes, kids must join every family feud — no support
- 4. No, kids don't have to carry grown-ups' rows — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 262, line 19: «Things lent to people you do not know well are often lost, so lend only what you can manage without, to people you trust.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same circumstance (+3); the same action «know» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
«I'm fixin' to tell Mom the whole hedge war is dumb». («fixin' to» is Southern US for «about to».) Is it OK to tell a parent how a feud feels?
- 1. Yes, by shouting at the neighbours — no support
- 2. Yes, honestly and calmly — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No, kids must never mention it — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. No, only write it on the wall — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 382, line 1: «The Mill Lane kids had a war with Station Road, and nobody could remember how it started. «Our street against theirs!» Kieran shouted, and the first name every…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lane kids» (+3); the same thing acted on «war» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would probably happen if nobody in a feud ever made a kind move?
- 1. Everyone would just forget and be friends — no support
- 2. The kids would sort it out by themselves at once — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. It would end by itself next week — no support
- 4. It could go on for years — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 437, line 1: «Aisha's teacher drew two boxes on the board: SURPRISES and SECRETS. A surprise is kept for a short time and makes people happy when it is told — a birthday pre…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «one boy» (+5). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
«his family are trouble, so he must be trouble too». What's a better way to think?
- 1. Ask his worst enemy about him — no support
- 2. Judge him by what he does himself — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Never trust anyone with a big family — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. Families are all exactly the same — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 452, line 12: «Lies from family often hurt more than lies from strangers, because we trust family most.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same action «trust» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (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 · ★ · right ✓
«Sure the cake was stale anyway!» What is this feud really about?
- 1. An old wedding argument, now half a joke — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A secret about money — no support
- 3. A crime that went to court and a judge decided — no support
- 4. A football rivalry — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Sam: «Grandad, why didn't you just make up with Roy?» What's the lesson from Grandad's story?
- 1. Brothers never really fall out — no support
- 2. Don't wait, some feuds can never be mended later — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Feuds always end happily — no support
- 4. Clocks and things matter more than brothers do, in the end — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 195, line 4: «Example: a boy in Ohio breaks a window and says «It wasn't me» because he is scared. Now he must invent more lies to cover the first one, and when the truth co…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a cartoon, two families fight forever and it's hilarious. In real life, what often happens to the kids?
- 1. They find it hilarious every time the grown-ups row — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. They get caught in the middle and feel sad — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They get extra presents — score -1
- 4. Nothing, kids don't notice — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 235, line 4: «Big storms such as hurricanes and cyclones are forecast days ahead, so families have time to prepare and to leave if told to. A warning is a gift of time: list…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Kieran's mum and Jake's mum say «Morning» to each other. Why does this small thing matter?
- 1. It means the feud is getting worse — no support
- 2. It means they're best friends now — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. A tiny step can start ending a feud — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It doesn't matter at all — 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 470, line 3: «Some favours are wrong to do at all. Maddie's friend Jess phones only when she needs cover: «Just tell my mum I'm at yours, yeah? Love you, babe.» Jess is goin…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mum» (+2); the same thing acted on «maddie» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
«Y'all's brisket is drier than the Alamo!» Is Mia's family in a real war?
- 1. No, it's a joke feud everyone enjoys — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, they never speak to the neighbours — no support
- 3. No, they don't know the neighbours — no support
- 4. Yes, they're about to call the police — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 222, line 7: «A boy in Ontario went to a friend's house without telling his mum; when he was not home by dark she called the police, who searched the streets for him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «police» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
A friend says, «My nan's not spoken to her neighbour for twenty years. It'll never change.» Is that always true?
- 1. No, but only if a judge decides — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, after ten years it's too late — no support
- 3. Yes, old feuds can never end once they're that long — no support
- 4. No, one kind move can end even an old feud — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a feud between families?
- 1. A dispute confined exclusively to children — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A brief disagreement concluded within a day — no support
- 3. A protracted dispute which may persist after its origin is forgotten — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A sporting fixture between two households — 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 ✓
Identify the principal means, as established in the lesson, by which the twenty-year dispute between two elderly neighbours was concluded.
- 1. An act of kindness during the illness of one party — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The relocation of one party abroad — no support
- 3. A judgment delivered by a court — no support
- 4. The intervention of the municipal council — 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 · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning children whose parents are engaged in a feud.
- 1. Such children bear responsibility for the dispute — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Such children may remain friends notwithstanding the dispute — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Such children are obliged to perpetuate the dispute of their parents — score 1
- 4. Such children invariably share their parents' hostility — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 373, line 9: «Being trusted with a job, like looking after younger children, often helps a child behave well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «behave» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the conclusion most appropriately drawn from the account of two brothers estranged for forty years over a clock.
- 1. Delay in reconciliation may result in lasting regret — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Estrangement invariably resolves itself — no support
- 3. The clock was correctly retained — no support
- 4. Possessions are of greater value than relations — 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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