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Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else

Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 11 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 478 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 ✗

«they always walk in front and I'm stuck at the back, so I'll just sulk». Better idea?

  • 1. Sulk till they guess — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Push in between them so you're in the middle — no support
  • 3. Say how you feel and suggest taking turns — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Walk the other way forever — 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 ✗

«Jake's sat with Zack again, he's a snake, I'm done with him». What's more likely true?

  • 1. Jake chose something new for now, he's not an enemy — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Zack paid Jake to hate Sam — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 3. Jake is plotting against Sam with Zack behind his back — score 1
  • 4. Sam did something terrible — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 472, line 3: «Older bullies count on silence. A Year 6 boy tells Kieran, «Give us your dinner money or else», and Kieran pays, day after day, until on day four he tells his…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · right ✓

«Ava didn't pick me so she must hate me». Is that right?

  • 1. No, Ava is just scared of Mia — no support
  • 2. Yes, best friends must always pick you first — score 2
  • 3. Yes, being picked shows who likes you most — no support
  • 4. No, not being picked once isn't being disliked — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 478, line 2: «Sometimes a friend picks someone else. Jake starts sitting with the new boy, Zack, who has a Switch: «It's lowkey fire, bro» («lowkey fire» means quietly brill…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «pick» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

Kieran sees the cinema photo and types «fine, be like that, ur all fake». What would have been better?

  • 1. Never speak to them again — no support
  • 2. Tell their mums — score 4
  • 3. Ask them first what happened — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 4. Post a mean photo of them — 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 459, line 4: «Some dogs can't be trusted at all. Kieran's nan's terrier Mitzi has bitten two people, so she wears a muzzle when visitors come. «If she bites a third person,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «ask» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · right ✓

«You can be my second best friend if u want». Is ranking friends a good idea?

  • 1. Yes, and you should be told yours — no support
  • 2. Yes, everyone should have a list — no support
  • 3. No, friends don't need numbers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 4. No, you should only have one friend — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 470, line 9: «Never lie to a parent to cover for a friend; a real friend shouldn't ask you to.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

«If you talk to her you're not my friend». What can Maddie say?

  • 1. «I'm staying out of it» — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 2. «I'll tell everyone your secrets» — ← Mova's choice · score 7
  • 3. «Then I'll pick her side» — score 4
  • 4. «OK, I'll never talk to her» — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 476, line 1: «At a sleepover Lily tells Maddie she has a crush on Kieran. «Pinky promise you won't tell.» By Monday lunchtime the whole class is singing «Lily and Kieran sit…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+5); the same receiver «everyone» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

«Have I done summat?» Raj: «Nah, just wanna sit with the Minecraft lot». What does this show?

  • 1. Connor should be upset forever — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Minecraft ruins friendships — no support
  • 3. Raj secretly hates Connor — no support
  • 4. Friends can have other friends — ✓ 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 8 · wrong ✗

Harper gives out party invites in class to everyone but one girl. What should that girl do?

  • 1. Steal an invite — no support
  • 2. Turn up at the party anyway — no support
  • 3. Tell everyone Harper's party is rubbish and nobody should go — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 4. Tell a grown-up and do something nice with family — ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). 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 the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «tell» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

What would probably happen if Sam kept waiting at the lunch table every day for Jake?

  • 1. Zack would leave the school — no support
  • 2. The teacher would make Jake come back — score 4
  • 3. Jake would come back the next day — score 4
  • 4. He'd stay lonely and keep feeling hurt — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 478, line 4: «Some leaving-out is cruel. Harper hands out pool-party invitations to the whole class except Mia, right in front of her. The teacher has a quiet word with Harp…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sam» (+6); the same action «find» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · right ✓

In a TV show, a girl left out of a party throws a bigger party for revenge. What's wiser in real life?

  • 1. Never go to a party again — no support
  • 2. Ruin the other party — no support
  • 3. Plan an even bigger party so they all feel left out — score -1
  • 4. Spend time with people who are glad to see you — ← 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, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 454, line 2: «Forgiving doesn't cancel what's fair. Aisha forgave the friend who pretended she'd paid back £5 — and asked her to pay it back. She did. «Forgiving her didn't…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «friend» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · right ✓

«there's three of us and it's always two v one, it's giving drama». («it's giving» means it feels like.) What's a real fix?

  • 1. Always pick the same two — no support
  • 2. Play games that need three, or find a fourth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 3. Kick one person out for good — no support
  • 4. Stop being friends with both — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 440, line 6: «In Britain and Ireland tradition says April Fools' tricks should stop at midday, and someone who plays one after noon is the fool.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «play» (+2); the same thing acted on «one» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason, as established in the lesson, for which friendships of three persons are prone to difficulty.

  • 1. Such friendships are prohibited by schools — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Three persons cannot converse simultaneously — no support
  • 3. The third member is invariably disliked — no support
  • 4. Two members may readily pair off, excluding the third — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the most appropriate response of a pupil who perceives that she has been excluded from an outing by friends.

  • 1. To conclude immediately that she has been rejected by all of them — no support
  • 2. To denounce the friends publicly online — score 1
  • 3. To inquire of the friends directly before forming a conclusion — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 4. To terminate the friendships without inquiry — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 468, line 12: «Asking a friend directly whether they were laughing at you can bring out the truth, because sometimes a friend is being used against you.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «ask» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distribution of party invitations to all pupils of a class save one, in her presence?

  • 1. It is the responsibility of the excluded pupil — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It constitutes an innocent administrative error — no support
  • 3. It constitutes deliberate and cruel exclusion — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. It is a customary and wholly acceptable practice — 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 ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a pupil solicited by two quarrelling friends to take a side.

  • 1. She must refer the matter to a court — score 2
  • 2. She must abandon both friendships — no support
  • 3. She is entitled to decline to take either side — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. She is obliged to choose one party — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 52, line 25: «Two friends sometimes have a crush on the same person; a good friend to both stays friends with both and does not take sides.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same thing acted on «sides» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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