Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work
Tests: 3 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 8 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 482 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 ✗
«Big Steve swears loads so I can too, innit». Right?
- 1. Yes, if a grown-up does it then it's fine for you — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, so Steve is a bad person — no support
- 3. No, friends can have faults you don't copy — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, but only at the football — 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 ✗
«Gary's always whingin, why's Dad even mates with him». What does the midnight breakdown show?
- 1. Gary only ever moans and never helps anyone — no support
- 2. Moaners are always bad friends to have — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. The moaner may be the one who turns up — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Dad should drop Gary — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 480, line 1: «Connor has played every night for months with «xXShadowWolfXx», who is funny, gives tips and gifted him a skin (an outfit for your character). Then: «what's ur…», 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 thing acted on «account» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
«Mum and Jo haven't spoken for a month, they're done forever». Is that likely?
- 1. Yes, grown-ups never make up — score 1
- 2. No, they'll make up the very next day — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Not always, grown-ups make up too — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. Yes, after a month it's over — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 482, line 3: «Even old friends must respect your family. At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooking in front of everyone. Dad puts his burger dow…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · right ✓
Phil cracks a nasty joke about Mum at a barbecue. Is Dad being rude to a friend by speaking up?
- 1. No, even old friends must respect your family — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Yes, jokes are always fine — no support
- 3. Yes, you should never stand up to your friends — score 4
- 4. No, but he should hit Phil — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 482, line 3: «Even old friends must respect your family. At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooking in front of everyone. Dad puts his burger dow…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «respect» (+3); the same doer «old friends» (+3); the same thing acted on «family» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
«Hiya hun, quick favour, can I borrow fifty, pay you Friday x». Fourth time, never paid. What's sensible?
- 1. Shout at her in the street — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Lend her a hundred this time — no support
- 3. Lend it and say nothing — no support
- 4. Say no, she's a one-way friend — ✓ 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 6 · wrong ✗
«Mum talks to her mate in Australia every Sunday, that's well extra». (extra means over the top.) Why does she?
- 1. She's checking what the weather is like over there — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Australia is very close — no support
- 3. Friendships last across the world if you keep calling — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. She has to for her job — 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 7 · right ✓
«they sat for six hours and said nine words, that's so dead». What's the truth?
- 1. Fishing is banned from talking by law — score 3
- 2. Some friendships don't need words — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. They didn't really like each other — score 1
- 4. They must have fallen out on the way there — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 482, line 12: «Some friendships don't need many words; just being together can be enough.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «friendships» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «many words» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · wrong ✗
«Howay man, divvent be daft!» What is Donna saying?
- 1. Go away, you're daft — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Come on, don't be silly — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Come here, you're late — no support
- 4. Hello, how are you — 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 ✗
What would probably happen if Connor's mum kept lending Sharon money?
- 1. Nothing at all would change for either of them — no support
- 2. Sharon would turn into a better, kinder friend — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Sharon would pay it all back at once — score 6
- 4. She'd keep losing money to a one-way friend — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 470, line 7: «You can say no to lending money or things; a real friend pays back and looks after what they borrow.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «real friend» (+6). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
In a sitcom, grown-ups seem to have no real friends, just neighbours to argue with. What's true in real life?
- 1. Grown-ups need and keep real friends too — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Grown-up friends never last — score 1
- 3. Grown-ups don't need friends — score 2
- 4. Only children ever have real best friends — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 482, line 5: «Grown-ups need friends too, and many keep best friends for decades.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same thing acted on «best friends» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the friendships of adults as described in the lesson?
- 1. Adult friendships terminate upon any quarrel — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Adult friendships are invariably free from dispute — score 3
- 3. Adults likewise form, quarrel within and repair friendships — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Adults do not require friendships — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 225, line 7: «A boy in Melbourne borrowed his friend's tablet and dropped it; he hid the crack and said nothing, and the friendship ended when his friend found out.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «end» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal lesson to be drawn from the conduct of the habitually complaining colleague who assisted at midnight.
- 1. A friend's faults do not preclude his reliability in need — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Complaining friends are invariably unreliable — no support
- 3. Reliability is proportional to cheerfulness — no support
- 4. Assistance ought to be refused to all who habitually complain — 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 ✗
Ascertain the most appropriate conduct of a person whose acquaintance repeatedly borrows money without repayment.
- 1. To pay the acquaintance's other debts — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To decline further loans — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To increase the sums lent — no support
- 4. To lend in secret from one's family — 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 a friend who disparages one's spouse in company.
- 1. The remark ought to be applauded — no support
- 2. It is proper to require an apology notwithstanding the friendship — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The spouse ought to apologise to the friend — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Friendship requires that such remarks be tolerated without objection — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 266, line 12: «On a narrow pavement friends walk in a line and step aside for prams, wheelchairs, canes and walking frames, and pass slowly and politely, saying excuse me.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «excuse» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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