Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform

Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 487 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 ✓

«free dinners r for scroungers lol». Is that right?

1. No, they're a fair help lots of families get — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yes, families should pay for everything — no support
3. Yes, only lazy families ever need them — no support
4. No, because dinners cost nothing to cook — no support

Why: It could not read the question into a frame, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Nia scribbled out OLIVIA P because she didn't want anyone to see. What's another fix the lesson gives?

1. Give it back to Olivia's house — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Ask Mum to sew a new label in — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Write OLIVIA on her bag too — no support
4. Throw the jumper in the bin — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

In a cartoon, the girl in the charity-shop dress gets laughed off the dance floor. What's more real?

1. Only grown-ups are allowed in charity shops — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Plenty of people shop there and nobody can tell — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Charity-shop clothes always fall apart on you — no support
4. Charity shops sell nothing but old curtains — 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 ✗

What would most likely happen if Koa told his teacher about his togs?

1. He'd be banned from the swimming term — no support
2. The teacher would phone his dad to shout — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. The school would lend him some, no fuss — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. He'd be told off for not buying new ones — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. 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 what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «dad» (+6). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bogdan: «didn't give mum the letter, the trip's £35, she'd only stress». What did he get wrong?

1. Nothing, hiding letters is always the kind thing — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. He should have forged Mum's signature on the slip — score 1
3. He chose for Mum, and the school might have helped — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. He should have paid the £35 out of his own savings — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 487, line 4: «Hiding money troubles can make things worse. Bogdan in Coventry doesn't give Mum the letter about the £35 theme park trip, because he knows she'll worry, and h…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «letter» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Jory: «shut up, they're my lucky shoes, the cardboard's on purpose». Why might he say that?

1. He's showing off his brand-new running trainers — no support
2. He really believes cardboard is lucky in PE — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. He wants everybody to copy his shoes tomorrow — no support
4. He's embarrassed and hiding that money is short — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 487, line 3: «Sometimes money runs out before payday. Koa in Auckland has togs (that's New Zealand for a swimming costume) that are too small, and swimming starts Monday. Da…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cardboard» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Roisin has no £1 for non-uniform day, and her own clothes are her brother's old hoodie. She wears her uniform and says she forgot. What else could she do?

1. Take a pound from her mum's purse without asking — score 9
2. Stay at home that day and pretend to be poorly — no support
3. Borrow a posh outfit from a girl she hardly knows — score 4
4. Quietly tell the teacher she can't do it this time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 11, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 487, line 16: «If you see someone teased about old shoes or free dinners, the kind thing is not to laugh and to help or tell a teacher.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «tell» (+4); the same receiver «teacher» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Hamish's dad caught loads in June and almost nothing in July. What would a wise family do in June?

1. Save some for the bad months — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Stop fishing in July — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. Buy a second fishing boat — no support
4. Spend it all on takeaways and treats — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 357, line 4: «Other snoops end the same way. Grace looked in her friend's bag while he was at the toilet; he saw her, was upset and did not want to sit with her. Ava read Mu…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «end» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Islay asked Mum for something different and Mum looked sad. «I'm a horrible kid for asking.» True?

1. No, asking is normal, and Mum's sadness isn't her fault — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yes, kids should never ask for anything at all — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Yes, she made Mum sad on purpose with that — score 3
4. No, but she must eat jam forever to make up — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 470, line 1: «Connor's friend Ollie only messages when he needs something: help with maths homework, a lend of a charger, Connor's spare ticket to the match. When Connor inv…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different doer (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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Six kids bring cupcakes and Amara brings a pack of 20 biscuits. Cupcakes sell at 50p and biscuits at 10p. If six cupcakes and all the biscuits sell, which raised more?

1. The biscuits, by a pound — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. They raised exactly the same — no support
3. The biscuits, by two pounds — score 4
4. The six cupcakes, by a pound — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 487, line 5: «Money can go up and down. Hamish's dad is a fisherman in Inverness: one month it's takeaway twice a week, the next it's beans on toast. «Are we skint again, Da…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «biscuits» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Nuala says «cinema Saturday?» and Ciaran's skint. Which reply is honest and keeps the friendship?

1. «Can't this week. Kickabout in the park?» — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. «Ask me again when I'm rich, OK?» — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. «Busy. Every single Saturday, for ever, sorry.» — no support
4. «No, I don't even like you, Nuala.» — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 6, 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 what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «friend» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises free school meals?

1. A reward conferred solely upon pupils of exemplary conduct and attainment — no support
2. A penalty imposed upon families who have failed to settle their debts — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. A privilege reserved for the children of staff employed by the school — no support
4. A fair provision for families of limited means, received by many pupils — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 487, line 6: «Free school meals are for families who don't have much money; lots of children get them, and nobody should be teased for it.», 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 «families» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Given that a pupil withholds from his parent a letter concerning a school excursion on the grounds of cost, identify the principal error.

1. He neglected to pay the sum from his savings — no support
2. He should have destroyed the letter at once — no support
3. He failed to forge the parent's signature — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. He denied the parent the chance to request help — ✓ the right answer · 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 278, line 1: «A test is not a race against the teacher; it shows what you know so the teacher can help with what you don't. Copying, forging a parent's signature or keeping…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sign» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning garments acquired second-hand.

1. They are clean, serviceable and widely used — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. They are prohibited under school regulations — no support
3. They are worn only by families without income — no support
4. They are invariably unclean and unserviceable — 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 ✗

Ascertain the most appropriate course for a pupil whose swimming costume no longer fits and whose parent cannot purchase another until payday.

1. To inform a teacher, who may lend spare kit — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. To borrow money from a classmate for a new one — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. To absent himself from every swimming lesson — no support
4. To swim in his school uniform without asking — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 477, line 4: «And sometimes the sorry is refused. Maddie apologises to Ellie for laughing when she fell in the mud; Ellie says, «I'm never forgiving you, ever.» Her mum says…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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