Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 46 of the language 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 ✗
«miss it says a hundred times, so is it 100 × 3 × 4??» What do you say?
- 1. No, the hundred is how often he nagged; only 3 and 4 are books — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. No, it should be 100 + 3 + 4 = 107 books — no support
- 3. Yes, every number in a problem must be used somewhere — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Yes, because the biggest number always goes first — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 6: «In a word problem, use only the numbers that are about the thing asked; «told his brother a hundred times» is decoration, and 3 shelves × 4 books = 12 books.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Ben brags «a thousand sweets» and gives Ama «half». Ama expects 500. What really happens?
- 1. She gets 14, because Ben gives her all of them — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She gets nothing, because there were no sweets — no support
- 3. She gets 500, because half of a thousand is 500 — no support
- 4. She gets 7, because there were only 14 — ✓ 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 3 · ★★ · right ✓
«coach wants 110% lol so if I usually run 10 laps I gotta do 11 then?» What is right?
- 1. Yes, exactly 11 laps and not one lap more — no support
- 2. No, he just means «try your hardest»; it's not a sum — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Yes, and the goalie must do 110 laps — no support
- 4. No, he means you should do 110 laps — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 9: ««I want a hundred and ten per cent from every one of you!» means «try your very hardest»; a hundred per cent is all of something, and you cannot give more than…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «try» (+4); the same thing acted on «hardest» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Mum said «two minutes» in the shop doorway. After two minutes you shout «you SAID two!». What have you missed?
- 1. Two minutes is really longer than ten minutes, so she's early — no support
- 2. «Two minutes» meant «a short while», so be patient — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Mum wanted to go home the long way round — no support
- 4. Mum can't tell the time on her phone — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 39, line 2: «Gran hands Sam a present, Mum raises an eyebrow and says "What do you say?", and Sam says "Thanks, Gran"; tiny words like "please" and "thank you" make people…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «mum» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«Dad said not in a million years so I'll ask again in a million years innit» What did Dad really mean?
- 1. Never, or not any time soon: it's a clear no — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, but only as soon as a million years have passed — no support
- 3. Only if you buy the snake yourself — no support
- 4. Ask again tomorrow and he might say yes — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 2: «At about six months Baby Leo says "ba-ba-ba" and "da-da-da" and his dad cries "He said Dad!"; really Leo is practising sounds, like a musician playing scales,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «dad» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«it's a one in a million clover so if I look at a million I'll find one, easy» What is wrong?
- 1. Four-leaf clovers do not exist at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. You need to look at two million to find one — no support
- 3. Nothing, one in a million is the exact chance that scientists measured — no support
- 4. «One in a million» just meant «rare»; the real chance is much better — ✓ 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 7 · ★★ · right ✓
★★ Aoife: «like a million people, well, thirty». Rosie: «a million Robux, well, 500». What rule works for both?
- 1. Add the two numbers together — no support
- 2. The last, corrected number counts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. The first number said always counts — score 5
- 4. The biggest number always counts — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 46, line 15: «When someone corrects themselves, the last real number counts: «like a million people, well, thirty» means 30.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «count» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «last real number» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
★★ In a problem: «Dad's had a thousand cups of tea today, ugh. He made 4 cups for each of 3 guests.» How many cups did he make for guests?
- 1. 1012 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 1000 — no support
- 3. 7 — no support
- 4. 12 — ✓ 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 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
★★★ «We walked like a million miles!» The app says the class walked 3.2 km there and the same back. How far did they walk in all?
- 1. A million miles — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 2 million miles — no support
- 3. 3.2 km — no support
- 4. 6.4 km — ✓ 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 10 · ★★ · right ✓
★★★ Mr Okafor moans about «a hundred things to do». His board shows 6 jobs; he finishes half before lunch and 1 after. How many jobs are left?
- 1. 2 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 99 — no support
- 3. 3 — no support
- 4. 50 — 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 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
★★★ «There were like a thousand kids at the party, no, twenty, oh and five grown-ups.» Each person got 2 balloons. How many balloons in all?
- 1. 2,010 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 50 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 2,000 — no support
- 4. 40 — 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 · right ✓
It is given that Tom «has told his brother a hundred times» to tidy, and that the brother tidies three shelves each bearing four books. Determine the aggregate number of books tidied.
- 1. Twelve — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. One thousand two hundred — no support
- 3. Forty — no support
- 4. One hundred and seven — 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 reason for which the figure «one hundred and ten per cent», as employed by a sports coach, cannot denote a quantity.
- 1. One hundred per cent constitutes the whole, and no part may exceed the whole — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Percentages may be applied solely to sums of money — no support
- 3. The figure is an odd number and therefore cannot be divided — no support
- 4. Coaches are prohibited by regulation from employing percentages — 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 ✗
A speaker states «a million people, well, thirty». Ascertain the number of persons present.
- 1. One million — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One million and thirty — no support
- 3. Thirty — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It cannot be ascertained — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the figures «8,849 metres», stated by a teacher in respect of Everest, and «a thousand miles», asserted by a parent in respect of a local hill?
- 1. Both are measurements of equal reliability — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Neither figure may be regarded as a measurement — no support
- 3. The former is an exaggeration; the latter is a measurement — no support
- 4. The former is a measurement; the latter conveys a feeling of fatigue — ✓ 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
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