How medicines work
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 17 of the medicine 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 ✗
Calpol fixed my headache, so it cured whatever caused it, right?
- 1. Yes, painkillers always cure the cause — no support
- 2. No, it eases the pain while the body heals — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, and it stops all future headaches too — no support
- 4. No, it makes headaches worse later — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 10: «Concussion is a brain injury from the brain being shaken; it can cause headache, dizziness, sickness, confusion and memory gaps.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «headache» (+4); the same action «cause» (+2). Against it: a different doer (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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
My brother asks how the tablet knows to go to his head. What do you tell him?
- 1. The brain calls it up when it hurts — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It goes everywhere in the blood and acts where it fits — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It doesn't, it stays in the tummy and works from there — no support
- 4. It has a tiny map inside it — 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 ✗
Mum used a kitchen teaspoon for my medicine. What's the problem?
- 1. Kitchen spoons are different sizes, so the dose may be wrong — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Metal spoons ruin the medicine — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. No problem at all — no support
- 4. Teaspoons are always too small for any dose — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 16: «Regulators, official checkers, test a medicine before doctors can prescribe (order) it, and side effects (unwanted effects) are watched for after it goes on sa…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «medicine» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
Forgot two doses, so I'll take three at once to catch up. OK?
- 1. Yes, that's how you catch up — no support
- 2. No, taking doses all at once is dangerous — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Yes, double or triple is always fine if you missed some — no support
- 4. No, take five instead to be safe — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 11: «Some medicines are spaced through the day to keep a steady level in the blood; taking all the doses at once is dangerous.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «doses» (+4); the same action «take» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
My friend says the herbal pills are natural so they can't hurt you. What's wrong?
- 1. Natural pills are tested more than others — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Herbs can't have side effects — no support
- 3. Natural doesn't always mean safe — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nothing, he's right about herbal pills — 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 ✓
Aunt felt better on a sugar pill in a trial. Was she faking?
- 1. No, sugar cures everything if you believe — no support
- 2. Yes, sugar is a real medicine — no support
- 3. Yes, she was lying to the doctors — no support
- 4. No, people can really feel better because they expect to — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 14: «A placebo is a dummy treatment with no active medicine; people sometimes feel better just because they expect to.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same action «feel» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a cartoon, a baby climbs the cupboard and eats pills thinking they're sweets. What's the lesson?
- 1. Pills are just sweets — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Babies can't climb — no support
- 3. Keep only the sweets up high, pills can stay low — score 7
- 4. Keep medicines locked up out of reach and sight — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 3: «It is not caused by eating sweets and you cannot catch it; with careful carb counting a diabetic child can even eat the birthday cake.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «sweets» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if new medicines were sold without any trials?
- 1. They would be cheaper and much safer for everyone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing would change at all — no support
- 3. They would work better — no support
- 4. Nobody would know if they worked or were safe — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Ugh, rubbed my eye straight after the drops. Problem?
- 1. It helps the drops work much quicker — no support
- 2. It makes the drops stronger and last longer — no support
- 3. Rubbing can push the medicine out — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. No, rub hard to spread the drops round — 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 17, line 10: «Eye drops are put in by gently pulling down the lower lid, without touching the eye with the bottle; rubbing the eye straight afterwards can push the medicine…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «push out» (+3); the same thing acted on «medicine» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why do doctors keep watching a medicine even after it's on sale?
- 1. To count the money — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Rare side effects can show up in many users — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To change its colour — no support
- 4. They don't, they stop watching once it's in the shops — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Why did the doctor give you cream instead of a tablet for your rash?
- 1. Tablets can't reach skin at all — no support
- 2. Tablets are only for adults — no support
- 3. Cream works on the skin where it's needed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Cream is always stronger than any tablet you can swallow — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 8: «Creams work where they are put, so less medicine goes round the whole body; a thin layer as directed is enough.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «work» (+2); the same doer «creams» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the means by which an orally administered medicine reaches the site of pain.
- 1. It remains within the stomach — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. It travels through the throat directly to the head — no support
- 3. It is absorbed into the blood and distributed throughout the body — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. It is directed by the nervous system straight to the painful site — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 14, line 4: «A spacer, a plastic tube on the inhaler, helps more medicine reach the lungs instead of sticking in the mouth.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stick» (+3); the same doer «more medicine» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a placebo?
- 1. A medicine of exceptional potency — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. An instrument used in examination — no support
- 3. A vitamin supplement — no support
- 4. A preparation containing no active medicine, employed in trials for comparison — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the approval of new medicines.
- 1. They are approved upon a single tasting — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They are tested in laboratories and in trials with volunteers and reviewed by regulators — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They are approved without any assessment — no support
- 4. They are deemed safe if derived from plants — 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 ✗
State the reason for which liquid medicines are measured with a calibrated syringe.
- 1. Syringes alter the strength of the medicine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Household spoons vary in capacity — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Spoons react chemically with medicine — no support
- 4. Syringes are required by school rules — 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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