Antibiotics, viruses and side effects
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 19 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 ✗
mate says "get antibiotics for ur flu, it'll be gone tomorrow". Right?
- 1. Yes, antibiotics clear flu in a day, everyone knows it — no support
- 2. No, flu just needs much stronger antibiotics than a cold — score 2
- 3. Yes, if you take two at once it goes away even faster — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. No, flu is a virus and antibiotics don't touch it — ✓ the right answer · 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 18, line 15: «After a missed dose you usually take it when you remember, unless it's nearly time for the next one, and you never take two to catch up.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); the same thing acted on «two» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Grandad says "my body got used to antibiotics so they stopped working". What's actually happened?
- 1. He is now allergic to everything a doctor gives — no support
- 2. His blood has turned against all kinds of tablets — no support
- 3. The bacteria became resistant, not his body — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. His stomach has learned how to digest them first — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 9: «Antibiotic resistance means the bacteria change so the medicine stops working; it is the bacteria that become resistant, not the person's body.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if everyone took antibiotics for every cold?
- 1. Nothing, because it does no harm — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Colds would disappear from the world — no support
- 3. Viruses would turn into bacteria — no support
- 4. More bacteria would become resistant and antibiotics would fail more often — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
ugh the leaflet says headache, rash, dizzy, sick... I'm not taking this rubbish. Best reply?
- 1. Side effects only happen to adults — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Leaflets are only there for fun — no support
- 3. You will get all of those, so don't take it — no support
- 4. Most people get no side effects or mild ones, and the doctor weighed it up — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · right ✓
In a cartoon the hero eats mouldy bread and his infection is cured. What's wrong?
- 1. Nothing, mould is penicillin — no support
- 2. He should have eaten mouldy cheese instead, it works better — no support
- 3. It only works on toast — no support
- 4. Mouldy bread is not a medicine and can make you ill — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 16: «Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould killed bacteria on a dish, and Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and their team turned penicillin into a medicine in th…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ellie got diarrhoea on antibiotics and says she's allergic now. Most likely?
- 1. She caught a new virus from the tablet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She is definitely allergic to all medicines — no support
- 3. The antibiotic was fake — no support
- 4. It's a common side effect from gut bacteria, not usually an allergy — ✓ 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 ✓
Which is true about side effects?
- 1. They are unwanted effects on top of the wanted ones — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They are always serious — no support
- 3. They only happen with fake medicines — no support
- 4. They mean the medicine is working twice as hard as usual — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Mum's got some old antibiotics in a drawer. What's best?
- 1. Save them in the drawer for the next sore throat — no support
- 2. Take them back to the pharmacy for safe disposal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Give them to the dog if it ever looks a bit poorly — no support
- 4. Flush them down the toilet so nobody can find them — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 16: «Out-of-date medicines can lose strength or change; pharmacies take old medicines back, and flushing them harms rivers and wildlife.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take back» (+2); the same thing acted on «old medicines» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
You're sleepy in maths after your new hay fever tablet. What's the sensible step?
- 1. Stop eating breakfast — no support
- 2. Tell a grown-up, a non-drowsy kind may suit you — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Nothing, it means the tablet is too strong to ever take — no support
- 4. Take two more to wake up — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 5: «If you think a bone is broken: keep it still, tell a grown-up at once, and stop playing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «tell» (+2); the same thing acted on «grown» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Why did doctors before the 1940s fear a scratch from a rusty fence more than doctors do now?
- 1. People in those days had much thinner skin than people today — no support
- 2. Infected wounds could not be treated with antibiotics then — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Bacteria did not exist yet, so the danger came from the rust — no support
- 4. Fences in the past were much sharper and rustier than they are now — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 15: «Some medicines interact, making each other stronger or weaker, so doctors and pharmacists need to know about every medicine and herbal remedy a person takes.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «doctors» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Doctor says "this is viral, no antibiotics". Dad gets cross. Who's right?
- 1. Dad, antibiotics help everything — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Neither, viruses always need a jab from the nurse every time — no support
- 3. The doctor, antibiotics don't help viruses and can do harm — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Dad, if he asks twice — 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 · wrong ✗
Identify the principal reason for which antibacterial agents are not prescribed in cases of the common cold.
- 1. The agents aggravate nasal congestion — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The agents are reserved exclusively for adults — no support
- 3. The causative organism is a virus, upon which such agents exert no effect — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The condition resolves too swiftly for any medicament — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning antimicrobial resistance.
- 1. It is the bacteria, not the patient, that acquire resistance — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It arises solely from expired medicaments — no support
- 3. It is confined to hospitals and cannot occur in any other place — no support
- 4. It is the patient's immune system that becomes resistant — 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 ✗
Whereas a patient has been furnished with a course of antibiotics and reports improvement after two days, determine the conduct generally advised.
- 1. Substitution with a herbal preparation — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Doubling of the dose to hasten recovery — no support
- 3. Continuance as prescribed, with consultation prior to cessation — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Immediate cessation and retention of the remainder for future illness — 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 ✓
Ascertain the individual credited with the observation, in 1928, of the antibacterial action of a mould.
- 1. Alexander Fleming — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Edward Jenner — no support
- 3. Louis Pasteur — no support
- 4. Joseph Lister — 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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