The optician and glasses
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 27 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 · right ✓
Grandma: "don't wear your glasses all the time, your eyes'll get lazy". True?
- 1. No, glasses don't weaken eyes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 2. Only in summer, when it's sunny — no support
- 3. Yes, glasses slowly ruin your eyes — score 9
- 4. Yes, take them off as often as you can — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 4: «Glasses don't weaken your eyes or make them lazy; many children wear them, and the first day with them can feel like someone turned up the sharpness of the who…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «eyes» (+5); the same action «weaken» (+3); the same doer «glasses» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
Zak squints at the board but reads his book fine. What might he have?
- 1. Short sight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Long sight — no support
- 3. Colour blindness — no support
- 4. A cataract — 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 ✓
You guess letters to "pass" the eye test. What happens?
- 1. You might not get glasses you need — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. You get a prize — no support
- 3. Nothing, because guessing is totally fine — no support
- 4. Your eyes improve — 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 · right ✓
"Colour-blind = sees in black and white" — right?
- 1. No, they see colours but miss some differences — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. No, they see only red — no support
- 3. Yes, but only at night — no support
- 4. Yes, like an old film — 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 · wrong ✗
Little bro hates his patch and takes it off. Why should he keep it on?
- 1. It stops him squinting at the sun — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's a punishment — no support
- 3. It trains the brain to use his weaker eye — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It keeps germs out — 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 ✓
After drops, bright sunlight hurts your eyes. Why?
- 1. The drops burn — no support
- 2. The sun is brighter after tests — score 4
- 3. Your eyes got weaker — score 4
- 4. Wide pupils let in more light — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 12: «Eye drops can widen the pupils so the optometrist can see inside the eye, and the blurriness wears off after a few hours; wide pupils let in more light, so bri…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «wide pupils» (+3); the same thing acted on «more light» (+3); the same action «let in» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
Could a cataract spread from one eye to the other like a cold?
- 1. Yes, by crying with both eyes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, cataracts don't spread — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, by touching the other eye — no support
- 4. Only in old people, who catch 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 8 · wrong ✗
What would happen to a lazy eye left untreated in early childhood?
- 1. It slowly becomes the stronger, good eye — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. It fixes itself always — score 9
- 3. Its sight could stay weak for life — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. It turns blue — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 9, line 11: «Conjunctivitis makes the eye red, gritty and sticky; in the UK children don't have to stay off school with it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «eye» (+5); the same doer «conjunctivitis» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Your eyes go a bit crossed when tired and you see double. What to do?
- 1. Rub them hard — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 2. Tell a grown-up, it should be checked — ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 3. Ignore it, it'll go away on its own soon — score 6
- 4. Watch more TV — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «rub» (+3); the same thing acted on «eye» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
Sasha wants to know if her glasses are forever. Best answer?
- 1. Only if she eats carrots — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, eyes fix by age 10 — no support
- 3. Yes, forever the same — no support
- 4. Prescriptions change as she grows, so not always the same ones — ✓ 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 11 · wrong ✗
In a cartoon the nerdy kid with glasses is always the loser. What's true?
- 1. Glasses make you clever — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only nerds need glasses — no support
- 3. Glasses make you weak — no support
- 4. Glasses are common and say nothing about who you are — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the condition wherein light is brought to focus anterior to the retina, rendering distant objects indistinct.
- 1. Cataract — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Myopia, or short sight — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Amblyopia, or lazy eye — no support
- 4. Colour blindness — 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 · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the habitual wearing of spectacles by children.
- 1. It induces a permanent squint — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It causes deterioration of the eyesight — no support
- 3. It does not cause deterioration of the eyesight — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is prohibited by law before the age of sixteen — 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 · right ✓
Ascertain the purpose for which the occlusion of the stronger eye is prescribed.
- 1. To compel the brain to employ the weaker eye — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. To dilate the pupil — no support
- 3. To protect the stronger eye from any infection — no support
- 4. To correct colour blindness — 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 ✓
Determine the treatment ordinarily employed in cases of cataract.
- 1. Surgical replacement of the clouded lens with an artificial lens — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The application of an eye patch — no support
- 3. No treatment exists — no support
- 4. Dietary supplementation with carrots — 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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