Why we sleep when ill
Tests: 7 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 8 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 31 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 ✗
Big bro: "being ill is the germ wrecking you". What's the bigger truth?
- 1. The body does nothing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's all in your head and you can just ignore it — no support
- 3. Much of what you feel is your own immune system fighting — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Germs do everything, the body just sits and waits — 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 2 · ★★ · right ✓
Hot to touch but shivering. Gran piles on three duvets "to sweat it out". Better?
- 1. A cold bath straight away — no support
- 2. Five duvets, a hot water bottle and the heating on full — no support
- 3. Nothing to drink until the shivering stops — no support
- 4. Light layers and drinks, heavy blankets can push the fever up — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 11: «Light layers and drinks are better than piling on heavy blankets, which can make a fever higher and more uncomfortable.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «heavy blankets» (+3); the same thing acted on «fever» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓
What would happen if you forced yourself to run around all day with flu?
- 1. Nothing, exercise cures flu — no support
- 2. Recovery would likely take longer and you'd feel worse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. You'd sweat the virus out through your skin by teatime — score 0
- 4. You'd get better faster — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 14: «Some appointments happen by phone or video when no examination is needed, and the doctor decides if you must come in.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «need» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
"not hungry, can I just not eat or drink at all?"
- 1. Eat what you can, but keep drinking — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Only drink fizzy drinks for the energy — no support
- 3. Yes, nothing at all, the germ starves — no support
- 4. No, eat a big hot dinner to keep strong — 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 ✗
Ellie had a cold, felt fine, then her ear really hurt three days later. What happened?
- 1. Ears hurt for a few days after every single cold — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. The cold came back much stronger — no support
- 3. Probably a second infection, an ear infection — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. She caught flu from her pillow — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 2: «Behind your eardrum is a little space, the middle ear; after a cold it can fill with fluid, and the pressure makes the ear really hurt.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hurt» (+3); the same doer «ear» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
Your mate came back to school the day after a high fever to "prove he's hard". Why's it a bad idea?
- 1. He's still tired and may still spread germs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. Teachers will give him a detention for it — no support
- 3. It's not, it proves he's completely healthy — no support
- 4. Fevers make you stronger — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 3: «The fever is not the illness, it is the body fighting; medicine like paracetamol lowers it for a few hours but doesn't kill the germ, so it comes back until yo…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «germ» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓
Off sick, you watch screens till 1am. What's the problem?
- 1. It makes the fever go — no support
- 2. Screens kill germs — no support
- 3. None, watching TV counts as rest — no support
- 4. Late screens make sleep worse, and sleep helps you heal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 14: «Quiet rest, like reading, drawing or sleeping, helps recovery, and screens late at night make sleep worse.», 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 «make» (+2); the same doer «screens» (+2); the same thing acted on «sleep» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why might a city at war turn off fairground lights to power its defences? How is your body similar?
- 1. The body makes extra energy for play — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. It saves energy for fighting, like the body making you sleepy and less hungry — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. The body turns off the heart for a while, so that the legs and arms get more power — score 2
- 4. It isn't similar at all — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 29, line 1: «A vaccine is a practice fight for your immune system: it shows the body a killed, weakened or harmless piece of a germ, so the body learns to recognise it and…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «build» (+3); the same doer «body» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
In a game, your hero's health bar fills only when he eats. What's different in real flu?
- 1. Rest and drinks matter most, appetite drops on purpose — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Shivering fills up your health — no support
- 3. Sleep drains your health — no support
- 4. Eating more always heals you faster than anything else — 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 ✓
Mum lets you sleep in her bed when ill. Your brother says that's for babies. Fair?
- 1. Yes, only babies do it — no support
- 2. No, comfort helps anyone who's ill feel safer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Yes, it slows recovery because you sleep less well — score 2
- 4. No, but only if you're under five — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 15: «Comfort from a parent, a cuddle or sleeping nearby, helps ill children feel safe, and needing it doesn't make you a baby.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+4); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal origin of the somnolence experienced during an infectious illness.
- 1. Insufficient stimulation at home — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Direct consumption of energy by the pathogen — no support
- 3. Chemical messengers released by the immune system — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The invariable effect of medicaments — 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 ✓
Whereas a febrile patient reports sensations of cold accompanied by shivering, determine the most accurate explanation.
- 1. The body temperature is rising towards a raised setting determined by the brain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. The ambient temperature is excessively low — no support
- 3. The patient is suffering from frostbite — no support
- 4. The body temperature is falling dangerously — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 10: «In a fever the brain raises the body's temperature setting, so you shiver and feel cold until you reach it, then feel hot and sweaty.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «temperature setting» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · 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 nutrition during a short infectious illness.
- 1. Food intake should be doubled — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A reduced intake of food is acceptable, provided adequate fluids are taken — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Full meals must be consumed without exception, in order to sustain the strength of the patient — no support
- 4. All fluids should be withheld — 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 probable explanation where a child improves after a cold and subsequently deteriorates.
- 1. Spontaneous duplication of the original virus within the body — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Insufficient use of screens — no support
- 3. A secondary infection, such as of the ear — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Excessive consumption of water — 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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