Energy drinks: why they're not for kids
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 52 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 ✗
Kai: «energy drink before footy, I'll be rapid, bruv». His cousin's right to snatch it because?
- 1. Footballers mustn't drink anything during a match — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Energy drinks are too heavy to run with — no support
- 3. It's a big caffeine dose for a 10-year-old — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It belongs to the cousin — 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 ✓
Priya: «32 mg per 100 ml, tiny innit». What does her brother work out for a 250 ml can?
- 1. About 80 mg, a big dose for her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. About 3 mg, basically nothing at all — no support
- 3. About 800 mg, a whole jar of coffee — no support
- 4. About 32 mg, like a sweet, innit — 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 ✗
Liam at midnight after a 6 pm can: «bloody hell, I'm wired». Why?
- 1. The training session made him really hungry — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Caffeine was still in him hours later — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. His bed was far too hard and lumpy to sleep on — no support
- 4. He drank far too much water before bed — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Sophie, energy drink at lunch, mid-match: «my heart's going mental, like a drum». What now?
- 1. Run faster to use it up — no support
- 2. Stop, sit down, tell an adult; 999 if faint or chest pain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Drink more to calm down — no support
- 4. Play on, it means she's pumped — 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 52, line 12: «A racing, fluttery heart means stop, sit down and tell an adult; feeling faint or chest pain means 999.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same receiver «adult» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mason: «it's literally the same as a coffee, my dad has three». So it's fine for him?
- 1. Yes, three cans a day is the safe number for anyone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, if dad allows coffee — no support
- 3. No, coffee has no caffeine — no support
- 4. No, adults' limits don't apply to children — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Isla laughs: «pure dead brilliant, it says not for children on the can itself». What should she take from it?
- 1. The makers say it's not for kids — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It's for children who play sport — no support
- 3. It's a joke and means nothing — no support
- 4. It means only after a match — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Josh's mates mix two cans «for a double buzz». Josh says «Sus. Nah, I'm good». Smart?
- 1. Yes, but only one can is fine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, that's double the caffeine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No, two cans make you fitter — no support
- 4. No, he'll miss double the energy — 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 ✗
Freya buzzes for half an hour then flops «like a wet sock». What happened?
- 1. She caught a cold on the court — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The caffeine and sugar lift faded into a crash — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The drink gave her real lasting energy — no support
- 4. She got too much sleep — 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 ✗
Noah: «he's sponsored by it, so that's what made him fast, eh bro?» Right?
- 1. Yes, but only the blue ones — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. No, training, food and sleep made him fast — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No, his trainers made him fast — no support
- 4. Yes, the can made him a champion — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 7: «A dead leg is a bruised thigh muscle; cold wrapped in a cloth for about 20 minutes at a time helps, and hard rubbing on a fresh one can make the bleeding insid…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «bruised thigh muscle» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Grandad finds Darragh with a can from an older lad: «ya wee chancer, bin it». Darragh says «I didn't buy it». Does that matter?
- 1. Yes, gifts are always much safer — no support
- 2. Yes, only cans you buy yourself are bad — no support
- 3. No, but it means he can drink half — no support
- 4. No, the caffeine works the same — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 16: «Caffeine works the same whoever bought the can, so a drink handed on by an older kid is just as bad.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «work» (+3); the same doer «caffeine» (+3); the same thing acted on «same» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if a 9-year-old drank an energy drink before bed every night?
- 1. He'd grow taller — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing, kids can't feel caffeine — no support
- 3. Better sleep and faster legs — no support
- 4. Bad sleep, and tired, grumpy days — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Zara: «I need an energy drink to focus, it's giving study mode». Her mum: «what you need is sleep, babe». Who's right?
- 1. Both; drink it after sleeping — no support
- 2. Neither; skipping breakfast helps focus — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Zara; energy drinks fix tiredness — no support
- 4. Mum; sleep helps focus, caffeine brings jitters — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 52, line 17: «Sleep, breakfast and water help a child focus; caffeine more often brings jitters and worry.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «child focus» (+4); the same action «help» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal constituent responsible for the stimulant effect of energy drinks.
- 1. Water — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Sodium chloride — no support
- 3. Vitamin C — no support
- 4. Caffeine — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the labelling requirement applicable in the United Kingdom to beverages exceeding one hundred and fifty milligrams of caffeine per litre.
- 1. They are to bear a statement that they are not recommended for children — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They are exempt from any labelling requirement — no support
- 3. They are to be sold exclusively to children — no support
- 4. They are to bear a statement that they are suitable for children — 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 ✗
It is given that a beverage contains thirty-two milligrams of caffeine per one hundred millilitres. Determine the quantity of caffeine contained in a container of two hundred and fifty millilitres.
- 1. Two hundred and fifty milligrams — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Eight milligrams — no support
- 3. Eighty milligrams — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Thirty-two milligrams — 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 course of action appropriate where a child experiences palpitations accompanied by faintness following consumption of an energy drink during play.
- 1. Play is to cease and emergency services are to be summoned — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Play is to continue in order to expend the caffeine — no support
- 3. A further energy drink is to be administered — no support
- 4. The child is to be instructed to hold his breath — 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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