The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 68 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 ✓
Coach: «I scream so they try harder, works every time». What does the science say?
- 1. Fear usually makes skills worse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Kids' brains need loud alarms — no support
- 3. Screaming improves fine footwork — no support
- 4. It works only for goalkeepers — 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 · wrong ✗
«ref's against us, every call goes their way, swear down». What's more likely?
- 1. The ref was paid by the other team before the game — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One ref, a hard angle; mistakes go both ways — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Refs always favour the away team — no support
- 4. The ref can't see anything at all — 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 ✓
Ava from Kent: «silent touchline was proper weird, but I liked it». Why might she have played better?
- 1. She could think for herself without shouts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The other team couldn't hear the ref — no support
- 3. The grass was quieter so the ball rolled — no support
- 4. Silence makes legs run faster and kick harder — 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 ✓
What would happen to grassroots football if all teenage refs quit because of abuse?
- 1. Kids would never argue again — no support
- 2. Games would go on just the same — no support
- 3. Parents would happily ref every game better instead — no support
- 4. There'd be no refs and fewer games — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 68, line 4: «Many grassroots referees are teenagers learning the job, and touchline abuse is a big reason they quit, so «Ref, you're blind!» from a 42-year-old dad at a 15-…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ref» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · right ✓
Amara: «shame, coach, chill now now» as he screams at the ref. What is she telling him?
- 1. Well done, coach — no support
- 2. Leave the pitch — no support
- 3. Calm down, soon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Shout louder now — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 68, line 19: ««Muppet» is British slang for a silly person; «arvo» is Australian for afternoon; «chill now now» in South Africa means calm down soon, in a minute.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «calm down» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
Sophie stares out of the window in the arvo while her dad lists mistakes. Why does it land so hard?
- 1. She's tired and emotional after the game — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Cars make criticism louder — no support
- 3. Afternoon light makes ears more sensitive to words — no support
- 4. She didn't play in the 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 ✗
«my coach calls me thick every week, that's just footy innit». Right?
- 1. No, but only if he swears — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, all coaches have to do it — no support
- 3. No, that's bullying; tell the welfare officer — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, it toughens players up — 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 ✗
In a film, the screaming coach turns a team of losers into champions in a week. What's more true?
- 1. Shouting makes kids run faster — no support
- 2. Calm, clear coaching usually works better — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Screaming always makes champions in the end — no support
- 4. Teams win because coaches yell — ← Mova's choice · 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 67, line 4: «Winning well matters just as much: Ellie's team in Newcastle won 5–0 and she shouted «Yous were rubbish!» at the losers, but Sienna in Melbourne won her race a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «win» (+4); the same doer «team» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Ethan's mom: «I'll just shout louder so he hears me over the coach». What would happen?
- 1. The coach would stop talking — no support
- 2. Even more confusion; parents should just cheer — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Ethan would hear only her voice — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. He'd follow her and score every time — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 68, line 2: «Ethan in Chicago hears «Shoot!» from his mom, «Pass!» from his coach and «Here!» from three teammates all at once; the brain can only follow one instruction at…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «hear» (+2); the same doer «ethan» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (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 10 · right ✓
Callum's teammates start making more mistakes after he yells at them. Why?
- 1. Their confidence drops and nerves cause errors — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yelling makes the ball heavier — no support
- 3. They can't hear the referee — no support
- 4. They are trying to annoy him back by playing badly — 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 ✓
Lily's heart goes from 120 to 160 beats a minute when the coach roars. How many more beats a minute?
- 1. 40 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 160 — no support
- 3. 280 — no support
- 4. 30 — 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 region of the brain principally responsible for the fear response observed in a child subjected to shouting.
- 1. The cerebellum — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The spinal cord — no support
- 3. The eardrum — no support
- 4. The amygdala — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of fear upon the performance of fine motor skills?
- 1. Such skills are invariably enhanced — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Such skills are typically impaired — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Such skills are transferred to the coach — no support
- 4. Such skills are wholly unaffected — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning abuse directed at grassroots referees.
- 1. It is a principal cause of referees leaving the game — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It reliably improves the accuracy of decisions — no support
- 3. It is required by the laws of the game — no support
- 4. It is directed exclusively at adult referees — 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 ✗
It is given that a child is subjected to repeated insults by a coach. State the appropriate course of action.
- 1. The child is to withdraw from all physical activity — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The child is to reciprocate the insults — no support
- 3. The child is to accept such treatment as customary — no support
- 4. The matter is to be reported to a parent or the club welfare officer — ✓ 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
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