Fever
Tests: 8 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 8 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 ✗
38.5 and I'm freezing, mum, gimme all the duvets! Good idea?
- 1. Yes, and a hot water bottle on your head — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, go sit in a cold bath — no support
- 3. Yes, sweating it out under the lot is best — no support
- 4. No, too many covers can make you overheat — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Gran felt my forehead and says I don't have a fever. Can she be sure?
- 1. Yes, grans' hands are always accurate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, foreheads never lie — no support
- 3. No, touch isn't reliable; a thermometer is — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, only a doctor can feel a fever with his hand — 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 ✓
My baby cousin had a fit with a fever. Does she have epilepsy now?
- 1. Yes, and brain damage too — no support
- 2. No, babies can't have fits at all — no support
- 3. Yes, every fit means epilepsy for life — score 6
- 4. No, febrile seizures don't mean epilepsy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 12, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 12: «Febrile seizures, or fever fits, are fits caused by a rising fever in children aged about 6 months to 5 years; they are scary but almost always harmless and do…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same doer «seizures» (+4); the same thing acted on «epilepsy» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
The fever came back, so the paracetamol was useless. Right?
- 1. No, so give her aspirin instead, it's much stronger stuff — no support
- 2. No, it lowers the fever for hours while the body fights — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Yes, it never works on a real fever — no support
- 4. Yes, so take a double dose now — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, 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 same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lower» (+2); the same thing acted on «fever» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Ellie has a fever, is very sleepy and floppy, and has purple spots that stay when a glass is pressed. What now?
- 1. Call 999 or go straight to A&E — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Let her sleep and wait until the morning — no support
- 3. Send her to school as normal — no support
- 4. Give her a cold bath — 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 ✓
Your friend's mum says ibuprofen is dangerous for kids. What's true?
- 1. Children should take adult doses — no support
- 2. It is deadly for every child — score 10
- 3. It is safer than water, so give as much as you like — no support
- 4. At the right dose it's safe for most children, though some shouldn't have it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 16
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 16, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 16: «Paracetamol and ibuprofen are both safe for most children at the right dose; aspirin is not given to children under 16.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «paracetamol» (+4); the same place «right dose» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a cartoon, a sick boy's thermometer shoots out the top and he's sent to school. What's wrong?
- 1. Fevers mean you must run it off outside — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A child with a fever should stay home — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nothing, fevers don't matter at all at school — no support
- 4. Thermometers can't really go that high — 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 ✓
What would happen if your body couldn't raise its temperature?
- 1. Nothing would change at all — no support
- 2. Fighting some infections would be harder — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 3. You'd be cured faster — score 0
- 4. You would never get ill again — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 6: «A fever is when the body raises its temperature to fight infection; normal body temperature is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fight» (+4); the same doer «body» (+4); the same thing acted on «infection» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Dylan saw spiders on the ceiling when his fever was high. Is he going mad?
- 1. No, fever can cause odd feelings that pass when it drops — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. No, he is just making it up for attention — no support
- 3. Yes, it's a sign of madness — no support
- 4. Yes, the spiders are real ones — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 11: «A high temperature can make vivid dreams and odd feelings that go when the fever drops.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «drop» (+4); the same doer «fever» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Ill, not hungry at all, but sipping water fine. Should Mum worry about the food?
- 1. Not much; not eating is normal, drinking matters more — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. No, but stop the water too — no support
- 3. Yes, she should make him eat a big meal right now — no support
- 4. Yes, call 999 — 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 ✓
Why do you sweat when a fever breaks?
- 1. The germs are leaking out through the skin — no support
- 2. The heavy blankets made your skin wet — no support
- 3. The body is cooling down again — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. You are getting hotter and hotter still — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 7: «Shivering happens while the body heats up, and sweating while it cools down.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «body» (+2); the same action «cool down» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the normal range of human body temperature.
- 1. Approximately 45 degrees Celsius — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Approximately 30 to 31 degrees Celsius — no support
- 3. Approximately 39 to 40 degrees Celsius in health — no support
- 4. Approximately 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius — ✓ 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises fever?
- 1. A deliberate elevation of temperature by which the body combats infection — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A disease arising from prolonged exposure to warm weather — no support
- 3. An infection in its own right, independent of any organism — no support
- 4. A condition requiring immediate immersion of the patient in iced 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a febrile child presents a rash which does not fade under the pressure of a glass. State the appropriate course of action.
- 1. The rash is to be treated with moisturiser — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Emergency medical assistance is to be obtained immediately — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The child is to be observed at home until the following week — no support
- 4. The child is to be sent to school — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the administration of aspirin.
- 1. Aspirin may be given at an adult dose to any child of school age — score 6
- 2. Aspirin is the preferred remedy for fever in children — no support
- 3. Aspirin is safer than paracetamol in childhood — score 3
- 4. Aspirin is not to be given to children under the age of sixteen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 16: «Paracetamol and ibuprofen are both safe for most children at the right dose; aspirin is not given to children under 16.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «aspirin» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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