Taking without paying: the consequences

Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 15 of the money 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 ✓

Lola's mate goes "it's just one grape, innit." The shop man frowns. Who's right?

1. The man: eating food before paying is still taking — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Both: grapes are always free samples — no support
3. The mate: one grape doesn't count — no support
4. Neither: grapes belong to everyone — 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 ✗

Kai's mate shouts "finders keepers!" about the £1 coin. What's the better rule?

1. Keep it, as long as nobody saw you pick it up — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Finders keepers, because that is the law in Britain — no support
3. It might be someone's, so hand it in — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Split it with your friend, 50p each, so it's fair — 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 ✗

Jayden says "only 2 school kids at a time? That's harsh, man." His dad says "they've had stuff nicked, son." ("Nicked" means stolen.) Why is the rule there?

1. Kids are too loud in shops — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The law says only 2 children anywhere — no support
3. Stealing made the shop limit everyone — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The shopkeeper hates kids — 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 ✓

Ben's cousin moans "gotta walk 40 minutes now." Before it was 5 minutes. How many extra minutes is a trip there and back?

1. 70 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. 45 — no support
3. 80 — no support
4. 35 — 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 5 · right ✓

What would happen if lots of people shoplifted from a small shop?

1. The government would pay for all the losses — score 4
2. Nothing, shops have endless money — score 4
3. It could raise prices or even close, hurting everyone nearby — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. It would get richer and lower its prices — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 15, line 3: «Stealing hurts everyone: if 5 bars at 60p go missing every day, the shop loses £3 a day, which is £90 in 30 days, so shops raise prices a little and make rules…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «raise» (+2); the same doer «shops» (+2); the same thing acted on «prices» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · right ✓

A bloke by the door: "Stick this in your bag, kid, two quid for you." A Scottish lass nearby says "dinnae, hen, tell yer maw." ("Dinnae" means don't; "hen" is a friendly name for a girl; "maw" means mum.) What should the child do?

1. Do it, but give the money back to the bloke later on — no support
2. Refuse and tell their mum or a trusted adult — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
3. Do it, it's only two quid — no support
4. Ask the bloke for more money — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 15, line 13: «A grown-up who asks a child to carry stolen things is using the child, and the child can get into serious trouble; say no and tell a trusted adult.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same receiver «trusted adult» (+4); the same action «tell» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · right ✓

Zak's mate laughs "you're such a chicken" when Zak won't take the bar. ("Chicken" means scared.) What's true?

1. Dares must always be done, or everyone will laugh at you — no support
2. Saying no to a bad dare takes real courage — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
3. Taking it would prove he's grown up — no support
4. Chickens are allowed to steal — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 15: «A dare is a challenge to do something, often something risky or wrong; saying no to a bad dare takes courage.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «courage» (+4); the same action «take» (+3); the same doer «saying» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

A cartoon shows a cheeky kid grabbing sweets and running off, with no one caring. What's wrong with that?

1. Nothing, sweets are free for children — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Only grown-ups can be caught — no support
3. In real life shops have cameras and staff, and it's stealing — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Real shops let anyone take things — 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 ✗

Mia sees a teen stopped by a guard over a £5 charger. Mum: "They'll call the police and his parents." What else might happen?

1. Nothing happens, because the charger was cheap — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He gets offered a job as a security guard there — no support
3. He might be banned from shops in the centre — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He gets the charger free, with just a warning letter — 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 · wrong ✗

Dad: "When people nick stuff, we all pay a bit more." If a shop loses £50 a week and has 500 customers, how much extra each?

1. 50p — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 10p — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. £1 — no support
4. 1p — 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 ✓

Ruby's little bro, aged 4, walked out with a toy. Is he a thief?

1. Yes, the police must be called — no support
2. No, he didn't understand; Mum put it right by taking it back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. No, because toys are free for small kids — no support
4. Yes, and he should be banned for ever — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 4: «Mistakes can be put right: when a 4-year-old walks out holding a toy he didn't understand he had to pay for, Mum takes it straight back and says sorry, and whe…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «put» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the act designated "shoplifting"?

1. The carrying of heavy merchandise within a shop by its staff — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. The return of goods to a shop for a refund — no support
3. The purchase of goods at a reduced price during a sale — no support
4. The removal of goods from a shop without payment, constituting theft — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 1: «Taking something from a shop without paying is called shoplifting, and it is stealing, even if it is only one 80p chocolate bar or one grape from the fruit pil…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that five articles priced at sixty pence each are stolen daily from a shop. Compute the loss incurred over a period of thirty days.

1. Three pounds — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Eighteen pounds — no support
3. Thirty pounds — no support
4. Ninety pounds — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the course of action most consistent with the established guidance where an adult requests a child to conceal goods and remove them from a shop.

1. Refusal and the informing of a trusted adult — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Compliance on a single occasion only — no support
3. Compliance upon receipt of the payment offered — no support
4. Negotiation of a larger payment — 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 effect of theft upon the prices charged to honest customers.

1. Prices are paid in full by the police — no support
2. Prices are unaffected by any losses whatsoever — no support
3. Prices are reduced in order to deter theft — no support
4. Prices are raised in part to cover losses arising from theft — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 10: «Shops cover the money they lose to stealing partly by raising prices, so honest customers pay too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «raise» (+2); the same thing acted on «prices» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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