The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 32 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 · wrong ✗
Your mate goes, "Being your own boss is easy money, no cap, you just chill." ("No cap" means honestly.) What's true?
- 1. It's illegal to be your own boss under 50 — no support
- 2. Own-boss people get paid even when they don't work — score 1
- 3. It brings freedom but also risk, long hours and no sick pay — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He's right, bosses never work and always earn more — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 14: «A CEO is the top boss of a company; a CEO on £2,000,000 a year earns 100 times as much as a worker on £20,000; some say bosses earn it, others say it is unfair.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «earn» (+2); the same doer «bosses» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
The teacher says to Ben, "You're losing money, pal!" His prizes cost £15 and 20 kids played at 50p. What would fix it?
- 1. Charging less per go and adding prizes — no support
- 2. Letting everyone play for free — no support
- 3. Cheaper prizes or a higher price per go — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Giving away even bigger prizes — 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 15, line 10: «Shops cover the money they lose to stealing partly by raising prices, so honest customers pay too.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «prices» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
An Aussie uncle at the fair says, "I'll have a crack at the sweets jar, it's only 20c, heaps of fun." ("Have a crack" means try; "20c" is twenty cents.) If 60 people play at 20 cents, what is taken?
- 1. 120 dollars — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 12 dollars — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 6 dollars — no support
- 4. 80 dollars — 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 · wrong ✗
Josh says, "My bracelets cost me £2 and I sold 10 for a quid each, so I made a tenner." ("Quid" means a pound.) What's the real profit?
- 1. £2 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £12 — no support
- 3. £10 — no support
- 4. £8 — ✓ 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 5 · right ✓
Leo's mate says, "His mum's salon lost money, so she's rubbish at business." What's the fairer view?
- 1. Many new businesses lose money at first; hers made a profit in year two — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 2. She should have charged nothing to get customers — score 8
- 3. Salons can never make a profit — score -1
- 4. He's right, a first-year loss means the business has failed — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 8 for the next best. 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «money» (+4); the same action «lose» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
What would happen if the cake stall had to buy the 40 cakes at 30p each?
- 1. Profit would rise from £20 to £32 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They would lose £12 — no support
- 3. Profit would fall from £20 to £8 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Profit would stay at £20 — 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 · right ✓
In a cartoon, a kid buys "one share of McDonald's" and gets the keys to every restaurant. What's wrong?
- 1. Nothing, one share gives you every restaurant — no support
- 2. One share is a tiny piece of the company, not the whole thing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Shares are tickets for free burgers for life — no support
- 4. Shares are only sold to people who work there — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 11: «A share is a small piece of a company; owning 1 share out of 100 means owning 1 hundredth of it, and a shareholder gets a part of the profits.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «share» (+2); the same thing acted on «small piece» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · right ✓
Grace asks, "Why does the corner shop man work seven days, is he mad?" Her mum, from Cork, says, "Ah, small shops don't make a fortune, girl, he works to keep it going." What's true?
- 1. Small shops make more money than supermarkets — score 2
- 2. Small shops often need very long hours to earn enough — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Corner shop owners are paid by the government — no support
- 4. He works long hours because he's bored at home — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 13, line 14: «Corner shops often charge more than big supermarkets because they buy smaller amounts and stay open late near you; you pay for convenience.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same doer «corner shops» (+1); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
The tuck shop made £8 profit. The class votes: split between the 4 kids who ran it, or — no wait, between 8 kids. How much each?
- 1. £4 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £8 — no support
- 3. £1 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. £2 — 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 ✗
Ruby goes, "Apple was always huge, innit." What's the real story?
- 1. It began as a huge company with thousands of workers — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The government built it in one day — no support
- 3. It was handed to its founders by a king — no support
- 4. It started small, the story goes in a garage, and grew by making things people wanted — ✓ 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 11 · right ✓
Ellie's uncle says, "No boss shouting at me, sound as." ("Sound as" means really good.) What does he give up for that?
- 1. Sick pay and a steady wage — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Every penny of his profit — no support
- 3. Weekends with no customers ever — no support
- 4. The chance to choose his own hours — 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 ✗
It is given that forty cakes, donated without charge, are sold at fifty pence each. Determine the profit realised.
- 1. £2 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £20 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. £40 — no support
- 4. £90 — 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 ✗
Ascertain the unit cost of a bracelet where materials sufficient for ten bracelets are procured for the sum of £2.
- 1. £2 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 10p — no support
- 3. 20p — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. £20 — 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a share in a company?
- 1. A small portion of the ownership of the company, entitling the holder to part of its profits — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A loan advanced by the company to each of its employees — no support
- 3. A ticket conferring the right to purchase goods from the company without charge — no support
- 4. The entire ownership of the company and all of its premises — 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 ✗
Identify the principal disadvantage of self-employment as described in this lesson.
- 1. The obligation to share all profit with the government — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The absence of pay during periods of illness and the bearing of all risk — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The presence of a manager directing every action — no support
- 4. The prohibition of working on more than three days a week — 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
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