Unemployment: when jobs are lost
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 35 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 says, "People who lose their jobs are just lazy, innit." What's the fairer answer?
- 1. Losing a job means you did something illegal — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Jobs are only lost by people who are rich — score 8
- 3. Most job losses come from changes they can't control, like a factory closing — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. He's right, only lazy people ever lose jobs — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 20, line 15: «When people lose their job, the government can give some money, called benefits, to help pay for basics; there is nothing to be ashamed of in this.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+4); the same thing acted on «job» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Kai's friend's dad works at the closing factory. Kai's mate says, "Not our problem, we don't work there." What would really happen?
- 1. The town would get richer without the factory — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing would change for anyone else in town — no support
- 3. All the shops in town would get the factory's money instead — no support
- 4. Less spending in town could hurt shops and other jobs too — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Uncle Dave sighs, "Applied to 20, heard back from 2 — no, 3 actually." How many didn't reply?
- 1. 18 — no support
- 2. 17 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 3 — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. 23 — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 1: «Shops put up offers to make you buy more: "3 for 2" means you take 3 and pay for 2, and "buy one get one free" (BOGOF) means two for the price of one.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «3» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
A worker on TV says, "Machines nicked our jobs." ("Nicked" means stole.) A robot engineer says, "Machines made my job." What's the fair view?
- 1. Neither, robots don't exist in warehouses — no support
- 2. Both are true for them; people argue about whether it balances out — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The engineer is lying, robots never create jobs — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. The worker is lying, robots never replace anyone — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 16: «Some people have two part-time jobs to earn enough, which means long and tiring days.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «two time jobs» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ben's cousin from Leeds says, "Jobs, it depends where you live, innit, our town's dead quiet." What does this mean?
- 1. Quiet towns are not allowed by the law to have any jobs at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Some areas have lots of work and others very little — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Every town has exactly the same number of jobs as the next one — no support
- 4. Jobs are moved around between towns each week by law — 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 ✓
What would happen to unemployment if the economy went into a long recession?
- 1. It would probably go up, as firms sell less and cut jobs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Everyone would get a pay rise to cheer them up — no support
- 3. Nothing, recessions don't affect jobs at all — score 4
- 4. It would fall to zero, as everyone rushes to find work to do — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 3: «The economy goes up and down like a slow wave: in a boom jobs are easy to find, and in a recession the country makes and spends less for a while and jobs get s…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «go up» (+2); the same doer «economy» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ruby asks, "Recession, is that bad?" Her mate goes, "It's when they recess at school, like break time, lol." What's the real meaning?
- 1. A long playtime given to all schools — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The time when shops sell everything cheap — no support
- 3. The country's economy shrinks for a while — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A holiday for everyone who works — 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 ✗
Mia's mum, from Cork, says, "We were on furlough, sure we'd have been grand without it, like." ("Grand" means fine.) Her neighbour says it saved his job. What's true?
- 1. Everyone agrees it was perfect and cheap — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Everyone agrees it was a total waste — no support
- 3. People's experiences differ, and people argue about how well it worked — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Furlough never happened anywhere — 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 ✗
In a cartoon, the town's only factory closes and the next day everyone has a new job. What's unrealistic?
- 1. People who live in towns never really need jobs to live — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Finding work can take a long time and is often hard — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nothing, new jobs always appear by the very next day — no support
- 4. Factories never close down in real life, only in stories — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 6: «Unemployment is not having a paid job when you want one; redundancy is losing your job because it is no longer needed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+2); the same thing acted on «job» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Grace hears two people argue about help for people out of work. The help is £400 a month and a low-paid job pays £1,600. How much more does the job pay?
- 1. £1,200 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. £4 — no support
- 3. £400 — no support
- 4. £2,000 — 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 ✓
The economy is £100 and grows 2% — no wait, 3%. What is it worth now?
- 1. £103 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. £97 — no support
- 3. £102 — no support
- 4. £130 — 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 ✗
Leo hears his dad, a Scot, say, "Jobs are easy tae find the noo." ("The noo" means right now.) Last year it was harder. What has likely happened?
- 1. Everybody in Scotland has retired — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The economy has picked up, and unemployment has fallen — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A recession has started and jobs are vanishing — no support
- 4. The government has banned job interviews — 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 five hundred employees, each remunerated at £500 per week, lose their employment. Determine the aggregate weekly reduction in local earnings.
- 1. £25,000 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £1,000 — no support
- 3. £2,500,000 — no support
- 4. £250,000 — ✓ 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 ✗
Ascertain the value of an economy formerly valued at £100 subsequent to a contraction of one per cent.
- 1. £101 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £1 — no support
- 3. £99 — ✓ the right answer · 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the unemployment rate?
- 1. The total number of persons resident in a country — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The percentage of employees in receipt of a pay rise — no support
- 3. The number of factories closed in a given year — no support
- 4. The percentage of persons seeking employment who are without it — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the debate upon assistance to persons without employment.
- 1. Both parties wish such persons to be well, but differ as to the means — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The matter is not the subject of any disagreement — no support
- 3. Neither party advances any reason for its position — no support
- 4. One party wishes such persons to suffer hardship as a form of punishment — 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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