Taxes and the government's budget
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 36 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 ✓
Your mate goes, "School's free, nobody pays for it, innit." What's the truth?
- 1. Everyone pays through taxes, about £7,000 a pupil a year — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Schools are paid for by the teachers out of their own wages — no support
- 3. Only parents with children at school pay — no support
- 4. He's right, schools cost nothing to run — 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 · right ✓
Your cousin from Texas says, "Y'all don't pay for the doctor? That's wild, we got bills." ("Y'all" means you all.) What's true?
- 1. In the UK the NHS is paid by taxes; other countries have different systems — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Healthcare is free everywhere in the world — no support
- 3. Healthcare costs the same in every country — no support
- 4. Americans never pay anything for doctors — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 36, line 15: «A progressive tax is one where richer people pay a bigger share; some say they should pay even more, others say it is already a lot.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «taxes» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
A neighbour moans, "Took 'em 2 years to fix that pothole, proper useless." What might explain it?
- 1. Councils are not allowed to fix roads at all — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 2. The pothole was protected by a special law for two whole years, so it stayed — no support
- 3. Councils have limited money and have to choose which roads come first — ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 4. Potholes are fixed only by volunteers — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 36, line 13: «Councils use taxes to fix roads but money is limited; at about £75 a pothole, 100 potholes cost 100 × £75 = £7,500, so they must choose what comes first.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «councils» (+4); the same thing acted on «roads» (+4); the same action «fix» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 3, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · right ✓
Dad buys a £10 toy and Jack goes, "VAT? Sounds sus." ("Sus" means dodgy.) What's the honest answer?
- 1. It's a normal tax inside many prices that goes to the government — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It's a secret extra fee that the shop keeps for itself as profit — no support
- 3. It's a discount the shop forgot to give — no support
- 4. It's a fine for buying toys on Saturday — 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 ✓
What would happen if a government spent £100 every year but collected only £90?
- 1. It would borrow £10 a year, and its debt would grow — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Its debt would shrink by £10 a year until it was all gone — no support
- 3. Nothing, spending more than you collect is completely free — score 4
- 4. It would save £10 a year by putting it in a big piggy bank — score 2
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 36, line 17: «The national debt is all the money a government has borrowed and still owes, and it must pay interest on it, just like a family with a loan.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «borrow» (+2); the same doer «government» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
A Glaswegian granny says, "Cut the taxes? Aye, and who's payin' for ma hip at the hospital, hen?" ("Hen" means dear.) A shop owner says, "Lower tax, I could hire another worker." What's going on?
- 1. Both have real reasons; people disagree about taxes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Neither is talking about tax at all — no support
- 3. The shop owner is right, and nobody really needs hospitals any more — no support
- 4. The granny is right and the shop owner is lying — 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 ✗
Ella's mum earns £1,000 above the tax-free amount — sorry, £2,000. At £1 in every £5, how much tax?
- 1. £20 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £400 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. £2,000 — no support
- 4. £200 — 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 ✓
In a cartoon, a villain refuses to pay tax and the town gets new schools anyway. What's wrong?
- 1. Schools are paid by fines on cartoons — no support
- 2. Nothing, schools appear without any money — no support
- 3. Villains pay all the taxes in real towns — score 8
- 4. Taxes pay for schools; if people don't pay, there's less money for them — ← 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 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 20, line 3: «Before pay reaches the bank, tax and pension money is taken off: Dad's payslip says he earned £2,500 but £2,000 arrived, because £500 went on tax, which pays f…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «tax» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · right ✓
Your mate says, "Rich people pay the same tax as everyone, it's a flat 20 quid." What's closer to the truth?
- 1. People who earn more usually pay more pounds, and often a bigger share — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Everyone pays exactly £20 a year, rich or poor — no support
- 3. Only children pay tax in the UK — score 8
- 4. Rich people pay no tax because they're rich — 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 36, line 1: «Taxes are money that people and businesses must pay to the government, and they pay for things everybody shares: schools, hospitals, roads, bins and police.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «people» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
Leo's mate says, "A trillion is just a million with extra zeros, like 10 million." What is 1 trillion?
- 1. 1,000 million — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 1,000 billion, which is 1,000,000 million — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 10 million — no support
- 4. 100 billion — 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 · wrong ✗
The council has £7,500 for potholes this year. Each fix costs £75. A Gen Z neighbour says, "So like, how many is that, it's giving not enough." ("It's giving" means it looks like.) How many can be fixed?
- 1. 75 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 10 — no support
- 3. 100 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 1,000 — 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that the cost of educating one pupil is £7,000 per annum. Determine the cost of educating a class of thirty pupils.
- 1. £21,000 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £210,000 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. £2,100,000 — no support
- 4. £7,030 — 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 income tax payable at a rate of one pound in every five upon earnings of £1,000 in excess of the tax-free allowance.
- 1. £100 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £200 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. £20 — no support
- 4. £800 — 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 a budget deficit?
- 1. A tax levied upon goods purchased in shops — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. An excess of government expenditure over the revenue collected in taxation — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. An excess of revenue collected in taxation over government expenditure — no support
- 4. A sum paid to the government by children — 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 ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning public opinion upon the level of taxation.
- 1. All persons agree that taxation should be abolished — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Opinion is divided, each side advancing reasons for its position — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The level of taxation is not a matter of any public interest or debate — no support
- 4. All persons agree that taxation should be doubled — 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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