Saving up for a game
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 8 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 ✗
Sam groans "how long's that gonna take?" — game's £24, he gets £3 a week, and Gran's just given him £6. Now how many weeks?
- 1. 7 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 10 — no support
- 3. 8 — no support
- 4. 6 — ✓ 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 · ★★ · right ✓
Paddy goes "saving's for losers, spend it now lol". His sis rolls her eyes. What's the sensible view?
- 1. He's right, saving never helps — no support
- 2. Saving everything and never spending is the only way — no support
- 3. A mix is best: spend some now, save some for bigger things — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 4. Spending everything is the same as saving — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 15: «Most people do a mix of spending some now and saving some for later.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «spend» (+4); the same thing acted on «some» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Kai saw "a well cool hat" halfway to his headphones and bought it. His dad says "that's fine, if...?"
- 1. ...he borrows the rest from a friend — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. ...he never wears the hat — no support
- 3. ...the hat was more than £30 — no support
- 4. ...he chose it on purpose and knows the goal is further away now — ✓ 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 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Arlo says "I've got £20, bike's £80, I save a fiver a week, so 16 weeks, sorted." What did he forget?
- 1. That bikes cost £100 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To take away the £20 he already has, so it's 12 weeks — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To add the £20, so it's 20 weeks — no support
- 4. Nothing, 16 weeks is right — 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 ✓
Lucy goes "wicked!" ("wicked" is British slang for great) at Mum's 50p-per-pound deal. She saves £8. How much does Mum add?
- 1. £4 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. £8 — no support
- 3. £12 — 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 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if Mia stopped colouring her chart?
- 1. Nothing could ever change — no support
- 2. Her money would vanish from the jar — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. The goal would get bigger — no support
- 4. She might lose track and feel less like keeping going — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 15: «When money stops working, for example after a war, people go back to barter, using things everyone wants like eggs or cigarettes.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «money» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Ali's mate: "new version next month, so the old one'll be dirt cheap." ("Dirt cheap" means very cheap.) What's the trade-off?
- 1. The new one will cost less than the old one — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Wait and pay less, or pay more now and play sooner — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Waiting always costs more — no support
- 4. There's no trade-off at all, because the old one is free — 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 ✗
Gracie tips her jar out: "four £2s, six quid coins — no hang on, seven — and five 20ps." What's the total?
- 1. £14 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £16 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. £17 — no support
- 4. £15 — 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 9 · ★★ · right ✓
A Yorkshire grandad says "nowt comes to them as won't wait, lad" ("nowt" means nothing). Which money idea is that?
- 1. Saving and waiting for something bigger — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Buying on impulse whenever you see a sale — no support
- 3. Spending everything straight away on treats — no support
- 4. Borrowing from everyone you know at school — 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 13: «Waiting for something better later is called delayed gratification.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wait» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
Ben saved £40 over 10 weeks and the game was £35. How much did he have left?
- 1. £5 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. £0 — no support
- 3. £15 — no support
- 4. £75 — 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 ✗
Freya's bro says "just borrow a fiver off Mum, duh." If she does, what happens?
- 1. She gets £5 free forever and never has to pay it back — no support
- 2. The Lego becomes £5 cheaper because Mum helped — score 2
- 3. She owes Mum £5, which is a debt to pay back — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Mum pays the shop and Freya gets the change to keep — ← Mova's choice · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 5, line 4: «Then came cheques, bank cards and phones: when Mum taps her phone to pay £3 for a coffee, no coins move, but the number in her bank account goes from £60 to £5…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «mum» (+4). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · 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 of saving?
- 1. The exchange of money for goods of equal value — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The borrowing of money from a relation — no support
- 3. The acquisition of goods without prior planning — no support
- 4. The setting aside of money for subsequent use in place of immediate expenditure — ✓ 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 · right ✓
It is given that a bicycle is priced at eighty pounds, that twenty pounds is already held, and that five pounds is saved weekly. Determine the number of weeks required.
- 1. Twelve — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Sixteen — no support
- 3. Ten — no support
- 4. Four — 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 parent contributes fifty pence for each pound saved, and that ten pounds is saved. Ascertain the aggregate sum thereupon held.
- 1. Twelve pounds — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fifteen pounds — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Ten pounds fifty pence — no support
- 4. Twenty pounds — 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 effect of an unplanned purchase upon progress towards a saving goal.
- 1. The price of the goal is reduced in consequence — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The goal is attained more rapidly than planned — no support
- 3. No effect whatsoever is had upon the goal — no support
- 4. The attainment of the goal is deferred — ✓ 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
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