The piggy bank and a jar for each goal
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 9 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 ✓
Cian yells "ya wee rat!" ("wee" means little) after his brother spends £4 of his £12. What's the lesson for next time?
- 1. Hide money in a different sock — score 6
- 2. Never save at all — no support
- 3. Spend everything before anyone else can — no support
- 4. Keep savings somewhere safe, like a locked box — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 4: «"Pay yourself first" means you put your savings aside before you spend anything, so you cannot spend them by mistake, and a safe place keeps them from little b…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «savings» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Noah's mum asks "you sure?" before he moves £5 from save to spend. Why does she ask?
- 1. The £5 will simply disappear on the way across — no support
- 2. Moving it puts his saving goal further away — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Spend jars can never hold more than £3 at a time — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Moving money between jars is against the law — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 4: «"Pay yourself first" means you put your savings aside before you spend anything, so you cannot spend them by mistake, and a safe place keeps them from little b…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «spend» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Zara's goal: £60 bike. After 5 weeks her bike jar has £25 and Mum's jar is full, so now all £7 a week goes to the bike. How many more weeks?
- 1. 6 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 4 — no support
- 3. 7 — no support
- 4. 5 — ✓ 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 ✗
Ivy says her see-through jar is "satisfying, innit". What's the idea behind it?
- 1. Seeing progress keeps you motivated to save — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Coins kept in glass jars are worth more than others — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 3. It's easier for brothers and sisters to borrow from — no support
- 4. Glass jars make the money inside grow faster — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 13: «Seeing your coins pile up in a see-through jar helps keep you going; this push to keep going is called motivation.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on (+4); the same place «through jar» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Oscar's counter says £18.40, but when he counts the coins he gets £17.40. What should he trust?
- 1. Neither, money can't be counted — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Add both and say £35.80 — no support
- 3. The counter, because machines are never wrong — no support
- 4. His own careful count, because counters can be wrong — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 4: «To count coins fast, group the same coins, multiply, then add the groups; to check change, count up from the price to the money you gave.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «money» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
Erin's like "pay MYSELF? I'm the one getting paid, that's delulu." ("Delulu" means deluded.) What does Dad really mean?
- 1. Hand your money to yourself across a shop counter — score 6
- 2. Put your savings aside first, before you spend — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 16
- 3. Spend it all on yourself first, then save the rest — no support
- 4. Pay Dad first as a thank-you for the good advice — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 16, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 4: «"Pay yourself first" means you put your savings aside before you spend anything, so you cannot spend them by mistake, and a safe place keeps them from little b…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «put» (+4); the same thing acted on «savings» (+4); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓
A Welsh nan says "lush, cariad, a jar for giving!" ("lush" means lovely; "cariad" means love.) What's a give jar for?
- 1. Saving to donate to people or animals who need help — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Keeping money to lend at a profit — no support
- 3. Buying sweets for yourself — no support
- 4. Paying for school dinners — 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 ✓
What would happen if Zara kept all her money in one jar for both the bike and Mum's present?
- 1. Both goals would be reached twice as fast — score 6
- 2. Nothing, one jar is always better — no support
- 3. The money would split itself fairly — score 4
- 4. She might spend it all on one goal and forget the other — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 5: «Saving means keeping money aside for later instead of spending it now.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «spend» (+4); the same thing acted on «money» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Lars's mate says "one day jar? that's for like, never, bro." Lars has saved £1 a week for a year. What has he got?
- 1. £365 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £52 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. £104 — no support
- 4. £12 — 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 ✗
Jamie never smashes his piggy bank. His sis says "it's full of air, I bet." He's put £1 in every week for 30 weeks, and £2 in one extra week. How much is inside?
- 1. £31 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. £32 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. £60 — no support
- 4. £30 — 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 ✓
Ella gets £9 this time and splits it equally into her three jars. How much in each?
- 1. £3 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. £2 — no support
- 3. £4.50 — no support
- 4. £9 — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the principle designated "pay yourself first"?
- 1. The demand for remuneration prior to the performance of work — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The repayment of debts prior to the receipt of income — no support
- 3. The purchase of a reward for oneself prior to saving — no support
- 4. The allocation of a sum to savings prior to any 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 · wrong ✗
It is given that six pounds is allocated in equal portions among three receptacles. Determine the sum assigned to each.
- 1. Six pounds exactly — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One pound fifty pence — no support
- 3. Three pounds — no support
- 4. Two 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 · wrong ✗
A sum of fifty pence is deposited weekly over a period of eight weeks. Compute the aggregate deposited.
- 1. Four pounds fifty pence — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Four pounds — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Eight pounds — no support
- 4. Two 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 · right ✓
Identify the principal advantage of maintaining a separate receptacle in respect of each saving goal.
- 1. Coins so held are protected against forgery — no support
- 2. The aggregate sum saved is thereby doubled — no support
- 3. Each goal remains visible and is not consumed by another — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. The goals are thereby attained without saving — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 3: «A separate jar for each goal stops one goal eating another: Zara puts £5 a week in her bike jar and £2 in her jar for Mum's present, so she can see both goals…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «one goal» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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