Your amazing brain and senses
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 2 of the myths 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 ✓
"nah mate ur eyes literally fly out if u sneeze with em open, my bro saw it" What's true?
- 1. Only blue eyes pop out, brown ones don't — score 1
- 2. He's right, it happens about once a week — no support
- 3. Closing them is a reflex; nobody's eyes pop out — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. They pop out for a moment but go straight back in again — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 12: «Closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex; your eyes would not pop out, because muscles hold them and the sneeze's pressure does not push them out.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «close» (+4); the same thing acted on «eyes» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
You put sugar water on the back of your tongue. What happens?
- 1. You taste sweet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. You taste salt instead — no support
- 3. You taste only bitter — no support
- 4. You taste nothing at all — 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 · ★ · right ✓
In a film, a pill lets the hero "use 100% of her brain" and move things with her mind. What's wrong with the idea?
- 1. We already use virtually all of our brain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Nothing, a pill like that could really do it — no support
- 3. It should say half of your brain, not one hundred percent — no support
- 4. Only grown-up men are able to use their whole brain — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 3: «The real brain is even more amazing: scans show you use virtually all of it, different parts busy at different moments, and it keeps building new connections a…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+2); the same thing acted on «all» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Close your eyes and touch your nose. Which sense told you where your hand was?
- 1. Taste — no support
- 2. Smell — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. The sense of where your limbs are — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Hearing — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 2, line 4: «Close your eyes and touch your nose: no sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch told you where your hand was, so you have more than five senses.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «sight» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
An advert on a baby toy box says Mozart makes babies cleverer. Why is that weak?
- 1. Mozart's music is too fast for babies to hear — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The study was on babies and found it worked — no support
- 3. The advert is from a doctor, so what it says must all be true — no support
- 4. The study was on grown-up students for a short time — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · right ✓
"are you thick or what, some ppl just can't do maths, end of" Kai's mate says. What do you reply?
- 1. Brains get stronger with practice; let's practise together — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. You're right, Kai should give up maths now — no support
- 3. Maths skill depends on your star sign — no support
- 4. Only right-brained people can't do maths, so Kai should stop — 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 ✗
Hassan's cousin plays French tapes all night. What would happen if Hassan tested his French after a week?
- 1. He'd speak fluent French by Friday — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He'd know little new; learning awake before sleep works better — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He'd only dream in French but speak it perfectly — no support
- 4. He'd forget English instead — 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 ✓
Nan learned at school that brain cells never grow back. Why might her book say that?
- 1. Scientists thought so then; newer research changed the picture — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Her teacher made it up as a joke — no support
- 3. Old books are always right and new ones wrong — no support
- 4. Brain cells really did stop growing in people back in those days — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 13: «For most of the 20th century scientists thought adults never grow new brain cells; now we know some new cells form in a few areas, and the brain makes new conn…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same doer «scientists» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ella failed an online quiz and now says "I'm right-brained so I'm rubbish at maths". What is the risk of this label?
- 1. It actually changes the shape of her brain for ever — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It has no effect at all on what she does or tries — no support
- 3. It can stop her trying to get better — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It will make her better at art instead of maths — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Which tells you a brain claim might be a sales trick?
- 1. The person telling you is selling the fix for it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
- 2. It matches what brain scans show — no support
- 3. It was checked by many scientists — no support
- 4. It comes from a large, careful study with thousands of people — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 14, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 5: «When a friend believes a brain myth, ask "who was studied, for how long?" and "if this were true, what else would happen?"; and notice when the person telling…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «person» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Your friend at a sleepover with a torch says "die in a dream, die for real". What's a kind way to answer?
- 1. "My dad had that dream and he's fine! Happy stories now?" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. "That's stupid and you're stupid for saying it." — no support
- 3. "Quick, nobody fall asleep tonight!" — no support
- 4. "Only if the dream is in colour." — 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 utilisation of the human brain?
- 1. Virtually the entirety of the brain is employed, its regions active at differing times — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. One hemisphere remains wholly inactive throughout life — no support
- 3. Merely ten percent of the brain is employed at any time — no support
- 4. The brain ceases all activity during sleep — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 3: «The real brain is even more amazing: scans show you use virtually all of it, different parts busy at different moments, and it keeps building new connections a…», 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 doer «real brain» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the origin of the doctrine that the human being possesses precisely five senses.
- 1. A census conducted by physicians in the present century across all nations — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A regulation issued by an examination board — no support
- 3. An enumeration made by Aristotle more than two millennia ago — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A determination derived from modern brain scanning — 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 ✓
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the perception of taste upon the tongue.
- 1. Each taste may be perceived wherever taste buds are present — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Bitterness is perceived exclusively at the sides — no support
- 3. Sweetness is perceived exclusively at the tip, bitterness at the rear — no support
- 4. Saltiness is perceived exclusively at the rear — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 9: «The tongue map with sweet at the tip and bitter at the back came from a 1901 German study that was mistranslated; every taste can be sensed wherever there are…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «taste buds» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that an individual attends to recordings in a foreign language whilst in deep sleep. Ascertain the outcome.
- 1. No new vocabulary is acquired, sleep assisting only material learned whilst awake — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Fluency in the language is attained within one week — no support
- 3. The native language of the individual is forfeited — no support
- 4. Vocabulary is acquired at twice the waking rate — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 16: «You cannot learn new words from tapes while deeply asleep, but sleep does help you keep what you learned while awake.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «help» (+2); the same doer «sleep» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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