School legends
Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 24 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 · wrong ✗
"a kid at my cousin's school bunked off for a YEAR and no one noticed" What's the first clue it's a legend?
- 1. It happened a long time ago — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's about a friend of a friend nobody can ask — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It's about a school, and schools are boring — no support
- 4. It mentions a cousin, and everybody knows cousins always lie — 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 big brother says one detention will stop you getting any job ever. What's true?
- 1. There's no lifelong record that every employer reads — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Only detentions on Mondays count — no support
- 3. Detentions are published in the newspaper — no support
- 4. He's right, every single detention gets sent to the police — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 7: «Schools do keep records about pupils, but there is no single "permanent record" that every future employer (a boss who gives you a job) reads, and small mistak…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «read» (+4); the same doer «future employer» (+2); the same thing acted on «single permanent record» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · right ✓
"teacher's 15 mins late, rule says we can go, come on" What should the class do?
- 1. Go, because it's the law — no support
- 2. Stay and send someone to the office — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 3. Leave a note and walk home — score 2
- 4. Hide in the toilets until home time — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 24, line 8: «There is no rule that a class can leave if the teacher is 15 minutes late; you should stay and send someone to tell the office.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «send» (+4); the same thing acted on «someone» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · wrong ✗
"it's snowed 10cm, school HAS to close by law!" Is that how it works?
- 1. Yes, but only for the primary schools — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, the head decides based on safety — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Only if the snow is fresh, deep and white — no support
- 4. Yes, it's a law in every single country — 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 · wrong ✗
Jack stabbed himself with a pencil and is panicking about lead poisoning. What do you tell him?
- 1. He needs an emergency injection now — no support
- 2. Pull out the lead with a magnet — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Pencils only poison you if they are painted yellow — no support
- 4. Pencils have no lead; wash it and tell an adult — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 24, line 11: «Pencil "lead" is graphite (a soft, grey, shiny form of carbon) mixed with clay and contains no lead, so it cannot give you lead poisoning; a pencil stab should…», 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 thing acted on «lead» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
Mason got 100% and is scared the teacher will think he cheated. What is most likely?
- 1. The teacher will be pleased — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. The teacher will give him 0% — no support
- 3. The teacher will call his parents — no support
- 4. The teacher will tear up the test — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 12: «Teachers are pleased by a score of 100%; a perfect mark is not a sign of cheating.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «teachers» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
"i'm gonna fail, it's friday the 13th!!" What could you tell your mate?
- 1. Only people born on the 13th get unlucky — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Wear a lucky sock and you'll be fine — no support
- 3. No evidence for that; worrying is the bigger problem — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. You're right, so there's no point bothering to revise this week — 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 ✓
Harvey swears the head teacher sleeps in her office. How could you check politely?
- 1. Ask her, or notice she arrives each morning like everyone else — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Hide in school overnight to see — no support
- 3. Look through her office window at night — no support
- 4. Believe it because Harvey is your best mate — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 24, line 5: «To check one, ask a teacher, the school office or the person it happened to, and enjoy the spooky ones as stories, without teasing the younger kids who believe…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+3); the same receiver «teacher» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
"chew gum in the exam = top marks, science says" What does the science really say?
- 1. Top marks every time, proven many times — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gum has nothing to do with being alert ever — no support
- 3. A small, brief alertness boost at most, and mixed results — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Gum makes your brain bigger for an hour — 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 ✓
Nadia's little sister is too scared to use the school toilets because of the ghost story. What's kind?
- 1. Tell her it's just a story and go with her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Tell her to hold it until home time — no support
- 3. Tell her the ghost only comes out at lunch — no support
- 4. Laugh and tell everyone she's scared — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 8: «No chemical exists that turns pool water red around someone who wees; the story is told to stop children doing it, and weeing in a pool is still unclean and un…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «story» (+4); the same doer «story» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the composition of the core of a pencil.
- 1. It consists of the metal lead, as the name says — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It consists of finely compressed coal and soot — no support
- 3. It consists of graphite combined with clay — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It consists of black paint dried into a rod — 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 ✓
Identify the party by whom the closure of a school on account of snowfall is ordinarily determined.
- 1. The pupils, by means of a ballot — no support
- 2. The head teacher, having regard to safety — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. A statute prescribing a fixed depth of snow — no support
- 4. The national weather service — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 9: «There is no law that closes schools after a certain amount of snow; the head teacher decides, based on safety.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «head teacher» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the term urban legend?
- 1. An account attributed to an unverifiable acquaintance of an acquaintance — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A collection of facts concerning large cities — no support
- 3. An account verified by a court of law — no support
- 4. A regulation issued by municipal authorities — 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 ✓
It is given that a teacher has not arrived fifteen minutes after the commencement of a lesson. Determine the appropriate course of action for the class.
- 1. Remain and inform the school office — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Return home without delay — no support
- 3. Proceed to the playground until the bell — no support
- 4. Depart, pursuant to a rule of fifteen minutes — 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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