Sleepovers and spooky stories
Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 6 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 26 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 ✓
"Bloody Mary bloody mary bloody mary... SHE'S THERE I SAW HER FACE CHANGE" What really happened?
- 1. The mirror was haunted by a girl — no support
- 2. Staring in dim light makes your brain warp your face — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Someone was standing behind her — no support
- 4. Bloody Mary appeared because they said it three times — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 3: «Stare at your own face in dim light for a minute and it can seem to warp and change; that is your brain filling gaps, not a ghost, and scientists have studied…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stare» (+5); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
An older kid tells the hook man story as if it happened in your town. What's the clue it's a legend?
- 1. It's been told in many places since the 1950s — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 2. It happened at night — no support
- 3. It's about a car — no support
- 4. It has a man in it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 26, line 7: «The story of the man with a hook for a hand is an urban legend that has been told since at least the 1950s.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «urban legend» (+5); the same action «tell» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · wrong ✗
Your little sister hears scratching and screams "GHOST!" What's a kind, true answer?
- 1. Ignore her, she's being a baby — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Scratching on the wall means a ghost wants to come in now — no support
- 3. It's probably mice or a branch; let's check with a light — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, it's a ghost, hide under your duvet — 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 ✗
"if u fall asleep first we're putting ur hand in warm water lol" What's fair to say?
- 1. It works every time, so stay awake — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only cold water works, not warm — no support
- 3. There's no good evidence it works, and it's mean to prank sleepers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It's fine because everyone does it — 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 ✓
At camp, a leader tells kids a monster lives in the lake. What would happen if kids swam there alone at night?
- 1. They would be pulled under the water by the lake monster — score 0
- 2. They could be in real danger from cold, deep water — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Nothing, lakes are always safe at night — no support
- 4. The monster would chase them out — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 10: «Lake-monster stories are often told to keep children away from water, and deep water really is dangerous: it can be cold, deep and full of weeds, so never swim…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
The glass slides across the spirit board and spells a name. Is a spirit moving it?
- 1. Yes, that's how spirits talk to us — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only if everyone is very quiet — no support
- 3. Only if the lights are off — no support
- 4. No, tiny unnoticed movements of people's fingers move it — ✓ 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 7 · wrong ✗
"black cat crossed my path, my test is gonna go terrible" What do you say?
- 1. You'd better skip the test now — no support
- 2. It's a superstition; some places even say they're lucky — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 3. Only a white cat can cancel it — no support
- 4. Walk backwards three times round the house to undo the bad luck — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 13: «Black cats bringing bad luck is a superstition (a belief about luck or magic with no evidence); in some places, such as parts of Britain and Japan, they are ev…», 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 «good luck» (+2). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · right ✓
"the babysitter got calls from INSIDE THE HOUSE, it's true it was in a film" What's true?
- 1. It's an old urban legend that was made into films — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. The police confirmed it last week — no support
- 3. It's true because films show real events — no support
- 4. It happened to a babysitter in your town just last year — 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 26, line 4: «Many sleepover tales, like the hook-handed man or the calls "from inside the house", are old urban legends told for decades and even made into films.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «films» (+3); the same action «make» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Your cousin says something grabs your ankle if you look under the bed at midnight. What would really happen?
- 1. The whole bed would start to shake and float up — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing; you'd see dust and maybe a lost sock — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A cold bony hand would reach out and grab your arm — no support
- 4. You'd fall into a deep sleep and never wake up — 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 ✓
Everyone at the sleepover is laughing, but one friend is shaking and wants to go home. What do you do?
- 1. Stop the scary stories and help them feel safe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 2. Leave them alone so they calm down — no support
- 3. Laugh so they see it's silly — score 6
- 4. Tell them another scary story to toughen them up — score 10
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 25, line 4: «So pause before you press: who made this, what do they want, can I find it on a trusted news, fact-checking or official site, and what happens if I just don't…», 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 «find» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the phenomenon by which a pointer upon a spirit board is caused to move.
- 1. The intervention of the spirits of the deceased — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The action of a draught of air — no support
- 3. The operation of a concealed magnet — no support
- 4. The ideomotor effect, consisting of involuntary muscular movements — ✓ 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the alteration of one's reflected face observed in dim light?
- 1. It is caused by a spirit within the mirror — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It occurs solely upon the recitation of a name — no support
- 3. It results from the bending of light by mirrors of great age — no support
- 4. It arises from the processing of the image within the brain — ✓ 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 · right ✓
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the danger presented by a lake to an unaccompanied child.
- 1. Deep water may be cold, deep and obstructed by weeds — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Lakes are dangerous solely at midnight — no support
- 3. Only shallow water presents any danger — no support
- 4. A lake presents no danger in the absence of a monster — 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 ✗
It is given that scratching sounds are audible within a house at night. Determine the most probable explanation.
- 1. The house's preparation for an earthquake — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A monster resident within the walls — no support
- 3. The presence of a ghost seeking admission — no support
- 4. Animals, vegetation, wind, pipework or the settling of the building — ✓ 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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