Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines
Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 3 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 33 of the politics 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 ✗
"yeah nah, that politician wants to shut every park, it's in the clip mate" — what should you do first?
- 1. Get angry and share it with your friends — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Find the full speech and listen to what came before — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Write to the politician to shout at them — no support
- 4. Believe it, because the words are real and come from the politician's own mouth — 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 · wrong ✗
In Scotland on a dreich day: "Pure flood in our town the now, look at this video!" Gran says it's from years ago. What is the best check?
- 1. Ask the person who posted it for more videos of the flood, to be sure — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Share it fast in case it is real — no support
- 3. Look for the date and whether local news reports it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Trust the caption, it says "now" — 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 · wrong ✗
"I'm dead, he tripped on the stairs, he's way too old to be in charge" — what is the fair reply?
- 1. Yes, because the clip went viral — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, tripping once proves he cannot lead the country any more — no support
- 3. One trip is one moment, not proof of how he does his job — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, real leaders never trip — 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 · right ✓
Mia's friend says, "Crime's up 50%, our village is so dangerous now!" It went from 2 cases to 3. What is true?
- 1. The rise is real but tiny in real numbers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The village now has hundreds more crimes — no support
- 3. Fifty new crimes happened last year — no support
- 4. Crime fell, so the headline is a 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 5 · wrong ✗
What would happen if everyone read only headlines?
- 1. Headlines would start saying "maybe" more — score 2
- 2. Everyone would know the full story, because headlines say everything — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. News sites would stop making money — score 3
- 4. Stronger claims than the stories say would spread — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 6: «Schools practise lockdown drills so everyone knows what to do in an emergency; real emergencies are very rare.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+2); the same doer «everyone» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
"that headline's mid, just says 'Is your tap water poisoning you?' — so it IS, right?" What is the best answer?
- 1. Yes, newspapers only ask about real dangers — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A question is not a fact; read the article, which says it is safe — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, if a headline asks, the answer is always yes, or they would not ask — no support
- 4. Yes, all tap water is poisonous — 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 · right ✓
In a cartoon, a sneaky fox cuts a video of the hero saying "I would never steal the cake" down to "steal the cake". What trick is that?
- 1. Taking words out of context — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Making a fact-check — no support
- 3. A live report — no support
- 4. Writing a correction — 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 ✗
A crowd photo looks tiny. The friend says, "Nobody came to that rally, look!" What is a good question?
- 1. Who is the friend's favourite politician? — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. What colour were the signs? — no support
- 3. Is this the full scene, or a cropped close-up? — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. How many likes does the photo have? — 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 9 · wrong ✗
"screenshot of the BBC says they're banning bikes, so it's legit innit" — how do you check?
- 1. Share it and see if anyone complains about it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Zoom in on the screenshot to see the letters — no support
- 3. Trust it, a screenshot is the same as the page — no support
- 4. Search the real BBC site for that headline — ✓ 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 10 · wrong ✗
A boy says, "The full video is a waste of time, the clip has the real words." What is wrong with that?
- 1. Real words can still mislead when the parts around them are cut — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Real words can never be misleading — no support
- 3. Nothing, clips always show the whole meaning, because the editors pick the most important bit — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Full videos are always fake — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 33, line 12: «One clip shows one moment, not the whole person; choosing only the bits that fit is called cherry-picking.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «one clip» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · wrong ✗
"You won't BELIEVE what she said!!" What is the best guess before you click?
- 1. The story may be smaller than the headline promises — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Headlines with capitals are always true — no support
- 3. The headline was written by the politician — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. The story must be the biggest news of the year — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 33, line 8: «Clickbait is a headline made to get clicks rather than to tell the news, and websites earn money from the adverts you see when you click.», 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 «headline» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following most accurately characterises the presentation of a statement "out of context"?
- 1. Its separation from the surrounding material such that its meaning is altered — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Its broadcast upon a channel other than the original, such that its meaning is altered for a different audience — no support
- 3. Its recording at a location outside a building — no support
- 4. Its delivery at a volume insufficient to be heard — 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 recorded offences rose from two cases to three. Ascertain the percentage increase so described.
- 1. Thirty-three per cent — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One hundred per cent — no support
- 3. Fifty per cent — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. One hundred and fifty per cent — 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 ✗
Identify the principal reason for which certain publishers employ headlines designed to provoke curiosity rather than to inform.
- 1. The payment of a supplementary charge by readers — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Revenue derived from the advertisements viewed upon each visit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The absence of any other means of reporting the facts to the public — no support
- 4. A statutory obligation to employ such headlines — 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 ✗
Whereas a short extract of a speech is circulated widely, select the course of verification most consistent with good practice.
- 1. Repeated viewing of the same extract until it is memorised, together with its transcription by hand — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Consultation of the full recording from an official source, including the passages adjacent — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Reliance upon the commentary appended beneath the extract — no support
- 4. Enquiry of the account which circulated the extract — 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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