Protests, petitions and young activists
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 38 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 ✗
"Back in my day we just wrote to our MP, now kids think a TikTok's protest" — Ruby wrote a polite letter and got a reply. What does that show?
- 1. Letters to MPs are against the rules unless a grown-up signs them and posts them for you — no support
- 2. Only grandparents can write to MPs — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. MPs only answer TikToks now — no support
- 4. Writing to your MP is still a real way to be heard — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 6, line 12: «A constituent is a person who lives in the area an MP represents; anyone can write to their MP or member of Congress, including children.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «mp» (+4); the same action «write» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
"Greta just slays, she's always right" vs "she should've stayed in school". What is a fair summary?
- 1. Many admire her and many disagree with her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Nobody has ever disagreed with her — no support
- 3. She was never really a school student — no support
- 4. Everyone agrees with everything she says — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 3: «Young people have started big things: Greta Thunberg's school strike for climate, Malala Yousafzai speaking up for girls' education, students organising the Ma…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «disagree» (+4); the same doer «many» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
In Pittsburgh: "Yinz wanna sign? We need a crossing outside the school." What is being asked?
- 1. To give money to a candidate — no support
- 2. To vote in a referendum — no support
- 3. To join a counter-protest — no support
- 4. To add your name to a petition — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 1: «There are many peaceful ways to ask for change: a protest, where people gather in public with signs, songs and speeches; a petition, a list of names asking for…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «names» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
What would happen if Oisin got split from his cousin at a big march?
- 1. He would just stay wherever he was — no support
- 2. They would go to the meeting point they agreed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. He would follow the loudest group — no support
- 4. He would go to the front of the crowd — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 4: «You do not have to pick a team. Like a friend who is sad for two cousins at once, your heart can hold the hostages and the children of Gaza together.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hold» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
The news calls a protest "mostly peaceful with some violence". A boy says, "So every single person there was violent." What is better?
- 1. Nobody there broke anything — no support
- 2. The news made the whole protest up — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Most were peaceful while a few broke things — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Everyone there broke windows — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 16: «Calling a true story "fake news" because you dislike it does not make it made up, and it makes trust harder for everyone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «news» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
In Dublin: "Great craic at the march, but sure the other lot across the road are eejits." What is the fairer view?
- 1. Only one side may protest at a time — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Counter-protests are always against the law — no support
- 3. The other group disagrees and is also allowed to protest peacefully — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Anyone across the road must be wrong, because the bigger march is always the one that is right — 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 ✓
A boy says, "Malala won a Nobel Prize for winning a football match." What is the right version?
- 1. She won it for swimming the fastest — score 3
- 2. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking up for girls' education — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 3. She never won any prize — score 3
- 4. She won it for inventing a phone that lets girls in faraway villages call their schools — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 38, line 10: «As widely reported, Malala Yousafzai spoke up for girls' education in Pakistan, was attacked by the Taliban in 2012, survived, and won the Nobel Peace Prize at…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «speak up» (+4); the same doer «malala» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a cartoon, the town mice line up with signs asking the mayor for a cheese shop, and nobody breaks anything. What is that like?
- 1. A bribe — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. A peaceful protest — ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 3. A deepfake — no support
- 4. A riot — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 37, line 3: «Fair voting needs a secret ballot, slips of paper in a box, so nobody votes just to please a best friend, and no lollies for votes, because that is a bribe.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «bribe» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
"they're just kids, adults tell 'em what to say, end of" — what is a fairer view?
- 1. Adults never influence anyone — no support
- 2. Kids are banned from having views — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Young people learn from adults and also think for themselves — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Children never think for themselves, so everything a young activist says was written by a grown-up — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 3: «A deepfake is a picture, video or voice made with AI to look like a real person doing or saying something they never did; extra fingers or a mouth that does no…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «person» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
The march was started after a school shooting in Florida. Did all Americans agree with what it asked for?
- 1. Yes, every American agreed, and the gun laws were changed the very next morning — no support
- 2. No, other Americans disagreed with stricter gun laws — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. The march asked for more guns — no support
- 4. Nobody in America heard about it — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 38, line 11: «As widely reported, after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018, students organised the March for Our Lives to ask for stricter gun laws, and other Am…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «other americans» (+4); the same action «disagree» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
"petitions are pointless, it's just names" — what is the best answer?
- 1. Names on paper are against the law — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Many names can show leaders that lots of people care — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Petitions automatically become laws — no support
- 4. Petitions are only for grown-ups — 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 most accurately characterises a petition?
- 1. A gathering in public of persons opposed to a measure — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A written request subscribed by many persons seeking the same outcome — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A gift conferred in exchange for a vote — no support
- 4. A ballot in which the whole nation answers a single question put to it by the government of the day — 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 person by whom a child too young to vote is represented in a national parliament.
- 1. No person, until the child attains voting age — no support
- 2. The head teacher of the child's school — no support
- 3. The member of parliament chosen by the child's parents only, at the election preceding the child's birth — no support
- 4. The member of parliament for the area in which the child resides — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 12: «The UN and Ukraine reported that many Ukrainian children were taken to Russia from areas Russia controlled; Russia's government said it moved children to keep…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «areas» (+2); the same thing acted on «many ukrainian children» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning damage to property during a protest.
- 1. It is unlawful irrespective of the merit of the cause advanced — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is lawful where it is reported in the news — no support
- 3. It is lawful where the cause advanced is meritorious — no support
- 4. It is lawful where the majority of protesters are peaceful and the damage is modest — 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 ✓
Whereas a counter-protest is held opposite a march, determine the statement most accurately characterising the two assemblies.
- 1. The original march is unlawful by reason of the counter-protest, which takes precedence over it in law — no support
- 2. Only the larger assembly is entitled to protest — no support
- 3. The counter-protest is unlawful by its very nature — no support
- 4. Each may protest peacefully, and each believes it protects something of importance — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 4: «Across the road there may be a counter-protest with the opposite view, and both sides are allowed to protest peacefully; neither is "the baddies" just for disa…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «protest» (+3); the same property (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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