Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 22 of the reflection 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 ✓
A boy in Sydney calls Holly a "Pom" and grins. What's this most likely about?
- 1. Teasing curiosity about her British accent, not real hate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A secret code meaning she isn't allowed to join the netball team — no support
- 3. A serious threat she should be very afraid of — no support
- 4. A sign she should never speak in class again — 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 ✗
Holly's new mate goes, "Reckon you'll sound like one of us by Christmas, sweet as." ("Sweet as" means great, fine, in Australia and NZ.) What does this show?
- 1. Holly must lose her accent to have friends — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 2. Australians never like British accents at all — no support
- 3. The accent is becoming something friendly, not a problem — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. The mate is making fun of her every single day — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 16: «Having more than one friend helps when your only friend is away; "branch out" means make more friends.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «more friends» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Noah thinks: "We used to be best mates. Now I'm just the annoying little brother." What's the kinder, truer view?
- 1. Noah should never talk to him again — no support
- 2. It's Noah's fault for not growing up faster — no support
- 3. His brother hates him now and always will, whatever Noah does — no support
- 4. His brother is growing up and still loves him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 10: «Teenagers often want more time alone and with friends their own age; it does not mean they have stopped loving their younger brother or sister.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «love» (+3); the same thing acted on «younger brother» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Ava's gran from Liverpool says, "Ah, there's nowt wrong with being loud, girl, that's just you." ("Nowt" means nothing.) What is the advice?
- 1. Find friends who like her energy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Never talk at school again — no support
- 3. Go quiet so the old friends come back — no support
- 4. Shout at them until they invite her — 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 ✗
Archie says, "I don't care about being picked last, it's whatever." Is that true?
- 1. Yes; being picked last is an honour — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Yes; nobody minds being picked last — score 3
- 3. Probably not; pretending not to care often hides hurt — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No; he secretly wants to be picked first every time and be captain — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 22, line 5: «Loneliness has many shapes: a big brother who shuts his door at 13, friends who say you're "too loud", being picked last, a far-away farm, a month off ill; the…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pick» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
What would happen if Sophie kept begging to join the club every day?
- 1. They would definitely let her in by Friday — no support
- 2. It would probably hurt more and not get her in — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Her begging would make her the club's leader — no support
- 4. The club would close and everyone would be friends — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 13: «A club that leaves people out on purpose hurts; making your own fun or your own club is often better than begging to join.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hurt» (+2); the same doer «club» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Max's mum says, "We live in the middle of nowhere, love, not the moon." (The middle of nowhere means a place very far from towns.) What does she suggest?
- 1. They should move to the moon to be happier — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Max will never have any friends out there — no support
- 3. Living in the country is the same as living in town — no support
- 4. Friends can still be made through clubs and visits — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · right ✓
Lucy thinks, "I've been replaced. They didn't even miss me." What happened when she invited them round?
- 1. Things got better — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nobody came at all — no support
- 3. They brought the new friends to argue — no support
- 4. They said she was replaced — 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 ✗
Jacob's classmate goes, "bro doesn't even know what a creeper is, he's so out of the loop." (A creeper is a monster in the game Minecraft.) What helped Jacob?
- 1. Crying until his parents bought him a console — no support
- 2. Telling the classmate games are for babies — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. Finding other interests he shares with people — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Pretending he plays Minecraft every night — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 12: «Feeling left out of one game can feel like being left out of everything; starting another game or joining other kids helps.», 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 «one game» (+2). 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Isla thinks, "she's replaced me." In a film, two best friends who get a third friend always fight. In real life?
- 1. Third friends always break up best friends — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Many become a happy trio after talking — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Talking about it always makes it worse — no support
- 4. Old friends are always forgotten — 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 22, line 5: «Loneliness has many shapes: a big brother who shuts his door at 13, friends who say you're "too loud", being picked last, a far-away farm, a month off ill; the…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «friends» (+3); the same doer «friends» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Tom's sister says, "no cap, she probably just lost it, ask her." ("No cap" means honestly.) What actually happened when Tom asked?
- 1. She had invited everyone except boys — no support
- 2. She laughed at him in front of everybody in the class — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. She said she never wanted him there — score 4
- 4. It was a mistake and the invitation had got lost — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 10, line 4: «What helped was taking screenshots, showing Mum, the teacher getting the photo removed, Tom saying sorry, and muting the chat at night; posting someone to laug…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+2); the same doer «tom» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises homesickness consequent upon relocation abroad?
- 1. It is experienced exclusively by adults and never by children — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is permanent and incapable of any amelioration — no support
- 3. It is a common sorrow for the former home which customarily diminishes over months — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is a contagious ailment acquired upon arrival in a foreign country — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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 ✗
Identify the principal reason for which an elder sibling of thirteen years may cease to play with a younger sibling.
- 1. The younger sibling has committed a grave and undisclosed offence — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Persons of thirteen are prohibited from playing games with children — no support
- 3. Adolescents commonly seek greater privacy and the company of their peers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The elder sibling has invariably ceased to hold the younger in affection — 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 ✓
It is given that a pupil believes herself deliberately excluded from an occasion. Select the response consistent with the established facts.
- 1. Enquiry is preferable to assumption, as the exclusion may have been accidental — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Enquiry invariably aggravates the situation and ought to be avoided — no support
- 3. The worst interpretation is invariably the correct one — no support
- 4. Exclusion from an occasion is in all cases deliberate — 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 ✓
In respect of the possession of more than one close friend, determine which statement is correct.
- 1. A person may maintain more than one close friendship concurrently — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Close friendships are limited by custom to one per person — no support
- 3. The acquisition of a new friend automatically terminates all prior friendships — no support
- 4. A new friendship obliges the abandonment of the former friend — 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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