Robots at work and at home
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 39 of the technology 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 ✗
«robot vacuum ate my sock again, it's out to get me» What is really going on?
- 1. It hunts socks on purpose — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. It is angry with you — score 6
- 3. It eats socks for fuel — score 7
- 4. It cannot tell a sock from the floor, so pick small things up first — ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 39, line 7: «A robot vacuum uses sensors, and sometimes a spinning laser or a camera, to map the room, bumps gently into things and returns to its dock to charge; pick up s…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «small toys» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «robot vacuum» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
«can i ride the delivery robot down the street, it's like a little car» What is the right rule?
- 1. Give it space and never climb on it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Ride it only if it is empty and going your way — score 3
- 3. Ride it if the shop that sent it says yes first — no support
- 4. Ride it only on the pavement, never on the road — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 39, line 10: «Pavement delivery robots are small robots on wheels that use cameras and sensors to drive along pavements; in Milton Keynes six-wheeled ones deliver groceries,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same thing acted on «space» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
In a movie, a surgical robot decides on its own to do an operation at night. What is true about real ones?
- 1. Robots choose which patient to help — no support
- 2. Surgeons only watch from home — no support
- 3. The surgeon controls the arms; the robot does not decide — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Surgical robots work alone at night, when the hospital is quiet and the doctors sleep — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 39, line 12: «In robotic surgery the surgeon sits at a console and controls the robot arms, which make very small, steady movements; the surgeon is always in charge and the…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «decide» (+4); the same doer «robot» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if a factory robot arm had no sensors or cameras at all?
- 1. It would work faster and better — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. It could not tell where things are, so it would grab and place them badly — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. It would sense things with its smell — score 4
- 4. Nothing, robots need no information — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 39, line 2: «In a car factory, big robot arms weld and paint the same way thousands of times without getting tired or bored, so they work behind fences where people cannot…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «work» (+4); the same doer «arms» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
«mower's stuck under the hedge, I'll just lift it out while it's going» What is the right answer?
- 1. Lift it if you wear gloves — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Never pick it up while it is running; ask an adult to switch it off — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Lift it quickly by the blades — no support
- 4. Kick it until it comes out from under the hedge, then grab it by the back — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
«found a bag on the bus seat, no one's here, open it?» What is the rule?
- 1. Take it home and keep it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Open it to find the owner's name and phone number so you can ring them — no support
- 3. Shake it to see what is inside — no support
- 4. Don't touch it; move away and tell the driver or an adult — ✓ 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 ✗
Count them: a pavement robot has 6 wheels. How many wheels do 4 robots have?
- 1. 10 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 18 — no support
- 3. 12 — no support
- 4. 24 — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Count them: a car factory has 3 lines with 8 robot arms on each. How many robot arms?
- 1. 11 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 32 — no support
- 3. 16 — no support
- 4. 24 — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · right ✓
Count them: a drone delivers 2 parcels an hour. How many parcels in 5 hours?
- 1. 10 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 12 — no support
- 3. 2 — no support
- 4. 7 — 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 ✓
«robots will take every single job, there'll be nothing left for us» What is closer to the truth?
- 1. Robots only work on Mars — score 3
- 2. Robots take over repetitive tasks, and people still design, fix and run them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Robots cannot do any job at all — no support
- 4. Robots already do every job — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 39, line 17: «Robots take over repetitive tasks, but people still design, build, fix and run them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «robots» (+2); the same action «take over» (+1); the same thing acted on «repetitive tasks» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Why might a robot dog or rover be sent somewhere instead of a person, like into a broken building?
- 1. The place is too dangerous for people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Robots like dark places — no support
- 3. People are not allowed to walk on floors — no support
- 4. Robots are cheaper than a sandwich — 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 statements most accurately characterises the essential operation of a robot?
- 1. It requires no information concerning its surroundings — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It senses its surroundings, decides by means of its program and performs a movement — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It operates exclusively at random — no support
- 4. It eats, rests and converses — 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 principal reason for which a rover upon Mars cannot be steered in real time from the Earth.
- 1. Radio signals require several minutes to travel between the two planets — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. The rover is not equipped with wheels — no support
- 3. The use of controllers is prohibited upon Mars by international agreement between nations — no support
- 4. The surface of Mars is insufficiently illuminated — 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 39, line 15: «A Mars rover drives itself short distances, takes photos and tests rocks, because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth, too slow to stee…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «radio signals» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the conduct of robotic surgery.
- 1. The patient directs the robot by remote control — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The surgeon controls the robotic arms from a console and remains in charge throughout — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The operation is conducted only at night — no support
- 4. The robot selects and performs the operation without supervision — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the appropriate conduct of a child who observes an unattended and suspicious bag.
- 1. The child shall not touch it, shall move away and shall inform an adult — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. The child shall convey it without delay to a lost property office at the nearest station — no support
- 3. The child shall shake it in order to ascertain its contents — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. The child shall open it in order to identify its owner — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 6: «Children can find it hard to judge how fast a car is coming, which is one more reason to cross at a crossing.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same doer «children» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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