Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 5 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 · ★ · right ✓
«zip's lost a tooth, just yank it, it'll be fine» What will probably happen?
- 1. It will close tighter than before — no support
- 2. Nothing, zips work just as well with a gap where a tooth used to be — no support
- 3. The zip will slowly grow a new tooth — no support
- 4. It will keep coming apart there, because the teeth can't hook — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 17: «A zip has two rows of teeth on cloth tapes, and the slider pushes them together so each tooth hooks into the gap opposite; its modern form dates from about 191…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come apart» (+2); the same doer «zip» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
«ow, caught me skin in the zip» What is the safe rule?
- 1. Pull zips slowly and keep skin away from the teeth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
- 2. Only zip up with your eyes shut so you don't flinch — no support
- 3. Only zip up when the clothes are wet so the teeth slide — no support
- 4. Next time yank it up as fast as you can so it's over quick — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 14, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 17: «A zip has two rows of teeth on cloth tapes, and the slider pushes them together so each tooth hooks into the gap opposite; its modern form dates from about 191…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep away» (+4); the same thing acted on «skin» (+4); the same place «teeth» (+4); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
«my nan knits, so shop jumpers are knitted by nans» What is the true version?
- 1. Shop jumpers are moulded from plastic — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Machines with hundreds of hooked needles do it with the same looping idea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Every shop jumper is hand-knitted by grannies — no support
- 4. Shop jumpers are always woven on looms — 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 ✗
«T-shirt was 3 quid, who cares where it's made» What is the clever answer?
- 1. Cheap clothes can hide low pay, unsafe factories and heavy water use — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nobody works on cheap clothes at all — no support
- 3. Cheap T-shirts grow ready-made on cotton plants — ← Mova's choice · score 11
- 4. A low price just shows that hardly any work at all went into making it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 2: «A T-shirt starts as fluffy cotton on a plant, which is cleaned, spun into thread, knitted into fabric, dyed, cut and sewn, and much of the sewing is still done…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «t shirt» (+4); the same place «plant» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
What would happen if jeans were woven with blue threads both ways?
- 1. The inside would be as dark blue as the outside — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. The jeans would turn white the first time they were washed — no support
- 3. The jeans could not be sewn together — no support
- 4. The jeans would come out twice as long — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 8: «Denim for jeans is woven with blue-dyed threads one way and white threads the other, so the inside is paler; jeans are then cut, sewn and often washed to look…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «inside» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
«sheep must hate being sheared, poor things» What is right?
- 1. Sheep get ill after every shearing — no support
- 2. Shearing pulls all the wool out by the roots, so it always hurts the sheep — score 1
- 3. Sheep are sheared every single day — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Done properly, shearing is like a haircut and keeps sheep cool in summer — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 5, line 15: «Wool comes from sheep that are usually sheared once a year, which, done properly, does not hurt them: it is like a haircut and keeps them cool in summer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «shear» (+4); the same thing acted on «sheep» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
«sewing machine works like my hands tying knots, just faster» What is right?
- 1. Yes, it has little metal fingers inside that tie a knot each time — score 0
- 2. No, it glues the cloth together — no support
- 3. No, a hook below loops the top thread round a second thread — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Yes, but it ties only one big knot at the end — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 5, line 4: «A sewing machine does not tie knots like your hands: a needle pushes the top thread down and a hook below loops it round a second thread, thousands of times a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «loop» (+2); the same doer «hook» (+2); the same thing acted on «thread» (+2); the same place «second thread» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Your old jumper has holes. Can it go in the clothes bank?
- 1. No, clothes with holes in them are always burnt — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, only brand-new clothes with labels are allowed in — no support
- 3. Yes, they sew new jumpers together out of the holes — no support
- 4. Yes, worn clothes can become rags or stuffing — ✓ the right answer · 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
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Each trainer has 7 eyelets on each side. How many eyelets are on a pair of trainers?
- 1. 14 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 21 — no support
- 3. 7 — no support
- 4. 28 — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
«T-shirt picture's all cracked, the factory painted it wrong» What is most likely?
- 1. Washing and stretching crack the printed ink layer over time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Cracking just shows that the T-shirt is a cheap fake from a market — no support
- 3. The cotton slowly eats the ink — no support
- 4. The picture was drawn with chalk — 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
A sewing machine makes 5,000 stitches a minute. How many stitches in 2 minutes?
- 1. 10,000 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 5,002 — no support
- 3. 7,000 — no support
- 4. 2,500 — 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 ✗
Identify the principal reason for which the interior surface of denim is paler than its exterior.
- 1. The dye is applied by brush to the exterior alone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The fabric is woven with blue-dyed threads in one direction and undyed threads in the other — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The interior is bleached by the factory subsequent to sewing — no support
- 4. The interior is faded through contact with the wearer — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the mechanism of a sewing machine?
- 1. Each stitch is fixed by the application of adhesive — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The needle ties a small knot upon each passage through the fabric, as a hand would when sewing — no support
- 3. The threads are fused together by heat — no support
- 4. A hook beneath the fabric loops the upper thread around a second thread, locking each stitch — ✓ the right answer · 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Rana Plaza disaster of 2013.
- 1. A clothing-factory building collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than one thousand workers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A cotton harvest failed in Vietnam owing to drought — no support
- 3. A zip factory was destroyed by fire in Europe — no support
- 4. A ship laden with jeans sank in the Atlantic — 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 ✗
Determine the aggregate number of stitches executed by a machine operating at five thousand stitches per minute over a period of three minutes.
- 1. Five thousand and three — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fifteen thousand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Eight thousand — no support
- 4. Fifty thousand — 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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