Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"
Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 114 of the world 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 ✗
Ava on 20 November: "Christmas is like 5 sleeps, it's bussin'!" Put her right.
- 1. It's 45 sleeps: 30 and 15 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's 5 sleeps, she's right — no support
- 3. It's 35 sleeps: 10 left in November and 25 in December — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It's 25 sleeps: just December — 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 ✗
Ruby boasts, "When I'm 20, our kid will be 10, half my age." Her brother is 6 now and she's 9. What's the truth?
- 1. He'll be 10; the gap halves as you grow up — no support
- 2. He'll be 17; the 3-year gap never changes — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. He'll be 14; the gap shrinks a bit every year — no support
- 4. He'll be 20 too; younger ages always catch up — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 114, line 4: «An age gap never changes, because both people get older at the same speed. Ruby is 9 and her brother is 6, a gap of 3 years, so when Ruby is 20 he will be 17,…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «20» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Charlie's mate: "Born 2016, it's 2026, so you're 10, innit?" Charlie: "Not till December." Who's right in June?
- 1. Neither; he's 8 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Neither; he's 11 — no support
- 3. Charlie; he's still 9 until his birthday — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The mate; he's 10 for the whole of the year — 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 ✗
Ayaan, working out Grandma's 80th: "2026 plus 80, she was born in 2106!" What went wrong?
- 1. He's right; she was born in 2106 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He should take 80 away: she was born in 1946 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He should take 26 away: so she was born in 1980 — no support
- 4. He should add 20: 2046 — 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 · ★★ · right ✓
Jacob counts sleeps from 28 March to 3 April as "3 April minus 28 March, that's minus 25, eh?" What's the real answer?
- 1. 6 sleeps, counting to the end of March first — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. 25 sleeps — no support
- 3. 31 sleeps — no support
- 4. 3 sleeps — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 114, line 2: «Across two months, count to the end of the first month, then add on. From 20 November: November has 30 days, so 10 sleeps take you to 30 November, and 25 more…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «count» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
Min-jun's grandma laughs, "In the old way I'm 2 years older!" How can that be?
- 1. The old Korean way counted 1 at birth and added a year at New Year — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. She lied about her age for 2 years — no support
- 3. She was born twice in two countries — score 3
- 4. Korean years are shorter than other years — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 114, line 14: «In the old Korean way of counting, a baby was 1 at birth and everyone got a year older on New Year's Day; South Korea made the international way of counting ag…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old korean way» (+5); the same action «count» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A Black Country nan: "Bostin' cake for your half-birthday, bab!" Ellie's birthday is 10 January. When is the half-birthday cake?
- 1. 10 June — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 5 July — no support
- 3. 10 July — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 10 December — 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 ✗
Liam: "I'm 10, so I've lived exactly 3,650 days, no more, no less." What did he leave out?
- 1. Nothing; it is exactly 3,650 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The days before he could walk — no support
- 3. The weekends, which do not count — no support
- 4. The 2 or 3 extra leap days — ✓ 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to Ruby's and her brother's ages if both had a birthday tomorrow?
- 1. Both would go up by 1, and the gap would stay 3 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The gap would become 4 years — score 2
- 3. Only Ruby's age would go up — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. The gap would become 2 years — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 114, line 3: «Your age goes up by one on each birthday. This year minus your birth year gives the age you reach on this year's birthday: Charlie, born in December 2016, is 2…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «age» (+4); the same action «go up» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Tom on 18 December, wee and excited: "Seven sleeps or eight?" Christmas is the 25th.
- 1. 6 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 7 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 8 — no support
- 4. 25 — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A cartoon cat says, "My birthday comes once in my life." Put it right.
- 1. A birthday only happens on your first day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A birthday comes every 4 years for everyone — no support
- 3. A birthday only happens in leap years — no support
- 4. A birthday comes round again every year on the same date — ✓ 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that the present date is 20 November. Determine the number of nights remaining until 25 December.
- 1. Thirty-five — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Five — no support
- 3. Twenty-five — no support
- 4. Forty-five — 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 ✗
Whereas one sibling is aged nine and another six, ascertain the age of the younger upon the elder attaining twenty years.
- 1. Ten — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Seventeen — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Fourteen — no support
- 4. Twenty-three — 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 ✗
A person celebrates the eightieth anniversary of birth in the year 2026. State the year of birth.
- 1. 1956 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 2106 — no support
- 3. 1946 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 1936 — 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 ✓
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the reckoning of age in South Korea since 2023.
- 1. All birthdays are celebrated on New Year's Day — no support
- 2. The reckoning of age has been abolished — no support
- 3. Every citizen is counted as one year old at birth — no support
- 4. The international method has been made official for most purposes — ← 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 114, line 5: «Age is also a rule people agree on. In the old Korean way a baby was 1 at birth and everyone got a year older on New Year's Day, so people could be up to 2 yea…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same property (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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