Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 130 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

Josh: "It's only 2 hours a day, chill." What does that add up to in a year?

1. About 2 hours in total, since it's only once a day — no support
2. About 730 hours, roughly a whole month — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. About 24 hours, which is just one single day — score 5
4. About 365 hours, which is roughly one week — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 119, line 6: «A day is one spin of the Earth; a year is one trip of the Earth round the Sun, about 365 and a quarter days.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Ruby: "I wasted the whole flippin' day!" She watched 6 hours of videos. What's true?

1. It was 6 minutes, so it doesn't count — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It was half the day, and all of it was wasted, because rest is always a waste of time — no support
3. It was a quarter of the day, and rest isn't waste if she chose it — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It was the whole 24 hours 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

Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓

Kai's mum: "No screens till your homework's done, sunshine." Kai's finished in 25 minutes: "Done and dusted!" ("Done and dusted" means finished.) What's the idea behind Mum's rule?

1. Do the less fun job first so worry doesn't spoil the fun — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. Homework is only allowed after it gets dark outside, not before — no support
3. Games should always come first, so you're relaxed for homework — no support
4. Screens make homework take longer, and that's against the law — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 130, line 9: «"Eat the frog" means do the hardest job first.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «hardest job» (+4); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓

Mia: "I scrolled for 5 mins and it's been 45?! How, though?" Best answer?

1. Time really does go faster on a phone — no support
2. She must have fallen asleep for 40 minutes without noticing it at all — no support
3. Her phone's clock is 40 minutes fast — no support
4. Apps keep you going with autoplay and endless feeds; set a timer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 130, line 8: «Apps use autoplay and endless feeds to keep you scrolling, so timers and app limits help.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); the same doer «apps» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Ben's mate: "School and sleep take your whole week, there's no time left, mate." Check with Ben's plan.

1. 100 hours are left — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No hours are left at all — no support
3. Only 6 hours are left — no support
4. 66 hours are left after school, sleep and football — ✓ 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 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Isla: "Time is money? So I can buy sweets with an hour?" What does the saying mean?

1. Money makes time go faster, so rich people get older quicker — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. You can pay for things in the shops with minutes and hours — no support
3. Clocks are made out of money, so time costs a lot to buy — no support
4. Time is valuable; many grown-ups are paid for their time — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 58, line 9: «Money makes trading easier because everyone accepts it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+6); the same doer «money» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓

Leo at 7:40: "One quick game, 8 minutes, then I'll go, sorted." The walk is 10 minutes and the bus comes at 7:55. What happens?

1. He reaches the stop at 7:58 and misses the bus by 3 minutes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. He reaches the stop at exactly 7:55 — score 8
3. He makes it with 3 minutes to spare — score 5
4. He reaches the stop at 7:48 — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 104, line 2: «Callum's bus comes at 8:10, 8:25 and 8:40. He reaches the stop at 8:12: "Missed it by two flippin' minutes!" Now he waits for the 8:25, which is 13 more minute…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «reach» (+5); the same thing acted on «stop» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓

Eve's dad: "10 o'clock off, 3 hours flying, so we land at 1, yeah?" They fly London to Kyiv, 2 hours ahead. Fix it.

1. It's 11 am in Kyiv — no support
2. Right, it's 1 pm in Kyiv — no support
3. It's 5 pm in Kyiv — no support
4. 1 pm London time is 3 pm in Kyiv — ← 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 130, line 13: «A plane leaving London at 10:00 and flying 3 hours lands at 13:00 London time, which is 15:00 in Kyiv, 2 hours ahead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «kyiv» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Tom on 9 December: "Like, 4 weeks to my birthday on 4 Jan, innit?" Exactly how many sleeps is it?

1. 22 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 28 — no support
3. 26 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 30 — 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 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Grandad: "Time and tide wait for no man." Ava: "Who's Tide, then?" Best answer?

1. Tide is the name of a clock in Greenwich — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The tide is the sea coming in and going out; it won't wait, just like time — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Tide was a famous sailor who was always late — no support
4. Tide is a man who sells watches — 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 ✗

Kai's teacher: football every 3 days from Monday the 1st. Kai: "So it's always Mondays, easy." What's right?

1. No: it is always on Wednesdays — no support
2. Yes: but only in the months of the year that have 31 days in them, like May — no support
3. Yes: every 3 days is always a Monday — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. No: it lands on a different weekday each time, like Thursday the 4th — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 116, line 16: «Russia and Ukraine switched in 1918, when the gap had grown to 13 days (it had been 13 days since 1900), so old papers may show dates as "O.S." (old style, Jul…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «13 days» (+3); the same doer «gap» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

What would happen if Josh cut his games from 2 hours to 1 hour a day for a year?

1. He'd free about 52 hours — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He'd free about 365 hours, about 15 days — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He'd free about 1 hour in total — no support
4. He'd free about 730 hours — 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 ✗

Given that an activity occupies two hours daily, determine the aggregate duration over a year of 365 days.

1. Seven thousand three hundred hours — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Three hundred and sixty-five hours — no support
3. Seven hundred and thirty hours — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Fourteen hours — 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 ✗

It is given that a week comprises 168 hours, of which 30 are devoted to school, 70 to sleep and 2 to football. Ascertain the number of hours remaining.

1. Seventy-six — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. One hundred and two — no support
3. Ninety-eight — no support
4. Sixty-six — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

A flight departs London at 10:00 London time, its duration being three hours; Kyiv is two hours ahead of London. Ascertain the local time of arrival in Kyiv.

1. 17:00 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 15:00 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 11:00 — no support
4. 13:00 — 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 ✓

Identify the meaning most accurately conveyed by the saying "time and tide wait for no man".

1. The tides may be postponed at the request of sailors — no support
2. Time proceeds irrespective of human readiness or delay — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Time is measured exclusively by the tides — no support
4. All persons must await the tide before acting — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 130, line 16: «"Time and tide wait for no man" means time keeps going whatever we do.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); the same doer «time» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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