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Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home

Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 162 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 ✓

Ruby: "Yeah, I nicked it from school using my mind powers, Dad." What is she pointing out?

  • 1. She really does have mind powers — score 3
  • 2. She took it with her before she left for school that morning — score 8
  • 3. She was at school, so she couldn't have taken it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
  • 4. She thinks Dad stole it from her — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 162, line 1: «Dad can't find the TV remote. "Right, who's taken it? Ruby, you were watching cartoons." Ruby was at school all day, and the remote is in Dad's own dressing-go…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «school» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+4); the same doer «ruby» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Jake from the bath: "Unless I've learned to teleport, it wasn't me, innit." What does he mean?

  • 1. He was in the bath, so he couldn't be in the kitchen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. He doesn't know what teleport means — no support
  • 3. He has learned to teleport — no support
  • 4. He broke the plate earlier, just before he got into his bath — 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 ✓

Leo: "Oh yeah, I spent my whole Saturday hunting thorns. That's my hobby now." What is he teasing?

  • 1. The jump from "I rode it" to "I did it on purpose" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The silly idea that thorns could ever grow on a pavement — no support
  • 3. His own bad riding — no support
  • 4. His sister for owning a bike — 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 ✗

Grandson, trying not to laugh: "Gran, you've been wearing the suspect the whole time." Gran: "Don't stand there smirking, ye wee rascal." What is true?

  • 1. Gran was really, truly angry with her grandson — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The glasses were stolen and then put back later — no support
  • 3. The grandson had hidden the glasses as a joke — no support
  • 4. The glasses were on Gran's head all along — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sam: "I had two, you had eight, and I'm the criminal? You're so sus, Dad." What trap did Dad fall into?

  • 1. Eating too few biscuits — ← Mova's choice · score 9
  • 2. Not hiding the biscuit tin well enough from the kids — no support
  • 3. Blaming the usual suspect without counting — ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 4. Buying too few biscuits — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 162, line 4: «The usual suspect is a guess, not proof. Sam "always" eats the biscuits, but this time Dad ate eight of the ten. The muddy prints in the hall are paw-shaped, w…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «biscuits» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

What would have happened if Mum had tried another plug first?

  • 1. She'd have found that the charger was really broken after all — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 2. She'd have found the charger worked and nobody broke it — ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 3. Both plugs would have stopped working — no support
  • 4. She'd still have needed a new phone — no support

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 162, line 2: «That is jumping to conclusions: deciding the answer first and checking afterwards, or never. At home it happens all the time: a crash in the kitchen, mud on th…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «break» (+5); the same thing acted on «charger» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Noah: "Mum, unless I walk on four legs, it's the dog. They've got toes!" Is he being rude?

  • 1. No, he is just trying to blame his little sister for it instead — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Yes, he should take the blame anyway — no support
  • 3. Yes, he is calling Mum a dog — no support
  • 4. No, he is mocking the reasoning, and the clue is good — ✓ 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 ✗

Auntie: "Unless he's got a very long arm, check the car." What does she mean?

  • 1. The window cleaner has very long arms — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The window cleaner was in another street, so look elsewhere first — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Window cleaners always hide the wallets they take inside people's cars — no support
  • 4. Dev left his wallet on a car roof — 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 ✗

A cartoon detective decides the butler did it in the first second, and is always right. What is wrong with that in real life?

  • 1. Detectives never use clues in real life — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Guessing fast always finds the right person — no support
  • 3. Butlers really do cause most crimes — no support
  • 4. Real guesses need checking; the first suspect is often wrong — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Teen son: "It's Grandad, he's snoring louder than the telly. Bro's been resting his eyes since lunch." What was Dad's mistake?

  • 1. Leaving the telly on himself — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Paying for electricity — no support
  • 3. Saying it was the kids as a fact before looking round — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Waking Grandad up — 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 ✗

Kid: "Mum, it's your toast. It's black. It's giving charcoal." What is the lesson?

  • 1. Kids should never be in the kitchen — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Toast always burns in the end, so it's best not to make any at all — no support
  • 3. Charcoal is made from toast — no support
  • 4. Check what is actually burning before deciding who — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗

Identify the principal deficiency in attributing the disappearance of a remote control to a child who was at school throughout the day.

  • 1. The remote control was of an unusual design — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The child had insufficient interest in television — no support
  • 3. The parent omitted to search the garden and the shed before accusing — no support
  • 4. The accusation preceded any examination of the evidence — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Determine the most appropriate initial course of action upon discovering that a device fails to charge.

  • 1. Interrogation of all members of the household — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Immediate accusation of the person who last used it — no support
  • 3. Verification of the simplest causes, such as whether the socket is switched on — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Purchase of a replacement charger without delay — 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 ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning footprints displaying toes upon a hall carpet while the accused child wears socks.

  • 1. The evidence is irrelevant to the enquiry — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The evidence indicates an intruder who walked in wearing heavy boots — no support
  • 3. The evidence indicates the dog rather than the child — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. The evidence confirms the child's guilt — 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 · wrong ✗

Which of the following most accurately characterises the claim that a person "always" commits a certain act?

  • 1. It is a measurement obtained by counting — score 3
  • 2. It constitutes conclusive proof of guilt — score 4
  • 3. It is a presumption, not evidence concerning the present case — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. It is a legal finding, and is therefore binding upon the whole household — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 124, line 3: «Lifetimes help you feel big times. A century is about 4 generations: you, your mum, your nan and your great-nan. Some people do live to 100, and Britain has ab…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «person» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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