"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 166 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 ✓
Dad: "If everyone jumped off a cliff..." Zara: "Here we go." What is Dad's point?
- 1. Lots of people doing something doesn't make it a good idea — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Everyone in Zara's class jumps off cliffs at the weekend, so it must be fine — no support
- 3. Zara should go cliff jumping with friends — no support
- 4. Cliffs are where trainers are tested — 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 · right ✓
His friend: "Kyle sold his cards, so now cards are dead? Bro is lowkey just trying to get rid of his last shinies." What does "lowkey" mean here?
- 1. In a low voice — score 5
- 2. A bit, or secretly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. Very loudly — score 5
- 4. Not at all — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 166, line 18: «Words people use: "lowkey" means a bit or secretly, "highkey" means very or openly, "shinies" are rare shiny cards, "iconic" means legendary, "case closed" mea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «bit» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · right ✓
Teaching assistant: "Thirty kids saying it once is still just one kid saying it." What does she mean?
- 1. Repeating one person's claim doesn't make it more true — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Only one kid at a time should be allowed to talk in the classroom — no support
- 3. The new girl is only one person — no support
- 4. Thirty kids are louder than one — 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 ✗
Rosie: "She invited six people, mate. Her flat is the size of a shoebox. I didn't do a crime." Which is true?
- 1. Small flats aren't allowed to have parties with more than six people — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Everyone else was invited — no support
- 3. Not being invited often has a simple reason — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Rosie must have done something wrong — 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 ✗
Teacher: "Nobody? 24 people did. You're the nobody, Oscar." The class: "OOOOH." What is the teacher really correcting?
- 1. The class for being noisy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Oscar's friends for not reading — no support
- 3. Oscar's claim, by counting the facts — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Oscar's reading level — 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 · right ✓
Her best mate: "You said it to the HEAD teacher, Ava. Lowkey iconic, highkey detention." What is the lesson?
- 1. The head teacher doesn't know any slang — no support
- 2. Only say rude words to teachers you like — no support
- 3. Don't copy a word just because everyone uses it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. Detention is iconic — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 166, line 18: «Words people use: "lowkey" means a bit or secretly, "highkey" means very or openly, "shinies" are rare shiny cards, "iconic" means legendary, "case closed" mea…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); the same thing acted on «words» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
Kid from the other class: "Yeah and my mum says I'm handsome. Wow, case closed." Why is this a good comeback to Jack?
- 1. Mums are always right about looks — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Asking only people on your side proves nothing — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Jack's class really is the best — no support
- 4. His mum is a fair judge of classes, because she has seen both of them — 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 ✗
What would happen at the disco if one person started dancing straight away?
- 1. Others would likely join, since many wanted to — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Everyone would leave the disco — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. Nobody would ever dance again after that, because it would be embarrassing — score 4
- 4. The music would have to stop — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 166, line 4: «The fix is two questions. Who exactly? Count them. And even if it were everyone: is it a good reason for me? Oscar says nobody reads at home, but the chart say…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «good reason» (+3); the same doer «disco» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Mia: "Everyone knows? Name one person who's had spider babies in their ear. One. I'll wait." What is she asking for?
- 1. A spider to show the class — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A real source instead of "everyone knows" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Proof that Sam is lying on purpose to scare the younger children — no support
- 4. A doctor's note about ears — 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 ✗
Freddie: "Mum, if all the mums at the gate signed their kids up for ballet, would I have to do ballet?" Mum: "...Don't tempt me." What is Freddie showing?
- 1. Ballet is better than football — no support
- 2. All mums secretly like ballet — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Choosing a club because others do is not a good reason — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Freddie secretly wants to do ballet instead of football or drawing — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 163, line 17: «Words people use: "back in my day" is how older people start a story about the past (Gen X and boomers), "love that for me" is sarcastic for "how useless", "br…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · wrong ✗
Mo: "Have you been on it?" "No." "Has anyone?" "No." "Then how is it deadly, Leila? It's a slide, man." What turned out to be true?
- 1. The slide was really dangerous — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The slide was closed for repairs — no support
- 3. Nobody was allowed on the slide — no support
- 4. The slide was just a bit fast — ✓ 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 error in the assertion that a product ought to be acquired because "everyone" possesses it.
- 1. The product was not sufficiently expensive — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The assertion was made on a school day — no support
- 3. The product was available only in one colour — no support
- 4. Popularity is offered in place of a reason, and the claim was not counted — ✓ 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 number of pupils, out of a class of thirty, who were in fact found to possess the trainers in question.
- 1. Twenty-eight — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fifteen — no support
- 3. Two — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Thirty — 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 · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning spiders and the human ear.
- 1. Spiders do so only during the winter months — no support
- 2. The matter is settled by common knowledge — no support
- 3. Spiders customarily lay eggs in the ears of sleepers — score 5
- 4. Spiders do not lay their eggs in human ears — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 166, line 15: «Spiders do not lay eggs in people's ears; "everyone knows" is not a source.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lay» (+4); the same place «ears» (+2); the same doer «spiders» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following most accurately characterises an opinion gathered exclusively from members of one's own class?
- 1. A fair and representative survey — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A biased sample which cannot settle a comparison — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A scientific measurement of quality — no support
- 4. An independent judgement from outside — 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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