The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 168 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 ✗
Kid at the back: "So I'm in jail for a drawing I didn't draw? This is giving group punishment, Miss." What is he objecting to?
- 1. The teacher leaving the room — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Having break at all — no support
- 3. Being punished for something someone else did — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Not being allowed to draw — 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 ✓
Quiet girl: "Miss, I literally haven't spoken since 9 o'clock. I've been more silent than a library." What is she showing?
- 1. The whole class was judged by a few — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Libraries are actually very noisy places — no support
- 3. The teacher can't hear very well at all — no support
- 4. She is the noisiest one in the whole class — 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 · wrong ✗
Freddie: "I didn't say no 'cause I didn't HEAR you, bruv. That's not a yes, that's me doing fractions." What does "bruv" mean?
- 1. Stranger — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mate, or brother (London slang) — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Enemy — no support
- 4. Teacher — 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 · right ✓
Teacher's email, basically: "Ben's homework: missing." Mum: "BEN." What should Mum do next time?
- 1. Never ask about homework — score 0
- 2. Ask until she gets a real answer, or check the homework book — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Take silence as a yes again — no support
- 4. Only ask the teacher — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 166, line 1: «Zara wants the new light-up trainers. "Mum, EVERYONE has them." Mum asks who. Zara counts: Amira, Jack... and that's it. Two kids out of thirty. "Everyone" tur…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «ask» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
Friend: "A shrug isn't a yes, Kayla! A shrug is a shrug!" Is she being unkind?
- 1. No, she's agreeing with Kayla that she can keep the pencil case — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, she's pointing out that only a clear yes counts — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, she should lend it anyway — no support
- 4. Yes, shrugging is rude — 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 ✓
Kid: "Miss, Alfie sneezed. Are we all cancelled? Is the zoo cancelled because of Alfie's nose?" What is he poking fun at?
- 1. A threat too big for the thing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Sneezing in class — no support
- 3. Alfie for being ill — no support
- 4. The zoo for being far away — 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 7 · wrong ✗
Table 3: "First is too fast, last is too slow, what are we meant to do, finish in the middle and hope?" Which is true?
- 1. Stickers should only ever go to the very slowest table — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The rule should be clear before the race starts — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Table 3 should always try to finish right in the middle — no support
- 4. There is no fair way at all to give out the stickers — 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 ✗
Leo: "I'm the one who TOLD you about it, Sir. That's like blaming the fire alarm for the fire." What should the teacher have done first?
- 1. Kept the whole class in — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fixed the window himself — no support
- 3. Asked Leo what he saw — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Called Leo's parents straight away — 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 · right ✓
Kid: "Sir, Bubbles was older than my little sister. Bubbles had a long life, man, no cap." What is the kid's point?
- 1. Bubbles was fed crisps by his sister — no support
- 2. Six years is a long life for a classroom goldfish — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Goldfish live longer than children — score 4
- 4. Somebody in the class must be found and punished for what happened to Bubbles — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 168, line 15: «Pet goldfish can live 10 years or more with great care, but many die younger; 6 years is a good long life for a classroom fish.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «6 years» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
Big sister: "Josh, 'I'll think about it' is the oldest trick in the book." What trick does she mean?
- 1. Hiding all your toys under the bed so the room looks tidy from the door — no support
- 2. Tidying only half the room — no support
- 3. Using vague words so you never really promise — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Thinking very slowly on purpose — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 5: «Other tricks use other properties: a magnet pulls iron out of sand, oil floats on water and can be skimmed off, and heavy bits settle to the bottom of still wa…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · right ✓
What would happen if teachers always kept the whole class in when one person did something?
- 1. Nobody in the class would ever misbehave again, so it would be worth it — score 0
- 2. Only the guilty child would miss break — no support
- 3. The class would get extra break time — no support
- 4. Lots of children who did nothing would be punished unfairly — ← 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, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 168, line 6: «Punishing a whole group for what one person did is called collective punishment; it is unfair to those who did nothing.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «nothing» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the term properly applied to the punishment of an entire class for an act committed by one unidentified pupil.
- 1. Collective punishment — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Guilt by association — no support
- 3. Equivocation — no support
- 4. Moving the goalposts — 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 ✗
Select the response consistent with the established principles concerning the absence of a reply to a request.
- 1. Silence constitutes consent in all cases — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Silence constitutes refusal in all cases — no support
- 3. Silence does not constitute consent — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Silence constitutes a binding promise — 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 · wrong ✗
Determine the most likely cause of death of a classroom goldfish aged six years, in the absence of other evidence.
- 1. Excessive size of the aquarium — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Habitual feeding upon crisps — no support
- 3. Deliberate interference by a pupil — no support
- 4. Natural ageing over a long life — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following most accurately characterises the statement "I shall think about it" when treated as a promise?
- 1. An appeal to tradition — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A binding and explicit undertaking — no support
- 3. A collective punishment — no support
- 4. An equivocation upon the meaning of the words — ✓ 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
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