Bets, dares and silly reasons
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 169 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 ✓
Noah: "Your cousin's a dolphin now, is he? You went red at 30 seconds last time." What is the right thing to do with this bet?
- 1. Drop it: breath-holding contests are dangerous — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Bet a bigger chocolate bar — no support
- 3. Practise every day until you can manage the full five minutes — no support
- 4. Try it in the swimming pool instead — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 169, line 1: «Charlie bets Noah a chocolate bar that he can hold his breath for five minutes: "My cousin can do it." But his cousin doing it (maybe) says nothing about Charl…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «holding contests» (+2); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Mo: "I'm not scared, I just don't want my face to fold in half. Next." What is he showing?
- 1. Lemons are dangerous to touch — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He is far too scared to admit it, so he makes up an excuse — no support
- 3. He will do the dare tomorrow — no support
- 4. Saying no to a dare can be a choice with a reason — ✓ 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 3 · ★★ · right ✓
His mate: "In my dream I flew to Spain. Doesn't mean I'm skipping the plane, does it." Why is it a good comeback?
- 1. It shows dreams don't prove what you can do — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It means Spain is actually very close to London — no support
- 3. It proves dreams come true when you go on holiday — no support
- 4. It shows that his mate really can fly in real life — 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 ✓
Friend: "My brain just crashed. Did I lose? Was there even a game? This is so mid." What is the best response to Ellie's question?
- 1. Laugh and say, "That's a trick question." — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Keep trying and trying until you find an answer that works — no support
- 3. Agree you lost the bet — no support
- 4. Say yes and then say no — 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 ✓
Jake: "Mate, it hardly ever snows in London on Christmas Day. You're betting on a Christmas card." What does he mean?
- 1. Christmas pictures show snow, but real weather doesn't follow them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It snows every Christmas outside London — no support
- 3. Christmas cards can predict the weather, because the artists check the forecast — no support
- 4. Snow only falls on Christmas Eve — 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 ✓
Jade: "If it's not on, you touch it." Lily: "...Nah, I'm good." What does Lily's answer show?
- 1. She is a lot braver than Jade will ever be — no support
- 2. She is completely sure the fence is off — no support
- 3. She wants to touch it a bit later on — no support
- 4. She doesn't believe her own claim — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 169, line 5: «The coolest comebacks aim at the reason: "If it's not on, you touch it." The kid who dares you to do something risky usually won't do it himself, because he do…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «believe» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «own claim» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Racing friend, after winning: "Lovely shoes though, Sam. Really fast-looking." What is being teased?
- 1. The shop that sold the shoes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Sam for being slow on purpose — no support
- 3. The idea that new shoes make you fast — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Sam's taste in shoes — 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 ✗
Mia: "Your brother's not Google, Ava." What would be a better way to settle the goldfish bet?
- 1. Guess an answer and see who can shout it the loudest and longest — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ask her brother again more loudly — no support
- 3. Look it up with a good source, like the teacher did — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Watch a cartoon about fish — 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 ✓
Oscar: "You can't invent a debt. That's not a bet, that's a scam." What is true?
- 1. Roof dares are fine, as long as you get paid a fiver for doing them — no support
- 2. You must pay if someone dares you — no support
- 3. Fivers are only for dares — no support
- 4. Nobody owes for a deal they never agreed to — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 169, line 4: «Some dares invent deals nobody agreed to: "If you don't climb on the roof, you owe me a fiver." A bet needs two people to agree, and you can't owe money becaus…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «nobody» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Teacher: "Botanically, it's a fruit. In the kitchen people treat it as a vegetable." Then is ketchup a smoothie?
- 1. Yes, but only when it's cold — no support
- 2. No, ketchup is still a sauce, whatever the tomato is — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, because tomatoes are fruit, so anything made from them is a smoothie — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. No, because tomatoes are vegetables — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 169, line 17: «In science a fruit is the part of a plant that holds the seeds, so tomatoes are fruits; cooks call them vegetables because they are not sweet.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if everybody followed the rule "do every dare or you're scared"?
- 1. Everyone would quickly become braver, and safer too, in the end — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nobody would ever get hurt — no support
- 3. Kids would end up doing dangerous things for no reason — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Dares would stop being fun — 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 claim that a child is able to hold his breath for five minutes because his cousin is able to do so.
- 1. Chocolate is an unsuitable stake — no support
- 2. An ability of one person is wrongly transferred to another — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Five minutes is an insufficient duration — no support
- 4. The cousin is insufficiently related to the child — ← Mova's choice · 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 46, line 5: «Languages are related like families: English, German and Dutch are cousins in the Germanic family, so many words look alike, such as water and Wasser; Ukrainia…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «related cousins» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the memory of goldfish.
- 1. Goldfish retain memories for three seconds only — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Goldfish have been trained to remember for weeks and months — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Goldfish remember solely the colour of their food, and nothing else at all — no support
- 4. Goldfish possess no memory whatsoever — 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 ✗
Determine the correct classification of the tomato in the science of plants.
- 1. A leaf, being green when unripe — no support
- 2. A root, being grown in soil — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. A vegetable, being served in salads and cooked with other vegetables — no support
- 4. A fruit, being the seed-bearing part of the plant — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 91, line 5: «Example: to find out whether plants grow better with plant food, you grow two groups of the same plants in the same pots, soil, light and water, and give plant…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+4); the same place «same pots» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following most accurately characterises the assertion "If you do not do it, you are scared"?
- 1. A false choice which ignores other reasons for refusal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A statement supported by evidence — no support
- 3. A binding wager agreed by both parties — no support
- 4. A fair test of courage — 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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