"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure

Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 179 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 ✓

Teen: "Bro, this herbal pill is all-natural, it's lowkey a health hack fr." What is the reply?

1. Pills are safe if they're sold online — no support
2. Natural isn't the same as safe; ask a pharmacist — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. All-natural pills can't harm anyone, so it's fine — no support
4. Health hacks always come from nature — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 179, line 7: «Herbal pills can affect the body like other medicines and can do harm, so ask a pharmacist (the medicines expert at the chemist's) before taking one.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same thing acted on «pharmacist» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · right ✓

Grandma laughs: "Miracle cream, my foot! The only thing it removed was twenty quid." What is she doing well?

1. Blaming her own face for not changing in time — score 5
2. Deciding that all creams are miracles after all — no support
3. Planning to buy two more jars to give it a chance — no support
4. Laughing at the false claim, and at herself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 15

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 15, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 179, line 5: «Grandma gets it right when she laughs, "Miracle cream my foot, the only thing it removed was twenty quid from my purse": she laughs at the claim, and at hersel…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «grandma» (+5); the same place «claim» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «laugh» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · right ✓

What would happen if a cream really removed every wrinkle in three days?

1. It would be tested and become huge news — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. It would stay a pop-up advert on dodgy sites — score 2
3. Only one small website would ever know about it — score 4
4. Doctors would hide it for ever from everyone — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 179, line 2: «"Miracle" cures work the same way: a cream that removed every wrinkle in three days would be front-page news, not a pop-up advert. If it sounds too good to be…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «page news» (+5); the same doer «cream» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

Uncle Mo: "It's the magnet, 100%. Physio's just stretching." His wife: "Mo, the magnet's just bling." Who is right?

1. His wife; studies show magnets don't beat fake ones — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Uncle Mo; magnets pull the pain right out of his back muscles — no support
3. Neither; nothing ever helps back pain — no support
4. Both; magnets and physio work equally well — 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 ✓

In a cartoon a hero drinks "detox tea" and green smoke labelled TOXINS puffs out of his ears. Put the cartoon right.

1. Only cartoon heroes have livers and kidneys — no support
2. Your liver and kidneys clean the body; detox teas lack evidence — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. Toxins are green smoke stored inside your head — no support
4. Detox tea really pushes toxins out through your ears — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 179, line 13: «Your liver and kidneys remove waste from your body every day; detox teas don't have good evidence behind them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «detox teas» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · right ✓

Bill in Dublin: "Vinegar sorted my cold in a week, I'm grand now." What would most likely have happened without the vinegar?

1. Bill would have needed to go to hospital — no support
2. The cold would have lasted all winter, maybe longer — no support
3. Bill would have caught two more colds — no support
4. The cold would have gone in about a week anyway — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 164, line 4: «Another cousin: getting better anyway. Uncle Pat's cold went after a hot drink, but colds go by themselves in about a week. Chloe hid behind the sofa in a stor…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «colds» (+1); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · right ✓

"Doctors HATE this one trick 😱" on a dodgy website. What is the best reading?

1. It's clickbait, made to get you to click — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
2. Any website with a shocked emoji is true — no support
3. Doctors only hate tricks that work — score 5
4. Doctors are hiding the best trick ever — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 179, line 10: «Doctors want people to be healthy, so a headline saying "doctors hate this one trick" is clickbait, made to get you to click.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «clickbait» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

Teen: "So the proof it works is that there's no proof? That's not how proof works, my guy." What is the teen pointing out?

1. Big companies make every video online — no support
2. Every real cure has to be kept secret by the companies — no support
3. Proof isn't needed for natural cures — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. "They're hiding it" can't stand in for evidence — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 175, line 12: «Cats make many sounds, and one may sound like a word to us, but cats don't speak English; amazing claims need strong proof.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+3); the same thing acted on «strong proof» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · wrong ✗

Mate: "Honey's natural innit, so I can scoff loads and get no fillings." What is true?

1. Honey can't harm teeth at all, because it's natural — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Honey is fine as long as it's runny — no support
3. Honey is mostly sugar and can cause tooth decay — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Natural sugar fills holes in teeth — 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 ✗

Nephew: "An organic doughnut is still a doughnut, Auntie." What is he saying?

1. Doughnuts can never be organic, by law — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A label doesn't make a food healthy — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Organic food is always unhealthy for you — no support
4. Aunts shouldn't be the ones buying food — 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 ✗

An advert: "A famous actress uses this cream!" Mum: "She's got a chef, a trainer and twelve hours' sleep. It's not the cream." What is Mum's point?

1. Her looks may come from other things, and she may be paid — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Chefs are the ones who make face creams — no support
3. The cream must work twice as well on her — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Actresses never use any creams — 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 179, line 3: «Watch out for "it worked for me": colds get better in about a week anyway, and Uncle Mo started physiotherapy the same week he bought his magnet bracelet, so t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «work» (+4); the same doer «cream» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the claim that a substance is beneficial because it is natural?

1. Natural origin guarantees a substance's effectiveness — no support
2. Natural origin does not establish safety, since many natural substances are poisonous — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Only manufactured substances may cause harm — score 4
4. Natural substances are harmless in any quantity — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 122, line 3: «Candle clocks had hour marks down the side; the story says King Alfred of England used candles that each burned 4 hours, kept in a lantern so draughts couldn't…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «amount» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

It is given that an individual recovered from a common cold within one week of commencing a daily spoonful of vinegar. Identify the principal reason for which this does not demonstrate that vinegar is a cure.

1. One week is insufficient for any recovery — no support
2. Vinegar is known to prolong the common cold — no support
3. Common colds do not resolve without medication — no support
4. Common colds ordinarily resolve within seven to ten days without treatment — ← 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 179, line 12: «Most colds get better in 7 to 10 days with or without any "cure", which is why so many cures seem to work.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «most colds» (+1); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain which organs of the human body are responsible for the removal of waste from the blood on a daily basis.

1. The bones and the muscles — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The lungs and the heart — no support
3. The liver and the kidneys — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The stomach and the skin — 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 ✓

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the assertion that a cure is concealed by large companies and is therefore genuine.

1. The alleged concealment constitutes no evidence of effectiveness — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Effective cures are invariably concealed — no support
3. Published trials are invariably false — no support
4. The alleged concealment proves that the cure is effective and safe — 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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