Check the claim, not the person
Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 188 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 ✓
Mum: "Is she wrong, Tom? Two plus two? Go on, check." Tom: "...It's four." What did Mum teach him?
- 1. Little kids are always right — no support
- 2. Check the claim, not the age of whoever said it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Maths changes as you get older — no support
- 4. Big brothers should never check — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 188, line 1: «A claim is true or false all by itself: two plus two is four whether a professor says it, a six-year-old says it, or your most annoying cousin says it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «say» (+2); the same thing acted on «claim» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · wrong ✗
The teacher: "Maybe Ella should recycle at home too. But is her idea for school good or not?" What is the teacher separating?
- 1. Ella from Kai, so they stop arguing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The person's habits from the idea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Paper from plastic in the recycling — no support
- 4. Home rubbish from school rubbish bins — 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 ✗
A Scouse mate: "Ben's football is dead bad, la, but he's sound on the Moon." Is he reasoning well?
- 1. No; nobody knows what causes tides — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes; football has nothing to do with tides — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No; bad footballers know nothing — no support
- 4. Yes, but only because Ben is his mate from school — 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 ✗
Mum: "Grandma's been sitting for 75 years. She's basically a sitting expert." Joke aside, how should you judge Grandma's advice?
- 1. Ask the youngest person in the house instead — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Accept it because she is old — no support
- 3. Reject it because she is old — no support
- 4. Check the claim against 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
Test 5 · wrong ✗
Ava: "My mum studies frogs, not weather. And I'm not my mum, babe." What is she pointing out?
- 1. Frogs predict the weather perfectly — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 2. Children can't talk about weather — no support
- 3. Her mum is really a weather scientist — no support
- 4. Borrowed expertise doesn't make her a weather expert — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 180, line 13: «Washing a car can't change the weather; remembering only the times that match what you believe is called confirmation bias.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «weather» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
Sam: "I've also never had a lion. Still know not to hug one, mate." What is his point?
- 1. You can know facts without owning the animal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Hugging a lion is safe if you own one yourself — no support
- 3. Lions are the same as dogs — no support
- 4. Only owners can know about animals — 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 ✗
Mia: "Maybe I do want it, Oliver, but did you hear my reasons? Kids need to run around." What should Oliver do now?
- 1. Walk off without a word — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Answer her reasons — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Change the subject to football — no support
- 4. Call her lazy again, louder — 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 ✗
The teacher: "His facts were spot on. You might want to check yours before you check his words." What does the teacher mean?
- 1. A small slip doesn't make the facts wrong — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. Speaking matters more than facts — no support
- 3. Nobody should ever correct a word — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. One wrong word makes the whole project wrong — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 188, line 18: «Words people use: "spot on" means exactly right; "sound" (Liverpool, Manchester) means good, reliable; "Scouse" means from Liverpool; "la" (Liverpool) means ma…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «words» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
What would happen if everyone judged ideas only by who said them?
- 1. Arguments would get much fairer — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing at all would change — no support
- 3. Good ideas from unpopular people would be thrown away — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Only true ideas would survive — 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 ✗
A kid, full delulu: "Your bro's annoying, so the Earth doesn't go round the Sun. Skibidi." What is true?
- 1. "Skibidi" proves the Sun moves round us — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Annoying or not, the brother is right about the Earth — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Annoying brothers make the Earth stop — no support
- 4. Nobody knows what goes round what — 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 ✗
The teacher: "Crying at a zoo doesn't cancel facts, Ethan. Answer her point." Which point should Ethan answer?
- 1. Ethan likes the zoo too — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. All zoos should close today and for ever — no support
- 3. Some zoos help save endangered animals — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Lucy cries too easily — 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 12 · wrong ✗
A teacher in Delhi: "Pictures left or right? Do the needful, children, not the friend list." What should decide?
- 1. Who has known whom the longest — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Who is friends with whom — no support
- 3. What makes the project better — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Who sits nearest the 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the fallacy committed where a claim is rejected by reason of the age of the person advancing it.
- 1. Attacking the person rather than the claim — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. An appeal to tradition, since the old know best — no support
- 3. A false dilemma — no support
- 4. The fence-post error — 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 188, line 7: «Attacking the person instead of the claim is called ad hominem.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «attack» (+3); the same thing acted on «person» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the principal cause of the tides of the oceans.
- 1. The gravitational attraction of the Moon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The rainfall upon the oceans — no support
- 3. The passage of large vessels — no support
- 4. The prevailing winds over the oceans of the world — 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 ✗
It is given that a pupil who advocates recycling at school does not recycle at home. Select the response consistent with sound reasoning.
- 1. The pupil is thereby prohibited from making proposals — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The proposal is thereby shown to be without merit — no support
- 3. The merit of the proposal must be judged independently of the pupil's conduct — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The proposal is thereby shown to be meritorious — 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 statements most accurately characterises the substance which renders chocolate poisonous to dogs?
- 1. Sugar, which renders dogs excitable — no support
- 2. Cocoa butter, which dogs cannot swallow or digest — score 6
- 3. Milk, which dogs are unable to drink — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. Theobromine, which dogs metabolise poorly — ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 188, line 12: «Chocolate is poisonous to dogs because it contains theobromine, which dogs can't handle well.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «dogs» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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