People and society — communities, work, money and rules
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 58 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 ✗
A fisherman swaps three fish for a farmer's basket of apples. What is this called?
- 1. Saving — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Bartering — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Taxing — no support
- 4. Borrowing — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
A family has a little money left this month. Which should they buy first?
- 1. A fancy hat — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A new television — no support
- 3. A holiday souvenir — no support
- 4. Food for the week — ✓ 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 ✓
Why would a village with no doctors, only farmers, find life hard?
- 1. Nobody would have the skill to treat illness — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Farmers do not need food — no support
- 3. They would have far too much medicine to use up — no support
- 4. Farmers can never get ill — 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 ✓
Which is true about rights and duties?
- 1. Having rights means you never have any duties at all — no support
- 2. Only adults have rights — no support
- 3. Only grown-ups have duties — no support
- 4. Having rights means respecting others' rights too — ← 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 58, line 15: «Rights come with duties, such as respecting other people's rights.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «respect» (+1); the same thing acted on «rights» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Two children share a cake. One cuts and the other picks first. Why is this fair?
- 1. Cutting first is always an advantage — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The cutter has a reason to make the pieces equal — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The picker must take the smaller piece — no support
- 4. The cutter always gets to keep the bigger piece of cake — 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 ✓
Why does a country collect taxes from people who earn money?
- 1. To make everyone in the country poorer on purpose — score 2
- 2. To buy sweets for schools only — no support
- 3. To pay for shared things like hospitals and roads — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. To stop people from working — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 58, line 12: «Taxes are money people pay to pay for things everyone shares, such as roads, schools and hospitals.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a class game, one boy keeps changing the rules so that he always wins. What is wrong?
- 1. Games should not have rules at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The other children should stop playing forever — no support
- 3. He is just better at the game — no support
- 4. Rules must be the same for everyone to be fair — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
A new boy arrives at school and does not speak the language well. What is the kind thing to do?
- 1. Laugh at his mistakes so he learns faster — no support
- 2. Ignore him until he learns the language — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Help him and include him in games — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Tell him to go to another school instead — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 46, line 13: «English is the language most widely learned as a second language.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «learn» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «language» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
why do we pay tax anyway
- 1. To make the shops richer — no support
- 2. Only to punish people — no support
- 3. So people cannot buy toys — no support
- 4. To pay for things everyone shares, like roads and schools — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 58, line 12: «Taxes are money people pay to pay for things everyone shares, such as roads, schools and hospitals.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «share» (+4); the same doer «everyone» (+4); the same thing acted on «things» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
swapped my stickers for his cards, what's that called
- 1. Taxing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Bartering — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Saving — no support
- 4. Borrowing — 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 ✗
my cousin says a new games console is a need. true?
- 1. Yes, everyone must have one to live — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, all toys are needs — no support
- 3. No, it is a want; needs are food, water and shelter — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, a console is a tax — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Max reckons being fair means letting your friends win. right?
- 1. No, it means doing whatever you like, whatever the rules — score 5
- 2. Yes, if they are your best friends — no support
- 3. Yes, friends come first — no support
- 4. No, it means treating everyone by the same rules — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 58, line 16: «Being fair means treating people by the same rules, not favouring friends.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «treat» (+4); the same doer «fair» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the practice designated as bartering?
- 1. The purchase of goods by means of a bank card in a shop — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The borrowing of money from a bank — no support
- 3. The payment of taxes to the government — no support
- 4. The exchange of goods without recourse to money — ✓ 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 ✗
Identify, from the items hereinafter enumerated, that which constitutes a need rather than a want.
- 1. A games console — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Shelter — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A box of sweets — no support
- 4. A fashionable jacket — 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 ✗
Ascertain the purpose for which taxes are levied upon the citizens of a country.
- 1. To punish those who have committed crimes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To purchase personal possessions for each taxpayer — no support
- 3. To defray the cost of shared provisions such as roads, schools and hospitals — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. To enrich the private persons who collect them — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the relation between rights and duties.
- 1. Duties are owed only by persons without rights — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Rights and duties are wholly unconnected — no support
- 3. Rights are accompanied by duties, such as respecting the rights of others — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Rights exempt their holder from every duty — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 58, line 5: «Every person has rights, such as the right to be safe, to learn and to be treated fairly, and duties, such as respecting others and following the rules. Kindne…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «person» (+2); the same thing acted on «rights» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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