The human life cycle and growing up

Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 92 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 ✗

Max is 11 and his friend is the same age but much taller. What does this most likely show?

1. His friend must really be a lot older than him — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Max will never grow any taller than he is now — no support
3. People grow and change at different paces — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Max must be unhealthy and eating badly at home — 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 ✗

Which is true?

1. Adults keep growing taller every year — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Everyone starts puberty at exactly 13 — no support
3. A baby grows faster in its first year than an adult ever does — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Newborns have fewer bones than adults — 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

Test 3 · wrong ✗

A 25-year-old wants to grow 10 centimetres taller by stretching. Why will it not work?

1. She needs to stretch for much longer each day — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She is stretching the wrong muscles — no support
3. The growth areas in her bones have closed — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Adults grow only when they sleep less — 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 ✗

A girl has her grandmother's curly hair. How is this possible?

1. She chose curly hair as a baby — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Her hair copied her grandmother's — no support
3. She ate the same food as her grandmother — no support
4. Genes passed down through her parents — ✓ 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 · right ✓

A 7-year-old loses a front tooth. What happens next?

1. A permanent tooth grows in its place — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. The same baby tooth grows back again later — score 3
3. No tooth will ever grow in that gap again — score 4
4. A third set of teeth begins to grow in — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 8: «Milk teeth begin to fall out at around age 6 and adult teeth grow in their place.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+3); the same doer «adult teeth» (+1); the same place «place» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

Put the stages in order.

1. Toddler, baby, teenager, child, adult — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Baby, child, toddler, adult, teenager — no support
4. Child, baby, toddler, adult, teenager — 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 ✗

Why does a human child need care from adults for so long?

1. Humans are born able to look after themselves — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Humans take many years to grow and learn — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Children cannot learn anything new — no support
4. Adults need children to feed them — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 78, line 4: «No person ever saw a living dinosaur — the first humans appeared more than 60 million years after the dinosaurs died out — but birds are living relatives of di…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «appear» (+2); the same doer «first humans» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

A baby weighed 3 kilograms at birth. About what might it weigh at one year?

1. About 1 kilogram — ← Mova's choice · score 12
2. About 30 kilograms — score 12
3. About 3 kilograms — score 12
4. About 9 kilograms — ✓ the right answer · score 12

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 12, tied with another option at 12 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 17, line 16: «Air has weight: the air in a classroom weighs more than a hundred kilograms.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «weigh» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 12. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

Grandpa says his bones break more easily than when he was young. Why?

1. Bones can become weaker in old age — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Old bones are made of different stuff — score 4
3. Bones get harder and stronger with age — no support
4. His bones have grown too long — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 92, line 15: «As people grow old their skin becomes less stretchy and their bones can become weaker.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same doer «bones» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · right ✓

why's the baby got gaps in its mouth, where's the teeth

1. Babies have all their teeth hidden in their cheeks — no support
2. Babies only get teeth when they are teenagers — no support
3. Babies grow their 20 baby teeth later, over the first years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Babies have 32 teeth that are too small to see — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 92, line 3: «Babies grow faster than at any other time: most babies roughly triple their weight in their first year, and their brains grow very quickly as they learn to mov…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grow» (+4); the same doer «babies» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · right ✓

why do I look a bit like mum and a bit like dad

1. You get genes from both parents — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. You get genes only from your grandparents — no support
3. You get all your genes from your mum — no support
4. You copy their faces as you grow up — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 92, line 14: «Children get genes from both parents, which is why they look a little like each of them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «genes» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · right ✓

Leo says everyone starts puberty at exactly the same age. true?

1. No, some people never go through it — no support
2. No, it starts at different ages, often earlier in girls — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
3. Yes, but boys always start first — no support
4. Yes, everyone starts on their 13th birthday, no matter what — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 92, line 12: «Puberty starts at different ages for different people, and girls often start earlier than boys.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «start» (+4); the same place «different ages» (+4); the same doer «puberty» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · right ✓

my sister reckons a baby has fewer bones than an adult. right?

1. No, babies and adults have exactly the same — no support
2. Yes, babies grow new bones every year — score 6
3. No, a newborn has more bones, and some join together as we grow — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
4. Yes, adults have twice as many bones — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 92, line 9: «A newborn baby has more bones than an adult, because some bones join together as we grow.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «join» (+4); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+3); the same property (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the approximate period for which a baby grows inside its mother's womb.

1. About eighteen months — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. About nine months — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. About six weeks — no support
4. About three months — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the number of teeth of children and adults?

1. Children have 10 baby teeth and adults 20 teeth — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Children and adults alike have 28 teeth — no support
3. Children have 32 baby teeth and most adults 20 permanent teeth — no support
4. Children have 20 baby teeth and most adults 32 permanent teeth — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the principal reason for which a newborn baby has more bones than an adult.

1. Babies possess a second skeleton — no support
2. Adults grow no new bones after birth — score 2
3. Certain bones are lost entirely in childhood — no support
4. Certain bones join together in the course of growth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 92, line 9: «A newborn baby has more bones than an adult, because some bones join together as we grow.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «join» (+4); the same doer «bones» (+2); the same property (+2). · 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 commencement of puberty.

1. It starts at exactly the same age in all persons — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It starts at different ages, girls often earlier than boys — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It starts invariably earlier in boys than in girls — no support
4. It starts only after the age of twenty — 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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