--- title: Sounds right, but is wrong — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / Sounds right, but is wrong # Sounds right, but is wrong The 16 questions of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 106 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t1/) — Freddie's sister: "Check it, bro, your answer's 10p too expensive." A pencil and a rubber cost £1.20 together, and the pencil costs £1 more than the rubber. How much is the rubber? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t2/) — Ruby: "Day 24, easy!" Teacher: "On day 24 it was tiny, like a freckle." If a doubling pond fills on day 30, when was it a quarter full? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t3/) — Toby: "100 minutes, fam!" If 3 bakers each bake one cake in 3 hours, how long do 6 bakers take to bake 6 cakes, one each? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t4/) — Ava's dad: "Twelve strikes, eleven gaps, eleven seconds." A clock strikes 3 times in 2 seconds. How long does it take to strike 9 times? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t5/) — Mum: "One and a half? Put it back in the story, Pete. Does it fit?" A bag of flour weighs 2 kg and half a bag. How much does the whole bag weigh? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t6/) — The shop assistant: "Up to £15, then half off, £7.50. Bargain, mate." What if the £10 toy went down by half first, then up by half? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t7/) — Max: "Heavy stuff falls faster, everyone knows." His friend: "Galileo already did this, about 400 years ago." What happens if you drop a feather and a ball in the classroom? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t8/) — Mia's brother: "Definitely, she said. Rolled six times, no six." What is the real lesson? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t9/) — Jamal's mum: "You don't get extra birthdays for being the oldest, love." When Jamal is 30, how old will his brother be? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t10/) — Ellie: "My hand hurts, this party is a handshake factory." How many handshakes are there with 5 kids, each shaking every other hand once? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t11/) — A cousin in Singapore: "Ball costs 10 cents lah, can or not?" A bat and ball cost $1.10 and the bat costs $1 more. What is the answer? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/t12/) — In a cartoon a dragon's gold pile doubles every day and fills the cave on day 100. The dragon says, "So it was half full on day 50!" Put the cartoon right. — right ✓ · ★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/e1/) — It is given that a bat and a ball together cost one pound and ten pence and that the bat costs one pound more than the ball. Ascertain the price of the ball. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/e2/) — A clock strikes six times in five seconds, the interval between successive strikes being constant. Determine the time required for twelve strikes. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/e3/) — An article priced at ten pounds is increased in price by one half and is subsequently reduced by one half. Compute the final price. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/e4/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning a hammer and a feather released simultaneously upon the surface of the Moon. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [182. Sounds wrong, but is right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/) - next →: [184. "If... then..." and its traps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/)