--- title: Check the claim, not the person — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 188 «Check the claim, not the person» 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/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/) [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/) / Check the claim, not the person # Check the claim, not the person The 16 questions of lesson 188 «Check the claim, not the person» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 104 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/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t1/) — Mum: "Is she wrong, Tom? Two plus two? Go on, check." Tom: "...It's four." What did Mum teach him? — right ✓ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t2/) — The teacher: "Maybe Ella should recycle at home too. But is her idea for school good or not?" What is the teacher separating? — wrong ✗ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t3/) — A Scouse mate: "Ben's football is dead bad, la, but he's sound on the Moon." Is he reasoning well? — wrong ✗ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t4/) — Mum: "Grandma's been sitting for 75 years. She's basically a sitting expert." Joke aside, how should you judge Grandma's advice? — wrong ✗ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t5/) — Ava: "My mum studies frogs, not weather. And I'm not my mum, babe." What is she pointing out? — wrong ✗ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t6/) — Sam: "I've also never had a lion. Still know not to hug one, mate." What is his point? — right ✓ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t7/) — Mia: "Maybe I do want it, Oliver, but did you hear my reasons? Kids need to run around." What should Oliver do now? — wrong ✗ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t8/) — The teacher: "His facts were spot on. You might want to check yours before you check his words." What does the teacher mean? — wrong ✗ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t9/) — What would happen if everyone judged ideas only by who said them? — wrong ✗ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t10/) — A kid, full delulu: "Your bro's annoying, so the Earth doesn't go round the Sun. Skibidi." What is true? — wrong ✗ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t11/) — The teacher: "Crying at a zoo doesn't cancel facts, Ethan. Answer her point." Which point should Ethan answer? — wrong ✗ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/t12/) — A teacher in Delhi: "Pictures left or right? Do the needful, children, not the friend list." What should decide? — wrong ✗ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/e1/) — Identify the fallacy committed where a claim is rejected by reason of the age of the person advancing it. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/e2/) — Ascertain the principal cause of the tides of the oceans. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/e3/) — It is given that a pupil who advocates recycling at school does not recycle at home. Select the response consistent with sound reasoning. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the substance which renders chocolate poisonous to dogs? — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [187. One counterexample is enough](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/) - next →: [189. Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/)