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title: Shifts, nights and other ways of working — how Mova does on the tests · Adult life
description: Lesson 2 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Shifts, nights and other ways of working

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 4 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 2 of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Overheard: "Can't do Sam's party Sat, I'm on lates." Why can't she go?

- **1.** She doesn't like Sam — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She is always late for parties and doesn't like it — no support
- **3.** Her rota has her working that evening — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** She has to sleep all day Saturday — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Your cousin says: "My mum sleeps all day, she's just lazy." Put him right.

- **1.** She works night shifts and must sleep in the day — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** She sleeps because she has no job — no support
- **3.** She must be ill and should see a doctor — no support
- **4.** He is right, sleeping in the day is lazy and always will be — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 2, line 7: «Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Overheard: "Unpaid overtime again, they take the piss." What is he angry about?

- **1.** Working extra hours and not being paid for them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Being paid far too much money for the work he does — no support
- **3.** Being sent home early without pay — no support
- **4.** Having to work part-time — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Grandad: "Your aunt went self-employed, so no sick pay, she worked through the flu." Why did she work with the flu?

- **1.** She had run out of holiday — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Work is the best cure for flu — no support
- **3.** If she doesn't work, she doesn't get paid — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Her boss made her come in — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Mum, quietly: "Only 12 hours next week. Dunno how we'll pay the gas." Why is money suddenly tight?

- **1.** She got a pay rise and must pay more tax — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** The gas company doubled its prices overnight for everybody — no support
- **3.** She is taking annual leave — no support
- **4.** Her hours, and so her pay, went down this week — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 10: «Self-employed people work for themselves, like many plumbers and hairdressers; they choose their hours but get no sick pay or holiday pay and must work out and…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same thing acted on «own tax» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Your sister says: "Tax and stuff on a payslip just goes in the bin." Put her right.

- **1.** The tax pays for schools, hospitals and roads — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12
- **2.** She is right, it is thrown away by the office every month — no support
- **3.** It is given back at Christmas — no support
- **4.** It goes to the boss as a bonus — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 16: «A payslip shows what someone earned and what came off before the money reached the bank, mostly tax, which pays for schools, hospitals and roads.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «tax» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Dad: "Gross is three grand but I only see two and a bit." What is the "two and a bit"?

- **1.** His gross pay — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** His net, or take-home, pay — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** His overtime — no support
- **4.** His tax — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Your friend says: "My mum only works mornings, so she doesn't really work." Put her right.

- **1.** Part-time work is real work, just fewer hours — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** She is right, only full-time is real work — no support
- **3.** Her mum is retired — no support
- **4.** Morning work doesn't count as a job — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Overheard: "He's on the buses by day and Deliveroo till midnight, poor sod." What does that tell you?

- **1.** He is on a zero-hours contract with no work — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He is on annual leave from both jobs — no support
- **3.** He has two jobs and very little rest — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He is self-employed and chooses easy hours — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Mum: "Booked my two weeks for August, before Karen grabs them!" Why the hurry?

- **1.** Not everyone can be off at the same time — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** August leave is unpaid — no support
- **3.** Karen will be her boss in August — no support
- **4.** Holiday disappears if you don't book it by Monday morning — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Mum, croaky: "Cough's awful but if I don't go in I don't get paid." What follows if she goes in ill?

- **1.** Her germs may spread to her colleagues — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** She will get better faster — no support
- **3.** She will be paid double — no support
- **4.** Her boss will give her a prize — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which of the following most accurately characterises a zero-hours contract?

- **1.** No minimum number of working hours is guaranteed by the employer — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** An arrangement whereby the employee works exclusively at night — no support
- **3.** An arrangement whereby the employee works no hours whatsoever and is paid in full — no support
- **4.** An arrangement whereby wages are paid only once per annum — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the principal disadvantage of self-employment in respect of illness.

- **1.** The self-employed person is forbidden by statute to fall ill — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Illness automatically terminates self-employment — no support
- **3.** No sick pay is received during any period of incapacity — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The government pays the self-employed double when ill — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Given that a payslip records gross pay and deductions, ascertain which figure represents the sum available for expenditure.

- **1.** Net pay, being gross pay less all deductions — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** The aggregate of income tax and National Insurance — no support
- **3.** Gross pay, prior to any deductions — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** The pension contribution alone — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 17: «Gross pay is the big number at the top of the payslip; net or take-home pay is what is actually left to spend.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «gross pay» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning annual leave.

- **1.** It is paid holiday, to be agreed with the employer so that not all are absent at once — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Annual leave is granted solely at the employer's whim and is invariably unpaid — no support
- **3.** Annual leave may be taken only by part-time workers — no support
- **4.** Annual leave is restricted to the month of August alone — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/e4/)

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- ← previous: [1. A day at a grown-up's job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)
- next →: [3. Finding a job and getting on](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/)
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