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title: Hospitals, operations and serious illness — how Mova does on the tests · Adult life
description: Lesson 21 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness

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**Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 21 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/).

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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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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You overhear Dad on the phone: "They kept him in A&E all night, chest pains, but he's stable now." What happened to Grandad?

- **1.** He was told off at work and had to stay very late — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He went to the emergency department and is now steady — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He went to a care home to live there for good with other old people — no support
- **4.** He went to the dentist and had a big tooth taken out — 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Your brother grumbles, "A&E's well unfair, we were there first and that bloke went in before us." How do you put him right?

- **1.** The man must have paid extra to skip the queue — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Grown-ups always go in before children — no support
- **3.** People who shout the loudest go in first — no support
- **4.** The nurse sends the most serious cases in first — **✓ the right answer** · 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Gran says, "Bert's having his knee done under a local, so he'll be awake for it." Which is true?

- **1.** He will be asleep the whole time and feel nothing at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He will have the operation in his own house — no support
- **3.** Only his knee will be numb, and he will stay awake — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He will feel all the pain because nothing is used — 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Cousin Jade says, "Don't hug Mrs Patel, you'll catch her cancer." Is Jade right?

- **1.** Only children can catch it, so she is right — score 0
- **2.** Yes, hugging is the main way that cancer spreads from person to person — no support
- **3.** No, cancer cannot be caught from another person — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** Only if Mrs Patel has lost her hair — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 12: «Cancer is when some cells in the body grow out of control and form lumps that can spread; you cannot catch it from someone.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «cancer» (+4); the same action «catch» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Two nurses chat by the ward: "Chemo's knocked her for six, poor love, but her bloods are looking good." What does this mean?

- **1.** The treatment makes her very tired, but her tests look hopeful — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** She was hit by a cricket ball in the ward — no support
- **3.** She has stopped her treatment because she is cured — no support
- **4.** The chemo has failed and nothing more can be done for her by anyone — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 13: «Chemo, short for chemotherapy, is strong medicine that kills cancer cells; it can make people very tired and sick for months, and many people recover.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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A neighbour gossips, "He's lost all his hair, must be on his last legs." What is wrong with this?

- **1.** Nothing, losing hair always means someone is dying very soon — no support
- **2.** Hair loss only happens to people who are very old — no support
- **3.** People only lose hair when they stop eating — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Hair loss comes from treatment and the hair usually grows back — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 13: «Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay, which spreads germs to everyone else.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «people» (+4); the same action «lose» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Grandpa jokes, "Doc says my pressure's through the roof, but I feel grand, so whatever." Why should he still listen?

- **1.** High blood pressure will make him feel ill very soon — no support
- **2.** His roof needs mending before winter comes — no support
- **3.** High blood pressure harms the heart over years without warning signs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Feeling grand proves the doctor's machine is broken — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 15: «Blood pressure is how hard the blood pushes on the walls of the blood vessels; high blood pressure has no symptoms but strains the heart over years.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «heart» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Mum hisses at Dad, "Not in front of the kids, I don't get the results till Thursday." What is she waiting for?

- **1.** The answers from her tests, which take time to come back — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** The lottery numbers drawn on Thursday night — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** Marks from a school exam she took last week at evening classes — no support
- **4.** A parcel that the hospital is posting to her — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 7, line 4: «Example: in a café in Toronto, Mum taps her phone on the reader and the coffee is paid in a second. That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app s…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mum» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Your sister says, "Mum's having a scan, so she must be really, really sick." How do you put her right?

- **1.** Mum is fine because scans are only for babies — no support
- **2.** A scan is only given to people who are dying and cannot be helped — no support
- **3.** Scans are a kind of operation that cuts you open — no support
- **4.** A scan is often just a careful check, and most find nothing — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 18: «A scan looks inside the body; "just to be on the safe side" means the doctor is being careful, and most scans find nothing serious.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same thing acted on «nothing» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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On the news: "Hospitals warn of long waits in emergency departments this winter." Why are waits longest then?

- **1.** Patients choose to come in winter for fun — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Hospitals close half their beds every December — no support
- **3.** Doctors take their summer holidays in winter — no support
- **4.** Winter brings more illness, so A&E is busier — **✓ the right answer** · 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Dad mutters, "Two visitors a bed, so you lot take turns, all right?" Why must you take turns?

- **1.** The car park is too small for the whole family — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Grandad only wants to see one person a day — no support
- **3.** The ward allows only two visitors at each bed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Children are never allowed on any hospital ward — 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the order in which patients are attended to in an Accident and Emergency department?

- **1.** Patients residing nearest the hospital are accorded priority — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Patients are seen strictly in the order in which they arrived — no support
- **3.** Patients of advanced age are invariably seen before all others — no support
- **4.** Patients are seen in order of clinical urgency, not order of arrival — **✓ the right answer** · 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Identify the principal purpose of the administration of a general anaesthetic prior to a surgical procedure.

- **1.** To cure the underlying illness without recourse to surgery — no support
- **2.** To remove the necessity for any subsequent period of rest — no support
- **3.** To ensure that the patient remains fully awake and alert throughout — no support
- **4.** To induce a deep sleep such that the patient experiences no pain — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 9: «"Put him under" means giving a general anaesthetic, a medicine that makes you sleep deeply so you feel no pain; a specialist doctor watches you the whole time.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+3); the same thing acted on «pain» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/e2/)

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

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Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning chemotherapy and the loss of hair.

- **1.** Loss of hair signifies that the treatment has wholly failed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The patient's hair is removed deliberately by hospital staff — no support
- **3.** Loss of hair is caused by the cancer itself and is permanent — no support
- **4.** The treatment affects rapidly growing cells, and hair ordinarily regrows thereafter — **✓ the right answer** · 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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It is given that a patient has been referred for a scan "as a precautionary measure". Determine the most accurate interpretation of this phrase.

- **1.** The physician has already established the presence of a grave illness — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The physician is exercising caution; a serious finding is not presumed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The scan is a routine procedure applied only to infants — no support
- **4.** The patient is required to undergo immediate surgery — 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/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/e4/)

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