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title: Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them — how Mova does on the tests · Adult life
description: Lesson 51 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 5 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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# Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 51 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/).

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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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Little brother, eyes wide: "they showed the bomb thing AGAIN, that's like the fourth one today." Put him right.

- **1.** A new one happens every time it's shown — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The bombs are getting closer each time — no support
- **3.** Four separate bombs have gone off today — no support
- **4.** It's one event, shown again and again — **✓ 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Gran's on the phone: "...and the poor little ones, sleeping in a school hall, it breaks my heart." Ollie can't eat his tea. What does Gran say next that helps?

- **1.** Hide your tea so nobody feels guilty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Eat up your tea now, because those children far away don't really matter — no support
- **3.** Stop feeling anything about it at once — no support
- **4.** Feeling sorry shows a kind heart; we'll give to Friday's collection — **✓ 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Your mate: "Plane crashed, it's all over the telly, I'm NEVER flying to Spain lol." What's the honest answer?

- **1.** Only planes to Spain ever crash — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He's right; flying is the most dangerous thing — no support
- **3.** Planes crash every single day but the airlines hide it — no support
- **4.** Crashes are news because they almost never happen — **✓ 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Grandad, at the telly: "The world's gone bloody mad." Finn won't go out to play. What did Grandad mean?

- **1.** Grandad has found out something secret — no support
- **2.** He was grumbling; most people are having ordinary, peaceful days — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** It is dangerous to go outside today — no support
- **4.** The world really has gone mad since this morning, and nobody knows why yet — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 43, line 3: «Scene: in Toronto, Grandad mutters about «the kids from the flats, always hanging round the shop, up to no good». What he can see is teenagers chatting after s…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mutter» (+4); the same doer «grandad» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Sophie: "the swirly storm thing's smashing the town right now!!" The TV says it will reach the coast on Thursday. What's true?

- **1.** It is happening in the TV studio — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The town has already been destroyed — no support
- **3.** Storms on maps never come at all — no support
- **4.** It's a forecast; the warning gives people time to get ready — **✓ 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Mum to Dad, low voice: "...the boy's still missing, police want any sightings." Grace hears and won't go to the shop. What is the sensible view?

- **1.** It's not true; the police just like being on TV — no support
- **2.** Children go missing on every street every day, so no shop is safe any more — no support
- **3.** She must never go anywhere ever again — no support
- **4.** It's rare; the news asks the public to help; keep our safety rules — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 51, line 11: «A missing child on the news is a rare case; police use the news so that the public can help, and the family safety rules still work.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «help» (+2); the same doer «public» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Big sister, scrolling at midnight: "just checking if the war's over, then I'll sleep, promise." Why is this a bad idea?

- **1.** She'll miss the end if she sleeps now — no support
- **2.** Phones explode if used after midnight — score 1
- **3.** Checking again and again keeps the worry going and makes nobody safer — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** The war will only end if someone watches — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 51, line 16: «Checking scary news again and again, especially late at night, keeps the worry going and makes nobody safer.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same thing acted on «nobody» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: the same doer «checking» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Teacher in class: "You might have heard about the war. Here's a map, and here are the facts." At home Dad says, "Don't you worry." Which is right?

- **1.** Only Dad; the teacher shouldn't talk about it — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Both; facts and comfort fit together — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Only the teacher; Dad doesn't really know — no support
- **4.** Neither; nobody should ever mention wars — no support

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**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 35, line 2: «Grown-ups talk privately first so they can be honest, work things out calmly, and then tell you once, clearly and gently, instead of giving you half-finished w…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «talk» (+4); the same doer «grown ups» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Kid at school: "My cousin says wars never end, like EVER, they just go on." Put him right.

- **1.** Wars end only when one side is all gone — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** He's right; no war in the whole of history has ever really ended — no support
- **3.** Wars end only when the news stops filming — score 3
- **4.** Many wars have ended, and peace is work people do every day — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 51, line 12: «Wars can end: peace treaties have been signed, and countries that once fought each other are friends now.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «end» (+2); the same doer «wars» (+1). 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Lily: "Is it wrong to have my party when people are sad far away?" Which answer is true?

- **1.** No; you can be happy and still care, like putting a coin in the charity box — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, because faraway people don't matter — no support
- **3.** Yes; fun is banned until every war is over — no support
- **4.** Yes; having a party while others are sad will make things worse over there — 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Theo's friend: "You didn't cry when that actor died?? that's so heartless." Is Theo heartless?

- **1.** No, because the actor didn't really die — score 0
- **2.** No; it's normal not to feel sad about someone you never knew — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Yes; he should pretend to cry tomorrow — no support
- **4.** Yes; everyone must grieve for every famous person, whether they knew them or not — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 51, line 15: «You do not have to feel sad about a famous person you never knew; the people laying flowers knew their songs or films.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «feel» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/t11/)

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

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Identify the principal reason for which disasters and acts of violence feature prominently in news broadcasts.

- **1.** They are unusual and recent, and therefore newsworthy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They occur in every locality on a daily basis without exception — no support
- **3.** Broadcasters are obliged to show only misfortune — no support
- **4.** They are invented in order to attract viewers — 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/e1/)

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

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Whereas a single incident is broadcast repeatedly across several channels and devices, determine the number of incidents which have in fact occurred.

- **1.** As many incidents as there were broadcasts, channels and devices — no support
- **2.** A number which increases with each hour — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** One incident, presented on multiple occasions — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A number which no person can ascertain — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 7: «A PIN is a secret four-digit number that proves a card is yours, and banks never ask for it on the phone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «secret digit number» (+4); the same doer «secret digit number» (+1). The right option, 3, 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the obligations of children in the event of armed conflict in countries such as the United Kingdom.

- **1.** Children are not called upon to serve as soldiers — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** All children above the age of nine are conscripted for military service — no support
- **3.** Children are conscripted upon the declaration of war — no support
- **4.** Children may be conscripted if a rumour so states — 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/e3/)

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

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Ascertain the course of conduct most conducive to the wellbeing of a child who has been distressed by repeated reports of war.

- **1.** The concealment of his distress from his parents — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The cancellation of all enjoyable activities indefinitely — no support
- **3.** A respite from the news, together with reassurance and comfort — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The continuous monitoring of news reports by the child throughout the night — 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/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/e4/)

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