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title: Olympiad: the Spelling Bee — how Mova does on the tests · English
description: Lesson 55 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Olympiad: the Spelling Bee

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**Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 4 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 55 of the english 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/).

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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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Your mate says, "Asking for the origin is a waste of time, innit." Put him right.

- **1.** The origin tells you the whole answer — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Origins hint at spelling patterns — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Only the judges are told the origins — no support
- **4.** Origins never help with any spelling — 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Kai, from Manchester: "Wenzday's just W-E-N-S-D-A-Y, sorted, our kid." What is the right spelling?

- **1.** W-E-N-D-S-D-A-Y — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** W-E-N-S-D-A-Y — no support
- **3.** W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** W-E-D-N-S-D-A-Y — 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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A cartoon speller spells "silhouete" with one t and wins the cup. Fix it.

- **1.** One t is right, so he deserves the cup — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It should have no h in it at all — no support
- **3.** It needs a double l in the middle — no support
- **4.** Silhouette needs a double t — **✓ 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Priyanka's dad, from Bangalore: "Do the needful, beta, spell accommodate." ("Do the needful" means do what is needed; "beta" is a fond word for a child.) Which spelling is right?

- **1.** accommodate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** acomodate — no support
- **3.** acommodate — no support
- **4.** accomodate — 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Jordan, rough: "Who even says 'queue', just say line, mate." In British English, what is a queue?

- **1.** A type of woolly hat for winter — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A short tail on a cat or a dog — no support
- **3.** A crowd all shoving forwards — no support
- **4.** A line of people waiting their turn — **✓ 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Which word has a double c AND a double m?

- **1.** accommodate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** silhouette — no support
- **3.** mischievous — no support
- **4.** necessary — 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Which word has one c and a double s?

- **1.** necessary — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** pharaoh — no support
- **3.** accommodate — no support
- **4.** conscience — 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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A Texan speller says, "Y'all, onomatopoeia's fixin' to break me." ("Fixin' to" means about to.) What does onomatopoeia mean?

- **1.** A word spelled the same way backwards — score -3
- **2.** A word with no vowels in it anywhere — **← Mova's choice** · score 12
- **3.** A word that sounds like its meaning — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** Any very long word that comes from Greek — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 55, line 9: «Onomatopoeia is spelled O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A; it comes from Greek words meaning "making names", and it means a word that sounds like what it means.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «word» (+4); the same action «mean» (+3); the same doer «onomatopoeia» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Which of these words has no a, e, i, o or u at all?

- **1.** Fahrenheit — no support
- **2.** queue — no support
- **3.** pharaoh — no support
- **4.** rhythm — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 10: «il- is used before l (illegal, illogical) and ir- before r (irregular, irresponsible), so these words have double letters.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «double letters» (+4); the same circumstance (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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A sign says "Fahrenhiet". What is wrong with it?

- **1.** Nothing; it is right — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It needs a double r — no support
- **3.** The "ie" should be "ei" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The first h is missing — 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Which list is spelled entirely correctly?

- **1.** rythm, queue, necessary — no support
- **2.** rhythm, queue, neccessary — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** rhythm, queue, necessary — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** rhythm, que, necessary — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 55, line 6: «Rhythm is spelled R-H-Y-T-H-M; it comes from Greek and has no a, e, i, o or u, with "y" doing the job of a vowel.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «spell» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/t11/)

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

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Identify the correct orthography of the word denoting a regular pattern of beats.

- **1.** rythm — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** rhytm — no support
- **3.** rhythym — no support
- **4.** rhythm — **✓ 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/e1/)

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

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Ascertain the number of instances of the letter "c" in the correctly spelled word "necessary".

- **1.** Two — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Three — no support
- **3.** None — no support
- **4.** One — **✓ 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/e2/)

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

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It is given that the word "Wednesday" derives from the Old English for "Woden's day". Select the response that most accurately accounts for its unpronounced letters.

- **1.** The old spelling has been retained — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A printer added them in error — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** They were borrowed from Greek — score 1
- **4.** They distinguish it from Monday — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 33, line 16: «A comma also cuts off a little tag word added at the end, like "eh" or "innit": "It's cold, eh."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «add» (+1). The right option, 1, 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/e3/)

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

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Determine which of the following is the correct spelling of the title of the kings of ancient Egypt.

- **1.** pharoh — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** pharoah — no support
- **3.** farao — no support
- **4.** pharaoh — **✓ 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/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/e4/)

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