--- title: Olympiad: tricky comprehension — how Mova does on the tests · English description: Lesson 60 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/) / 60 # Olympiad: tricky comprehension **Tests:** 1 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 60 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/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/). 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/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/). ### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Jake reads "Dogs must be carried on the escalator" and panics: "But I haven't got a dog!" What did he get wrong? - **1.** The sign really says dogs are banned — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** The sign was about cats, not dogs — no support - **3.** Nothing; he must go and find a dog — score 0 - **4.** The sign is only for people with dogs — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 60, line 15: «"Dogs must be carried on the escalator" means that if you have a dog with you, you must carry it; it does not mean everyone must carry a dog.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «dogs» (-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/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} "Everyone in the class except Sam passed the test. Sam's mum was proud." Why might she be proud? - **1.** Because Sam passed with top marks — no support - **2.** The text doesn't say; maybe he tried hard — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Because Sam came first in the class — no support - **4.** Because everyone else failed the test — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 2: «The most famous trio is there, their and they're. «There» is a place (it has «here» inside it), «their» means belonging to them, and «they're» is short for «th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fail» (+4). 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/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t3} Ella says, "'The old man the boat' isn't even a sentence!" Put her right. - **1.** It is: old people crew the boat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** It's about one old man, so it's fine — no support - **3.** She's right: it has no verb at all — no support - **4.** It only works with "is" after "man" — no support **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 60, line 11: «"The old man the boat" is a real sentence: "the old" means old people, and "man" is a verb meaning to work or crew the boat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «crew» (+3); 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/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} "The ball broke the window because it was weak." What was weak? - **1.** Neither one — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The ball — no support - **3.** The window — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Both of them — no support **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/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Your mate says, "'Not untrue' means false, innit, two nots." Put him right. - **1.** It means nobody knows — no support - **2.** He's right: it means false — no support - **3.** It means half true — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** The two negatives cancel: it means true — **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 60, line 2: «Watch the little words: "not untrue" means true, so "It is not untrue that Sam did not go" means Sam did not go; and "but" can join two facts that both still c…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3); the same property (+3); the same doer «untrue» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Liam in Leeds, dry: "Champion, me bike's got a puncture again." ("Champion" means great in Yorkshire.) How does he really feel? - **1.** Calm — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Annoyed — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Pleased — no support - **4.** Proud — no support **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/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} "Zoe is older than Max. Max is older than Ivy. Ivy is older than Ben." Who is the second youngest? - **1.** Max — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Ivy — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Ben — no support - **4.** Zoe — no support **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/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} A cartoon says "Before Mia ate breakfast, she fed the cat" means breakfast came first. Fix it. - **1.** Breakfast really came first — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** Feeding the cat came first — **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** The text doesn't say which — score 1 - **4.** Both happened at once — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 28, line 3: «The comma rule: when the subordinate clause comes first, put a comma after it. «Although I wasn't hungry, I ate my dinner.» When the main clause comes first, y…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+5); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Bethany, Gen Z: "Lily rides her bike every day, it's literally in the text, I'm dead." ("I'm dead" means I'm laughing so hard.) What is right? - **1.** The text only says weekends — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** The text says she walks to school — score 5 - **3.** The text only says Mondays — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** She is right: it says every day — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 60, line 5: «Use only what the text gives you: if it says Lily rides her bike on Mondays, you cannot claim she rides it every day, and if the text does not explain why some…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same doer «text» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} "Tom said, 'I never touched the cake,' with icing on his nose." Which word best describes Tom's claim? - **1.** Polite — no support - **2.** Certain — no support - **3.** Unlikely — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Proven — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 37, line 11: «Pronouns such as he, she, it and they avoid repeating names, but they must be clear: "Tom met Sam and he laughed" does not say who laughed.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «pronouns» (+2). 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/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} "Nobody in the team is not tired." Is anyone in the team tired? - **1.** Only some of them are — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No: nobody is tired — no support - **3.** The text doesn't say — no support - **4.** Yes: everyone is tired — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} It is given that Amy exceeds Ben in height, Ben exceeds Cal, and Cal exceeds Dee. Identify the individual of least height. - **1.** Dee — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Ben — no support - **3.** Amy — no support - **4.** Cal — no support **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/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Select the response that most accurately characterises the assertion "It is not untrue that Sam did not go to the party." - **1.** Sam attended the party — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Sam attended only briefly — score 4 - **3.** Sam's attendance is unknown — score 4 - **4.** Sam did not attend the party — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **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 19, line 1: «A prediction is a sensible guess about what will happen next, built from clues in the text and from what you know about stories. «Sam saw the sign: DANGER: THI…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+3); the same doer «sam» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Ascertain the meaning of the notice "Dogs must be carried on the escalator." - **1.** Dogs may carry small items — no support - **2.** Dogs are prohibited on the escalator — score 5 - **3.** All persons must carry a dog — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** Persons with dogs must carry them — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 60, line 15: «"Dogs must be carried on the escalator" means that if you have a dog with you, you must carry it; it does not mean everyone must carry a dog.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+3); the same thing acted on «dogs» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Identify which of the following is not stated in the passage "Lily has a red bike. She rides it to school on Mondays." - **1.** Lily owns a bike — score 2 - **2.** Lily rides it daily — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** She rides to school — score 4 - **4.** The bike is red — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 60, line 5: «Use only what the text gives you: if it says Lily rides her bike on Mondays, you cannot claim she rides it every day, and if the text does not explain why some…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+3); the same thing acted on «bike» (+3); the same doer «lily» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/e4/) - ← previous: [59. Olympiad: real languages and codes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/)