--- title: What to do if you are lost — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 17 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 13 of 19 tests right, exam 3 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/) / 17 # What to do if you are lost **Tests:** 13 of 19 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 16 of 23 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 17 of the everyday 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/). 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1} Mia, 9, has lost her family at a theme park in Florida. A staff member in uniform asks if she is lost. What should she do? - **1.** Run away because staff are strangers — no support - **2.** Tell her name and her parent's phone number — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **3.** Say nothing until her parents find her — score 9 - **4.** Ask the staff member to take her home — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 17, line 20: «If you are lost and in danger and have a phone, call 911 (USA, Canada), 999 (UK, Ireland), 000 (Australia) or 111 (New Zealand).», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «call» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2} Which is the safest thing for a lost child to do? - **1.** Follow anyone who says they can help — no support - **2.** Stay in a busy place and ask a safe adult — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Hide somewhere nobody can see them — no support - **4.** Look for the family out in the car park on your own — no support **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 17, line 9: «If you are lost, stay calm and stay in one place, because a moving person is harder to find.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stay» (+3); the same place «one place» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3} If a lost hiker kept walking all day, what would most likely happen? - **1.** Searchers would take longer to find her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** She would surely reach a town by night — no support - **3.** She would walk straight back to the start — no support - **4.** Searchers would find her more quickly — 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4} A man at the mall says, «I'll take you to the car park to look for your dad.» What is wrong? - **1.** The car park is too noisy to search in — no support - **2.** A safe helper keeps you in public, not away — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** Your dad would never park in that car park — no support - **4.** Nothing, this is what a helper should do — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 15: «A real helper calls your family or keeps you in a busy public place, such as an information desk.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same doer «real helper» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5} Why should children learn their address by heart? - **1.** It helps them win quizzes at school — no support - **2.** You must say it to get into a shop — no support - **3.** A helper can get them home or call their family — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Strangers like to know where children live, so it is polite — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 3: «Know your parent's phone number and your address by heart, so that a helper can call your family.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «helper» (+2); the same thing acted on «family» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6} Lily is lost in a forest in Colorado as night falls. Which plan is best? - **1.** Lie quietly so no animal hears her — no support - **2.** Climb a cliff to look around — no support - **3.** Walk on in the dark to find a road or a house — no support - **4.** Stay put, keep warm and blow a whistle — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 16: «If you are lost in the wild, stay put, keep warm and dry, and make noise.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Which person is the best choice for a lost child to ask? - **1.** A person who keeps following you around — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** A man waiting alone in a parked car — score 5 - **3.** Someone who offers you sweets or a lift — score 5 - **4.** A shop worker behind the counter — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 17, line 9: «If you are lost, stay calm and stay in one place, because a moving person is harder to find.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «moving person» (+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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Before going to a big sports match, what is it smart for a family to agree on? - **1.** Which team they will cheer for loudest — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** What time they will buy their drinks — no support - **3.** Who will carry the snacks and drinks — no support - **4.** A meeting place in case they get separated — **✓ 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Why is it best not to wander when lost outdoors? - **1.** Wandering is the quickest way out of a forest — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Wild animals only notice things that stand still — no support - **3.** Searchers start looking where you were last seen — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Walking makes your footprints disappear — 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10} lost mum in the shops what do i do - **1.** Run around all the shops looking for her — no support - **2.** Stay put and ask a shop worker with a badge — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** Go out to the car park — no support - **4.** Go home on your own — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 8: «A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «worker» (+5); the same action «ask» (+3). 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} man says come with me we'll find ur mum outside - **1.** Yes, he is being helpful, go outside with him — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, if he knows her name — no support - **3.** No, stay inside and go to the info desk — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, if he seems nice — 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t12} lost in the woods, keep walking out? - **1.** Hide so nobody worries — no support - **2.** Yes, keep walking until you find a road — no support - **3.** No, stay put, keep warm and make noise — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Yes, run to find the path before it's dark — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 16: «If you are lost in the wild, stay put, keep warm and dry, and make noise.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «noise» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t13} why u making me learn ur number - **1.** So you can order pizza — no support - **2.** So you can call my friends — no support - **3.** So a helper can call me if you're lost — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Just to practise counting — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 3: «Know your parent's phone number and your address by heart, so that a helper can call your family.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «helper» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t14} can't find mum at the zoo, should i go look for her - **1.** Go out to the car park — no support - **2.** Walk around the whole zoo — no support - **3.** Go with anyone who says they know her — no support - **4.** Stay put or ask a zoo worker for help — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 8: «A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «worker» (+3); the same action «ask» (+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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t15} lost at the beach and a random guy says come with me to find ur dad - **1.** Go with him, he sounds nice and he says he knows your dad — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Go if he knows your name — no support - **3.** Say no and find a lifeguard or a mum with kids — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Go if he buys you an ice cream — 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t15/) ### Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16} Ella says when ur lost u should hide so no one bad sees u. right? - **1.** Yes, unless it is raining — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, hide until it gets dark — no support - **3.** No, stay where people and helpers can see you — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, hiding keeps you safest — 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t16/) ### Test 17 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t17} my nan's friend said a kid got lost at the fair and some man said he'd help find his mum and walked off with him - **1.** It proves fairs are too dangerous to go to, so kids should just stay at home instead — no support - **2.** Whatever really happened, the lesson stands: never go off with someone; stay put or ask a worker — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** It is gossip, so the rule does not matter — no support - **4.** It means you should go with anyone who says your mum's name — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 8: «A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «worker» (+5); the same action «ask» (+3). 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t17/) ### Test 18 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t18} someone at school says if ur lost u gotta keep walking till u find ur parents or they'll leave without u - **1.** He is right, walking is the fastest way back — no support - **2.** He is right, parents leave if you stay put — no support - **3.** He is right, but only in shopping centres — no support - **4.** That is wrong; stay in one place, because searchers find a person who stays put faster — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **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 17, line 9: «If you are lost, stay calm and stay in one place, because a moving person is harder to find.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same place «one place» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t18/) ### Test 19 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t19} Charlotte got lost at the beach and they called her name over the speaker, everyone's laughing at her - **1.** Do not join in; it could happen to anyone, and she did the right thing being found — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Spread it, because the speaker thing is funny and everyone at the beach heard it anyway — no support - **3.** Spread it, so she is more careful — no support - **4.** Spread it, and add that she was crying loudly — 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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t19/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} It being given that a child becomes separated from his family in a public place, select the course of action consistent with established guidance. - **1.** To leave the building and return home alone — no support - **2.** To accept a lift from anyone offering assistance — no support - **3.** To remain calm in one place and to seek help from a worker in uniform or a parent with children — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** To walk about the area until the family is found — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 21: «A lost child who keeps walking is harder to find than one who stays in one safe place.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same place «one safe place» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the principal reason for which a lost person ought to remain in one place. - **1.** A person who remains still uses no energy at all and needs no food — score 3 - **2.** A person who stays put is obliged to wait less than an hour — no support - **3.** A person who walks becomes invisible to cameras — no support - **4.** A person who is in motion is more difficult for searchers to find — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 9: «If you are lost, stay calm and stay in one place, because a moving person is harder to find.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «moving person» (+4); the same action «find» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the signal of three blasts upon a whistle? - **1.** It is a signal that the person has found the route home — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** It is a widely recognised signal by which assistance is requested — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** It is a signal used solely by lifeguards at sea — score 6 - **4.** It is a signal that the search should cease — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 9, line 8: «Thirst is the body's signal that it needs water.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «signal» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning a person who offers to take a lost child away to search for the parents. - **1.** The child should accompany the person if the person seems kind — no support - **2.** The child must never accompany such a person, a genuine helper remaining in a public place — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** The child should accompany the person if the person knows the child's name — no support - **4.** The child should accompany the person after it has grown dark — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 15: «A real helper calls your family or keeps you in a busy public place, such as an information desk.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «real helper» (+2); the same place «busy public place» (+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/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/e4/) - ← previous: [16. Finding your way with landmarks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/16-landmarks/) - next →: [18. Remembering details](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/18-remembering-details/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)