--- title: Snow, ice and strong sun — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 234 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 14 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/) [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/) / 234 # Snow, ice and strong sun **Tests:** 14 of 19 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 17 of 23 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 234 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/). 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1} A girl in Sydney wants to play cricket outside at 1 p.m. in summer. What is wise? - **1.** Play in the shade or later, as the UV is strongest at midday — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Shade does not matter if she is not feeling too hot while she plays — no support - **3.** Play then, because the sun is at its weakest at midday — no support - **4.** The sun in Australia is weaker than in Europe, so play — 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2} A boy in Minnesota has been in the snow for an hour and his fingers are white and numb. What should he do? - **1.** Go in, take off wet things and tell a grown-up — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** Keep playing so his hands warm up on their own — score 9 - **3.** Rub his hands hard with handfuls of snow — score 7 - **4.** Hold them close to a hot fire straight away — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 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 79, line 22: «Fingers that go white and numb from cold are warmed slowly indoors, not rubbed with snow or put under very hot water, and you tell an adult.», 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 «tell» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3} A boy's friend throws a hard, icy snowball at a passing car. What could happen? - **1.** The driver could be startled and crash — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Nothing, because cars are made of metal — score 4 - **3.** The car will just get a little bit cleaner — no support - **4.** The snowball will melt long before it hits the car — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 234, line 10: «Throw only soft snowballs at people who are playing, never at faces, cars or strangers, and never with stones or ice inside; a snowball can startle a driver in…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «startle» (+2); the same thing acted on «driver» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4} Why is a magnifying glass in sunlight like a tiny fire starter? - **1.** It reflects all of the sun back up into the sky — no support - **2.** It makes its own heat from inside the glass — no support - **3.** It cools down all the air around the glass instead — no support - **4.** It gathers sunlight into one very hot spot — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 234, line 19: «A magnifying glass focuses sunlight into a spot hot enough to start a fire, so never point it at anything, at people or at animals.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «sunlight» (+3); the same circumstance (+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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5} A girl sees a broken bottle in dry summer grass. Why is it worth picking up? - **1.** The grass needs the glass to grow — score 5 - **2.** It is only worth it if the bottle is still full of something — score 3 - **3.** Bottles left out in the sun grow into bigger bottles — score 5 - **4.** Glass can focus sunlight and start a grass fire — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 12, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 234, line 20: «Pick up glass bottles from dry grass, because a bottle can focus sunlight and start a grass fire.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «focus» (+6); the same thing acted on «sunlight» (+5); 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6} Children build a big snow tunnel next to the road after a storm. A snowplough is coming. What is the danger? - **1.** The plough will melt all the snow — score 4 - **2.** The plough could push snow onto the tunnel and bury them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** Snowploughs only ever clear the pavements, never the roads — no support - **4.** The tunnel will be swept away by the wind and nothing else — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 234, line 11: «Keep snow forts small and open, and never dig tunnels in snow piles by the road, because snow collapses and snowploughs push snow there.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «push» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «snow» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7} A boy sees an older child about to knock down a huge icicle hanging over the doorway. Why should he warn him? - **1.** It will make the roof leak at once and flood the whole house — score 3 - **2.** A falling icicle is heavy and sharp and can injure people — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** Icicles are needed to keep the house warm all through the winter — score 6 - **4.** Icicles are too slippery to hold — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 234, line 12: «Never stand under icicles or knock them down, because they are heavy and sharp.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «icicles» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8} A girl stays in the sun after getting sunburnt, saying it will turn into a tan. What is true? - **1.** More sun makes the burn worse — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Sunburn turns into a tan safely — no support - **3.** Burnt skin heals faster in sunlight — no support - **4.** A burn protects her from more burning — 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} A skater glides the wrong way round a busy rink. What is the risk? - **1.** The skates will break — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nothing, as long as she skates fast enough to dodge them all — no support - **3.** The ice will melt faster under her — no support - **4.** Crashing into others whose sharp blades can cut — **✓ 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10} icicles on the shed are huge, can i knock them off - **1.** Yes, with a long stick from the side — no support - **2.** Yes, if you stand right under them — score 1 - **3.** Only if they're already melting n dripping — no support - **4.** No, stay away, they're heavy and sharp — **← 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, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 234, line 2: «Snow and ice also hide dangers from above and below: heavy snow and icicles can fall from roofs, snow piles can collapse, ice is slippery, and snowploughs push…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «heavy snow» (+2); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11} thirsty, gonna eat this yellow snow - **1.** Yes, snow is just clean water — no support - **2.** Only a little bit — no support - **3.** Yes, yellow snow is lemon flavour lol — no support - **4.** No, never eat yellow or dirty snow — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 234, line 13: «Do not eat yellow, grey or dirty snow, and ask before eating any, because snow can contain dirt, animal pee and road salt.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «yellow snow» (+3); the same action «eat» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} been outside ages, shaking lots n feeling sleepy. normal? - **1.** Yes, keep playing it'll pass — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, tell a grown-up and get warm and dry — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Take off your wet gloves n carry on playing — no support - **4.** Yes, just have a little nap in the snow — 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t13} got a magnifying glass, gonna burn some ants - **1.** Only in strong sun at midday when it works best — no support - **2.** Yes, ants don't feel it — no support - **3.** No, never point it at anything, it can start a fire — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11 - **4.** Yes, it's fine if you do it on dry grass — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 234, line 19: «A magnifying glass focuses sunlight into a spot hot enough to start a fire, so never point it at anything, at people or at animals.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «start» (+5); the same doer «magnifying glass» (+3); the same thing acted on «fire» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t14} ball's on the pond ice, i'll just grab it - **1.** Only near the edge — no support - **2.** Yes, crawl out to it on ur tummy — score -1 - **3.** Yes, if you're light enough — no support - **4.** No, leave it, ice can crack — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 234, line 5: «Two boys in Minnesota walked onto a frozen pond to fetch a ball; the ice cracked and one fell through into freezing water, and firefighters had to rescue him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «crack» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t15} friend fell through the ice! - **1.** Jump in after him and pull him out — no support - **2.** Don't go out; call for help and reach with a stick — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **3.** Go home and get dry — no support - **4.** Run out on the ice to grab him — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 5: «If a friend falls through the ice, you do not go out to him: you call for help, then reach with a long branch or throw something that floats, while you stay on…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+5); the same circumstance (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t15/) ### Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16} Why should wet gloves be swapped for dry ones in the snow? - **1.** Dry gloves look much better — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Wet hands freeze faster and can get frostbite — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Wet gloves shrink in the cold until they no longer fit — no support - **4.** Snow sticks better to dry gloves, so snowballs are easier to make — 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t16/) ### Test 17 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t17} did u hear a kid walked on the frozen pond and fell through and couldn't breathe in the cold water? real lesson? - **1.** Only grown-ups can fall through ice, kids are too light to break it — score 3 - **2.** Walk quickly so you don't fall through — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Ice that looks solid can be thin; stay off it — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **4.** Thick-looking ice is always safe to walk on — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 234, line 5: «Two boys in Minnesota walked onto a frozen pond to fetch a ball; the ice cracked and one fell through into freezing water, and firefighters had to rescue him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall through» (+5); the same property (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t17/) ### Test 18 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t18} apparently a boy put a stone in a snowball and knocked out his mate's tooth. what's the true lesson? - **1.** Stones make snowballs fly straighter, so they're better for aiming — no support - **2.** Throw only soft snowballs, never with stones or ice — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Snowballs are safe whatever you put inside — no support - **4.** Aim only at the head for fun — 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 234, line 10: «Throw only soft snowballs at people who are playing, never at faces, cars or strangers, and never with stones or ice inside; a snowball can startle a driver in…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «soft snowballs» (+3); the same action «throw» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t18/) ### Test 19 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t19} my cousin says if u eat yellow snow u die instantly lol. probably blown up? - **1.** That snow can be dirty — no support - **2.** Instantly; but don't eat yellow or dirty snow — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** That snow is frozen water — no support - **4.** That yellow snow can be animal pee — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 234, line 13: «Do not eat yellow, grey or dirty snow, and ask before eating any, because snow can contain dirt, animal pee and road salt.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «snow» (+3); the same thing acted on «dirt» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/t19/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the signs of hypothermia. - **1.** Hunger and a dry mouth — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A hot face accompanied by much sweating — no support - **3.** Hard shivering with clumsiness and sleepiness — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** A sudden wish to run and play outside — 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/234-snow-ice-and-sun/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises icicles? - **1.** They are soft and harmless when they fall — score 7 - **2.** They are heavy and sharp, and one does not stand beneath them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **3.** They are safe to eat directly from roofs — score 7 - **4.** They may be knocked down safely with a stick by standing beneath them — score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 234, line 12: «Never stand under icicles or knock them down, because they are heavy and sharp.», 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 «icicles» (+2); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response consistent with established practice when the UV index is high. - **1.** One sunbathes at midday, when it is warmest — no support - **2.** One requires no protection whatever if it is cloudy — no support - **3.** One avoids the sun only in the early hours of the morning — no support - **4.** One remains in the shade from about 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 234, line 17: «When the UV index is high, stay in the shade from about 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., when the sun is strongest.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stay» (+5); the same circumstance (+4); the same place «shade» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Ascertain the reason for which a magnifying glass is never pointed at anything in sunlight. - **1.** It makes the glass shatter into many sharp pieces at once — no support - **2.** It focuses sunlight into a spot hot enough to start a fire — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 15 - **3.** It makes objects permanently larger — no support - **4.** It dims the sunlight so much that the eyes are harmed — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 15, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 234, line 19: «A magnifying glass focuses sunlight into a spot hot enough to start a fire, so never point it at anything, at people or at animals.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «focus» (+5); the same doer «magnifying glass» (+3); the same thing acted on «sunlight» (+3); the same place «spot» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/e4/) - ← previous: [233. The sea, waves and swimming pools](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/233-sea-and-pools/) - next →: [235. Rain, floods and storms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)