--- title: Prices, change, borrowing and lending — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 262 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 9 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/) [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/) / 262 # Prices, change, borrowing and lending **Tests:** 9 of 19 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 16 of 23 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 262 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/). 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} A girl in Houston pays with a $20 bill for a $6 lunch and gets $24 back. What has happened, and what should she do? - **1.** She got $4 too much, so she keeps it as luck — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** The shop owes her even more money — no support - **3.** She got the right change — no support - **4.** She got $10 too much, so she gives it back — **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **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 9, line 7: «A girl in Glasgow skipped breakfast and lunch to finish a project; by the afternoon she was shaky and could not think, and she fell off her bike on the way hom…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same doer «girl» (+2); the same thing acted on «breakfast» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} A boy in Leeds has £5. He wants a comic at £2.99 and a drink at £1.49. Can he afford both? - **1.** No, the total is about £6, which is too much — no support - **2.** No, he needs about £8 for the two — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Yes, the total is about £4.50 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, with £3 left over to spend — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 244, line 6: «A boy in Ohio used his dad's power drill without asking; it jumped off a screw and went into his hand, and he needed surgery.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+3); the same doer «boy» (+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/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} A sign says "Only $9.99!" What is the honest way to think of this price? - **1.** It is about $9, as you drop the cents — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is basically $10 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It is a lot less than $10 — no support - **4.** It is half price, a real bargain — 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} A girl lends her friend her whole $50 savings, and the friend loses it. What lesson does this show? - **1.** Lending money to friends always ends friendships — score 5 - **2.** Lend only what you can afford to lose — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Always lend everything you have to friends — no support - **4.** Friends never lose or spend money they borrow — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 261, line 6: «A girl in Texas called Ana spent all her pocket money on sweets every week; when her bike tyre burst she had nothing saved and walked to school for a month.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «pocket money» (+4); the same action «spend» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). 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/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Your mum lends you $10 for a gift and you agree to pay back $2 a week from pocket money. How many weeks will it take? - **1.** 10 weeks — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 8 weeks — no support - **3.** 5 weeks — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** 2 weeks — 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Your parents borrow money from a bank to buy a car. Why will they pay back more than they borrowed? - **1.** The bank charges interest on the loan — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** The car comes with free petrol for a year — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Banks always make mistakes — no support - **4.** The car gets more expensive over time — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 245, line 19: «Chalk drawings belong on your own driveway or a quiet path, never on the road where cars come.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+3); the same doer «cars» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7} An older boy in Melbourne threatens a younger boy and takes his lunch money. Why must the younger boy tell an adult? - **1.** It is his own fault for having money with him at school — score 6 - **2.** It is bullying or theft, and adults must stop it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** He will get double his money back — score 2 - **4.** The older boy will apologise at once — score 5 **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 262, line 5: «A boy in Bristol is cornered by an older child who demands his money; he hands it over because he feels unsafe, then tells a teacher straight away, because thi…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stop» (+6); the same doer «bullying» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8} A boy in Atlanta takes $5 from his grandpa's wallet without asking and plans to put it back later. What is true? - **1.** It is fine because it is family — no support - **2.** It is stealing, even at home and even if he returns it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** It is fine if it is less than $10 — no support - **4.** It is only borrowing, so nobody minds as long as the money is put back — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 262, line 7: «A girl in California lent her new headphones to a boy she hardly knew; he never gave them back and she saved for months to replace them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give back» (+2); the same doer «boy» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9} At the school tuck shop there is a long queue. What helps you and everyone else? - **1.** Counting your coins slowly at the front — no support - **2.** Asking the price of every item — no support - **3.** Deciding what to buy at the counter — no support - **4.** Checking the prices and having your money ready — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 262, line 11: «At an ice-cream van or tuck shop (a small school shop for snacks) you check the price list first and hold your money ready.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «money» (+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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10} lady gave me 5 dollars change but it should be 3. sweet! - **1.** Run before she notices — no support - **2.** Keep it, her mistake — no support - **3.** Buy more sweets with it from the same shop — no support - **4.** Tell her and give back the extra — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 262, line 2: «If a shop assistant gives you too much change, you tell them and give back the extra, because it is honest and the assistant may have to make up the difference.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «extra» (+5); the same action «give back» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} 3 things, $1.99, $2.99 and $4.99, roughly how much, no calculator - **1.** About 15 dollars — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** About 4 dollars — no support - **3.** About 7 dollars — no support - **4.** About 10 dollars — **✓ 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t12} big kid says gimme your money or else. i'm scared - **1.** Keep it secret forever — no support - **2.** Give it if you feel unsafe, then tell a trusted adult — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Fight him for it — no support - **4.** Run into the road to escape from him, cars will stop — 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 256, line 5: «A boy in Austin who is worried about his parents arguing tells his teacher, and the worry feels lighter; but if an adult ever asks him to keep a secret that ma…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «parent» (+4); the same action «tell» (+3). 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t13} mum's purse is right there, i'll just take 2 quid, she won't mind - **1.** Yes, if it's only coins — no support - **2.** No, taking money without asking is stealing — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Only if you put it back next week before she checks — no support - **4.** Yes, it's family money — 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 262, line 17: «Taking money from a parent's purse without asking is stealing, even at home.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «steal» (+3); the same doer «taking» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t14} got my change, just shove it in my pocket - **1.** Count it when you get home — score 3 - **2.** Count it before you leave the till — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** Ask the next customer in the queue to check it for you — no support - **4.** Fine, tills are never wrong — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 262, line 18: «Counting your change before you leave the till is the only time a mistake is easy to fix.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «till» (+5); the same action «leave» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t15} kid i barely know wants to borrow my new headphones for a week - **1.** Give them to him to keep, then you can't lose them — score 4 - **2.** Lend them and ask him for money — score 6 - **3.** Lend them, he'll give them back — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** Say no, or lend only what you can lose — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 262, line 7: «A girl in California lent her new headphones to a boy she hardly knew; he never gave them back and she saved for months to replace them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «headphones» (+4); the same action «give back» (+3); the same doer «boy» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t15/) ### Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16} Why could Jack not get his missing £5 back? - **1.** £5 is too little to matter — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The shop keeps all mistakes — no support - **3.** He was given too much — no support - **4.** He only noticed after he had left the shop — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t16/) ### Test 17 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t17} did u hear an older kid made a year 3 (a child of about seven) hand over his lunch money behind the shops? what should a kid in that spot do? - **1.** Give it if unsafe, then tell a trusted adult at once — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** Never tell anyone — score 4 - **3.** Bring more money next time so he leaves you alone after that — score 3 - **4.** Fight him for it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 262, line 16: «If an older child demands your money, you may give it if you feel unsafe, then tell a trusted adult straight away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «trusted adult» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t17/) ### Test 18 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t18} apparently the shop gave a kid 20 dollars too much change and he kept it and nobody ever found out lol. what's the true lesson? - **1.** Keep it since it was their mistake — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Tell the assistant and give back the extra — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Only give back big amounts, small ones don't matter to shops — no support - **4.** Spend it 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t18/) ### Test 19 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t19} my mate says $4.99 is basically $4. right? - **1.** No, it's almost $5; the price just seems cheaper — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yes, the 99 cents don't count — no support - **3.** No, it's about $6 — no support - **4.** Yes, round down always — 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/t19/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the approximate value of a price of $4.99. - **1.** Nearly five dollars — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** About six dollars, if you round it — no support - **3.** Exactly four dollars and nine cents — no support - **4.** Approximately four dollars — 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a loan? - **1.** Money that need never be repaid — score 5 - **2.** Money earned by working — no support - **3.** Money borrowed that must be repaid, often with interest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11 - **4.** Money given as a gift — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 262, line 3: «A loan is money you borrow and must pay back, often with extra called interest, so adults borrow carefully; borrowing from a parent and paying it back from poc…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay back» (+5); the same thing acted on «money» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Select the response consistent with established practice upon receiving excess change. - **1.** One retains it as good fortune — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** One spends it at once — no support - **3.** One returns only half of it to the assistant — no support - **4.** One informs the assistant and returns the extra — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 65, line 13: «If a family truly cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home through a shelter; abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law in many countries.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «pet» (+5); the same action «keep» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Ascertain the moment at which an error in one's change is most easily corrected. - **1.** On the following day, at the counter — no support - **2.** After arriving home — no support - **3.** One week later — no support - **4.** Before leaving the till — **← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 262, line 18: «Counting your change before you leave the till is the only time a mistake is easy to fix.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/e4/) - ← previous: [261. Pocket money, saving and spending](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/) - next →: [263. Clocks, calendars and planning the day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/263-clocks-calendars-and-planning/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)