--- title: Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 308 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 20 tests right, exam 0 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/) [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/) / 308 # Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time **Tests:** 6 of 20 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 17 of 24 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 308 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/). 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} A girl in New York pays for a 70-cent snack with a one-dollar bill. How much change should she get? - **1.** 25 cents, for example one quarter — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 3 cents, for example three pennies — no support - **3.** 70 cents, for example two quarters and two dimes — no support - **4.** 30 cents, for example one quarter and one nickel — **✓ 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} A boy keeps his pocket money in a jar but never counts it. What problem might he have? - **1.** He will not know what he can afford — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The jar will fill up too quickly — no support - **3.** He will always have enough for anything — no support - **4.** His money will slowly be worth less — 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Lily saves one dollar every week and never opens her money box. What will she have after a year? - **1.** About 12 dollars — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** About 52 dollars — **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** About 365 dollars — score 7 - **4.** About 7 dollars — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 308, line 3: «Small amounts add up: a girl in Texas who puts two dollars a week in her piggy bank and does not keep opening it has over one hundred dollars after a year (a y…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «hundred dollars» (+2). 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/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} A boy buys a cheap umbrella every month because each one breaks in the wind. What would be a wiser choice? - **1.** Never buy an umbrella and stay at home when it rains — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Pay a little more once for an umbrella that lasts — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Keep buying the cheapest one every month — no support - **4.** Buy two cheap umbrellas at once — 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} You have £5. You want items costing £1.90, £2.10 and £1.95. Which is the quickest sensible check? - **1.** Hand over the £5 and hope it is enough — no support - **2.** Ask the cashier to guess the total for you before you hand it over — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Buy them all and pay the rest next week — no support - **4.** Round to £2 each, about £6, so you do not have enough — **✓ the right answer** · 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 308, line 12: «To estimate a total, round each price and add the rounded numbers in your head.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «estimate» (+4); the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on «total» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-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/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} A cousin in Canada and a cousin in Australia are both writing about their July. Which is true? - **1.** It is spring in Canada and autumn in Australia — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is summer in both countries — no support - **3.** It is winter in both countries — no support - **4.** It is summer in Canada and winter in Australia — **✓ 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Which is true about how long homework will take? - **1.** Homework always takes exactly half an hour — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** People usually guess it will be much slower than it is — no support - **3.** People usually guess it will be quicker than it really is — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Everybody always guesses the time exactly right — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 254, line 21: «If homework always takes far too long, a parent can talk to the teacher, who may adjust it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same property (+1). Against it: the same doer «homework» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} A girl is paid a little for washing the family car and does it carefully. What does she gain besides the money? - **1.** Her family trusts her more and she learns a useful skill — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** She can now drive the car herself — score 5 - **3.** She will never have to do another chore — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** Nothing really, because in the end only the money she is paid matters — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 110, line 6: «A girl in Texas climbed a tall bookcase to reach a toy; it tipped over onto her, and she was trapped under it until her dad lifted it off.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «girl» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} A little boy thinks the card machine in a shop makes money. What would you explain? - **1.** Money appears in the bank when it is needed — score 6 - **2.** The machine makes new money every time it beeps — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** The card only spends money that adults earned by working — **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** Shops give money to anyone with a card — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 274, line 4: «Building sites are only for trained workers in hard hats: machines, deep holes and falling things make them dangerous, and the driver of a big reversing machin…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «machines» (+3); a different thing acted on (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/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} You forgot to reply to a party invitation and the date has passed. What is the best thing to do now? - **1.** Turn up on the day without saying anything, since the host will make room — no support - **2.** Ignore it because it is too late anyway — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Tell the host straight away whether you can come — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Ask a friend to go instead of you — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 261, line 20: «Spending everything at once leaves nothing for the things that suddenly matter later.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «things» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} got 2 quarters n a dime, how much is that - **1.** 50 cents — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 60 cents — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** 35 cents — no support - **4.** 70 cents — 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} $3.95 n $2.10, rough total in ur head? - **1.** About $6 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** About $5 — no support - **3.** About $7 — no support - **4.** About $8 — no support **Why:** It could not read the question into a frame, 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} auntie in sydney says xmas is in summer there. she's joking right? - **1.** No, Australia has Christmas in July — no support - **2.** Yes, Christmas is always in winter, everywhere in the world — no support - **3.** Yes, Australia has no summer — no support - **4.** No, seasons are opposite in the south — **← 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 308, line 13: «In Australia and New Zealand summer is December to February, so Christmas is in summer; the seasons are opposite in the southern hemisphere.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «seasons» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} cheap $2 ball broke again, 3rd one this month lol - **1.** Balls always break, it's normal — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Buy five at once next time — no support - **3.** Keep buying the cheap ones, they're cheaper every single time — no support - **4.** Something that lasts can cost less in the end — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 249, line 21: «A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «break» (+4). Against it: the same doer «cricket ball» (-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/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15} taking all my money to town in my back pocket - **1.** Hold it in your hand all day — score 6 - **2.** Take it all in your back pocket — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Hide it in your shoe — no support - **4.** Take only what you need and zip it away — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 308, line 5: «A boy in Ohio carried all his savings to the shops in an open pocket; it fell out, and months of saving were gone in an afternoon.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+4); the same place «open pocket» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t15/) ### Test 16 · ★ · right ✓ {#t16} this toy is super cheap, buy 3 - **1.** Yes, cheap always means good value, so you save money — no support - **2.** Yes, buy as many as you can — no support - **3.** Yes, quality doesn't matter — no support - **4.** Check if it will last; cheap can cost more — **← 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 261, line 3: «Before you buy, ask whether you really want the thing or only want to fit in, whether you would use both items in a «buy one get one free» offer, and whether a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cost» (+4); the same thing acted on «more» (+1). 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t16/) ### Test 17 · ★ · right ✓ {#t17} homework takes 10 min max, plenty of time - **1.** Start just before bed — no support - **2.** Don't plan at all, just do it whenever you remember — no support - **3.** Plan more time; jobs usually take longer — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** 10 minutes is always enough — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 254, line 21: «If homework always takes far too long, a parent can talk to the teacher, who may adjust it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t17/) ### Test 18 · ★ · right ✓ {#t18} did u hear a kid dropped a twenty out his pocket in town and "a seagull took it". lesson? - **1.** Carry cash in your hand to watch it — no support - **2.** Keep money somewhere safe; money lost in the street is rarely found — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Money always turns up again later, coz people hand it in to the police — no support - **4.** Seagulls only steal food — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 308, line 9: «Keep pocket money in a safe place, such as a money box or purse, and keep track of how much you have so you know what you can afford.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same thing acted on «pocket money» (+1); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t18/) ### Test 19 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t19} my mate says his cousin "saved a million in his piggy bank". what's prob exaggerated - **1.** That piggy banks hold money — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** That saving adds up — no support - **3.** That coins exist — no support - **4.** The million; but saving regularly does let small amounts add up — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **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 261, line 11: «Interest is extra money a bank pays you for keeping your money in a savings account.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same thing acted on «money» (+1). Against it: the same doer «bank» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t19/) ### Test 20 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t20} kids say the girl who only gets small pocket money is "poor, her mum's got no money". pass it on? - **1.** Yes, and ask her mum — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Yes, she must be poor — no support - **3.** No, it's unkind and not your business — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, and laugh about it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 203, line 7: «A girl in Sydney laughed along when friends teased her accent, but at home she cried and asked her mum to move schools; her friends had no idea, because she ha…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/t20/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the value of a United States dime? - **1.** One cent — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Five cents — score 2 - **3.** Twenty-five cents — score 2 - **4.** Ten cents — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 308, line 7: «In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents; 100 cents make one dollar.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «100 cents» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the principal reason for which a cheap item that breaks quickly may prove costly. - **1.** Cheap items lose value at once — no support - **2.** It may cost more over time than one item that lasts — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Cheap items cannot be returned — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** Cheap items are taxed more heavily — 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 261, line 18: «You keep the receipt until you are sure an item works, and a faulty item can be taken back to be exchanged or refunded (given your money back).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take back» (+4); the same thing acted on «faulty item» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} It is given that summer in Australia and New Zealand falls between December and February. Select the response consistent with the established facts. - **1.** There is no summer there at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Christmas there falls in winter, as it does in every other country — no support - **3.** Christmas there falls in summer, since the seasons are reversed — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The seasons there are the same as in the UK — 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} State the means by which adults obtain money to pay for home, food and bills. - **1.** By printing it at the bank — score 3 - **2.** By asking the government each week — no support - **3.** By working — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** By using a card machine — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 276, line 9: «Use a cash machine only with an adult, and cover the keypad so nobody can watch the PIN.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); the same thing acted on «cash machine» (+1). 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/e4/) - ← previous: [307. Marks, group work, help at school and learning n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/) - next →: [309. Respecting the festivals and traditions of class…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)