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title: Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday
description: Lesson 309 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 9 of 18 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates

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**Tests:** 9 of 18 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 17 of 22 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 309 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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/).

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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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Which is true about the festivals in a class in Toronto?

- **1.** Only the festivals of the biggest group in the class deserve respect at school — score 3
- **2.** It is rude to mention festivals at school at all — no support
- **3.** Everyone must celebrate the same festivals — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Different children may celebrate different festivals, and all deserve respect — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 309, line 9: «Diwali is the festival of lights, celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains with lamps, sweets and fireworks.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «celebrate» (+4); the same thing acted on «festival» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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A girl laughs at a menorah in a classmate's photo. What could you tell her?

- **1.** It is part of Hanukkah, and laughing at someone's tradition is unkind — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It is just a strange lamp, so laughing is fine — no support
- **3.** She should only laugh when the classmate is not looking — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** Menorahs are only used at Christmas, so the photo must be wrong and she can laugh — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 7, 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+4); the same doer «girl» (+3). The right option, 1, 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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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A boy in Manchester says Diwali was in November last year but will not be in November every year. Why is he right?

- **1.** Diwali happens only once every ten years — score 4
- **2.** Each family picks any date it likes for Diwali, and his family chose November — no support
- **3.** Diwali is always held on 25 December — no support
- **4.** Diwali follows a lunisolar calendar, so its date moves — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 12, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 309, line 13: «Diwali, Eid, Hanukkah and Lunar New Year fall on different dates each year because they follow lunar or lunisolar calendars (calendars that follow the Moon, or…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «follow» (+6); the same thing acted on «lunar calendars» (+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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Your friend is fasting in Ramadan and you are going for ice cream after school. What would be thoughtful?

- **1.** Invite her another day, or ask her what she would like to do — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Tell her fasting is pointless and she should come — no support
- **3.** Tell everyone she is boring this month — no support
- **4.** Eat the ice cream slowly right in front of her, so she can see what she's missing — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 309, line 6: «A girl in Canada asked her Hindu friend about Diwali; she was invited to share the sweets and the lamps, and they became better friends.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Which pair is correct?

- **1.** Hanukkah – a Jewish festival of lights — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Christmas – a festival of eight nights — no support
- **3.** Eid al-Fitr – a Christian festival in December — no support
- **4.** Lunar New Year – the end of Ramadan — no support

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**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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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A classmate from Vietnam tells you about Tết, the Lunar New Year. What is the best reply?

- **1.** «That sounds interesting! What do you eat?» — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** «Nobody wants to hear about that.» — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **3.** «New Year is only on 1 January.» — no support
- **4.** «That's not a real new year, the real one is in January.» — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 306, line 14: «If nobody comes to pick you up, go back into the school office and tell a teacher; never walk off or accept a lift from someone you were not told about.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «nobody» (+2); the same action «pick up» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-4). The right option, 1, 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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Why is respecting other people's traditions good for you too?

- **1.** It makes your own festival more important than everyone else's, so you come first — no support
- **2.** It lets you skip school on every festival — no support
- **3.** It means you never have to celebrate anything — no support
- **4.** When everyone respects each other, your own traditions are respected as well — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 196, line 15: «Families decide how to handle traditions like the tooth fairy or Father Christmas, so do not spoil them for younger children.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «traditions» (+5). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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A child does not join the class Christmas card-making because their family does not celebrate it. What is true?

- **1.** Everyone should keep asking them why not — no support
- **2.** They are being rude to the teacher — no support
- **3.** Their choice deserves respect, and they can be included in another way — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** They must make a Christmas card like everyone, or be sent out of the class — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 309, line 15: «Some families do not celebrate certain festivals, and that choice deserves respect too.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «choice» (+3); the same thing acted on «respect» (+2); the same action «deserve» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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my mate says diwali is just for christmas lights. no??

- **1.** Yes, it's an American holiday — no support
- **2.** Yes, it's the bit of Christmas where everyone puts up the lights — no support
- **3.** No, it's the Hindu, Sikh and Jain festival of lights — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** No, it's a Jewish festival — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**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 309, line 9: «Diwali is the festival of lights, celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains with lamps, sweets and fireworks.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «festival» (+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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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why's eid on a different day every year

- **1.** It follows a lunar calendar — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** It's always on the same day really — no support
- **3.** It moves to the nearest weekend — no support
- **4.** The date is picked by each family — no support

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**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 309, line 13: «Diwali, Eid, Hanukkah and Lunar New Year fall on different dates each year because they follow lunar or lunisolar calendars (calendars that follow the Moon, or…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «lunar calendars» (+2); the same action «follow» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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kid in class says his family doesnt do birthdays

- **1.** Tell him that's weird — no support
- **2.** Respect it, families choose what they celebrate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Make him come to your party so he sees what he's missing out on — no support
- **4.** Tell the teacher he's being rude — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 130, line 18: «Some religions and families do not celebrate birthdays, and that is respected.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «celebrate» (+4). Against it: the same doer «religions» (-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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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hanukkah how many nights again, 7?

- **1.** One big night only — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Twelve, like Christmas — no support
- **3.** Eight, one candle more each night — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Seven, like the days of the week — no support

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**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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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whys he not eating at lunch, its weird

- **1.** Make him eat — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He's just being silly and showing off, ignore him — no support
- **3.** He may be fasting for Ramadan; be kind, not mean — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Tease him till he eats — no support

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**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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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they're laughing at her headscarf

- **1.** Laugh too to fit in — no support
- **2.** Tell them to stop and tell a teacher — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Say nothing, it's not your business — no support
- **4.** Pull it to see what's under — no support

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**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 226, line 17: «If someone makes a racist or mean joke, do not laugh; say it is not okay or tell an adult.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «adult» (+4); the same action «tell» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★ · right ✓ {#t15}

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friend's family does hanukkah not christmas, is that wrong

- **1.** Yes, everyone should do Christmas — no support
- **2.** No, every family's traditions deserve respect — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Only if they live abroad — no support
- **4.** Yes, it's strange — no support

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**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 309, line 15: «Some families do not celebrate certain festivals, and that choice deserves respect too.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «respect» (+2); the same action «deserve» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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did u hear some kids mocked a girl's Eid clothes and she "was too scared to come to school for a week". lesson?

- **1.** Festival clothes should stay at home — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Mocking is fine if it's a joke — no support
- **3.** Never mock someone's festival clothes; it makes them feel unsafe — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Only mock clothes you don't like — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 8: «If you are lost outdoors, you stay in one place.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+4); the same place «one place» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t17}

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my cousin says Diwali fireworks "set a whole street on fire last year". what's prob exaggerated

- **1.** That Diwali has lights, like the little clay lamps people put out — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** That it is a festival — no support
- **3.** That people light lamps — no support
- **4.** The whole street; Diwali is celebrated with lamps, sweets and fireworks — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t17/)

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### Test 18 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t18}

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kids say the family that doesn't do Christmas "must hate fun". pass it on?

- **1.** Yes, and invite everyone but them — no support
- **2.** No, families' choices deserve respect; don't spread it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, and ask them in front of the class — no support
- **4.** Yes, they hate fun — **← Mova's choice** · score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 226, line 5: «A boy in Arizona made fun of a classmate's hijab (a Muslim headscarf) every day; the girl became afraid to come to school, and the school treated it as bullyin…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fun» (+1). Against it: the same doer «boy» (-1); a different action (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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/t18/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises Eid al-Fitr?

- **1.** A Christian festival in December — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A Jewish festival of eight nights, with a candle lit on each — no support
- **3.** The Muslim festival that ends the month of Ramadan — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A Hindu festival of lights — no support

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**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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Identify the principal reason for which festivals such as Diwali, Eid and Hanukkah fall on different dates each year.

- **1.** They are fixed by each school — no support
- **2.** They depend upon the weather — no support
- **3.** They are chosen by each family — no support
- **4.** They follow lunar or lunisolar calendars — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**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 309, line 13: «Diwali, Eid, Hanukkah and Lunar New Year fall on different dates each year because they follow lunar or lunisolar calendars (calendars that follow the Moon, or…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «follow» (+4); the same thing acted on «lunar calendars» (+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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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It is given that a classmate celebrates a festival unfamiliar to a pupil. Select the response consistent with respect.

- **1.** The pupil shall mock the unfamiliar food — no support
- **2.** The pupil shall insist that the classmate explain it publicly — score 3
- **3.** The pupil shall ignore the festival entirely — no support
- **4.** The pupil may ask polite questions and use kind greetings — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 293, line 10: «Curiosity helps you learn: ask questions and look things up in books or with an adult.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same thing acted on «questions» (+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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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State which of the following is true of Hanukkah.

- **1.** A Muslim festival following a month of fasting, with gifts of sweets — no support
- **2.** A Chinese festival with red envelopes — no support
- **3.** A Christian festival upon 25 December — no support
- **4.** A Jewish festival of lights lasting eight nights — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 309, line 11: «Hanukkah is a Jewish festival of lights that lasts eight nights, with a candle lit on the menorah each night.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+5); the same action «last» (+3); the same doer «jewish festival» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/e4/)

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