--- title: Promises to friends and to yourself — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 359 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 10 tests right, exam 2 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/) [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/) / 359 # Promises to friends and to yourself **Tests:** 6 of 10 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 11 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 359 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/). 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1} «said i'd wait for Lily but my show's on, she'll be fine». What's the wise choice? - **1.** Wait for her as promised — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** Tell her to run home fast — no support - **3.** Run home and text her from there — no support - **4.** Leave her a note at the gate — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 359, line 1: «Hannah in Auckland promised to walk home with her friend Lily every day after school. One day she wanted to get home fast for a TV show and left without her. L…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+5); the same action «wait» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2} Lily's mum on the phone: «She came home crying, she walked on her own». What's the best next step for Hannah? - **1.** Stop being friends with Lily — score 4 - **2.** Say sorry and keep the promise from now on — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** Say Lily is too slow — no support - **4.** Say it was a one-off, so it doesn't really count — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 353, line 2: «Chloe's sister came home with a gold certificate for spelling. Chloe, who had got a sticker that week, felt hot and jealous and tore the certificate in half. H…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same property (+2); 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3} «saved £3, spent £3 on sweets, then saved £3, spent £3». How much has he got for the football? - **1.** Nothing — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** £6 — no support - **3.** £3 — no support - **4.** £12 — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. 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 same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «nothing» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} piano teacher: «Did you practise this week?» You didn't. What's honest? - **1.** «My cat kept sitting on the keys» — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** «Yes, every day» — no support - **3.** «No, not much. I'll do better» — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** «The piano was broken» — 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5} broke Mum's necklace, she's not noticed yet, «she didn't notice last time, so it's fine». Is it? - **1.** Only if it's cheap — no support - **2.** No, tell her and help fix it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Yes, if she didn't notice last time, it's fine — score 5 - **4.** Yes, necklaces break anyway — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 357, line 2: «Three weeks later, bored on a wet afternoon, Ruby did it again with Mum's tablet. This time she found the plans for her own birthday trip and spoiled it. The g…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same receiver «mum» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} you sold the bike you'd promised your sister. she's crying. what's fair? - **1.** Give her the money and say sorry — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Say she can have your next bike instead — no support - **3.** Say she's too little for a bike anyway — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** Keep the money, it was your bike after all — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 359, line 4: «Tom promised his little sister his old bike, then sold it for money. Mum made him give his sister the money, and Tom said sorry and bought her a helmet as well.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+2). 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7} promised to be kind to the new boy, then everyone laughed at him and you joined in. Best move now? - **1.** Avoid him so it's not awkward at school — no support - **2.** Join in the laughing again so you fit in — no support - **3.** Say sorry to him and play with him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Say you were only laughing at the joke — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 347, line 9: «Words about someone's body can hurt deeply and for a long time. A boy called «fat» in the changing room began hiding when he changed, and the teacher talked to…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} «I promised I'd stop lying and I lied AGAIN, what's the point». Best answer? - **1.** There's no point, so give up promising anything — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Each truth makes the next easier; keep trying — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Promise something easier — no support - **4.** Lies don't matter — 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9} mate: «you said you'd help with my volcano and you never came». You stayed home gaming. What's the fix? - **1.** Say volcanoes are boring — no support - **2.** Say sorry and help with the next project — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Say his volcano looks fine — no support - **4.** Say you were ill all weekend and couldn't come — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 339, line 13: «When something has been taken from a shop, the fair way is to go back with a grown-up, give it back and say sorry yourself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «say» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Why is a jar of savings you can see better than money in a pocket? - **1.** Jars make the money grow faster than a pocket does — no support - **2.** You can see it grow and remember what it's for — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Pockets lose money by magic — no support - **4.** Shops don't take jar money — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 329, line 10: «Learn your school timetable and check it the night before, so you bring the right things and know where to be.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bring» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/t10/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the principal reason for which a promise made to oneself is frequently more difficult to keep than a promise made to another. - **1.** It is enforced by law — no support - **2.** It is invariably of greater magnitude than any promise made to another person — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** It is not a genuine commitment — score 1 - **4.** No external party verifies or enforces it — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 199, line 20: «You do not have to make a promise that controls who you can be friends with.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3). 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the sale of an article previously promised to another? - **1.** It is permissible if the promise was spoken — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is permissible provided that the price obtained for the article is a fair one — no support - **3.** It is obligatory where money is needed — no support - **4.** It is wrong, since the article was no longer the promiser's to dispose of — **✓ 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} It is given that a child, having promised to accompany a friend home, departed alone, and the friend was frightened. Select the response consistent with the established facts. - **1.** The promise contributed to the friend's sense of safety and its breach caused distress — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** The friend bears responsibility for the breach — no support - **3.** The friend's distress was unrelated to the promise — no support - **4.** The promise was without significance, since the friend knew the way home perfectly well — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 125, line 7: «A girl in Leeds did not introduce her friend to her nan; her friend felt left out and sat silently all afternoon.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feel» (+3); the same doer «friend» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} State the consequence that most commonly follows the breaking of a promise to save money. - **1.** The person forgoes the item for which the money was saved — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** The person receives the item regardless, as savings are not required — no support - **3.** The person is fined by a bank — no support - **4.** No consequence follows — 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 359, line 2: «Josh promised himself he would save his pocket money for a new football. In the first week he spent it all on sweets and a toy he never played with. Nobody tol…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «save» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/e4/) - ← previous: [358. Promises to family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/) - next →: [360. Wasting food and water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)