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title: Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday
description: Lesson 367 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels

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**Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 367 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/).

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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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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«Scaredy-Sam lol everyone's saying it». You don't want to. What's best?

- **1.** Don't say it, and sit with Sam — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Say it just once so that you fit in with everyone — no support
- **3.** Make up a new one for Freddie — no support
- **4.** Say it but quietly — 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Jake: «you're a wimp, just climb the fence, nobody's on the site». Who's right?

- **1.** Nobody, it's only a fence round some mud — no support
- **2.** Jake, fences are there for climbing — no support
- **3.** Sam, building sites are dangerous — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Jake, the site is empty at night so it's safe — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 367, line 7: «Saying no to climbing into a building site is wise: building sites are dangerous and children must stay out.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «building sites» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«look Sam's crying again!!» — it's freezing and windy. What's true?

- **1.** He must be crying about Jake again, poor thing — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Cold wind makes anyone's eyes water — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Only weak people's eyes water — no support
- **4.** It's hay fever in winter — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 367, line 1: «On Tuesday Freddie calls Sam «Scaredy-Sam» as a joke. By lunchtime half the class is saying it. By Wednesday somebody has drawn a chicken on Sam's pencil case…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «yell» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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«knitting?? with ur nan?? that's well weird mate». Fair?

- **1.** No, a hobby is a hobby, nothing weird — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yes, knitting is just for old ladies, not for boys — no support
- **3.** Yes, boys must play football — no support
- **4.** No, because nobody saw him — 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Teacher, sharp: «Who drew the chicken on Sam's pencil case?» Nobody answers. What's the kind thing for a witness to do?

- **1.** Tell the teacher quietly afterwards — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Draw a chicken on theirs as well — score 5
- **3.** Keep quiet forever, it's not your business — score 3
- **4.** Laugh with the others — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 210, line 2: «Some things must always be told to an adult, even when you feel fine: a hard bump on the head, a burn, sunburn.», 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 «adult» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«Jake's thick, he can't even read» What's true?

- **1.** Jake can never learn anything, so he's thick — no support
- **2.** Thick people can't sit still — no support
- **3.** Only lazy children read slowly — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** Reading slowly isn't the same as being stupid — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 367, line 3: «But Sam is not the only one with a label. Jake gets called «Thicko» because he can't sit still and reads slowly. A Station Road boy calls Maddie «a boy in a sk…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same action «read» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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«oi Maddie, boy in a skirt!» She's in tracksuit bottoms as always. Why's it daft?

- **1.** It's a name that doesn't even fit her — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Because Maddie is really a boy and not a girl — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Because she is wearing a skirt today — score 2
- **4.** Because girls can't wear tracksuits — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 357, line 4: «Other snoops end the same way. Grace looked in her friend's bag while he was at the toilet; he saw her, was upset and did not want to sit with her. Ava read Mu…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «surprise» (+2). 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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«ooh look, Princess Lily's got her tidy pencils out». What's this?

- **1.** A kind compliment — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Sneering at her for something good — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A joke Lily asked for — no support
- **4.** A fair warning to her about losing her pencils — 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Mum at the gate: «my son shouldn't play with that soft lad». Is that a fair way for an adult to talk?

- **1.** No, it labels a child unkindly — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, but only because Sam heard it — score 4
- **3.** Yes, if the boy really does knit — no support
- **4.** Yes, adults know best about children — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 256, line 20: «Safe adults never ask children to keep secrets that worry them; such a secret is told to a parent or another trusted adult.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «safe adults» (+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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Maddie: «don't be such a scaredy-cat, play Bulldog!» Sam doesn't want to. Best reply?

- **1.** «You're a scaredy-cat yourself, Maddie, not me» — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** «Nah, not today. I'll play something else» — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** «Fine, I'll smash you all» — no support
- **4.** Burst into tears and run home — 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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«names never hurt anyone, mate». Which is true?

- **1.** Names only hurt if they rhyme — no support
- **2.** Names can never hurt anyone, only sticks and stones — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **3.** Names stop hurting after one day — score -2
- **4.** Names can hurt a lot, especially when they spread — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 98, line 4: «Online, do not reply to mean messages; save them as evidence and tell an adult; and never join in being mean to fit in, because you can belong to a group witho…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hurt» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the attribution of a derogatory label to a pupil?

- **1.** It reduces an entire person to one small characteristic — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It is the most effective manner of correcting behaviour — no support
- **3.** It is harmless when initiated in jest — no support
- **4.** It provides an accurate summary of character — 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the principal reason why the pupil Sam was prudent in declining to enter the building site.

- **1.** The fence had been recently painted — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Construction sites are open to the public at weekends — no support
- **3.** His companions were unwilling to accompany him over the fence at that hour — no support
- **4.** Building sites present serious hazards and are prohibited — **✓ 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a pupil who reads slowly and finds it difficult to remain seated.

- **1.** Such conduct is invariably the result of idleness — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Such a pupil is incapable of any further learning in the ordinary classroom — no support
- **3.** Such a pupil ought to be excluded from lessons — no support
- **4.** Such difficulties are no indication of a lack of intelligence — **✓ 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Pursuant to the observation that a derogatory nickname is being repeated by numerous pupils, identify the most appropriate conduct of an individual bystander.

- **1.** To devise a further nickname for the originator — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** To disregard the matter entirely as trivial — no support
- **3.** To repeat it so as to remain in favour with the group and avoid ridicule — no support
- **4.** To decline to repeat it and to support the pupil concerned — **✓ 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/e4/)

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