--- title: Standing by a friend — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 370 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/) [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/) / 370 # Standing by a friend **Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 9 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 370 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/). 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/). ### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} «they shoved Freddie in the bins, let's go batter them». What's the better move? - **1.** Laugh, he deserved it — no support - **2.** Help Freddie and take him to a teacher — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** Shove them in the bins too — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** Go and batter them together as a gang — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 370, line 1: «Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys. Sam doesn't fight anyone. He helps Freddie out, picks a banana…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «big bins» (+5); the same action «shove» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Freddie's getting blamed for the fight and you saw it wasn't him. You hate grassing. What's right? - **1.** Tell Freddie to take the punishment — no support - **2.** Tell the head what you saw — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Blame someone else at random — no support - **4.** Say nothing and just walk away — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 8: «A boy in Auckland had an uh-oh feeling when friends dared him to cross a railway line; he said no and walked away, and later he heard a train had come through…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «walk away» (+2). 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t3} «why'd Maddie just stand there, she shoulda decked them». Who's right? - **1.** Maddie, standing by him stopped it without a fight — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The Station Road boys, it was a joke — no support - **3.** Nobody, she should have run off — no support - **4.** The speaker, decking them is what works best — 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Lily's on her own at lunch, everyone's fallen out. you've got a seat. what do u do - **1.** Ignore her, it's her drama — no support - **2.** Sit with her or invite her over — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** Take a photo and post it — score 1 - **4.** Tell everyone she's got no mates — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 347, line 4: «Telling everyone a friend's secret (that he still sleeps with a teddy) got the whole class teasing him, and he stopped trusting Kai. Kai said sorry and told th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «everyone» (+3); the same action «tell» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t5} Kieran: «come on Mads, we'll get him at the garages after school». Best answer for Maddie? - **1.** «No, Kieran. I'm not doing that. Fancy a kickabout instead?» — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** «Only if you go first» — no support - **3.** «OK, I'll bring the others, we'll get him» — no support - **4.** «I'm never speaking to you again» — 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t6} Jake's mates: «Scaredy-Sam! Scaredy-Sam!» Jake says «leave it out, lads». Why's that a big deal? - **1.** It's hard to stand up to your own friends — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Jake just wanted them to be quiet — no support - **3.** It means Jake is secretly scared of Sam — no support - **4.** It isn't, it's nothing at all — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 369, line 1: «For three weeks Sam walks the long way round to school to avoid the boys at the bus shelter. He's late twice, his shoes wear thin and he tells nobody. Then one…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stand» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} «jake's been a nightmare all week, snapping at everyone». You find out his dad's in hospital. Best idea? - **1.** Be a bit kinder and maybe tell a teacher — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Tell everyone in the class about his dad being in hospital — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Ignore him for good — no support - **4.** Snap back at him twice as hard — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 370, line 4: «Jake's dad goes into hospital and Jake is angry at everything. Sam, of all people, lends him his best comic. Jake mumbles «ta». At the school disco a group lau…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same place «hospital» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8} disco, everyone's laughing at a kid's dancing. which actually helps - **1.** Go and dance next to him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Laugh louder so he stops — no support - **3.** Tell him to sit down — no support - **4.** Film it for the group chat — 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} «standing by a mate means fighting for him, obvs». Is it? - **1.** Yes, real friends always fight for each other — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, but only if he's smaller — no support - **3.** No, it means leaving him alone — no support - **4.** No, it means being with him and on his side — **✓ 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Chloe's crying in the nurse's room after her plaits got yanked. Lily's got lunch break. What's a kind choice? - **1.** Leave her, the nurse is there — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Stay with her for a while — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** Tell her plaits are silly anyway — no support - **4.** Go and pull the boy's hair back for her — score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 370, line 3: «Standing by someone takes many shapes. When Lily's usual friends fall out and leave her alone, Sam sits with her at lunch. Lily stays with Chloe in the nurse's…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} If Maddie had joined Kieran's revenge, what would most likely have happened? - **1.** The teachers would never find out — score 5 - **2.** Kieran would be happy and safe — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** The Station Road boys would give up forever — no support - **4.** A new fight and more trouble for everyone — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 370, line 9: «A good friend can say no to a bad idea, like revenge, and still be a friend.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «good friend» (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the conduct of the pupil Maddie upon finding Sam surrounded by other boys? - **1.** She struck the boys and thereby resolved the matter — score 5 - **2.** She withdrew from the scene in order to avoid trouble — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** She summoned the police by means of a telephone carried for that purpose — score 5 - **4.** Her silent presence beside him caused the boys to disperse without violence — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 299, line 6: «A boy in Colorado left the trail in the woods to follow a deer; he got lost, and it took searchers all night to find him cold and frightened.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same doer «boy» (+1); a different action (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/370-standing-by-a-friend/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the principal reason why declining to participate in an act of revenge is prudent. - **1.** Declining necessarily terminates the friendship — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Revenge tends to precipitate further conflict — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Revenge invariably concludes a dispute entirely — no support - **4.** Revenge is permitted solely outside school premises — 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Given that a pupil is wrongly accused of having instigated a fight, ascertain the most appropriate conduct of a pupil who witnessed the incident. - **1.** To remain silent so as to avoid involvement — no support - **2.** To accuse a different pupil without evidence — no support - **3.** To give a truthful account to the head teacher — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** To accept responsibility on the accused pupil's behalf — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 128, line 4: «On the phone, safety comes first: you never tell a stranger you are home alone or give your address; you say your parent is busy and cannot come to the phone,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a pupil exhibiting anger whilst a parent is in hospital. - **1.** Such a pupil requires no consideration whatsoever — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Such a pupil ought to be excluded by peers — no support - **3.** Such anger indicates a wicked character — no support - **4.** Small acts of kindness assist such a pupil — **✓ 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/e4/) - ← previous: [369. Getting help is not telling tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/) - next →: [371. Walking away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/371-walking-away/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)