--- title: Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 387 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 10 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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/) [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/) / 387 # Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily **Tests:** 5 of 10 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 387 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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/). 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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} «tom pulls my hair EVERY day in the line». Mum: «aw, he fancies you». What's true? - **1.** Liking you doesn't make hurting you OK — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It will stop on its own if she smiles — no support - **3.** She should pull his hair back harder — no support - **4.** She should be flattered and say nothing — 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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Tom's mates: «oooh Tom loves Lily!!» If Tom wants to look cool, what's the wise move? - **1.** Pull her hair to show he doesn't — score 2 - **2.** Push the boy who said it — no support - **3.** Shrug, say «so what» and leave her hair alone — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** Call Lily names so they believe he doesn't like her — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 374, line 4: «The list of costs goes on. Jake got a black eye that swelled shut for two days and missed the class football final, where he would have been in goal. A boy Jak…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «lily» (+3); the same action «call» (+1); the same thing acted on «names» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} «soz didn't mean it lol». Is that a real apology? - **1.** No, because he didn't buy a present — no support - **2.** Yes, apologies don't need to be serious to count — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **3.** Yes, he said soz — no support - **4.** No, it laughs it off and promises nothing — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 126, line 3: «A real apology takes responsibility: "Sorry I called you stupid" is real, "Sorry if you were upset" is not, and sorry means you try not to do it again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+1); the same doer «real apology» (+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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Ollie hid her pencil case again. What would have worked better for Ollie? - **1.** Telling everyone she lost it — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Just saying hello to her — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Writing on her pencil case — no support - **4.** Hiding her lunchbox as well — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 387, line 3: «Tom's first sorry went badly: he said «I didn't mean it» and laughed, and Lily could tell it wasn't real. The next day he tried again: «I'm sorry for pulling y…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ollie» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} Teacher asks: «Lily, why didn't you tell me sooner?» Lily: «I didn't want to tell tales.» What's true? - **1.** Telling about being hurt every day isn't telling tales — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** She should have sorted it with her fists — no support - **3.** It's only telling tales if a girl does it to a boy — score 5 - **4.** Telling a teacher always makes it worse — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 387, line 3: «Tom's first sorry went badly: he said «I didn't mean it» and laughed, and Lily could tell it wasn't real. The next day he tried again: «I'm sorry for pulling y…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same doer «lily» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Ollie's skateboard, big ollie, face-plant. Lily walks over. What's the kind thing? - **1.** Ask if he's OK — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Tell him he's rubbish — score 1 - **3.** Film it and post it — score 2 - **4.** Laugh and walk off — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 387, line 3: «Tom's first sorry went badly: he said «I didn't mean it» and laughed, and Lily could tell it wasn't real. The next day he tried again: «I'm sorry for pulling y…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lily» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} «chucked maddie's hat in the tree again haha». Why might the boys be doing it? - **1.** They are trying to be her bodyguards on the way home — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** It might be a clumsy crush, but it still isn't OK — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Hats in trees are lucky — no support - **4.** They want to help her climb — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 383, line 2: «The other street was no better. Older Station Road boys tried to recruit Jake because he was «a good fighter», calling him «little bro» and buying him chips. L…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «try» (+5); the same doer «road boys» (+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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Gran: «Why d'you keep pulling that girl's hair, pet?» What's the honest answer Tom gave? - **1.** Her hair was in his way — no support - **2.** She asked him to do it — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Everybody does it, Gran, it's normal — no support - **4.** He didn't know how to talk to her — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 387, line 1: «Every morning in the line for assembly, Tom tugged Lily's ponytail. To Tom it felt like a game; to Lily it hurt a bit and annoyed her a lot. When his friends s…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «tom» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} «just ignore it, boys are like that». Is that good advice for Lily? - **1.** No, she should cut her hair off short — score 1 - **2.** Yes, it shows he respects her — no support - **3.** No, she can say stop and tell a teacher — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Yes, girls must just put up with it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 386, line 1: «Lily always has a neat ponytail, tidy books and a pencil case where every pen points the same way, so the boys call her «princess». She rolls her eyes and says…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «lily» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Mrs Okafor writes «How to show you like someone» on the board and the class giggles. Which belongs on the list? - **1.** Show off with a dangerous trick — no support - **2.** Notice their drawing and say it's good — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** Grab their ponytail in the line — no support - **4.** Throw their hat into a tree — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 387, line 4: «Mrs Okafor saw what was going on and gave a whole lesson called «How to show you like someone». Everybody giggled, but the class made a list: say hello, share…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «notice» (+6); the same thing acted on «drawing» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/t10/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the principal reason for which certain children manifest affection by means of teasing or the pulling of hair. - **1.** They have been instructed so to act by adults — score -1 - **2.** They intend to cause the other child lasting distress and unhappiness — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** Such conduct is a recognised token of courtesy — no support - **4.** They lack the words to express the sentiment and feel embarrassed — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 351, line 5: «The consequences are not always the same. Sometimes nobody notices and the child thinks it is fine; sometimes there is a bad mark, a row at home or a lost trea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+1); the same doer «child» (+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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the assertion «it signifies that he likes you» when offered in response to a complaint of hair-pulling? - **1.** It establishes that the conduct is affectionate and harmless — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It obliges the complainant to reciprocate the affection — no support - **3.** It constitutes a sufficient reason to tolerate the conduct — no support - **4.** It does not render the hurtful conduct acceptable — **✓ 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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Select the response that is consistent with the established features of a genuine apology. - **1.** It denies any intention whatsoever — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is accompanied by laughter in order to lessen the tension — no support - **3.** It is delivered solely in the presence of witnesses — no support - **4.** It names the wrong committed, is earnest, and is subsequently honoured — **✓ 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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} It is given that a pupil wishes to signify friendly regard for a classmate. State the conduct most conducive to that end. - **1.** A hazardous display of skill before the classmate in the playground — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The repeated pulling of the classmate's hair — no support - **3.** A greeting, a kind remark or the sharing of a snack — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The concealment of the classmate's belongings — 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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/e4/) - ← previous: [386. Lily, the calm «princess»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/) - next →: [388. How to say stop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)