--- title: Covering for a friend — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 436 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 5 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/436-covering-for-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/) / 436 # Covering for a friend **Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 436 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/436-covering-for-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/436-covering-for-a-friend/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1} Jamie in Liverpool: «Sound, don't grass, lad». What does «grass» mean? - **1.** Run away — no support - **2.** Cut the lawn — no support - **3.** Play on a field — no support - **4.** Tell on someone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 436, line 1: «Ben's mate Jamie kicked a ball through the classroom window in Liverpool. The teacher asked Ben if he'd seen who. Jamie whispered: «Sound, don't grass, lad» —…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «someone» (+6); the same action «tell» (+5). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Mate: «if anyone asks, I was at yours Saturday, yeah?» What's the honest answer? - **1.** «Only if you pay me for it» — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** «Yes, but only to my mum» — no support - **3.** «I won't lie for you, sorry» — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** «Sure, no problem, mate» — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 313, line 14: «Our brain can be fooled by what surrounds a shape, so measuring gives the true answer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «give» (+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/436-covering-for-a-friend/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3} Ollie copied Sam's work. Teacher: «Why are these identical?» What's honest and fair? - **1.** «We did it together» — no support - **2.** «I let him look» — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** «He copied, I didn't know» — no support - **4.** «It's a coincidence» — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 258, line 7: «On a school trip in England a girl wandered away from her group to look at a shop; she got lost in the crowd, and the teachers spent an hour searching with the…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «search» (+3); the same doer «teachers» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Kid in Toronto: «we didn't take anything, eh?» — her friend did. What does «eh» do here? - **1.** Means «hello» — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Means «no» — no support - **3.** Asks «right?» at the end — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Means she's very tired — 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5} Liam: «cheers for taking the blame, I'll do the same for u». What usually happens? - **1.** The friend always pays you back the next time — no support - **2.** The friend learns nothing and you may be next — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** The teacher thanks you — no support - **4.** You get a medal for it — 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 60, line 4: «To tell a good secret from a bad one, ask: will it be told soon and make someone happy, like a surprise party, or must it be kept forever and does it give me a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «feeling» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} What would have happened if Darragh had owned up on day one? - **1.** Nobody would believe him — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The class wouldn't have missed a week of break — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The whole class would have missed even more break — no support - **4.** The teacher would give a prize — 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7} Leo's friend: «don't tell your mum, it was just a game». The younger boy has a cut lip. What should Leo do? - **1.** Keep quiet, because his friend asked him to — score 7 - **2.** Tell the truth, because someone was hurt — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** Say the younger boy fell — score 7 - **4.** Say he didn't see — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 433, line 5: «Some untruths are told out of love. Finn's family in Wales told his little sister their dog had «gone to live on a farm». Years later she found out it had died…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «tell» (+3); the same thing acted on «truth» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8} Alfie lends his PE kit and sits out. Is he lying? - **1.** Yes, covering for anyone is always lying — no support - **2.** No, he's helping at his own cost — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Yes, it's a big lie to the teacher — no support - **4.** No, because PE doesn't really matter — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 436, line 16: «Helping a friend at your own cost, like lending your kit, is kindness, not lying.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «help» (+3); the same place «own cost» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Kiri and her mate went to a flooding creek and said they «stayed inside». What should Kiri tell her mum? - **1.** The truth, because it's about danger — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** That they stayed inside — no support - **3.** Nothing, because it's all over now — no support - **4.** That her friend went there alone — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 289, line 3: «Example: a boy in Florida is asked to watch his little sister in the bath while his mum answers the door. He does not leave her alone for a moment: he calls hi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «boy» (+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/436-covering-for-a-friend/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} In a film the hero never «grasses» on his gang, whatever they do. What is true in real life? - **1.** Loyalty means lying for your friends about anything — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Grown-ups never find out — no support - **3.** Covering always protects your friends — no support - **4.** Covering for someone who hurt or stole drags you in — **✓ 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Mia knows who did the glitter prank but didn't see it. What's an honest line for a small prank? - **1.** «I don't want to say who» — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** «It was me» — no support - **3.** «I don't know anything» — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** «It was the cleaner, Miss» — no support **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 436, line 4: «Silence can cover too. When nobody in a Belfast class would say that Darragh wrote a rude word on the board, the whole class missed break for a week, until Dar…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «anything» (+1). 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the statement most consistent with the established facts concerning a pupil who denies having witnessed an act he did witness, in order to protect a friend. - **1.** The denial bears no risk whatever to the pupil — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The denial is required by friendship — no support - **3.** The denial is honest, being made from loyalty to a friend — no support - **4.** The denial is a falsehood which may implicate the pupil himself — **✓ 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Select the response appropriate where a friend has caused bodily injury to another child. - **1.** Covering is never appropriate, as the injured party requires adult knowledge — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Covering is appropriate where the act was a game — no support - **3.** Covering is appropriate if the injury is slight and the friend has apologised — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** Covering is appropriate if the friend so requests — no support **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 266, line 12: «On a narrow pavement friends walk in a line and step aside for prams, wheelchairs, canes and walking frames, and pass slowly and politely, saying excuse me.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «excuse» (+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/436-covering-for-a-friend/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises collective silence by a class concerning the author of misconduct? - **1.** It discloses the author immediately — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It ensures that no person is punished — no support - **3.** It may result in the punishment of the entire class — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It is the conduct preferred by teachers — 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Determine which of the following does NOT constitute covering for a friend. - **1.** The denial of misconduct which the pupil has himself witnessed — no support - **2.** The provision of a false account of a friend's whereabouts — no support - **3.** The lending of one's own equipment at one's own cost — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** The assertion that a friend's copied work was done jointly — no support **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 412, line 8: «Turning a price into hours of chores shows what a thing really costs you.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cost» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/e4/) - ← previous: [435. Boasting cousins and made-up holidays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/) - next →: [437. When not to keep a friend's secret](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)