--- title: Stories that change — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 449 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 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/449-stories-that-change/) [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/) / 449 # Stories that change **Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 449 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/449-stories-that-change/). 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/449-stories-that-change/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Little bro: «dog ate the cake». Dog's been outside all day. Bro has chocolate on his face. What happened? - **1.** The cake melted away — no support - **2.** The brother ate it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Someone else broke in — no support - **4.** The dog climbed in a window — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 449, line 4: «Some stories just don't fit the world. Tom's little brother said the dog ate the cake — but the dog was locked in the garden, and the brother had chocolate on…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «chocolate» (+2); the same doer «brother» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/449-stories-that-change/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Mate in Sydney: «saw a shark — nah, a dolphin — well, a big fish thingy». Most likely? - **1.** Sharks look just like dolphins — score 2 - **2.** He's telling a careful lie — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** It changed into a dolphin underwater — no support - **4.** He's not sure what he saw — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **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 436, line 3: «Some covering is about real wrong. Grace in Toronto saw Ava take a chocolate bar without paying and told the shopkeeper «We didn't take anything, eh.» The shop…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same doer «leo» (+1). 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/449-stories-that-change/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} «Library till 6!» It shuts at 5. What would happen if Sophie said where she really was? - **1.** Much more trouble than now — no support - **2.** Less trouble than being caught lying — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** The library would stay open — score 0 - **4.** Mum would never ask about the library again — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 431, line 1: «Mia told Mum she'd been at the library. «What book did you get?» «A book about… sharks.» «Let's see it.» «I had to leave it there.» «Why?» «Because… sharks.» F…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/449-stories-that-change/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Kid: «I didn't, I swear on my nan's life, honest, I'd never, I promise!!» What does all that swearing suggest? - **1.** She's just being polite — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** She's very religious — no support - **3.** It proves she's honest — no support - **4.** It may be a sign of lying — **✓ 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/449-stories-that-change/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Teacher: «You were at the library? Both of you? Which book?» Why ask them separately? - **1.** Real memories match on small details — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** To make them miss their lunch as a punishment — no support - **3.** So they can't hear the answer — no support - **4.** Because teachers like books — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 433, line 4: «Covering for a sibling drags you into their trouble. Charlie, nine, said his big sister was «in the shower» when she had sneaked out to a friend's; Dad heard n…», 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 doer «dad» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/449-stories-that-change/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Your friend says «a story that changes is ALWAYS a lie». Is she right? - **1.** Yes, but only when they are at school — no support - **2.** No — sometimes people are unsure — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, every single time — no support - **4.** No, stories never change — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 449, line 1: «Josh came home with a bump on his head. «Fell off the swing.» An hour later: «Tripped on a stair.» At dinner: «Leo pushed me.» His mum noticed the story had ch…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «change» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (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/449-stories-that-change/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Josh: «fell off the swing — no, the stairs — no, Leo pushed me». What's the kind next step? - **1.** Laugh at him for lying so badly — score 5 - **2.** Believe the first story he told — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Ground him for a month without asking anything — no support - **4.** Ask gently what really happened — **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «leo» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «right thing» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/449-stories-that-change/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Reading log, every tick the same pen, same slant. Mum: «You doing a detective job on me?» What gave it away? - **1.** It had no ticks at all, not even one — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It was done in pencil — no support - **3.** It was too neat, done all at once — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It was the wrong book — 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/449-stories-that-change/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} In a TV detective show, the liar always sweats and stammers. In real life what's a better clue? - **1.** People who sweat are lying — no support - **2.** Stammering or going red always means someone is lying — no support - **3.** Liars always look at the floor — no support - **4.** Details that change or don't fit the facts — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 449, line 2: «Stories can also patch themselves when they're challenged. A boy in Sydney said his dad «drove him to school». His teacher had seen him walking. «Oh — he dropp…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «new details» (+2); the same doer «new details» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/449-stories-that-change/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} «He pushed me by the gate!» «No, he pushed ME by the bins!» What would settle it best? - **1.** A coin toss — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Whoever cries first — no support - **3.** Whoever is taller — no support - **4.** Someone who saw it from outside — **✓ 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/449-stories-that-change/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} Friend: «yeah the film was soooo sad at the end». It ended happily. What does Emma learn? - **1.** Her friend probably didn't see it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** Her friend has a bad memory for films — score 5 - **3.** The film has two endings — no support - **4.** Emma remembered it wrong — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 449, line 3: «A gentle question can show whether someone was really there. Emma's friend said she'd seen the new Pixar film. Emma said «I saw it too — wasn't the ending sad?…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «friend» (+4); the same action «see» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «new pixar film» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/449-stories-that-change/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the principal characteristic by which a fabricated account may frequently be distinguished from a truthful one. - **1.** It is invariably delivered with a smile — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It contains no details whatsoever — no support - **3.** Its details alter upon each repetition — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It is invariably longer than a truthful account — 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/449-stories-that-change/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} It is given that a pupil claims to have remained at a library until six o'clock, whereas the library closes at five. Select the response consistent with the established facts. - **1.** The claim is confirmed by the closing time — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The library must have remained open for the pupil — no support - **3.** The closing time is irrelevant to the claim — no support - **4.** The claim is contradicted by a single verifiable fact — **✓ 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/449-stories-that-change/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises an account that alters as the speaker becomes uncertain? - **1.** It is invariably entirely accurate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is invariably a deliberate falsehood, the beach being a familiar place — no support - **3.** It cannot be examined further — no support - **4.** It may reflect genuine uncertainty rather than deliberate falsehood — **✓ 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/449-stories-that-change/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Determine the purpose of questioning two persons separately as to minor particulars of a shared event. - **1.** To discover which of them is older — no support - **2.** To punish both persons equally — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** To prevent them from eating lunch together — score 4 - **4.** To ascertain whether their recollections agree in detail — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 345, line 14: «Making it right with the person who was punished instead of you is the most important part of putting it right.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «punish» (+2); the same thing acted on «person» (+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/449-stories-that-change/e4/) - ← previous: [448. The magician's trick explained](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/) - next →: [450. Too many details, too few](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)