--- title: Too many details, too few — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 450 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 12 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/) [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/) / 450 # Too many details, too few **Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 9 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 450 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/). 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/). ### Test 1 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t1} Bro: «got to Jake's 4:15, left 6:02, pasta red sauce, 3–2 Arsenal». Mum, dry: «Very precise.» Why is she suspicious? - **1.** Nobody remembers an afternoon to the minute — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Jake doesn't have a house with a TV in it — no support - **3.** Arsenal never wins 3–2 — no support - **4.** Pasta never has red sauce on a weekday — 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Mate in Glasgow: «met the King, like, the cakes were mint, the hats were mad». Ask what? - **1.** What flavour were the cakes? — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** What time was the party? — no support - **3.** What was the King like? — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** What colour were the hats? — 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} «Scientists say chocolate makes you clever!!» No names, no study. What's the sharpest reply? - **1.** Brilliant, give me chocolate — score 5 - **2.** Which scientists, and where's the study? — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** If it's said loud it's true — score 5 - **4.** Scientists always agree on food, so it must be right — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 206, line 8: «To feed a horse a carrot or apple, you ask the owner, then hold the food on a flat palm so fingers are not mistaken for food.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hold» (+3); the same circumstance (+2); 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Ava's cousin's bear story has smells, sounds and her dad yelling in his pants. Your mate says «too many details = lie». What's smarter? - **1.** Only short stories are true — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Bears don't make sounds — no support - **3.** Sense details often come from real memories — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** Every detailed story is a lie, however small the details — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 450, line 4: «Details are not always a bad sign. Ava's cousin told a story about a bear at a campsite: the smell, the scrape of claws on the bin, her dad shouting in his pan…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «true stories» (+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/450-too-many-details-too-few/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} What would happen if Mia had pushed Lucy hard about «the family thing»? - **1.** Lucy might have felt worse and not told her — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Nothing would have changed — score 0 - **3.** Lucy would have told the truth faster and felt much better — score 8 - **4.** Lucy would have come to the sleepover — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 450, line 2: «Noah asked his mate what he did at the weekend. «Stuff.» What stuff? «Just stuff.» Where? «Places.» Too few details can mean a lie — or a secret that hurts. No…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+5); the same circumstance (+5); the same doer «friend» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Radio bloke: «Everyone knows that!» Callum: «Who's everyone?» Why is that a good question? - **1.** Everyone really does know — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It asks for proof instead of a crowd — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It's rude to the radio man — no support - **4.** It means Callum knows everyone who listens to the radio — 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t7} Theo, back «from the dentist» — no sticker, normal mouth, eats a toffee straight away. What's most likely? - **1.** The dentist forgot the sticker — score -2 - **2.** Toffee is good after the dentist — no support - **3.** He wasn't at the dentist — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Dentists don't touch teeth — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 450, line 3: «Watch where the details are. A girl in Glasgow said she'd «met the King» at a garden party — loads about the cake and the hats, nothing at all about the King.…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «theo» (+4); the same place «dentist» (+2). 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8} Kid: «Paris was sick, Eiffel Tower, croissants, a man in a beret». «Sick» here means great. What's missing that a real trip would have? - **1.** A croissant — no support - **2.** Famous places — no support - **3.** Small personal odd details — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** The word «Paris» — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 450, line 3: «Watch where the details are. A girl in Glasgow said she'd «met the King» at a garden party — loads about the cake and the hats, nothing at all about the King.…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «small odd details» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t9} Noah's mate just says «stuff, places» about his weekend and looks at the floor. What's wise? - **1.** Call him a liar in front of everyone — no support - **2.** Tell the teacher he's lying — no support - **3.** Let it go kindly; he may tell you later — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Follow him next weekend to see where he really goes — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 450, line 5: «Watch for words that skip the proof. A video said «Scientists PROVED this one food cures everything!» Leo's mum asked, «Which scientists? Which study?» No name…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} A teacher says: «The detailed story is the true one, always.» A sharp kid would say what? - **1.** Details don't matter at all — no support - **2.** No, details always mean lies — **← Mova's choice** · score 11 - **3.** It depends — scripts can be neat, real stories messy — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, details always mean truth — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 11, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 450, line 2: «Noah asked his mate what he did at the weekend. «Stuff.» What stuff? «Just stuff.» Where? «Places.» Too few details can mean a lie — or a secret that hurts. No…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «lie» (+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/450-too-many-details-too-few/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11} Ethan's mate: «can't come out, me mam said, she's being weird». Later his mam says she said nothing. What was going on? - **1.** His mam forgot what she said — no support - **2.** He was being kidnapped — no support - **3.** He didn't feel like it and blamed his mam — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **4.** His mam is always weird — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 450, line 5: «Watch for words that skip the proof. A video said «Scientists PROVED this one food cures everything!» Leo's mum asked, «Which scientists? Which study?» No name…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+6); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t12} «Trust me, it's obvious.» What's the right moment to do? - **1.** Ask for the proof — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Change the subject — no support - **3.** Agree to avoid an argument — no support - **4.** Trust him because he said so — 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the principal reason for which an account of an ordinary afternoon recounted to the exact minute may arouse suspicion. - **1.** Ordinary recollection seldom retains such precision, suggesting a prepared script — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Precise accounts are invariably truthful, a liar being unable to invent so many particulars — no support - **3.** Precision is forbidden in conversation — no support - **4.** Ordinary afternoons do not occur — 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} It is given that an account abounds in detail concerning peripheral matters but contains none concerning its central event. Select the response consistent with the established facts. - **1.** The account is necessarily accurate in all respects — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Central events are never described in detail — no support - **3.** Peripheral detail concerning cake and hats proves the central event beyond doubt — no support - **4.** The absence of detail concerning the central event may indicate fabrication — **✓ 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises an unsupported assertion that «scientists have proved» a claim? - **1.** It constitutes conclusive scientific evidence — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It lacks a stated source and should be treated with caution — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It is verified by its manner of presentation — no support - **4.** It is necessarily false — 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Determine which of the following does NOT constitute a sound conclusion concerning an evasive reply such as «stuff». - **1.** That giving the speaker space may be appropriate — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** That it may conceal a falsehood — no support - **3.** That it proves the speaker to be lying — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** That it may conceal a private difficulty — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 61, line 2: «A cat that lashes or thumps its tail while you stroke it is saying «enough»; a dog that yawns, licks its lips and turns its head away is saying «I feel uneasy»…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same thing acted on «animal space» (+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/450-too-many-details-too-few/e4/) - ← previous: [449. Stories that change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/449-stories-that-change/) - next →: [451. The check that settles it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)