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title: Nice alone, mean in a group — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday
description: Lesson 468 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.
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# Nice alone, mean in a group

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 11 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 468 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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/).

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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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Kieran after calling Sam «Sam-wich» in front of everyone: «chill, it's bants». Is it?

- **1.** Yes, if he says it's banter — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Yes, Sam-wich is a funny name — no support
- **3.** No, banter only happens online — no support
- **4.** No, not if only one of them is laughing — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 394, line 3: «The hardest parts were the honest ones. Kieran and Jake shook hands and agreed: no more street fights, and if someone starts one, they walk away and tell. Madd…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «kieran» (+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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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«Harper said it's just a joke so Mia's being dramatic». What's true?

- **1.** Mia should laugh along — score 4
- **2.** Harper's right, it's harmless if she says it's only a joke — score 5
- **3.** Photos can't hurt anyone — score 0
- **4.** Posting a private photo to laugh at someone isn't a joke — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 468, line 3: «Mia's friend Harper is sweet at sleepovers, then posts Mia's sleepover photo in the cool kids' group chat with crying-laughing emojis. Mia asks her to take it…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «post» (+4); the same thing acted on «sleepover photo» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Sam thinks: «Kieran ignored me, so I'll ignore him in front of my mates, that'll teach him». What would most likely happen?

- **1.** Sam becomes popular — score 0
- **2.** Two people feel bad and nothing is fixed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The cool kids give Sam a medal — score 5
- **4.** Kieran learns and says sorry at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 468, line 4: «In Dundee, Lily's cousin says her friend Kirsty is «pure sound» on her own but «a right nippy sweetie» in a group. In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «friend» (+2). 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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Lily sees Grace and Maddie giggling and looking at her. What's the best first step?

- **1.** Leave the school — no support
- **2.** Shout at both of them — no support
- **3.** Start giggling about them back, louder — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** Ask Maddie directly, in private — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 364, line 4: «Other Sundays went wrong in smaller ways. Lily giggled all through the prayers at her friend's funny face, so she was moved to sit next to Dad, away from her f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «giggle» (+3); the same circumstance (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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«bella's lush on the walk home so she's my bestie, the school stuff doesn't count». Is that right?

- **1.** No, a real friend is kind everywhere — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, walks home don't count — no support
- **3.** Yes, school doesn't matter — no support
- **4.** Yes, only the walks home really count — no support

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**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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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In a cartoon, the mean popular girl turns kind forever after one hug. What's more realistic?

- **1.** One hug fixes everything — no support
- **2.** Frenemies never change at all — no support
- **3.** A magic spell is needed — no support
- **4.** Talking it through, or spending time with kinder friends — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. 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 a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same property (+2). 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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Connor: «Ryan's my best mate, he just can't be seen with me at school». What would his mum say?

- **1.** You deserve a friend who's proud to be seen with you — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** Just hide at school too — score 5
- **3.** That's normal for best mates, everyone does it at school — score 6
- **4.** Pay Ryan to be nice at school — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 468, line 4: «In Dundee, Lily's cousin says her friend Kirsty is «pure sound» on her own but «a right nippy sweetie» in a group. In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same thing acted on «friend» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Your mate is friendly at home but «doesn't know you» when the cool kids walk past. What could you say?

- **1.** «I'll do it to you double» — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **2.** «You're dead to me forever, so don't ever talk to me» — no support
- **3.** «I don't like it when you do that in front of them» — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** Nothing ever, just put up with it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 468, line 4: «In Dundee, Lily's cousin says her friend Kirsty is «pure sound» on her own but «a right nippy sweetie» in a group. In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «mate» (-2). 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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Lily's cousin says «stick wi' her when she's on her own, ken». What's the advice?

- **1.** Join her group and be mean too, so she's nicer to you — no support
- **2.** Enjoy her alone but don't trust the group version — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Tell her mum about her — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Never see her again — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 438, line 4: «Some pranks cost people things they need. Ava set the clocks five minutes fast; Dad was early all week, but Gran nearly missed her bus home. Ruby in Edinburgh…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same circumstance (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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«only kids have frenemies, grown-ups are past all that». What did Lily's mum say?

- **1.** Grown-ups have frenemies too — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** Frenemies are just a made-up word — score 4
- **3.** That's true, it stops at eleven — no support
- **4.** Only teachers have them, at work — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 414, line 2: «Ollie's mum contacted the shop, explained a child had bought it by mistake, and asked for the money back; then she removed the saved card and turned on a passw…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mum» (+4); the same action «turn» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Bella tells you «love ur hair» then whispers to her mates and they snigger. Which is most likely true?

- **1.** Her mates all have a bad cold — no support
- **2.** She's just being nice to you — no support
- **3.** She's being two-faced — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** She was talking about the weather — **← Mova's choice** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 437, line 4: «Others come wrapped in friendship. «I'll be your friend forever if you don't tell — but if you do, I'll never speak to you again,» said Noah's friend, who was…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «speak» (+1). Against it: the same doer «friend» (-1). 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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the conduct which characterises a person commonly described as a «frenemy».

- **1.** Consistent hostility in every setting — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Friendly behaviour in private combined with unkindness before others — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Consistent kindness in every setting — no support
- **4.** Friendship confined to pupils of other schools — no support

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**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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises teasing that is described by its author as «banter»?

- **1.** It is banter whenever its author so declares, irrespective of the subject's feelings — score -1
- **2.** It is banter provided it occurs on school premises — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** It is banter whenever older pupils are present — score -1
- **4.** It is banter only if all parties, including its subject, find it amusing — **✓ the right answer** · score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 468, line 2: «Kieran and Sam are mates on the street. At school, when the big lads are around, Kieran calls Sam «Sam-wich» and everyone laughs. «It's just banter, innit,» he…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «school» (+1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Given that a peer has distributed a private photograph of a pupil for the purpose of ridicule, ascertain the most appropriate course of action.

- **1.** To request its removal and to inform a responsible adult — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** To remain silent in the hope that it is forgotten — no support
- **3.** To withdraw permanently from all group communication — no support
- **4.** To distribute a more embarrassing photograph in return — no support

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**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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning retaliation in kind against a two-faced friend.

- **1.** It invariably causes the offender to apologise — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It increases the popularity of the retaliating pupil — no support
- **3.** It tends to produce two unhappy parties without resolving the matter — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It is the recommended manner of restoring friendship — no support

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**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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/e4/)

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