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title: Lost outdoors — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday
description: Lesson 49 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 10 of 18 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Lost outdoors

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**Tests:** 10 of 18 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 18 of 22 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 49 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/49-lost-outdoors/).

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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/49-lost-outdoors/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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A boy in Oregon loses sight of his family on a forest trail and cannot see the path. What should he do first?

- **1.** Climb a tall tree to look for his family — **← Mova's choice** · score 12
- **2.** Walk on to look for the car park — score 12
- **3.** Stop, stay by a tree and blow his whistle — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Go back the way he thinks he came, off the trail — score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 12, tied with another option at 12 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 16, line 6: «A boy in Yorkshire took a short cut through a wood without looking at where he was going; he got lost and wandered for hours before a search team found him col…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+7); the same action «look» (+6). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/49-lost-outdoors/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Two searchers walk towards a lost girl while she walks away to look for them. What happens?

- **1.** They may take much longer to meet, or miss each other — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** They will meet faster because both of them are moving towards each other — score 4
- **3.** Searchers always guess where she is walking — score 4
- **4.** Moving makes her easier to hear — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 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 17, line 10: «Searchers find people faster when they stay put, because searchers start looking where the person was last seen.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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A lost girl is afraid that her mum will be angry. Searchers are calling her name. What is the right thing to do?

- **1.** Answer them, because she is not in trouble — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Hide so they do not see her crying — score 7
- **3.** Wait until her mum comes and calls her name herself — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **4.** Stay quiet until they go away — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 4: «Make yourself easy to find: blow three blasts on a whistle, wear or wave something bright, and answer when people call your name; searchers are friends, you ar…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «call» (+3); the same thing acted on «name» (+3). Against it: a different doer (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/49-lost-outdoors/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Which is true?

- **1.** A lost child should keep walking until they find a road — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Searchers start looking far from where the child was last seen — no support
- **3.** A child who stays in one place is usually found faster — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Hiding helps searchers find you — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/49-lost-outdoors/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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A boy lost on a cold evening has a bright red jacket and a whistle. What should he do?

- **1.** Take off the jacket so he can run faster — score 4
- **2.** Put on the jacket, stay put and blow three blasts on the whistle — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Hide the jacket so animals do not see it — no support
- **4.** Save the whistle for the morning, when there are more people about to hear it — **← Mova's choice** · score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 12, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 8: «A boy in Ireland got lost at a festival and went with a man who said he would help; luckily the man did take him to a security point, but the boy learnt to ask…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+7); the same action «learn» (+6). Against it: 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/49-lost-outdoors/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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A family in Sydney arrives at a big festival. What can they do first to be ready if a child gets lost?

- **1.** Agree to shout as loud as possible — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **2.** Agree that each child looks after themselves all day — score -1
- **3.** Agree on a meeting point, like the entrance gate — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **4.** Agree to search the car park first — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 49, line 17: «Before a trip, a family can agree on a meeting place in case someone gets separated.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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A girl gets lost at a large Irish beach. Whom should she go to?

- **1.** Someone sitting alone in a parked car — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** The road to walk home on her own — no support
- **3.** The lifeguards at their station — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The edge of the water to look around — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 5: «A girl lost in a Washington forest as it gets dark keeps warm by sitting on her backpack or on branches instead of the cold ground, zipping up her jacket and s…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+2); the same doer «girl» (+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/49-lost-outdoors/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Why do searchers ask lost children to stay put rather than come to find them?

- **1.** Searchers can cover an area properly if the child is not moving — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** It is against the law to walk in a forest — score 2
- **3.** Children walk too slowly to be useful — score 2
- **4.** Children always walk round in circles and end up back in the same place — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 2: «Searchers start where you were last seen and work outwards; if you wander, you may walk out of the area they search, or walk away from them as they come closer.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «area» (+3); the same doer «searchers» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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lost in the bush, walk to find the way?

- **1.** No, stay put, hug a tree — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Yes, keep walking — no support
- **3.** Climb to the top of a hill — no support
- **4.** Yes, run to find the car — no support

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**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 17, line 5: «In the wild, «hug a tree»: stay where you are, keep warm and dry, and make noise; three blasts on a whistle is a call for help.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hug» (+2); the same thing acted on «tree» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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heard them calling my name but scared i'll get told off

- **1.** Answer, you're not in trouble — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Stay quiet just in case, they might be cross — no support
- **3.** Run away from them — no support
- **4.** Hide until they go — 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/49-lost-outdoors/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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lost and the ground's freezing

- **1.** Lie on the bare ground — score 4
- **2.** Keep walking all night to stay warm — no support
- **3.** Sit on branches or your bag — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Take off your jacket — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 15: «Sitting on branches or a bag keeps you off the cold ground, which takes heat away from your body, and keeps you warmer.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sit» (+4); the same place «branches» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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gonna lose u at the show, what then

- **1.** Go to our agreed meeting place — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Wait in the car park till it's dark — no support
- **3.** Leave with a stranger — no support
- **4.** Go home by bus — 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/49-lost-outdoors/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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lost in the woods and it's getting dark, keep walking?

- **1.** Keep walking until you find a road — no support
- **2.** Stay put, keep warm and make noise — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Run to get out faster — score 3
- **4.** Climb a tall tree to sleep — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 16: «If you are lost in the wild, stay put, keep warm and dry, and make noise.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «noise» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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lost and soaked from the rain, what first

- **1.** Keep walking in wet clothes, they'll dry as you go — no support
- **2.** Take off your coat to dry — no support
- **3.** Find shelter and put on dry or extra layers — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** Lie down in the open — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 19: «If you are lost and get wet, you find shelter and put on dry or extra layers.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same thing acted on «shelter» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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Ava says u should hide from searchers if ur in trouble. right?

- **1.** Yes, they might be angry — no support
- **2.** No, answer and go towards them, they want to help — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, hide until morning — no support
- **4.** Yes, unless they call your name really nicely — **← Mova's choice** · score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 14: «You answer when searchers call your name and never hide from them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same doer «searchers» (+4); the same thing acted on «name» (+4). 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/49-lost-outdoors/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★ · right ✓ {#t16}

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did u hear a girl got lost in the woods and hid from the searchers cos she thought she'd be in trouble

- **1.** It is gossip, so hiding is fine — no support
- **2.** Real lesson: searchers are angry with lost children and tell their parents off — no support
- **3.** It proves woods are only dangerous for girls — no support
- **4.** Real lesson: a lost child is never in trouble, so answer searchers and never hide — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 16: «A lost child is never in trouble for being lost.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lost child» (+2); the same place «trouble» (+2); 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/49-lost-outdoors/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★ · right ✓ {#t17}

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my mate says if ur lost in the forest just keep walking downhill and you'll always find a town

- **1.** He is right, if you walk all night — no support
- **2.** He is right, downhill always leads to towns and roads in every forest in the world — no support
- **3.** Not reliable; stay in one place, as someone who stays still is easier to find — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** He is right, but only in Canada — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 8: «If you are lost outdoors, you stay in one place.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same place «one place» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/t17/)

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### Test 18 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t18}

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Noah got lost on scout camp and they had to search for him, people are calling him Lost Boy, should i

- **1.** Yes, because it is funny — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, but only at camp — no support
- **3.** No, the nickname is unkind; it could happen to anyone — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes, so he is more careful — 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/49-lost-outdoors/t18/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the manner in which searchers conduct a search?

- **1.** They commence at the furthest point of the area and search inward towards the centre — score 10
- **2.** They search only along the roads — score 10
- **3.** They search at random throughout the area — **← Mova's choice** · score 14
- **4.** They commence at the place where the person was last seen and search outward — **✓ the right answer** · score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 14, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 2: «Searchers start where you were last seen and work outwards; if you wander, you may walk out of the area they search, or walk away from them as they come closer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «search» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «searchers» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 10. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Identify the purpose served by a lost child hugging a tree.

- **1.** It assists the child to remain calm and in one place — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** It renders the child invisible to animals — no support
- **3.** It warms the tree for searchers — no support
- **4.** It indicates the direction of north to the searchers — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 11: «Hugging a tree helps a lost child stay calm and stay in one place.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «help» (+4); the same thing acted on «lost child» (+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/49-lost-outdoors/e2/)

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

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It being given that a lost child must sit upon cold ground, select the measure consistent with established guidance.

- **1.** To lie directly upon the wet earth — no support
- **2.** To sit upon branches or a bag so as to remain warmer — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** To dig a hole and sit within it — no support
- **4.** To remove the coat so as to sit upon it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 15: «Sitting on branches or a bag keeps you off the cold ground, which takes heat away from your body, and keeps you warmer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «branches» (+3); the same action «sit» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/e3/)

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

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Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning searchers calling a lost child's name.

- **1.** The child should hide until daylight — no support
- **2.** The child should remain silent until certain of their identity — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** The child should answer and never hide — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The child should run away from unknown voices — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 11: «Hugging a tree helps a lost child stay calm and stay in one place.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same doer «lost child» (+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/49-lost-outdoors/e4/)

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