--- title: Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 511 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 7 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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/) [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/) / 511 # Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains **Tests:** 7 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 11 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 511 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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/). 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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/). ### Test 1 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t1} Islay's uncle: «Yeah nah, the cricket's rubbish». Aunt: «Nah yeah, it's alright». Do they agree? - **1.** Yes, they both say the cricket is alright — no support - **2.** Yes, they both say the cricket is rubbish — no support - **3.** No, he says it's rubbish, she says it's alright — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** It's impossible to tell from those words — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 511, line 3: «Big families mean big attention. In Bradford, Hamid goes to a wedding with 300 guests and gets his cheeks pinched by about 20 aunties: «Mashallah, so big now!»…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rubbish» (+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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t2} Auntie visits Sadie every 2 weeks and gives £5 each time. The first visit is in week 2. How much does Sadie get by the end of week 10? - **1.** £25 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** £10 — no support - **3.** £50 — no support - **4.** £20 — 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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} «Howay man, ye'll dance or ye'll get nae cake!» Uncle Gaz is laughing. Is it a real threat? - **1.** No, he's angry with her — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, she'll really get no cake — no support - **3.** Yes, she'd better hide — no support - **4.** No, it's a joke to get her up — **✓ 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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t4} Nan's party: 40 relatives sit at tables of 6, and every table must be full except one. How many tables are needed? - **1.** 7 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** 6 — no support - **3.** 40 — no support - **4.** 8 — 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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t5} Tasmin: «If I ring Aunt Jo and tell her to say sorry, it'll be sorted, innit». What's most likely? - **1.** It's not her job, and it probably won't fix it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** Mum will thank her for interfering — no support - **3.** It will fix a years-long family row in a single phone call — score 5 - **4.** Aunt Jo will come to the next party — 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 511, line 4: «Some families have a row nobody explains. In Kent, Aunt Jo never comes to anything. Tasmin asks why, and Mum says, «Long story.» Later Tasmin overhears that th…», 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 thing acted on «job» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Siobhan's cousin: «Me mam says your mam's a right wagon» (Irish for a horrible woman). What's Siobhan's wise answer? - **1.** «I'll go and tell my mam that» — score 0 - **2.** «Right, we're not friends now» — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** «That's their row, not ours» — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** «Your mam's worse, so there» — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 0 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: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «friend» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} An uncle at Hogmanay is staggering about with a drink. What would most likely happen if Ruaridh stayed right next to him? - **1.** Nothing, drunk people are always fine — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The uncle would sober up straight away — no support - **3.** He might get knocked over or upset — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Everyone would think he was a hero — 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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Hamid, fed up: «If one more auntie pinches my cheek I'm gonna scream». What's a better move? - **1.** Scream really loud at the next one — no support - **2.** Hide in the toilets all night — no support - **3.** Pinch the aunties' cheeks back — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** Smile, or say politely he'd rather not — **✓ the right answer** · 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 511, line 3: «Big families mean big attention. In Bradford, Hamid goes to a wedding with 300 guests and gets his cheeks pinched by about 20 aunties: «Mashallah, so big now!»…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «cheeks» (+3); the same action «pinch» (+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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t9} In a cartoon, the family party ends with everyone friends forever and all rows fixed. What's real life like? - **1.** Every family row gets fixed at one party — score -1 - **2.** Families never row in real life — no support - **3.** Some rows last years, and that's not on the kids — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Kids are always told the whole story — score 5 **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 484, line 3: «Some enemies stay enemies. Kieran and Jake have been tried by everyone, teachers and mums: «He's just a wasteman,» says Kieran (London slang for a useless pers…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «lily» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10} Kwesi's mate: «why's your uncle wearing a curtain lol». What's a good answer? - **1.** «It's kente, from Ghana, and it's well nice» — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** «Shut up or I'll sort you out» — no support - **3.** «I dunno, he's dead weird, just ignore him, mate» — no support - **4.** «He lost his suitcase at the airport» — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 396, line 14: «Jealousy often comes out as a mean guess, and a calm, true answer works better than a mean one back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «calm true answer» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11} Ronan's little cousin, 5: «Uncle Paddy found money IN Ronan's ear, he's magic!» Where was the coin really? - **1.** Made out of thin air by real magic — no support - **2.** Fallen out of Ronan's hair — no support - **3.** Hidden in Paddy's hand all along — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Growing inside Ronan's ear — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 511, line 2: «Aunts and uncles can be special people. In Belfast, Uncle Paddy pulls a coin from Ronan's ear at every single party. Ronan is 10 now and knows exactly how the…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the responsibility of a child in respect of a protracted dispute between adult relatives? - **1.** The child must take the side of his or her parent — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** The child must sever contact with the relatives' children — no support - **3.** The child bears no obligation to resolve it — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The child is obliged to mediate between the parties — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 482, line 3: «Even old friends must respect your family. At a barbecue Dad's friend Phil makes a nasty joke about Mum's cooking in front of everyone. Dad puts his burger dow…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «friends» (+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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the most appropriate conduct of a child at a family celebration at which an adult relative has become intoxicated. - **1.** To depart alone into the street until the celebration ends — score 0 - **2.** To remain beside the intoxicated relative to supervise him — no support - **3.** To remain near a trusted adult — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** To dispose of all the remaining beverages without consent — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 316, line 14: «If you see a bear, stay with the adults, do not run, speak calmly and back away slowly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Ascertain the meaning conveyed by an Australian speaker who responds «nah yeah» to a question. - **1.** Uncertainty as to the correct answer — no support - **2.** Disagreement expressed with great emphasis — no support - **3.** A refusal to answer the question put — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** Agreement — **✓ the right answer** · 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 465, line 12: «Answering curious questions about where you are from with a smile can make your difference a good thing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «answer» (+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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a document termed a will. - **1.** It states who receives a person's possessions after death — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It records the wishes of a child for birthday presents — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** It sets out the arrangements for a forthcoming party — no support - **4.** It is a formal complaint lodged against a relative — no support **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 455, line 17: «Real friends often forgive small lies and like you more when you are honest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «like» (+2); the same doer «real friends» (+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/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/e4/) - ← previous: [510. Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/) - next →: [512. The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)