--- title: Friends, teams and fair play — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 52 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 13 of 22 tests right, exam 3 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/) [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/) / 52 # Friends, teams and fair play **Tests:** 13 of 22 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 13 of 26 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 52 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/). 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/). ### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1} Which is the best description of a true friend? - **1.** Someone who only ever plays with you and with nobody else — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Someone who gives you sweets every day — no support - **3.** Someone who is kind to you and whom you are kind to — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Someone who does whatever you tell them — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t1/) ### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2} Three girls in Adelaide are making a dance. One has an idea but is too shy to say it. What would a good team do? - **1.** Ask her what she thinks and listen — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **2.** Carry on without her idea — no support - **3.** Let the oldest girl choose everything — score 6 - **4.** Tell her to speak louder or leave — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 7: «A girl in Sydney ran up to a dog tied outside a shop and reached over its head; the frightened dog bit her arm, and she needed a doctor.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «need» (+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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t2/) ### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3} What would probably happen if every player in a game made up their own rules? - **1.** The game would be much more exciting and everyone would join in — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The game would fall apart and nobody would enjoy it — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Everyone would win at the same time — no support - **4.** The best player would win anyway — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t3/) ### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4} Your friend did not invite you to her party. What is a sensible way to react? - **1.** Never invite her to anything again — no support - **2.** Remember that she may have had to keep it small — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** Tell everyone her party was boring — no support - **4.** Decide that she was never really your friend at all — score 4 **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 52, line 23: «Having a crush on someone means liking them in a special way; if a friend tells you about a crush, it is their secret to keep.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same doer «friend» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t4/) ### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5} Why is it good to include a child who is often alone? - **1.** It makes you the leader of the game — score 2 - **2.** Lonely children always want to be left alone — score 2 - **3.** It is only good if their parents are watching from the gate — no support - **4.** Being included can make a lonely child feel they belong — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 20: «A hot drink can still scald a small child badly fifteen minutes after it was made.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «child» (+3); the same action «make» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t5/) ### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6} Your team wins a quiz in class. Who should get the credit? - **1.** The whole team together — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **2.** Only the team captain — no support - **3.** Only the person who wrote the answers — no support - **4.** Only the person who knew the hardest answer — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 15: «Good teams share the credit for a win and do not blame one person for a loss.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «credit» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «good teams» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t6/) ### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7} Which is true about cheating? - **1.** It is fine if the others cheated first — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Even if nobody notices, it makes the game unfair — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It is fine in games that do not matter — no support - **4.** It is fine if nobody notices — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t7/) ### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8} Two friends both want to be the captain. What is a fair way to decide? - **1.** The taller one is captain — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Take turns being captain in different games — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Neither plays until the other one gives in and lets them — no support - **4.** Whoever shouts first is captain — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t8/) ### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9} What happens when a team member does not do their part? - **1.** Nobody notices any difference — no support - **2.** The others have more to do and the team does less well — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** The teacher does that part instead — no support - **4.** The team works better and faster with fewer people in it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 13: «In a good team, every member has a part to play.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «member» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t9/) ### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10} new kid sat on her own at lunch - **1.** Leave her, she's fine — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Laugh about it — no support - **3.** Tell others to ignore her — no support - **4.** Ask her to join you — **✓ 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t10/) ### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11} me n my best mate disagree about everything lately - **1.** Stop talking for good — no support - **2.** One must be wrong — no support - **3.** Then you're not real friends, time to find new ones — no support - **4.** Friends can disagree and still be friends — **← 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 52, line 10: «Friends can disagree and still stay friends.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «disagree» (+1); the same doer «friends» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t11/) ### Test 12 · wrong ✗ {#t12} we lost cos jake missed the goal - **1.** Kick him off the team — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Never pass to him again — no support - **3.** Yes, it's all Jake's fault — no support - **4.** Teams don't blame one person — **✓ 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t12/) ### Test 13 · right ✓ {#t13} my friend has another friend now - **1.** You must stop being her friend now — no support - **2.** That means she hates you — no support - **3.** Fine, friends can have many friends — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Make her choose one — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 52, line 19: «You can have many friends, and your friend can have other friends too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «friend» (+2); the same thing acted on «other friends» (+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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t13/) ### Test 14 · wrong ✗ {#t14} we lost again, gonna kick the ball at the ref - **1.** Yes, he deserves it — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, if nobody sees — no support - **3.** No, walk away, you could hurt him and get banned — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, but kick it softly so it only scares him — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t14/) ### Test 15 · right ✓ {#t15} i keep changing the rules so i win, now no one plays with me - **1.** Play fairly, then friends will want to play again — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Play alone, it is better — no support - **3.** Tell them they are bad losers and they're just jealous — no support - **4.** Change them more so you win more — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t15/) ### Test 16 · right ✓ {#t16} Leo reckons winning is all that matters. true? - **1.** No, playing fair and having fun matter more — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yes, unless it is a friendly — no support - **3.** Yes, cheating is fine if you win in the end — no support - **4.** Yes, losers do not count — no support **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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t16/) ### Test 17 · wrong ✗ {#t17} they're saying Ruby got left out of the party on purpose cos she's annoying, pass it on? - **1.** Yes, so she knows why — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No; spreading it would hurt her more, and leaving her out was unkind — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, because it is true — no support - **4.** Yes, and add who else was invited so she knows who doesn't like her — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t17/) ### Test 18 · right ✓ {#t18} my mate says if u disagree with ur friend u can't be friends anymore - **1.** He is right, friends must always agree on everything — no support - **2.** He is right, one argument ends it — no support - **3.** He is right, unless you say sorry first — no support - **4.** Wrong; friends can disagree and still stay friends — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 10: «Friends can disagree and still stay friends.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stay» (+4); the same doer «friends» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t18/) ### Test 19 · right ✓ {#t19} heard our team lost cos Ellie missed the goal, everyone's blaming her - **1.** Spread it, so she trains harder — no support - **2.** Spread it, since she missed — no support - **3.** Good teams do not blame one person for a loss; do not spread it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **4.** Spread it, and say she did it on purpose because she wanted the other team to win — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 15: «Good teams share the credit for a win and do not blame one person for a loss.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same thing acted on «one person» (+3); the same action «blame» (+1); the same doer «good teams» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t19/) ### Test 20 · right ✓ {#t20} my best mate says she's "got a crush" on Leo n told me not to tell - **1.** Tell Leo at once so he knows, and tell the rest of the class too — no support - **2.** She likes Leo in a special way; it is her secret, so keep it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** She hurt Leo, so tell the teacher — no support - **4.** She wants to beat Leo in a race — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 23: «Having a crush on someone means liking them in a special way; if a friend tells you about a crush, it is their secret to keep.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «like» (+4); the same place «special way» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t20/) ### Test 21 · right ✓ {#t21} footie team saying our coach "has a new lady friend" n laughing - **1.** The coach has a girlfriend; that is his private business, so do not laugh or spread it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It means a new player is joining the team — no support - **3.** It means he is leaving the club and the team, so stop training and look for a new one — no support - **4.** It means he is in trouble, so tell the club — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t21/) ### Test 22 · wrong ✗ {#t22} Ava n Zoe "not speaking" cos they both like the same boy - **1.** They have lost their voices — no support - **2.** It means they should fight to win him — no support - **3.** They both have a crush on the same boy; stay friends with both and do not take sides — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Tell the boy so he can choose one of them, and then everyone can stop arguing about it — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **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 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «boy» (+2); a different thing acted on (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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/t22/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a good friend? - **1.** A person who gives the most presents — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A person who is the most popular in class — no support - **3.** A person who always agrees with every opinion — no support - **4.** A person who is kind, honest and trustworthy — **✓ 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the conduct of a good team in respect of victory and defeat. - **1.** It shares the credit for a victory and does not blame one member for a defeat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** It blames the weakest member for every defeat, so that he may improve before the next match — no support - **3.** It ignores both victory and defeat entirely — no support - **4.** It credits only the captain for victories — 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 52, line 15: «Good teams share the credit for a win and do not blame one person for a loss.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «share» (+2); the same thing acted on «credit» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning fair play. - **1.** Fair play is required only of the referee — no support - **2.** Fair play permits the rules to be changed whenever a side is losing — score 3 - **3.** Fair play consists in following the rules of the game — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Fair play consists in winning by any means — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 52, line 16: «Fair play means following the rules of the game.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «follow» (+2); the same doer «fair play» (+2); the same thing acted on «rules» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} It being given that a child is alone at break, determine the probable effect of including him. - **1.** It may improve his whole day — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It will embarrass him without fail — no support - **3.** It will make no difference whatsoever — no support - **4.** It will cause the group to lose its games — 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/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/e4/) - ← previous: [51. Manners and kindness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/) - next →: [53. Feelings and calming down](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)