--- title: «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 524 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 5 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/) [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/) / 524 # «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes **Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 11 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 524 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/). 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} «it's only banter, why's Corey being mardy». Is it only banter? - **1.** Yes, it's just a laugh and harmless — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, banter is only about football — no support - **3.** No, jokes about family are bullying — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, Corey can't take a joke — 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} What would most likely happen if Corey had punched the boy? - **1.** Mr Hassan would give Corey a prize — score 0 - **2.** The boy would say sorry at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** The teasing would stop forever — no support - **4.** Corey would be in trouble too — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 381, line 2: «The street was just as muddled. When Maddie fought, kids said «Maddie's so cool»; when Jake did exactly the same, they said «that's horrible». After Connor pun…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «kids» (+1). 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3} «she's in care cos her mum didn't want her, everyone says». What's true? - **1.** Children go into care when parents can't cope or keep them safe — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** It's true if lots of people at school are saying the same thing — score -1 - **3.** Children go into care because they were too naughty at home — score 6 - **4.** It's true, because that is the only reason children go into care — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 524, line 2: «Some words cut deep. A girl finds out Sienna-Rae is in foster care and says, «Your own mum didn't want you.» Sienna-Rae runs to the toilets and cries. It's cru…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+5); the same property (+4); the same doer «parents» (+3); the same thing acted on «parents» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4} In a cartoon, the kid with a dad in prison is a villain too. What's more real? - **1.** Kids of prisoners are always trouble — score 1 - **2.** A parent's mistakes are not the child's — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** It runs in families, like hair colour — score 3 - **4.** Cartoons always get prison right — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 524, line 11: «A parent's mistakes, like being in prison, are not the child's fault or the child's shame.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mistake» (+5); the same doer «parent» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} «why don't u just tell us why ur parents split, it's not a big deal». Must Ffion? - **1.** Yes, or she's a liar and a snake to her mates — no support - **2.** No, it's private, and «Dunno» is allowed — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, friends must share every secret — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** No, but she must tell a teacher why — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 495, line 5: «Not every quiet parent is cold. In Edinburgh, Otto's dad hardly talks, but every Sunday he takes Otto fishing by the loch (Scots for lake). They sit for hours…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «share» (+5); the same doer «people» (+3). 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Holly-Mae's classmates: «she smells cos she's dirty». What's more likely and kinder to think? - **1.** Her family never washes anything at all, they say — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** She's lazy and doesn't care what people think — no support - **3.** Something at home is hard, like a broken washer — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** She wants people to stay away from her — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 411, line 4: «Some of the cast learned the quieter lessons. Theo's big brother logged in to «rank up» Theo's account, the game noticed the strange play and gave Theo a warni…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «classmate» (+2); the same action «read» (+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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7} What would most likely happen if Liam-Jay told nobody about his mum's drinking? - **1.** Nothing at all would change — no support - **2.** He'd carry a big worry alone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** The teasing would end all by itself in a day or two — no support - **4.** His mum would stop on her own — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 491, line 4: «Some rich kids just want to fit in. A driver collects Arnav from school in a black car, and kids ask, «Is he a prince or what?» He'd rather walk home with his…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mate» (+6). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8} Kwesi's joke worked. Teasing goes on for weeks and gets nasty about his mum. What now? - **1.** Tell an adult; it's gone past a joke — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Stay home from school — no support - **3.** Fight the kid after school — no support - **4.** Keep making jokes back, every day — 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 55, line 7: «A boy in Sydney watched others push a smaller boy into lockers and did nothing; when he told a teacher at last, he learnt that it had been going on for weeks.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+5); the same receiver «teacher» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} ★★★ Kwesi ran 60 metres in 11 seconds. The boy who teased him took 13 seconds, and last week Kwesi took 12. How many seconds faster than the teaser was Kwesi today? - **1.** 13 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 2 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** 1 — no support - **4.** 24 — 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10} ★★★ Sienna-Rae was upset on Monday. The head said she'd sort it «within three school days». There's an inset day (no school) on Wednesday. By which day at the latest? - **1.** Friday — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Wednesday — no support - **3.** Thursday — no support - **4.** Monday — 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} ★★★ Five kids laughed at Jamal. Next day two of them said sorry, and one more kid joined in laughing. How many are still laughing at him? - **1.** 6 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 5 — no support - **3.** 3 — no support - **4.** 4 — **✓ 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Darius says «None of your business, bruh». Was that rude? - **1.** Yes, he must always answer every question — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** No, it's a fair answer to a nosy question — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, he should have said the whole story — score 2 - **4.** No, but he must apologise straight after to the kid — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 524, line 3: «Blunt questions aren't always meant to hurt, but you still don't owe an answer. «Why you live with your grandma? Your parents dead or somethin'?» a kid asks Da…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same thing acted on «blunt questions» (+3). Against it: a different action (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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises remarks made concerning the family of another pupil? - **1.** They are permissible provided that others laugh — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Where intended to wound, they constitute bullying — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** They constitute harmless entertainment in every case — score -1 - **4.** They are the responsibility of the pupil concerned — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 196, line 16: «Remarks about someone's food can make them ashamed, because food comes from different families and cultures.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the principal reason, as established in the lesson, for which children enter care. - **1.** They have themselves requested to leave home — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Their parents are unable to cope or to keep them safe — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Their parents have expressly declined to want them — score 1 - **4.** They have conducted themselves poorly at school — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 516, line 9: «A checklist and a travel bag help children stop leaving things at the other home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «children» (+2); the same action «leave» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Given that a pupil is questioned concerning the separation of the parents, ascertain the pupil's obligation. - **1.** Full disclosure is required upon request — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A written account must be supplied — no support - **3.** Disclosure is required to all classmates — no support - **4.** No obligation to disclose private matters exists — **✓ 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a child whose parent consumes alcohol to excess. - **1.** The child bears responsibility and must conceal the matter at all times — no support - **2.** The child ought to confront the parent publicly at the school gate before others — score 5 - **3.** The child is prohibited from discussing the matter with any person — no support - **4.** The child is not at fault and may seek help from a teacher or Childline — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 485, line 5: «A real friend turns up when it matters, keeps your secrets, says sorry and means it, and is the same in public and in private.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «real friend» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/e4/) - ← previous: [523. Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/) - next →: [525. Friends who get it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/525-friends-who-get-it/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)