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title: Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole — how Mova does on the tests · Language
description: Lesson 45 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 12 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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# Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole

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**Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 7 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 45 of the language 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/).

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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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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«priya keeps saying she's dead lol, should I call someone??» She is laughing at a video. What is right?

- **1.** Yes, «I'm dead» and «can't breathe» always mean someone needs an ambulance at once — no support
- **2.** Yes, because skull emojis mean danger — no support
- **3.** No, she means it's hilarious, but if she really couldn't breathe you'd get an adult — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** No, «can't breathe» is always a joke, whatever happens — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 2: «Ava sends her gran a 💀 because a video is hilarious ("I'm dead, that's so funny"), and Gran rings in a panic thinking someone has died; the same picture meant…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «video» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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Your friend wants to skip three rides because «the queue's a mile long, we'll be here all day». The sign says 45 minutes. What is the wise move?

- **1.** Join a different, longer queue — no support
- **2.** Use the sign's real number to decide — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Believe him and skip all three rides — score 2
- **4.** Measure the queue in miles first — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 45, line 7: ««A mile long» is a feeling about a queue; a sign that says «Wait from here: 45 minutes» gives the real number to decide with.», 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 «real number» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«Mum literally EVERYONE has them». Mum asks who, and Lily names four kids out of thirty. What has Lily done?

- **1.** Forgotten how many children are in her class — no support
- **2.** Used hyperbole: «everyone» meant a few children she noticed — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Counted every child in the school — no support
- **4.** Told the exact truth about the whole class — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 3: «The trick is to split what is said into two parts: the feeling, which is real, and the number or size, which is made up. Mum's «I've told you a MILLION times»…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «say» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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«my sis said she'll kill me if I touch her stuff, so I'm moving out lol» What is the best reply?

- **1.** Move out tonight, because she means every word of it and she will do it — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Ask your sister when she plans to do it — no support
- **3.** She's cross, not planning to hurt you, so just leave her stuff alone — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Touch her things anyway, because it means nothing — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 5: ««I'm dead» and the skull emoji 💀 are young people's way of saying «this is hilarious».», 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 «way» (+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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t4/)

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### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5}

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A cartoon shows a man in Perth melting into a puddle at 37 degrees. What is the real lesson?

- **1.** The man should go out at midday when the sun is highest — no support
- **2.** 37 degrees doesn't melt you, but it is really hot, so find shade and water — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Heat is never dangerous, so the man could stay out in the sun all day long without water — no support
- **4.** People really can melt like ice when the weather is very hot — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 10: ««Strewth» is an old Australian word of surprise; «hotter than the sun» is hyperbole, because the sun is millions of degrees, but 37 degrees is really hot and n…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «37 degrees» (+2); the same thing acted on «shade» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t5/)

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### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«nah it's just talk, minus a million isn't real, I'll go out without my hat» It is minus twenty. What is wrong with this?

- **1.** Nothing, if the number is made up then the cold is made up too — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Hats only help when it is really minus a million degrees — no support
- **3.** The number is made up, but minus twenty is still dangerous for bare ears — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It's the gloves that matter, not the hat — 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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A girl hears Grandad say «I could eat a horse» and bursts into tears for the horse. What has she missed?

- **1.** It is a fixed saying for «very hungry» — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **2.** Grandad has really bought a horse — score 2
- **3.** Grandad wants to ride a horse after dinner — score 2
- **4.** Horses are often served at roast dinners — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 45, line 12: ««I'm so hungry I could eat a horse» is a fixed saying for «very hungry»; nobody is eating a horse.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «fixed saying» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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«how old is that telly then, older than the hills?» What is the best way to find its real age?

- **1.** Guess, because nobody can ever know — no support
- **2.** Find out how old the hills behind the house are — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** Multiply the age of Grandad by two — no support
- **4.** Look for a date on the back or ask when he bought it — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 13: ««Older than the hills» means very old; hills are millions of years old, while an old telly might be fifteen or twenty years old.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «hills» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t8/)

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### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9}

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★★ Mum after a long shift: «my feet are about to drop off». Ella after the dog: «I nearly had a heart attack». What do they really show?

- **1.** Mum is very tired and Ella got a big fright — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Mum is cross with work and Ella is cross with the dog — no support
- **3.** Both of them are telling silly jokes for fun — no support
- **4.** Mum's feet and Ella's heart both need a doctor — 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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★★★ «I'm dead», «I'm melting» and «I nearly had a heart attack» are hyperbole. In which case should you NOT treat the words as hyperbole?

- **1.** Dad is hot at a summer barbecue — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Priya is laughing at a cat video — no support
- **3.** Gran is pale and holding her chest — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Ella got a fright from the dog — 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t10/)

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### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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★★★ The ride sign says «Wait from here: 45 minutes». You join at 2:30. Your friend moans «we'll be here all day». About when will you get on?

- **1.** About half past eight at night — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** About ten to three — no support
- **3.** About a quarter to three — no support
- **4.** About a quarter past three — **✓ the right answer** · 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t11/)

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### Test 12 · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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★★★ Lily says «everyone has them». In her class of 30, 4 children have them. How many children in her class do NOT have them?

- **1.** 30 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 34 — no support
- **3.** 26 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 4 — 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the meaning most reasonably attributed to the utterance «I'm dead», delivered with laughter by a child viewing a comical video.

- **1.** That the material is exceedingly amusing — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** That the device has ceased to function — no support
- **3.** That the child is in a state of fear — no support
- **4.** That the child requires immediate medical attention — 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/e1/)

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

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A notice adjacent to an amusement ride states «Wait from here: 45 minutes», whereas a visitor asserts that the queue is «a mile long». Select the response consistent with the established facts.

- **1.** The assertion supplies the precise length of the queue in miles — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Both statements are measurements of equal reliability — no support
- **3.** Neither statement conveys any information whatsoever — no support
- **4.** The notice supplies the measured duration; the assertion conveys a feeling — **✓ the right answer** · 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/e2/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the expression «I could eat a horse»?

- **1.** A fixed saying denoting extreme hunger — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A request for a smaller portion — no support
- **3.** A declared intention to consume an animal — no support
- **4.** A complaint about the quality of a meal — 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/e3/)

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

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It is given that a person has employed the words «heart attack» in jest after a fright, whereas an older adult complains of genuine pain in the chest. Identify the appropriate response in respect of the latter.

- **1.** It is to be regarded as a mere figure of speech — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It constitutes an emergency, and the emergency services are to be summoned — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It is to be answered with a jest — no support
- **4.** It is to be ignored until the following morning — 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/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/e4/)

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