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title: Tummy bugs and tummy aches — how Mova does on the tests · Medicine
description: Lesson 10 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Tummy bugs and tummy aches

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 4 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 10 of the medicine 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/).

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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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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puked all night, feel ok now, can I go in today?

- **1.** Yeah, if you wash your hands once — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, stay off for a whole month — no support
- **3.** Yeah, feeling OK means you're not catching any more, so go — no support
- **4.** Not yet; wait 48 hours after the last time you were sick — **✓ 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Mum says flat cola is good for a tummy bug. What's better?

- **1.** A thick milkshake to line the tummy — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Oral rehydration solution or small sips of water — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Energy drinks to get your strength back — no support
- **4.** Lots of sweet fruit juice — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Leo says his morning tummy aches are fake because the doctor found nothing wrong. Right?

- **1.** Yes, real tummy aches always have germs — no support
- **2.** No, worry can cause real tummy pain — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Yes, he's just making it up — no support
- **4.** No, it means he's got appendicitis — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 11: «Worry and stress can cause real tummy aches because the brain and gut are connected by nerves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «worry» (+4); the same action «cause» (+2). Against it: 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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In a cartoon a dog eats a whole cake and is sick but is fixed with one pill. What's wrong about bugs and pills?

- **1.** Nothing, there is a pill for every tummy bug — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Most tummy upsets just need time, fluids and rest — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Dogs can't be sick — no support
- **4.** Cake can't upset a tummy, only bad meat can — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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What would happen if the cook didn't wash her hands before making sandwiches?

- **1.** The sandwiches would taste better — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Germs could spread into the food — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The bread would go stale much faster — no support
- **4.** Nothing at all would happen — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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My mate reckons people with coeliac disease are just being fussy. What do you say?

- **1.** No, gluten really damages their gut — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yes, it's just a fashion diet — no support
- **3.** No, coeliac means you love bread too much — no support
- **4.** Yes, they just hate the taste of bread — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Sam had a tummy bug, has a dry mouth, no tears when crying and is dizzy. What is happening?

- **1.** He's just hungry for his tea — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He has hay fever on top — no support
- **3.** He may be dehydrated — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He is getting better fast — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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I've been holding in my poo all day at school because I hate the toilets. Any harm?

- **1.** It can make constipation worse — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, holding it in is healthy — no support
- **3.** No, the poo just disappears — no support
- **4.** Yes, it gives you flu by the evening — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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At the party, Josh ate loads of sweets and his mum said "now he'll go crazy". What do studies say?

- **1.** Sugar doesn't make most kids hyperactive — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 16
- **2.** Only red sweets do that, because of the colour — no support
- **3.** Sugar makes kids fall asleep straight away — score 10
- **4.** She's right, sugar always causes it — score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 16, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 16: «Studies show sugar does not make most children hyperactive (over-excited and unable to sit still), but too much at once can make you feel sick.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «sugar» (+4); the same thing acted on «most children» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Why might a doctor want a scan for a tummy pain in one spot that's getting worse with fever?

- **1.** It's always just trapped wind — no support
- **2.** Because tummies are see-through on a scan — no support
- **3.** It could be appendicitis — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** To find any sweets he swallowed — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 4: «Bones heal in whatever position they are held in, so doctors line the pieces up and hold them still for weeks while new bone grows.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «line up» (+2); the same doer «doctors» (+2). Against it: 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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If a tummy bug virus can't be killed with medicine, how do people get better?

- **1.** The body's own defences clear it in a few days — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They don't, it lasts for ever — no support
- **3.** The sick bowl soaks the virus up — no support
- **4.** It slowly turns into an ordinary cold — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/t11/)

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

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Identify the principal measure in the management of a child with gastroenteritis.

- **1.** Frequent small quantities of fluid to prevent dehydration — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Administration of antibiotics at the earliest opportunity — no support
- **3.** Provision of fizzy drinks in quantity — no support
- **4.** Abstention from all fluids — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/e1/)

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

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It is stipulated that a child remain absent from school for forty-eight hours following the last episode of vomiting. State the reason.

- **1.** The child may yet transmit the infection to others — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The school must be cleaned for two days — no support
- **3.** It is an arbitrary disciplinary measure — no support
- **4.** The child requires additional sleep after the night's illness — 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/e2/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises appendicitis?

- **1.** A form of food poisoning confined to the lower left abdomen — no support
- **2.** A consequence of the consumption of sweets — no support
- **3.** Inflammation of the appendix, with pain moving to the lower right abdomen — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** A disorder caused by worry alone — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 5: «Pain that starts round the belly button and moves to the bottom right side, with fever, can be appendicitis and needs a doctor.», 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 doer «pain» (+2); the same action «move» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/e3/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning coeliac disease.

- **1.** An infection caught from contaminated bread — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A preference adopted for reasons of fashion — no support
- **3.** A condition cured by a short course of tablets taken for one week — no support
- **4.** An immune reaction to gluten, managed by a lifelong gluten-free diet — **✓ the right answer** · 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/medicine/10-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches/e4/)

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