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title: COVID and staying home — how Mova does on the tests · Medicine
description: Lesson 12 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 10 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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# COVID and staying home

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**Tests:** 3 of 10 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 12 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/).

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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/12-covid-and-staying-home/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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tested positive but feel fine, can I go to Grandad's?

- **1.** No, you can never see him again — no support
- **2.** Yeah, feeling fine means you can't spread it to anybody, even old people — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Better not; you could pass it to him and older people get sicker — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, grandads can't catch it — no support

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**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 12, line 4: «Older people and those with other illnesses are more likely to get seriously ill, which is why we wash and gel our hands even when we feel fine.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+2); the same property (+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/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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My cousin says the swab touches your brain. True?

- **1.** No, it touches the back of your eyes — score 2
- **2.** No, swab tests don't touch the brain — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Yes, it goes right up into it — no support
- **4.** Yes, but only a tiny bit at the very front — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 12: «A lateral flow test looks for virus proteins in a nose or throat sample; a positive result is usually right, but a negative one can miss an early infection; th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «brain» (+4); the same action «touch» (+2). 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/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Grandad went to hospital with COVID. Is it my fault because I had a cold?

- **1.** No, but it's his own fault for getting old — no support
- **2.** Yes, always, colds and COVID are the same — no support
- **3.** Yes, colds turn into COVID — no support
- **4.** No, it is not your fault if a relative gets ill — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 8: «Older people and people with other health conditions are more likely to get seriously ill with COVID, partly because the body's defences work less well in old…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «relative» (+2); the same property (+1); 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/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Josh says the COVID vaccines were rushed with no tests. What's true?

- **1.** He's right, there was no testing at all, they just sent them out to people — no support
- **2.** They went through normal trials faster thanks to huge resources — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They are just water — no support
- **4.** They were made in a day — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 14: «COVID vaccines were made within a year using decades of earlier research and tested on tens of thousands of people.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «covid vaccines» (+4); the same action «make» (+2). 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/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Uncle Mike is still tired months after COVID and someone called him lazy. Fair?

- **1.** Yes, he's just being lazy — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, he's just bored at home — no support
- **3.** Yes, it's all in his head — no support
- **4.** No, long COVID is real — **✓ 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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What would happen if a brand-new virus appeared and nobody had immunity?

- **1.** It could spread across the world as a pandemic — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** Nothing, bodies already know all viruses — score 3
- **3.** It would stay in one house — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** It would vanish at once by itself — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 11, line 14: «Cold sores are caused by a herpes simplex virus that stays in the body and can come back when you're ill or in the sun.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same doer «simplex virus» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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In a film, a girl sniffs once and says "it's COVID, not a cold". What's wrong?

- **1.** Only a test can tell them apart — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nothing, one sniff shows it clearly enough — no support
- **3.** COVID makes you sneeze purple — no support
- **4.** Colds don't ever make you sniff — 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Lost my smell when I had COVID, does that mean I'm seriously ill?

- **1.** Yes, you'll never smell again — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, it means you just had a cold — no support
- **3.** Yes, always, it's the worst sign there is — no support
- **4.** No, it doesn't mean you're seriously ill — **✓ 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Why do we gel our hands coming into class even if they look clean?

- **1.** It makes hands smell nice — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It makes pencils stick to fingers — no support
- **3.** It's just a rule with no reason behind it — no support
- **4.** Gel kills many germs we can't see — **✓ 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Your friend has a mild cough, no fever and feels fine. UK advice says

- **1.** He must go to hospital to be checked — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He can usually go to school — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He must stay home for a whole month — no support
- **4.** He must wear two masks at home — 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/t10/)

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

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Identify the agent responsible for the disease designated COVID-19.

- **1.** The coronavirus designated SARS-CoV-2 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Exposure to cold weather — no support
- **3.** A bacterium transmitted through contaminated water — no support
- **4.** A fungus of the respiratory tract — 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/e1/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a pandemic?

- **1.** A seasonal increase in colds within one town — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** An outbreak confined to a single household — no support
- **3.** A disease affecting animals exclusively — no support
- **4.** A novel disease disseminated across many countries in the absence of immunity — **✓ 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/e2/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the development of the COVID-19 vaccines.

- **1.** They were developed over a period of fifty years — no support
- **2.** They were tested upon tens of thousands of volunteers, building upon decades of research — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** They were released without any trial whatsoever — no support
- **4.** They consist solely of saline solution — no support

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**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 12, line 14: «COVID vaccines were made within a year using decades of earlier research and tested on tens of thousands of people.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «test» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/e3/)

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

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It is given that a lateral flow test has returned a negative result. State the correct interpretation.

- **1.** The test has measured the bodily temperature only — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** An early infection may nonetheless be present — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Infection is excluded with complete certainty — no support
- **4.** The person is immune in perpetuity — 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/e4/)

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