--- title: Warming up, stitches and cramp — how Mova does on the tests · Medicine description: Lesson 37 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 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/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/) / 37 # Warming up, stitches and cramp **Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 37 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/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/). 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/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} "Warm-ups are long, just stretch your hammies for a min innit." Why is a moving warm-up better? - **1.** Stretching cold muscles is the safest way — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Long holds make you faster before sprints — no support - **3.** It raises the heart rate and warms the muscles — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** Moving tires you out before the game — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 34, line 12: «A warm-up gets the blood flowing and prepares muscles and joints, but stretching alone doesn't prevent every injury.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «warm up» (+2); the same thing acted on «muscles» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Bairns (children) at a Scottish match stand around in the dreich (cold, wet, grey) weather between halves. What should they do? - **1.** Keep moving and keep layers on — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Take their tops off to cool down between the halves — no support - **3.** Sit down on the wet grass to rest their legs — no support - **4.** Nothing, cold doesn't affect muscles — 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/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} "Bruv, a stitch means summat's ripped inside." True? - **1.** Yes, a stitch is a torn gut that has to heal — no support - **2.** Yes, it's the appendix every single time — no support - **3.** No, it's caused by the shoes — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** No, it fades and leaves no harm — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 37, line 10: «A full stomach or lots of sugary drink just before running makes a stitch more likely, so at half-time have a small snack and sips of water.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «stitch» (+4); the same action «make» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} What would happen if Josh had a small snack and sips of water instead of the pie? - **1.** He'd have no energy at all for the second half — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A stitch would be less likely — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** He'd be sick for certain — no support - **4.** He would surely get cramp from hunger instead — 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/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} "Crap, my side's killing me and I stopped ten minutes ago and I feel sick." What's right? - **1.** Eat a banana and ignore it till the end — no support - **2.** Drink fizzy pop to settle it — no support - **3.** Keep running, it's just a stitch that's hanging on — no support - **4.** Tell an adult, it may not be a stitch — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 36, line 13: «A red face and sweat are the body letting heat out, as blood vessels near the skin widen; dizziness, feeling sick or feeling confused mean stop and tell an adu…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same receiver «adult» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} In a game, cramp knocks a player out for the whole season. Real life? - **1.** Cramp means a bone underneath is broken — no support - **2.** Cramp can never happen to pros — score 2 - **3.** Cramp usually passes in minutes, though it can ache after — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Cramp always tears the muscle it hits — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 37, line 12: «Cramp is a muscle suddenly tightening and not relaxing; tired, overworked muscles cramp more easily, and it is usually not a tear; it usually passes in minutes…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «muscle» (+4); the same doer «cramp» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Coach yells: "Shake it out, give that leg a proper yank!" What's sound advice? - **1.** Keep it bent and tight until it stops on its own — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yank it as hard as possible to snap the cramp out — no support - **3.** Stretch slowly and steadily, never with a jerk — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Sprint on it until it stops — 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/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} "Swim within an hour of eating and you'll get cramp and drown, my nan said." Truth? - **1.** There's no good evidence for the one-hour rule — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Only fruit causes cramp in water — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** It's proven, you always have to wait a full hour — score 2 - **4.** You must wait three hours after a big meal — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 37, line 13: «The causes of exercise cramp aren't fully known; lack of potassium has not been proven, so bananas are a fine snack but not a cramp cure.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «exercise cramp» (+4); the same action «cause» (+3). The right option, 1, 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/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Dad, half asleep: "What the hell's happening?" Sophie's night cramp. Is it serious? - **1.** Always a sign of a serious illness in the blood — no support - **2.** It means she is short of bananas — no support - **3.** Usually harmless; see a GP if it happens very often — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** It means she must stop all sport for a year — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 37, line 14: «Night cramp in the calf is common and usually harmless; pulling the toes up towards you stretches it; if it happens very often, see a GP.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+3); the same thing acted on «gp» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Cramp hits mid-swim, halfway across. What would happen if he panicked and thrashed? - **1.** Nothing, thrashing is the safe choice — no support - **2.** He'd tire fast and could swallow water — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** He would sink straight to the bottom of the pool — score 4 - **4.** The cramp would vanish faster — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 37, line 17: «If you get cramp in the water, roll onto your back, float, shout and wave for help, because panicking and thrashing tires you fast and you can swallow water.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tire» (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Mate: "I eat bare bananas so I'm cramp-proof, no cap." (bare: lots of) Right? - **1.** Yes, bananas make you cramp-proof — no support - **2.** No, bananas cause cramp — no support - **3.** No, cramp can still come, mostly from tired muscles — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, as long as he eats ten a day — **← Mova's choice** · 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 31, line 8: «Appetite often drops during an infection; eating little for a day or two is fine, but drinking enough is important.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the principal purpose of a warm-up undertaken prior to physical exertion. - **1.** To raise the heart rate and warm the muscles in preparation — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** To fatigue the muscles in advance of competition — no support - **3.** To lower the temperature of the body before exertion — no support - **4.** To render any subsequent stretching of the muscles unnecessary — 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/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the abdominal pain termed a stitch. - **1.** It persists for several days in all instances — no support - **2.** It is invariably caused by a deficiency of potassium in the diet — no support - **3.** It invariably denotes the rupture of an internal organ — no support - **4.** Its precise cause is unknown and it subsides upon slowing down — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **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 37, line 9: «A stitch is a sharp pain below the ribs during running; its exact cause is not known, it leaves no harm, and slowing down, breathing out slowly and pressing on…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «slow down» (+3); the same doer «cause» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Ascertain the most appropriate response to a cramp arising in the calf muscle. - **1.** A sudden and forceful jerk of the affected limb — no support - **2.** The immediate consumption of three bananas — no support - **3.** A slow and steady stretch, drawing the toes towards the body — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Complete abstention from movement for a week — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 37, line 3: «Cramp is a muscle that suddenly tightens and won't let go, often a calf in the last tired minutes of a match. A slow, steady stretch, like pulling the toes up…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «toes» (+4); the same doer «slow steady stretch» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} It is given that a swimmer experiences cramp in deep water. Determine the recommended course of action. - **1.** To remain motionless beneath the surface — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** To float upon the back and summon assistance — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** To swim with maximum effort towards the edge of the pool — no support - **4.** To submerge in order to massage the muscle — 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/medicine/37-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp/e4/) - ← previous: [36. Heart and lungs when you run](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/36-heart-and-lungs-when-you-run/) - next →: [38. Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/)