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title: Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter — how Mova does on the tests · Medicine
description: Lesson 38 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter

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**Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 38 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/).

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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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/).

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### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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"Bro, after six weeks of nothing I'm unfit forever, it's so mid." What's the truth?

- **1.** It takes ten whole years to get it back — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Rest makes you fitter than training does — no support
- **3.** Fitness, once lost, never really comes back again — no support
- **4.** Fitness comes back faster than it took to build — **✓ 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Gym influencer: "Kids, you NEED shakes for gains." Mum's reply that fits the facts?

- **1.** Proper meals and lots of play are enough — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Milk and eggs have no protein — no support
- **3.** Children should eat only protein — no support
- **4.** Shakes are the only safe way for children to grow — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 38, line 12: «Children get plenty of protein from normal food; extra protein shakes don't build muscle by themselves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «extra protein shakes» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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What would happen if Leah did 5 sets of 10 good push-ups with rest days instead?

- **1.** Nothing, small numbers never work — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She'd lose all her strength — no support
- **3.** She'd hurt even more than she did before — no support
- **4.** She'd get stronger with much less risk of injury — **✓ 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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Lad in the yard: "Girls can't do proper push-ups anyway." Don't be mardy (sulky) about it, Hannah! What's the fact?

- **1.** He's right, girls' arms don't get any stronger with training — no support
- **2.** Strength depends on training, and girls build it just like boys — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Only boys' muscles grow with practice — no support
- **4.** Push-ups only work for boys — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 38, line 16: «Before puberty, girls and boys have about the same strength, and both get stronger with practice.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «girls» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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"You're either born sporty or you're not, sound?" Liverpool mate means "right?" What's true?

- **1.** Only tall people can really learn sport — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Practice only helps adults, not children — no support
- **3.** Practice changes your skill hugely — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Skill is fixed at birth and can't be changed — 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Isla: "1,000 sit-ups and I'll burn my belly fat, it's giving gym bro." True?

- **1.** No, sit-ups make the tummy fatter — no support
- **2.** Yes, but only with 2,000 — no support
- **3.** No, you can't burn fat from one spot — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **4.** Yes, sit-ups burn the fat right there — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 38, line 13: «Everyone has the six-pack muscle; whether you can see it depends mostly on the fat over it and on age, and you can't burn fat from one spot with sit-ups.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fat» (+4); the same action «burn» (+3); the same place «one spot» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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In a video game, a character gets huge muscles from one potion. Real life?

- **1.** One drink can build big muscles — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Muscles grow slowly from regular work, food and sleep — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Muscles appear overnight if you drink shakes — no support
- **4.** Muscles grow only while you train, not while you rest — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 34, line 1: «Your body is built to move: running, climbing and jumping make the heart and lungs stronger, build muscle and bone, and even help you sleep, think and feel hap…», 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 action «build» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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"Shut it, weights will make you a shortie for life" — the uncle again. What would happen with coached bodyweight exercises?

- **1.** His bones would shrink a little every year — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He'd likely get stronger and keep growing normally — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He'd grow wider instead of taller — no support
- **4.** He'd stop growing at once and stay short — 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Ruben, from Joburg: "Ag, I'll walk now now (in a bit)." Strong arms, tired legs. What should he add to his training?

- **1.** Heavier weights every single day — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nothing, strength is all he needs — no support
- **3.** Running, swimming or cycling for stamina — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** More arm wrestling, and nothing else — 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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Marcus: "Pros are just born talented, they don't even train, no cap." What's true?

- **1.** Pros never train after the age of ten — no support
- **2.** Pros train most days for years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Pros only play video games to keep sharp — no support
- **4.** Talent means you never need to practise at all — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 6: «In the UK a pharmacist trains for about five years: a four-year degree and a year of training in a pharmacy.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «train» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: 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/medicine/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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Which plan builds fitness best for a 10-year-old?

- **1.** Resting all week, then a marathon — score 6
- **2.** Running and playing a few times every week — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** One giant run each month — no support
- **4.** Push-ups until it really hurts, every day — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 38, line 12: «Children get plenty of protein from normal food; extra protein shakes don't build muscle by themselves.», 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 doer «children» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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State the approximate number of muscles present in the human body.

- **1.** Exactly twenty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** In excess of six hundred — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Approximately sixty thousand — no support
- **4.** Approximately six — 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/e1/)

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

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Identify the principle that most accurately characterises the acquisition of physical fitness.

- **1.** A single session of maximal exertion each year — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Inheritance alone, without any training whatsoever — no support
- **3.** Prolonged abstention from activity — no support
- **4.** Regular moderate sessions sustained over time — **✓ 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/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 supervised strength training in childhood.

- **1.** It does not impair growth when performed with correct technique — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** It requires the consumption of protein supplements — no support
- **3.** It invariably arrests the growth of the bones — score 6
- **4.** It is prohibited for all persons below the age of eighteen years — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 38, line 11: «Coached strength training with good technique is safe for children and does not stunt growth; heavy maximum lifts are not for children.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «growth» (+4); the same doer «coached strength training» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/e3/)

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

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Whereas strength denotes the force a muscle can exert, ascertain the meaning of stamina.

- **1.** The speed of a single movement — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The maximum mass that can be lifted on a single occasion — no support
- **3.** The number of muscles in the body — no support
- **4.** The duration for which activity can be sustained — **✓ 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/38-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter/e4/)

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