--- title: Famous athletes and what being a professional takes — how Mova does on the tests · Medicine description: Lesson 63 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 11 tests right, exam 1 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/) [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/) / 63 # Famous athletes and what being a professional takes **Tests:** 2 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 63 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/). 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Tyler's coach says «keep doing your homework an' all». Why? - **1.** Homework makes you a better striker — no support - **2.** Coaches like checking homework — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Academies only take top spellers — no support - **4.** Almost all academy players are let go at some point — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 54, line 4: «Sport burns energy but doesn't protect teeth: as Bella's coach in Brisbane says, «Your teeth don't go to training, mate», and a study reported that about 4 in…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «coach» (+3); the same action «check» (+2). 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/medicine/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Isla does 3 hours a day for a year. About how many hours is that? - **1.** About 3,000 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** About 10,000 — no support - **3.** About 365 — no support - **4.** About 1,095 — **✓ the right answer** · 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Ben's friend: «Tired muscles and sharp pain are the same, just ignore both». Correct it. - **1.** Sharp pain means you're getting stronger — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Both always mean a broken bone — no support - **3.** Both must be ignored — no support - **4.** Tired is normal, sharp or lasting pain needs rest and a check — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 46, line 16: «Neck pain with tingling or numb legs after a crash means the person must be kept still and an adult calls 999 in the UK or 911 in the US.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3); the same doer «neck pain» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Chloe's dad: «That's his knee ligament, love. Long time out». What will the player likely need? - **1.** A new pair of boots — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Surgery, physio and patience — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Just a cold spray and back Saturday — no support - **4.** Nothing, pros walk it off — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} What would happen if Arjun dropped school and wasn't picked by 18? - **1.** Nothing, everyone turns pro — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He'd have fewer choices for a career — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** He'd be picked automatically later — no support - **4.** Clubs would pay him anyway because he'd trained hard — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Connor's coach says «Ah, you eejit». What does «eejit» mean? - **1.** Idiot — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Goalkeeper — no support - **3.** Coach — no support - **4.** Genius — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Lucía's brother shows a documentary: «He was tiny too, and look». What helped Messi as a child? - **1.** Treatment for a growth hormone problem — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** Sleeping 20 hours a day — no support - **3.** Never playing until 18 — no support - **4.** Being the tallest boy in his class at school — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 1: «A hundred years ago many city children had rickets: soft bones and bowed legs, because smoke hid the sun and their skin could not make vitamin D, and a spoon o…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «help» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Grace's mum: «Not weak, love. Brave». Why might stopping be brave? - **1.** Biles was told to stop by fans — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Knowing when you're not safe to go on is strength — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Stopping always means giving up — no support - **4.** Brave people never stop — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Ethan: «I'm just mid at footy». What's likely true? - **1.** Only September kids ever go on to become pros — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Being picked at 10 decides everything that comes later — no support - **3.** Being younger in the year isn't being worse — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** August kids never catch up, whatever they do in training — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} A cartoon star eats burgers all day and wins the Tour. What's real? - **1.** Burgers are banned on bikes — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Junk food is best for cycling — no support - **3.** Riders' food is planned to fuel and recover — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Riders don't need to eat — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Maya says Serena was «just born good». Which is a fair reply? - **1.** Practice can never beat talent — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Talent starts you off; practice keeps you going — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Serena never practised — no support - **4.** Talent and practice are the same — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the proportion of young academy footballers frequently cited as attaining professional status. - **1.** Every participant without exception — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Approximately nine in ten — no support - **3.** Fewer than one in one hundred — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Approximately one half — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the notion of ten thousand hours of practice? - **1.** It is an established law of nature — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It guarantees world-class performance — no support - **3.** It is an approximate idea rather than a fixed rule — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It applies exclusively to football — 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} It is given that a child experiences persistent pain in the knee during a period of rapid growth. Select the appropriate course of action. - **1.** Continued play until the pain subsides — no support - **2.** Intensified training without interruption or complaint — no support - **3.** Rest and assessment by an appropriate adult — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Concealment of the pain from the coach — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **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 46, line 9: «Adrenaline hides pain during a game, so the real hurt often shows that evening or the next morning, and an adult, not the excited player, decides whether they…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); the same thing acted on «pain» (+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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Ascertain the principal reason for which professional athletes regulate their sleep. - **1.** Sleep diminishes muscular strength — no support - **2.** Sleep is prohibited during competition by the governing bodies — no support - **3.** Muscles are repaired and strengthened during rest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Sleep replaces the need for nourishment — 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 56, line 6: «During sleep the body repairs used muscles and the brain sorts and stores what happened in the day, including new skills.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «repair» (+3); the same thing acted on «used muscles» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/e4/) - ← previous: [62. The Olympics and Paralympics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/) - next →: [64. Cheating and doping, as reported](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/)