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title: Wages, salary and where family money comes from — how Mova does on the tests · Money
description: Lesson 20 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 5 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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# Wages, salary and where family money comes from

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 20 of the money 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/).

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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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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Ruby sees "Earned £2,500, take-home £2,000" and shrieks "who nicked the rest?!" What's the answer?

- **1.** Nobody; £500 went on tax and pension — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It went on Dad's lunches — no support
- **3.** Dad's boss forgot to pay it — no support
- **4.** The bank kept it as a fee for looking after the money — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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Ben yells "pizza night!" when Mum gets a £100 pay rise. Mum: "One pizza, then the rest goes on the gas bill." Why?

- **1.** Pay rises must be spent on pizza — no support
- **2.** The gas bill is always exactly £100 — no support
- **3.** Pizza is a need and gas is a want — no support
- **4.** Bills often go up too, so a rise doesn't stretch far — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**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 20, line 12: «A pay rise is more money for the same job, but bills often go up too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «go up» (+2); the same doer «bills» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Mo's dad lost his job and says calmly, "I'm getting some help from the government till I find a new one." A kid at school sneers. What's true?

- **1.** Mo's dad will never work again — no support
- **2.** Getting help between jobs is normal and nothing to be ashamed of — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Help from the government is never allowed — no support
- **4.** Only lazy people ever lose jobs — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 15: «When people lose their job, the government can give some money, called benefits, to help pay for basics; there is nothing to be ashamed of in this.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «job» (+4); the same action «lose» (+3). 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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Leo asks "does Mum even have a job?" Dad says "it's a job, just not a paid one." If a childminder cost £80 a day, what is a 5-day week of that care worth?

- **1.** £400 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** £85 — no support
- **3.** £80 — no support
- **4.** £160 — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Grandad: "I paid in for 45 years, now it pays me back, lad." What is he talking about?

- **1.** His pocket money — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** His pension — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** His mortgage — no support
- **4.** A loot box — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 14: «A pension is money paid to people after they retire, built up from what they paid in while working.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Aoife's da, a builder, says "some months it's grand, some months it's bleedin' quiet." ("Grand" means fine.) What should a self-employed person do?

- **1.** Spend everything in the good months while you can — no support
- **2.** Borrow money every month to keep things even — no support
- **3.** Stop working in quiet months and rest instead — score 9
- **4.** Save in good months for the slow ones — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 12, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 20, line 11: «Self-employed people work for themselves; their income can go up and down from month to month, so they save in good months for slow ones.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «save» (+4); the same property (+2); the same circumstance (+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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Jack's mum: "more shifts, more money, love." She works 3 shifts of 8 hours at £12.50. How much?

- **1.** £37.50 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** £300 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** £100 — no support
- **4.** £240 — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t7/)

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### Test 8 · right ✓ {#t8}

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Kai's mum, a nurse on nights: "pays a bit more, but I'm knackered." ("Knackered" means very tired.) What's the trade-off?

- **1.** More pay against being very tired — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Less pay against getting more sleep at night — no support
- **3.** No trade-off at all, because nights pay the same — no support
- **4.** More pay against having fewer patients to see — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Theo's dad: "The week before payday, we're always counting pennies." Why?

- **1.** He just likes counting coins — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The bank closes for a week every month — no support
- **3.** Monthly pay has to last the whole month, so money gets tight near the end — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Pennies are worth more before payday — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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What would happen if a family paid monthly spent most of its pay in the first week?

- **1.** The bank would add more money free when it ran low — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Money would run very short before the next payday — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The next payday would come sooner — no support
- **4.** Nothing, pay lasts however you spend it — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t10/)

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### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Isla's mate reckons "money just comes out the hole in the wall, innit." ("Hole in the wall" means a cash machine.) Where does it really come from?

- **1.** The bank gives it free to families — no support
- **2.** It's left there by the government each morning — no support
- **3.** The machine prints it for anyone — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **4.** From the family's bank account, filled mostly by pay from work — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 11: «If a country prints far too much money while there are no more things to buy, prices go up and nobody is richer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «print» (+1); the same thing acted on «much money» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/t11/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a "salary"?

- **1.** A charge levied upon the purchase of goods — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A sum advanced by a bank subject to repayment — no support
- **3.** A fixed remuneration for employment, ordinarily payable monthly — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A payment made by the state upon retirement — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/e1/)

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

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It is given that a monthly salary of two thousand pounds is received. Compute the aggregate received over one year.

- **1.** Twenty-four thousand pounds — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Twenty thousand pounds — no support
- **3.** Twelve thousand pounds — no support
- **4.** Two thousand four hundred pounds — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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It is given that gross earnings of two thousand five hundred pounds give rise to a payment into the bank of two thousand pounds. Ascertain the sum deducted, and identify its principal destination.

- **1.** Five hundred pounds, retained by the bank as a fee — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Five hundred pounds, applied chiefly to taxation and pension — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Two hundred and fifty pounds, retained by the employer — no support
- **4.** Four thousand five hundred pounds, applied chiefly to taxation — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/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 financial assistance from the government during unemployment.

- **1.** It is available only to persons who have retired — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It exceeds the salary previously earned — no support
- **3.** It is a lawful provision to meet basic needs and is no cause for shame — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It is unlawful and must be repaid with interest — 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/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/e4/)

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