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title: Friends who cling to a legend — how Mova does on the tests · Myths
description: Lesson 31 of the myths 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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# Friends who cling to a legend

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 12 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 31 of the myths 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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/).

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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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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"ur WRONG goldfish forget everything in 3 seconds everyone knows that" What's true, said kindly?

- **1.** They forget in one second, not three — no support
- **2.** Shut up, goldfish don't have brains — no support
- **3.** They can actually remember for months; want to look it up? — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** You're right, three seconds exactly — no support

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**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 31, line 8: «Goldfish can remember things for months; they can be trained to come for food at a signal.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «goldfish» (+2); the same action «remember» (+1); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Your friend was right about ostriches, but you argued and she walked off. What fixes things best?

- **1.** Waiting for her to say sorry to you first — no support
- **2.** Finding a different fact to win the next row on — no support
- **3.** Telling the whole class that she was rude — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** Saying sorry and that she was right — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 31, line 4: «Ethan got upset when a friend shouted that he was wrong about lightning in front of everyone; Kofi, whose dad is a lorry driver, felt that calling tomatoes fru…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «friend» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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You know the lightning fact and Ethan doesn't. What's the best way to share it?

- **1.** Keep correcting him until he finally admits it — score -2
- **2.** Quietly, and offer to look it up together — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** Shout "WRONG!" so everyone hears — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** Laugh and tell the teacher — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 2: «A good checker keeps two things apart: what is true, and how the other person feels. You can be right about the fish and still lose a friend by shouting "WRONG…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «shout» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Ruby insists peanuts are nuts because of the name. What's a fun way to settle it?

- **1.** Show her they grow underground like beans — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** Say it doesn't matter at all and just walk off — no support
- **3.** Bet her lunch on it — no support
- **4.** Tell her names are always lies — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 10: «Peanuts are not true nuts; they are legumes, like peas and beans, and their pods grow underground.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grow» (+5); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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What would happen if you made every fact argument a bet?

- **1.** Facts would become more true — no support
- **2.** You'd become the cleverest in school — no support
- **3.** You'd lose things and maybe friends, even when right — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Everyone would want to argue with you — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 2: «A good checker keeps two things apart: what is true, and how the other person feels. You can be right about the fish and still lose a friend by shouting "WRONG…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lose» (+2); the same thing acted on «friend» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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"omg everyone laughed at grace for saying sahara lol" What should a good friend do?

- **1.** Stand by Grace and point out it's the biggest hot desert — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Say nothing and change the subject — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Laugh too, so you're not left out — no support
- **4.** Tell Grace she should've known — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 3, line 1: «Grandma pushes the carrots across the table: "Eat up, they'll help you see in the dark!" She heard it as a child in the war, when everyone said British night p…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «say» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Sophie says it doesn't matter whether lemmings jump off cliffs. What's wise?

- **1.** Make her sit and watch a whole film about lemmings — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Tell her she's lazy for not caring — no support
- **3.** Keep going until she admits it — no support
- **4.** Agree to drop it; it doesn't need a fight — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 3: «Take each one apart and it's even better: the ostrich is turning its eggs in a nest dug in the ground, and the lemming film was staged, with lemmings pushed of…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Kofi gets cross: "My dad says tomatoes are veg!" What should you NOT do?

- **1.** Say scientists call them fruit — **← Mova's choice** · score 12
- **2.** Say his dad doesn't know anything — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Say cooks really do call them veg — score 8
- **4.** Say you're both sort of right — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 9: «Botanists (plant scientists) call tomatoes fruits because they hold seeds, but cooks treat them as vegetables, and in 1893 a US court case called them vegetabl…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «call» (+3); the same doer «botanists» (+3); the same thing acted on «tomatoes» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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In a cartoon, a bat bumps into everything because "bats are blind as a bat". What's the correction?

- **1.** Bats can see, and many use echolocation too — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 15
- **2.** Bats use their noses to see — score 10
- **3.** Bats can only see in colour, and only at night — score 10
- **4.** Bats really are totally blind — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 15, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 11: «Bats are not blind; they can see, and many also use echolocation (finding things by listening to the echoes of their own squeaks).», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+5); the same doer «many» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «echolocation» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Two friends argue whether Pluto is a planet. Which is true?

- **1.** Everyone agrees it's the biggest planet — no support
- **2.** Astronomers call it a dwarf planet, though some still debate it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Pluto was never discovered — no support
- **4.** Pluto is a moon of Earth — 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 31, line 13: «Since 2006 astronomers have called Pluto a dwarf planet, though some scientists still argue about the definition.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «astronomers» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Amelia counts who knows more facts. What does she forget?

- **1.** Facts stop being true once they are shared — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Only grown-ups are able to know real facts — score 2
- **3.** Facts are only really meant for teachers — score -5
- **4.** Facts are for sharing, not scoring — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 17: «A viral post being shared millions of times does not make it true, and a few surprising viral facts are true, so check rather than sneer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «few surprising viral facts» (+4). 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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/t11/)

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

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Identify the bird species, among those presently living, which produces the largest egg.

- **1.** The golden eagle — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The emu — no support
- **3.** The ostrich — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The albatross — 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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/e1/)

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

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Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the botanical classification of the tomato.

- **1.** It is a fruit, though commonly treated as a vegetable in cookery — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** It is a root, in the manner of the carrot — no support
- **3.** It is a variety of nut — no support
- **4.** It is a vegetable in every scientific sense — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 9: «Botanists (plant scientists) call tomatoes fruits because they hold seeds, but cooks treat them as vegetables, and in 1893 a US court case called them vegetabl…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «treat» (+5); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/e2/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the capacity of bats in respect of vision?

- **1.** Bats are able to see only in total darkness — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bats possess sight, frequently supplemented by echolocation — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Bats are entirely devoid of sight — no support
- **4.** Bats perceive solely by smell — 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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/e3/)

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

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Determine the desert of greatest area, given that a desert is defined by scarcity of precipitation.

- **1.** The Sahara — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Gobi — no support
- **3.** Antarctica — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The Kalahari — 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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/e4/)

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