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title: Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ — how Mova does on the tests · Physics
description: Lesson 44 of the physics course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 8 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 44 of the physics 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/).

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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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Jack, in Sydney: "Stinkin' hot arvo, Christmas at the beach in me togs!" His pen pal in London says he's making it up. Who's right?

- **1.** The pen pal: it always snows at Christmas — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Neither: it is spring there at Christmas — no support
- **3.** Jack: it is summer there at Christmas — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The pen pal: Christmas is always cold — 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Uncle Dave: "It's summer cos we're closest to the Sun, innit." Put him right.

- **1.** We are only closest to the Sun in July — score 2
- **2.** The Sun itself gets hotter every summer — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** He is right, that is how the seasons work — no support
- **4.** The tilt makes summer; we are nearest in January — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 40, line 9: «In summer the Sun climbs high and takes a long path across the sky; near the North Pole it does not set at all in midsummer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sun» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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"Car's doing 60, sorry, 90 kilometres an hour. How far in 20 minutes?"

- **1.** 30 kilometres — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** 20 kilometres — no support
- **3.** 60 kilometres — no support
- **4.** 90 kilometres — 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Gran: "That car went past like a rocket, must've done a thousand miles an hour." What does she really mean?

- **1.** It was going rather slowly — no support
- **2.** It went exactly 1,000 miles an hour — score 2
- **3.** It really was a rocket — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** It went very fast — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 15: «A rocket throws hot gas out behind it and the gas pushes the rocket forward, so it does not need air to push on.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «rocket» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Mia: "The Moon's got a dark side, it's giving spooky, no cap." Put her right.

- **1.** The far side never gets any sunlight at all — score 5
- **2.** Both sides get sunlight in turn; we just never see the far one — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** The Moon has no far side, it is flat — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** She is right, it is always dark there — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 5: «Some claims sound like wild hyperbole but are plain fact, such as "we're whizzing round the Sun at 100,000 kilometres an hour right now", while others that sou…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «dark side» (+4); the same doer «moon» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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In a cartoon, an astronaut on the Moon looks up at a bright blue daytime sky. Fix it.

- **1.** The sky would be green on the Moon — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** The sky would be orange all day long, like one long sunset — no support
- **3.** The sky would be black, with no air to scatter blue light — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Nothing, the sky is blue everywhere — score 4

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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 21, line 14: «The sky is blue because the gas in the air scatters blue light much more than red; from the Moon, with no air, the sky is black even by day.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sky» (+3); the same place «moon» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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"Earth spins at 1,600 kilometres an hour?? Then why aren't we blown off, that's sus." What's the best answer?

- **1.** The motion is smooth, and the air moves round with us — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** It's a lie, the Earth doesn't move at all — score -1
- **3.** We are, but only a tiny bit each day — no support
- **4.** Only the people at the poles feel it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 17: «The Earth carries us round the Sun at about 100,000 kilometres an hour, and the ground at the equator spins at about 1,600 kilometres an hour, but the motion i…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «motion» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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The tide is racing in faster than the family can walk, and they are cut off. Dad: "Just wade through, it's only a bit damp." What's wise?

- **1.** Wait on the sand until the water stops — no support
- **2.** Wade quickly through the deepest part — no support
- **3.** Swim out to sea, away from the beach — no support
- **4.** Get to the highest dry ground and call the coastguard — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 40, line 15: «On some flat beaches the sea comes back in faster than you can walk; if cut off, call the coastguard rather than try to wade.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «coastguard» (+2); the same action «call» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Put these in order through a summer day in Britain: a short shadow pointing north, a long shadow pointing east, a long shadow pointing west.

- **1.** West, then east, then north — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** West, then north, then east — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** North, then west, then east — no support
- **4.** East, then north, then west — 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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"The space station does 28,000 kilometres an hour, so the astronauts must be squashed flat, bruv." Right?

- **1.** Yes, they are pressed flat the whole time — no support
- **2.** Yes, so they have to lie down all day — score 5
- **3.** No, because the station is really standing perfectly still in space — no support
- **4.** No, they float, falling round the Earth with the station — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 10: «Astronauts float because they and the station are falling round the Earth together, so nothing presses on the floor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «astronauts» (+3); the same action «fall» (+2); the same place «earth» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Which is the odd one out: the Moon, a phone satellite, the space station, a shooting star?

- **1.** A shooting star: it is not going round the Earth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A phone satellite: it is not going round the Earth — no support
- **3.** The space station: it is not going round the Earth — no support
- **4.** The Moon: it is not going round the Earth — 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/t11/)

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

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Calculate the distance covered in a quarter of an hour by a vehicle moving uniformly at 80 kilometres per hour.

- **1.** 80 kilometres — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 20 kilometres — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** 40 kilometres — no support
- **4.** 4 kilometres — 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/e1/)

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

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Identify the month in which the Earth is nearest to the Sun.

- **1.** January — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** December — no support
- **3.** July — no support
- **4.** June — 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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State the direction in which shadows point at sunrise.

- **1.** West — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** North — no support
- **3.** South — no support
- **4.** East — 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Select the correct account of the motion of a rocket beyond the atmosphere.

- **1.** It is drawn along by the stars — no support
- **2.** It pushes against the surrounding air — score 4
- **3.** It expels gas, which pushes it forward — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** It cannot speed up at all — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 15: «A rocket throws hot gas out behind it and the gas pushes the rocket forward, so it does not need air to push on.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «push» (+4); the same doer «gas» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/e4/)

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