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title: The news: who makes it and how — how Mova does on the tests · Politics
description: Lesson 10 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The news: who makes it and how

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 10 of the politics 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/).

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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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Your mate goes, "Breaking news said 50 people, then 30. So the news is all cap." ("Cap" means lies.) What is the best reply?

- **1.** The first number is always the true one — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The news changed the number to scare us — no support
- **3.** He's right, the news is always lies, so you should never watch any of it ever again — no support
- **4.** Early reports change as facts come in; good channels update them — **✓ 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Your little sister reads "Chocolate makes kids SMARTER!" and goes, "Bussin', let's eat loads before the test." What should you tell her?

- **1.** Headlines are always tested by scientists — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The headline stretches one small study; scientists said more tests are needed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Chocolate makes you less clever, the headline is backwards — no support
- **4.** She's right, chocolate is proven to make you clever, so the more she eats the better she'll do — 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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A boomer neighbour says, "In my day the news was just facts, none of this opinion jazz." Which is true today?

- **1.** The news today is only opinion — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** News and opinion can be on the same channel, so it helps to ask which you are hearing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Opinion is never allowed on the news by law, so everything a news channel says is plain fact — no support
- **4.** Facts were only invented recently — 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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A Liverpool lad says, "That paper printed a correction, so they're dead dodgy, la." ("Dead dodgy" means really untrustworthy.) What's the fairer view?

- **1.** He's right, any single mistake means you should never trust them — no support
- **2.** Printing corrections shows they care about accuracy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Corrections mean the paper made the whole story up from nothing — no support
- **4.** Papers that print corrections should be closed down — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 2: «On election day an ordinary place, maybe the hall where you do PE, becomes a polling station: a voter's name is checked on a list, they mark a paper in a priva…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fold» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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What would happen if every channel only showed bad news and never mentioned ordinary good things?

- **1.** People would know exactly how often bad things happen in the world, day by day — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** People might think the world is more dangerous than it is — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Good things would stop happening too — score 2
- **4.** Bad things would stop happening — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 10, line 8: «A headline is the big title of a story; it is short and made to grab attention, so it can make things sound bigger or simpler than the full story; clickbait is…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «things» (+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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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In the car, your dad says, "Only this channel tells the truth, the rest are biased, end of." Which is the most sensible reply?

- **1.** Every source can lean a bit, so comparing a few helps — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He's right, one channel is always perfect and never wrong at all — no support
- **3.** Never watch any news at all, from any channel, ever again — no support
- **4.** All channels are lying to everybody all of the time — 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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A teen says, "A source close to the team said it, so it's 100% legit." ("Legit" means true.) What is the careful view?

- **1.** Unnamed sources are always lying, which is exactly why reporters print them without any names — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Only sources with funny names can be trusted — no support
- **3.** Unnamed sources can be important, but we can't judge them easily, so reporters must check — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Anything from a source is always true — 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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A Scottish gran says, "Turn it aff, hen, it's aw greetin' and misery." ("Hen" means dear; "greetin'" means crying.) Why does the news seem sad?

- **1.** News reports what is unusual, which is often problems — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** The news is made only by sad people who want everyone else to feel sad too — score 1
- **3.** Only sad things happen in Scotland — no support
- **4.** Happy news is banned from TV — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 10, line 5: «News shows what is unusual, so it often feels sad: nobody reports the planes that land safely; and a good news source owns its mistakes by printing corrections…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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In a cartoon, a reporter makes up a story and it goes straight on TV with nobody checking. What should be put right?

- **1.** Editors check stories and choose what goes in — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Viewers write all the news themselves — score 4
- **3.** The King checks every news story — score 2
- **4.** Reporters can say anything with no checking — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 9: «An editor decides which stories are used, which go first and how long they are, and checks them; those choices shape what people think is important.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «editor» (+3); the same action «check» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Your friend, being formal, says, "Kindly distinguish between the report and the editorial." What is she asking?

- **1.** Count how many words each story has and say which one is the longest — no support
- **2.** Say which channel has the best presenter — no support
- **3.** Tell apart what happened from what someone thinks about it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Find which story has the biggest picture — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 10: «A news report tells what happened; an opinion piece or commentator says what someone thinks about it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «someone» (+3); the same action «think» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Your cousin says, "Kids' news like Behind the News is baby stuff, it's not real news." What's true?

- **1.** It covers real news but explains words and background — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** It is made-up stories for little children, read out like a bedtime book — no support
- **3.** It only reports the news about cartoons and toys — no support
- **4.** It is really just the same thing as an advert for a channel — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 14: «Some news programmes are made for children, such as Newsround in the UK and Behind the News in Australia; they cover real news but explain words and background.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «explain» (+3); the same thing acted on «words» (+3); 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the function of an editor?

- **1.** The selection, ordering and verification of the stories to be published — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The gathering of information exclusively at the scene of events, without any subsequent checking — no support
- **3.** The counting of votes on behalf of a broadcaster — no support
- **4.** The expression of personal opinion upon each item of news — 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/e1/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning initial reports of breaking news.

- **1.** Such reports are frequently incomplete or inaccurate and are revised as facts emerge — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Such reports are fabricated deliberately by broadcasters — no support
- **3.** Such reports are prohibited from subsequent amendment — no support
- **4.** Such reports are invariably accurate in every particular and are never subsequently revised — 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/e2/)

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

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Identify the course of action most consistent with sound reasoning for an individual wishing to ascertain the facts of a contested event.

- **1.** Exclusive reliance upon the headline of a single article — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Acceptance of the first account encountered — no support
- **3.** Comparison of the accounts given by several different sources — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Exclusive reliance upon a single preferred broadcaster — 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/e3/)

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

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It is given that a newspaper has published a correction of an earlier error. Determine the inference most consistent with sound reasoning.

- **1.** The newspaper invented the original story deliberately — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The newspaper is wholly unworthy of any further trust — no support
- **3.** The newspaper is obliged by law to cease publication — no support
- **4.** The newspaper demonstrates a concern for accuracy — **✓ 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/e4/)

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