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title: Guns, school safety and arguments about schools — how Mova does on the tests · Politics
description: Lesson 22 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 6 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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# Guns, school safety and arguments about schools

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 22 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/).

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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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Hannah's Texan cousin shrugs: «y'all have no guns in shops? we're fixin' to buy bait right next to 'em, that's just normal round here.» What is true?

- **1.** Gun rules differ a lot between countries, and each grew from its own history — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Texas has no rules at all about guns, so anyone of any age can buy one anywhere — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** Guns are sold the same way in every country — no support
- **4.** The UK sells guns beside fishing rods too — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 2: «Countries have very different rules about guns. Picture Hannah from Manchester seeing guns for sale next to the fishing rods in a Texas shop: what feels normal…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «different rules» (+3); the same circumstance (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). 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/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Grace whispers: «lockdown drill again, lowkey scary, does that mean something bad's gonna happen?» What is the best answer?

- **1.** Yes, drills only happen after a warning from the police that danger is near — no support
- **2.** No, drills are just a game to waste time — no support
- **3.** No, it's practice, like a fire drill, so you'd stay calm if it ever came — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Yes, a drill means danger is coming that day — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 5: «TV may show guesses early, like an exit poll at 10 pm or a map turning red and blue, but a guess is not a result: the real answer only comes when every vote is…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+2); the same doer «real answer» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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A friend says: «Australia banned every single gun in 1996.» How do you correct it?

- **1.** Australia handed out more guns in 1996 — no support
- **2.** Australia has never had any gun laws — score 5
- **3.** Right, nobody in Australia may own any gun at all, not even farmers with a licence — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Many kinds were banned and bought back, but some guns are still allowed with a licence — **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 22, line 7: «Guns are much more common in the United States than in most countries, and many Americans own them for hunting, sport or protection.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «guns» (+4); the same action «own» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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An older boy in Cork fumes: «phone ban? that's pure muck, the teachers are a bunch of eejits.» What is the fairest point?

- **1.** People disagree: some say bans help focus, others say phones help in emergencies — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Teachers banned phones so they could sell them and keep all the money for the staff room — no support
- **3.** Phone bans are against the law in Ireland — no support
- **4.** Everyone agrees phones should be allowed all day — 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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A girl says «they're banning books!» and a boy says «they're just checking them!» Which statement is fair?

- **1.** Nobody disagrees about library books — no support
- **2.** Every book in Florida was banned forever — no support
- **3.** Some books were taken off to be reviewed, and people disagree about whether that is fair — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** Libraries never remove any book for any reason, so the girl and the boy are both making it up — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 14: «In many US school districts parents and school boards have argued about removing some library books; some call it checking books for age, others call it bannin…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «library books» (+6); the same action «remove» (+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/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Sam's mate in London asks: «bruv, why's a footballer going on about school dinners?» What is the best answer?

- **1.** Footballers must cook school dinners by law — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He'd needed free meals as a kid and campaigned for hungry children — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It was just an advert for his football club's new kit and nothing to do with food — no support
- **4.** He wanted to sell his own brand of lunches — 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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A teenager says: «that Quebec law is so sus, why can't a teacher wear a headscarf?» Which is the fair summary?

- **1.** The law bans headscarves but allows crosses — score 0
- **2.** Everyone agrees the law is perfect — score 2
- **3.** The law bans every worker in all of Canada from wearing religious symbols, at work and at home — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Supporters say teachers should look neutral; opponents say it unfairly stops people of some faiths — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 16: «In 2019 Quebec passed a law stopping some public workers, including public school teachers, from wearing religious symbols at work; it has been challenged in c…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «wear» (+2); the same doer «law» (+2); the same thing acted on «religious symbols» (+2); the same place «work» (+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/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Mia's brother in Perth moans: «Mum reckons the under-16 ban's about time. I reckon it's bloody unfair.» Which is fair?

- **1.** Some say it protects kids from harm; others say teens will get round it and lose contact — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It is a ban on phones for everyone — no support
- **3.** Nobody in Australia has said anything good about it, not even a single parent — no support
- **4.** It means adults can't use social media — 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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In an action film a teacher fights off a whole gang single-handed. What is the real-world argument?

- **1.** Films show exactly how school safety works — no support
- **2.** Armed teachers are required in the UK — no support
- **3.** Some say trained armed staff could help; others say more guns in school means more risk — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Every teacher in the US already carries a gun, so the film shows a normal school day — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 3: «Many school arguments are about the same few things: safety, freedom, fairness, and who decides — parents, teachers, school boards, governments or children the…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+5); the same doer «many school arguments» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Dinner goes silent after Dylan's aunt and uncle argue about guns. What is the best thing to remember?

- **1.** One of them must want children harmed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** When both want children safe, the argument is about how to get there — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Gun laws are not something people disagree about — no support
- **4.** Only politicians are allowed to talk about guns — 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Hannah messages from Manchester: «our kid's well mardy, says UK coppers carry guns everywhere.» What is true?

- **1.** UK police officers carry swords instead of guns — score 3
- **2.** UK police are not allowed handcuffs — no support
- **3.** Every UK police officer carries a gun — score 3
- **4.** Most UK police officers do not carry guns — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 11: «In the UK most guns are tightly controlled and most police officers do not carry guns.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «most police officers» (+3); the same thing acted on «guns» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/t11/)

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

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Identify the principal purpose of a lockdown drill in a school.

- **1.** To ascertain the proper functioning of the electric lighting and the fire alarms — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** To discipline pupils for misconduct in class — no support
- **3.** To ensure that all persons know how to act should a danger ever arise — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** To signify that a danger is anticipated upon that particular day — 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning Australia's response to the shooting at Port Arthur in 1996.

- **1.** Every school in Tasmania was permanently closed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Each adult citizen was issued a firearm by the state — no support
- **3.** Strict national firearms laws were adopted and a substantial quantity of guns was purchased back by government — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** All restrictions upon firearms were subsequently abolished — 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/e2/)

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

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State the matter protected by the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

- **1.** A right to keep and bear arms — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** A prohibition upon religious symbols worn by teachers — no support
- **3.** A right to free school meals for all pupils — no support
- **4.** A prohibition upon social media accounts for persons under sixteen — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 8: «The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects a right to keep and bear arms, and Americans argue about what that allows.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bear» (+3); the same thing acted on «arms» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the legislation enacted in Australia commencing in December 2025?

- **1.** Large social media platforms are required to prevent persons under sixteen from holding accounts — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Persons under sixteen are required to hold social media accounts — no support
- **3.** All mobile telephones are prohibited throughout the Commonwealth — no support
- **4.** Social media platforms are prohibited for persons over sixteen — 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/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/e4/)

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