--- title: The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret — how Mova does on the tests · Reflection description: Lesson 15 of the reflection course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 10 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/reflection/) / 15 # The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret **Tests:** 5 of 10 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 15 of the reflection 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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/). 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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Leo's mate goes, "if nobody found out, you got away with it, job done, bruv." What's the truth? - **1.** The lie stays inside, and carrying it alone is worse — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** He's right, as long as you never think about it again — no support - **3.** He's right; a lie nobody finds out does no harm to anyone — score 5 - **4.** Lies only matter if a teacher finds out — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 15, line 6: «A lie that is never found out does not disappear; it often stays inside and can feel worse than being caught, because you carry it alone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+4); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Ruby's cousin, Aussie: "Nah, nicking a few lollies from the servo doesn't count, mate." ("Nicking" means stealing; "lollies" are sweets; a "servo" is a petrol station.) What's right? - **1.** It only counts if a camera sees you — no support - **2.** It doesn't count if it's only sweets and nobody gets hurt — no support - **3.** It's still stealing; paying and saying sorry helps — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** It's fine if the shop is very big — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 9: «Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing (shoplifting); going back with a grown-up to pay and say sorry helps put it right.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «say» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} What would happen if Sam never owned up about the window? - **1.** The window would be fixed faster — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nothing at all would happen to anyone — no support - **3.** His friend would stay wrongly blamed and Sam would keep the guilt — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** His friend would forget it and Sam would feel fine — no support **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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Mia says, "I'm a bully. I'm just a bad person." Which thought is more useful? - **1.** I did a mean thing; saying sorry and changing is what matters — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Everyone says stuff, so it doesn't count — no support - **3.** It was the girl's fault for finding out — no support - **4.** I'm bad, so there is no point in trying to change anything now — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 9: «Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing (shoplifting); going back with a grown-up to pay and say sorry helps put it right.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} In a cartoon, a kid copies homework, gets a gold star and feels great forever. What's unrealistic? - **1.** Gold stars make every bit of the guilt disappear for good — no support - **2.** Teachers never notice any copying at all in real life — no support - **3.** Praise for copied work usually doesn't feel real — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** Nothing; copying always feels great when you get a star — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 12: «Praise for copied work does not feel real, and copying stops a teacher from seeing what you need help with.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+2); the same doer «praise» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Ava's gran, Scottish: "Ach, hen, a broken vase is nae bother, it's the hidin' that's the trouble." ("Hen" means dear; "nae" means no.) What does she mean? - **1.** Ava should hide things better next time — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **2.** The accident is small; hiding it is what makes things worse — **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **3.** Breaking vases is fine, but only for grandmothers, not children — no support - **4.** Vases are never important to anyone — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 15, line 5: «The guilt is your conscience working, not proof that you are a bad person; doing a wrong thing means you need to fix it and change, and owning up is usually th…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «wrong thing» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 10. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Noah's mate: "it's just a cat, chill, it ran off." What's the honest view? - **1.** His mate is right; animals don't really feel pain like people do — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Hurting an animal is wrong, and his anger needs help, not hiding — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It's fine if the animal runs away afterwards — no support - **4.** Cats don't count because they're not people — no support **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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Lily's sister finds out her diary was read. Lily says, "I was just being nosy, it's not that deep." What would be better? - **1.** Nothing; nosy people can't help it, so there's nothing to say sorry for — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Telling her sister to hide it better — no support - **3.** A real sorry, because reading it broke her trust — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** Promising to only read it on weekends — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 15, line 9: «Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing (shoplifting); going back with a grown-up to pay and say sorry helps put it right.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Kai's mate: "you got the game, didn't you? W." ("W" means a win.) Why doesn't it feel like a win to Kai? - **1.** He doesn't like that kind of game — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** His mate wanted the game for himself — no support - **3.** Guilt about the stolen money spoils the game — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The game was too easy to finish — no support **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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Isla thinks, "I laughed, so I'm as bad as the bullies forever." What's a fairer thought? - **1.** I'm exactly as bad as them now, so nothing I do can ever change it — no support - **2.** I laughed out of fear; I can say sorry and stand up next time — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** It doesn't matter because I didn't start it — no support - **4.** My friend should have laughed too — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 17: «Laughing along when someone is bullied, out of fear, is common; making up for it and standing up next time is possible.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «stand up» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/t10/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of a falsehood which remains undiscovered? - **1.** It ceases to have any effect upon its author within a short period — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It invariably brings satisfaction to its author — no support - **3.** It is of consequence only upon its discovery by an adult — no support - **4.** It commonly persists within the mind of its author as a burden borne alone — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} It is given that a pupil allowed another to bear the blame for his own act. Determine the course of action consistent with integrity. - **1.** Insistence that the blamed pupil prove his innocence — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Concealment pending the eventual discovery of the truth by others — no support - **3.** Continued silence, since the matter has been concluded — no support - **4.** Acknowledgement of responsibility, notwithstanding the delay — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Identify the principal reason for which most parents respond more gravely to concealment than to the accident concealed. - **1.** Concealment damages trust, whereas an accident is not deliberate — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Parents are customarily indifferent to accidents of every kind whatsoever — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Accidents are invariably more costly than concealment — no support - **4.** Concealment is the only matter subject to legal penalty — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 13: «Most parents are less upset about an accident than about it being hidden; hiding makes guilt grow.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «most parents» (+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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Ascertain which statement is consistent with the facts concerning guilt experienced after wrongdoing. - **1.** It arises only where the wrongdoing has been discovered — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is a disorder requiring the suppression of all memory of the wrongdoing — no support - **3.** It establishes that the person is permanently and wholly bad — no support - **4.** It is the operation of conscience and not proof of irredeemable character — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/reflection/15-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret/e4/) - ← previous: [14. 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