--- title: Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions — how Mova does on the tests · Reflection description: Lesson 2 of the reflection course of Mova's primary school: 9 of 11 tests right, exam 3 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/) [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/) / 2 # Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions **Tests:** 9 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 2 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/). 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Your nan from Yorkshire says, "Don't be mardy, our Lily, it's only bricks and mortar." ("Mardy" means sulky.) What is the kindest true answer? - **1.** Lily should stay away from the street forever — no support - **2.** Nan is right, houses are only bricks and can never matter to anyone — no support - **3.** It's a building, but it holds memories, so missing it is real — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Lily should ask the new owners to give the house back — no support **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 2, line 6: «Places such as a grandparent's house hold memories, so losing them can feel like another loss; "bricks and mortar" means just a building.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «hold» (+2); the same thing acted on «memories» (+2). Against it: 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/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} What would happen if Oscar kept all his questions about his baby cousin to himself? - **1.** He would likely stay confused and scared on his own — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The grown-ups would feel better because he was quiet — no support - **3.** His sadness would go away faster than by talking — no support - **4.** He would understand everything better without asking — 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} A kid in the playground says, "Sam's dad died and he's playing tag, so he doesn't care, no cap." ("No cap" means "no lie".) What's right? - **1.** Wrong; people grieve differently, and Sam may cry at home every night — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Right; anyone who plays after a death has stopped caring — no support - **3.** Right; grieving people are not allowed to play games — no support - **4.** Wrong, because Sam's dad has not really died at all — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 4: «Loss also brings big questions, like "Where is he now?" or "Will Mum and Dad die too?"; families believe different things, nobody can know for sure, and asking…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+2); the same doer «mum» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} In a film, a girl gets a new puppy the day after her dog dies, and everything is happy again at once. What's off? - **1.** New puppies make people forget the old pet completely — no support - **2.** Real people never get another pet after one dies — no support - **3.** A new pet does not replace the old one; many people need time first — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Nothing; a new puppy always fixes the grief completely by the next day — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 12: «A new pet does not replace one that died; you can love both, and waiting until you feel ready is okay.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «new pet» (+4); the same action «replace» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Isla's two friends are arguing loudly over whether Grandad is "in heaven" or "just nowhere". What would help Isla more? - **1.** Shouting louder than both of them until they stop — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Choosing one friend to win and never speaking to the other — no support - **3.** Agreeing that her grandad's life did not matter — no support - **4.** Hearing different beliefs kindly and deciding he lives on in her memories — **✓ 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Aaron's cousin, a bit sarcastic: "yeah, birthday's ruined forever, that's how it works innit." Which is true? - **1.** A sad day and a happy day can share a date, and you can hold both — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Once someone dies on your birthday you can never enjoy that day again — no support - **3.** Feeling happy on that date would show you never loved her — no support - **4.** Birthdays must be moved by law if someone dies that day — 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Noah's mate from Boston says, "it's wicked scary thinkin' about everyone dyin' at night." ("Wicked" means very.) What's the best thing for him to do? - **1.** Stay up later and later every night until the thought disappears by itself — no support - **2.** Tell a trusted adult the scary thought instead of keeping it alone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** Never tell anyone at all, because the thought means something is wrong — no support - **4.** Watch scary videos about death so that he gets used to it a lot faster — no support **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 1, line 19: «Things that often help are saying the looping thought to a trusted adult, writing a letter to the person, keeping something of theirs and saying their name; pr…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «looping thought» (+4); the same receiver «trusted adult» (+4); the same action «say» (+2). 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/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} Chloe hears kids gossiping that her dad is "doing time". What does that mean, and what helped her? - **1.** Being in prison; a teacher quietly checking on her and writing to her dad — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Working late; asking her dad to come home earlier every evening — no support - **3.** Being away on a trip; waiting for a postcard from him — no support - **4.** Being in hospital; sending her dad flowers and a card — 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Kai's coach says, "If a ten-year-old can die in a crash, then kids are never safe." What's wrong with it? - **1.** Car crashes only ever happen to children, never adults — no support - **2.** The coach is right, so kids should stop playing sport — no support - **3.** One terrible event feels huge, but most children grow up safe — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **4.** Nothing, children are never safe anywhere, at any time, in any place — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 8: «When a young person dies, the world can suddenly feel unsafe; the fear is usually big at first and shrinks with time, and most children grow up safe.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «most children» (+4); the same property (+3); the same action «grow up» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Ella's mum goes, "fixin' to write a thank-you letter to someone who's passed? That's weird, hon." ("Fixin' to" means about to.) What's the reason it isn't weird? - **1.** Writing an unsendable letter can still help your feelings — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **2.** It is the law to write to every teacher who dies — no support - **3.** Writing letters to someone makes forgetting them completely impossible — no support - **4.** The letter will be delivered to the teacher anyway — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 19: «Things that often help are saying the looping thought to a trusted adult, writing a letter to the person, keeping something of theirs and saying their name; pr…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «write» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «letter» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} In a video game, losing a character makes the player sad for five seconds, then he respawns. How is real loss different? - **1.** People who die do not come back, and grief can last a long time — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Real people respawn too after a short while — no support - **3.** Real loss is always over in five seconds as well — no support - **4.** Real loss never makes anyone sad at all — 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between grief and the passage of time? - **1.** Grief observes no fixed timetable and may be renewed by places and dates — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12 - **2.** Grief may be experienced solely upon the day of the bereavement and not thereafter — no support - **3.** Grief ceases entirely upon the expiry of one calendar month — score 8 - **4.** Grief diminishes only where the bereaved refuses to discuss it — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 1: «Grief has no timetable: it does not stop on a set day, and it can be stirred up again by a house, a date, a song or a question in the dark.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «timetable» (+4); the same doer «grief» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} It is given that a child experiences sorrow concerning a relative whom he never met. Determine which statement is consistent with the established facts. - **1.** Grief is permissible solely in respect of persons well known — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Grief in respect of unborn relatives is prohibited to children — no support - **3.** No rule restricts the persons entitled to grieve — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Such sorrow constitutes evidence of a disorder of the mind — 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Ascertain which of the following most accurately describes the position of a child whose parent has been imprisoned. - **1.** The parent's wrongdoing is not attributable to the child — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The child is obliged to discontinue all affection for the parent — no support - **3.** The child shares in full the culpability of the parent — no support - **4.** The child shall inevitably commit an identical offence — 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Select the response consistent with sound reasoning in respect of the question of what follows death. - **1.** Beliefs differ among families, and certainty is not available to anyone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The matter has been conclusively determined by the eldest person present — no support - **3.** The question may be answered only by those who shout most loudly — no support - **4.** The question is improper and must never be raised by a child — 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/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/e4/) - ← previous: [1. When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/reflection/1-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief/) - next →: [3. Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/reflection/3-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death/) - ↑ back to [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/reflection/)