--- title: Rights, duties and community dilemmas — how Mova does on the tests · Religion ethics description: Lesson 49 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 2 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/) / 49 # Rights, duties and community dilemmas **Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 49 of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/). 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Brother: "Free speech means I can say whatever I want about anyone, deal with it." What is the best reply? - **1.** Free speech means you must always agree with me — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** You're right, words can never hurt anyone at all, only sticks and stones — no support - **3.** Free speech matters, but so does not hurting people for no reason — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Shut up, nobody cares what you say — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2} A Muslim classmate asks, "Why do some kids laugh when I pray?" What is the best thing to say? - **1.** That's unkind; we can believe different things and still respect each other — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** They laugh because your religion is funny — no support - **3.** Ignore it, laughing is a kind of free speech — no support - **4.** Just stop praying at school, then they'll stop — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 48, line 3: «Two kinds of thinking often meet here: rules thinking ("some things you must never do") and consequences thinking ("do what leads to the best results"), and th…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same thing acted on «things» (+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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} "Neighbour's music is SO loud at 2am, I'm gonna smash his speakers." Which response reasons best? - **1.** Talk to him calmly or ask an adult to help agree quiet hours — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Do nothing about it at all and just never get a good night's sleep again — no support - **3.** Play even louder music back at him all night to teach him a lesson — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** Smashing them is fair, since he started it and he deserves it — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 6: «When two people's rights clash, such as a right to sleep and a right to play music, they need to be balanced.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «play» (+4); the same thing acted on «music» (+1). Against it: 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} "The vote was 15 to 10, so the 10 losers just have to shut up." What is weak about this? - **1.** It is too fair to the people who lost — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It uses numbers, which have no place in ethics — no support - **3.** It ignores that the minority still has rights and deserves a hearing — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nothing; the winners can always do whatever they like with the losers — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} A judge asks: "Should you help your own brother first or a stranger in greater need?" Which answer is best? - **1.** Always my brother first, because strangers don't matter to me at all, ever — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** Both duties matter; it depends how great the need is, so I'd weigh them — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Always the stranger, because family duties don't count — no support - **4.** Neither, because helping is not my job — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 47, line 4: «Some questions are hard, like who should pay to fix the damage; a good answer weighs fairness, who caused the harm and who is able to help.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «weigh» (+3); the same doer «good answer» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Your friend says, "Refugees are just people who want free stuff." How do you put it right? - **1.** You're right, they all come here just to get free stuff — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Refugees are just people going away on very long holidays — no support - **3.** Refugees are people forced to flee war or persecution — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Refugees are people who break the law for fun wherever they go — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Sister: "If I forgive Tom for breaking my bike, he gets away with it." What is a good answer? - **1.** Forgiving means he must never have to fix or pay for anything at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Forgiving only works if he is your best friend — no support - **3.** You can forgive him and still ask him to help fix or pay for it — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Don't forgive him, just break his bike back — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8} At school, Jake and Leo fought. The head teacher brings them together to say what happened and agree how to make up. What is this called? - **1.** Restorative justice — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Majority rule — no support - **3.** Free speech — no support - **4.** A lottery — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9} "Kids don't get a say in school rules, cos adults know best, end of." What is weak about this? - **1.** It gives no reason why children's views about their own school don't count — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It respects children's voices too much — no support - **3.** Nothing; adults are never wrong — no support - **4.** It is too long and full of reasons — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10} A boy from Ukraine joins your class and speaks little English. Which plan is kindest and wisest? - **1.** Be his buddy, show him around and include him in games — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Tell him to sit at the back so he isn't in anybody's way — no support - **3.** Make jokes about his accent so he fits in — no support - **4.** Wait for him to learn English before talking to him — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Which statement about free speech is true? - **1.** It means no one may ever disagree with anyone about anything — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It only applies to grown-up people who are over the age of eighteen — no support - **3.** It is precious, but it does not make cruel words harmless — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It means insults are always good for people and make them tougher — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relation between freedom of expression and respect for religious belief? - **1.** Freedom of expression authorises any utterance whatsoever, irrespective of its consequences — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** The holding of religious belief prohibits every expression of disagreement — no support - **3.** The two are wholly unrelated, neither bearing upon the other — no support - **4.** Disagreement is permissible, whereas mockery of that which others hold sacred occasions needless hurt — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 33, line 13: «Freedom of religion is the right to believe, practise, change or have no religion; it is protected in human rights law.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Pursuant to article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, identify the entitlement thereby conferred. - **1.** The right of the child to be heard in matters affecting the child — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The right of the child to vote in national elections — no support - **3.** The right of the child to select the child's own teachers — no support - **4.** The right of the child to determine the child's own hours of rest — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} It being given that a decision has been reached by majority vote, select the response most consistent with sound democratic principle. - **1.** The minority forfeits all entitlements upon the declaration of the result — no support - **2.** The rights of the minority remain to be protected, the majority not being infallible — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** The majority is thereby shown to be correct in every particular — no support - **4.** The decision is invalid unless every participant has concurred — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 3: «Children have a right to be heard on things that affect them, and groups often decide by voting, but the majority must still protect the minority.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «protect» (+2); the same doer «majority» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Determine which of the following most accurately describes the practice termed restorative justice. - **1.** The concealment of the offence so that it may be forgotten — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The indefinite confinement of the offender without further consideration — no support - **3.** The bringing together of offender and injured party in order that the harm be repaired — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The infliction upon the offender of whatever penalty the injured party may happen to desire — 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/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/e4/) - ← previous: [48. 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