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title: Ruth, and David and Goliath — how Mova does on the tests · Religion ethics
description: Lesson 8 of the religion ethics 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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# Ruth, and David and Goliath

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

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Lesson 8 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/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/).

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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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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my friend: «ruth was an israelite princess who married david». fix it pls

- **1.** Ruth was a queen of Egypt who married Saul — no support
- **2.** Ruth was Goliath's mother from Philistia — no support
- **3.** Ruth was David's sister from Jerusalem — no support
- **4.** Ruth was a foreign widow from Moab who married Boaz and was David's great-grandmother — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 1: «Ruth was a young widow from Moab, a foreign land, who would not leave her mother-in-law Naomi: «Where you go I will go, and your people will be my people».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ruth» (+2); the same thing acted on «young widow» (+2); the same place «moab» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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A new kid from Syria joins the class and someone says «go back where you came from». What does Ruth's story say?

- **1.** Foreigners should stay with their own people, in their own land — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It says nothing about newcomers — no support
- **3.** Newcomers can belong, as Ruth the foreigner did — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Only rich foreigners should be welcomed — 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«why should the farm leave food on the edge, that's their money innit». What is the idea of gleaning?

- **1.** The edges were full of bad grain that nobody wanted to eat anyway — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** It was a trick to catch thieves — no support
- **3.** Farmers were too lazy to finish — no support
- **4.** Leaving something for people in need is built-in fairness — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 8: «Gleaning meant gathering grain left at the edges of a field; God's law let the poor and foreigners do it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «grain» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). 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/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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little bro: «david beat goliath cos he was secretly the biggest guy in the army». right?

- **1.** No, Jonathan fought Goliath for him — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, he was a young shepherd who trusted God and used his sling — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, he was taller than Goliath and the strongest man in Israel — no support
- **4.** Yes, he wore the king's armour — 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t4/)

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### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5}

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kids pick teams: «not him, he's tiny and rubbish lol». Which line answers this?

- **1.** People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Where you go I will go — no support
- **3.** Only the strongest should be chosen — no support
- **4.** Let my people go — 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t5/)

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### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«Saul tried to kill him, David should've got him back, easy». What did David actually do?

- **1.** He hid in a cave until Saul died of old age — no support
- **2.** He killed Saul with a stone from his sling — **← Mova's choice** · score 12
- **3.** He told Jonathan to do it for him in secret — no support
- **4.** He spared Saul when he had the chance — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 4: «David's best friend was King Saul's son Jonathan, who protected him from Saul's jealousy, and when David could have killed Saul, who was hunting him, he refuse…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «saul» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «kill» (+2); the same doer «david» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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A classmate with no religion asks: «why was Jonathan such a good friend?»

- **1.** He fought Goliath for David — score 3
- **2.** He protected David from his own father's jealousy, even at a cost — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** He was paid by Samuel to help — no support
- **4.** He gave David his father's crown at once and made him king that same day — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 15: «Jonathan, King Saul's son, became David's best friend and protected him from Saul's jealousy.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «protect» (+2); the same doer «jonathan» (+2); the same receiver «david» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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«the giant was just a big man lol, why was everyone so scared?» What does the story show?

- **1.** The king had banned fighting — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Fear can freeze a whole crowd until one person trusts and acts — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The soldiers were all asleep — no support
- **4.** Goliath had magic powers — 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t8/)

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### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9}

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My mate wants to borrow my dad's huge football boots for the match. What would David's story say?

- **1.** Use what fits you and the gifts you have — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Never play against bigger kids — no support
- **3.** Always copy whatever the strongest player on the team does — no support
- **4.** Big boots always win games — 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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A judge asks: «Was Ruth's choice only loyalty, or also courage?»

- **1.** Both: she left her own land and people for a hard, unknown life — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Neither, she was told to go — no support
- **3.** Only loyalty, it cost her nothing — no support
- **4.** Only courage, she did not love Naomi — 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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A judge follows up: «Is every detail of Ruth and David agreed to be exact history?»

- **1.** Yes, every Christian agrees on every detail — no support
- **2.** No, because Ruth never existed in any version of the Bible story at all — no support
- **3.** No, Christians differ on the details, though the lessons are agreed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Yes, there are photographs of Goliath — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 17: «Christians differ on whether every detail of these books is exact history; the lessons are agreed, the details are disputed.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «differ» (+2); the same doer «christians» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t11/)

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

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Identify the principal reason for which, according to the First Book of Samuel, the youngest son of Jesse was anointed.

- **1.** He was the son of King Saul — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He had defeated Goliath previously — no support
- **3.** He was the eldest and the tallest of the sons, as was the custom — no support
- **4.** The Lord regards the heart rather than the outward appearance — **✓ 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/e1/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the practice designated «gleaning»?

- **1.** The gathering, by the poor, of grain remaining at the margins of a field — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The sale of surplus grain by the landowner — no support
- **3.** The payment of a tithe of grain to the priests of the Temple at Jerusalem — no support
- **4.** The sowing of seed prior to the rains — 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/e2/)

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

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State the relationship of Ruth the Moabitess to King David.

- **1.** Great-great-grandmother — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Great-grandmother — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Paternal grandmother — no support
- **4.** Maternal grandmother — 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/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/e3/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established account concerning the conduct of David towards King Saul.

- **1.** David delivered Saul to the Philistines — score 3
- **2.** David slew Saul in single combat — score 3
- **3.** David conspired with Jonathan to depose Saul — score 3
- **4.** Having opportunity to slay Saul, David declined to do him harm — **← 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 8, line 4: «David's best friend was King Saul's son Jonathan, who protected him from Saul's jealousy, and when David could have killed Saul, who was hunting him, he refuse…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «refuse» (+2); the same doer «david» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/e4/)

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