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title: Pencils, paper and school things — how Mova does on the tests · Technology
description: Lesson 6 of the technology course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Pencils, paper and school things

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 6 of the technology 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/).

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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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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«don't chew ur pencil, it's lead, u'll be poisoned» What is right?

- **1.** Yes, every pencil holds poisonous metal — no support
- **2.** Yes, but only once it is sharpened — no support
- **3.** No, pencils are made of chocolate — no support
- **4.** Pencil lead is graphite, not the metal lead, though chewing pencils is still a bad habit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 7: «Pencil "lead" is graphite, a soft form of carbon, not the poisonous metal lead; by a famous estimate one pencil can draw a line about 56 kilometres long.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «pencil lead» (+2); the same thing acted on «graphite» (+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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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«late for the bus, running with me pencil in me hand» What is the rule?

- **1.** Hold it point up and just run a bit faster — no support
- **2.** It is only a problem indoors, not outside — no support
- **3.** Never run holding a pencil or pen — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Put it in your mouth instead so your hands are free — 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 6, line 18: «Rules: never run holding a pencil or pen, and tell an adult at once if a small child swallows a cap or anything else small.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hold» (+2); the same thing acted on «pencil» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t2/)

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### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3}

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«pen stopped working, prob cos I was writing on the ceiling lying in bed» What is the reason?

- **1.** The pen got too cold in bed — no support
- **2.** Ink must flow down to the ball, and upside down it can't — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Ceilings soak up all the ink — no support
- **4.** The little ball melts when the pen is held upside down for long — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 10: «A ballpoint pen has a tiny metal ball at its tip, often less than a millimetre wide, that rolls ink from the tube onto the paper; the ink needs to flow down to…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «flow down» (+2); the same doer «ink» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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A felt-tip left without its cap all weekend won't write. Why?

- **1.** The liquid in the ink evaporated — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Light stole all the colour — no support
- **3.** Pens wear out from resting — no support
- **4.** The felt grew mould over the weekend — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 14: «Felt-tip pens have a spongy core soaked in ink that feeds the tip, and they dry out without a cap because the liquid in the ink evaporates, which means it slow…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «evaporate» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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«magazines use like a million inks for all them colours» What is right?

- **1.** About a million, one for each different shade — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two inks, red and blue, mixed together by hand — no support
- **3.** Just four inks in tiny dots make the colours — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Only black ink, which the light makes look coloured — 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t5/)

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### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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What would happen if cardboard had no wavy middle layer?

- **1.** It would become waterproof — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It would be twice as strong — no support
- **3.** It would become see-through — no support
- **4.** It would be thin and bend easily under heavy things — **✓ 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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«paper comes from plastic, innit» What is right?

- **1.** Yes, paper is very thin plastic — no support
- **2.** Paper is made from sheep's wool — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Paper is made from wood pulp, and often from recycled paper too — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Paper is made from stone dust mixed with water and dried in the sun — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 6, line 8: «Paper is made from wood chipped and cooked into pulp, drained on a fast wire mesh, pressed and dried between hot rollers into huge rolls; it can be recycled se…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «paper» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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In a cartoon a crayon on a cool windowsill melts into a puddle. What is true?

- **1.** Crayons melt in any cool place — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Crayons melt in your hand in a minute — no support
- **3.** Crayons soften or melt only when it gets hot, like in a hot car — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Crayons never melt at all, not even when they are thrown into a fire — 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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A pack has 10 felt-tips. Ben loses 3 and his brother gives him 2. How many does Ben have now?

- **1.** 7 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 5 — no support
- **3.** 9 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 15 — 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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«baby bro swallowed a pen cap, he's breathing fine, don't tell mum» What should you do?

- **1.** Wait a week and see what happens — no support
- **2.** Tell an adult straight away — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Give him some water and forget it — no support
- **4.** Keep it secret so nobody gets cross — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 6, line 18: «Rules: never run holding a pencil or pen, and tell an adult at once if a small child swallows a cap or anything else small.», 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 «tell» (+2); the same receiver «adult» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t10/)

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### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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A class of 28 each needs 2 exercise books. How many books is that?

- **1.** 30 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 26 — no support
- **3.** 48 — no support
- **4.** 56 — **✓ 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/t11/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the core of a pencil.

- **1.** It consists of compressed charcoal from cedar trees — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It consists of metallic lead and is poisonous — no support
- **3.** It consists of graphite combined with clay and contains no metallic lead — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It consists of solidified ink — 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/e1/)

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

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Identify the principal reason for which corrugated cardboard is able to bear considerable loads.

- **1.** It is entirely saturated with glue — no support
- **2.** It is reinforced throughout with fine steel wire concealed within each layer — no support
- **3.** Its undulating middle layer stiffens it in the manner of a bridge's arches — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** It is manufactured from solid timber — no support

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**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 6, line 5: «Cardboard looks weak, but its wavy middle layer makes it strong, like the arches under a bridge.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «wavy middle layer» (+2); the same thing acted on «cardboard» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/e2/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the printing of coloured pictures in magazines?

- **1.** Each colour in the picture is printed with its own separate ink — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The picture is painted by hand upon every copy — no support
- **3.** Minute dots of four inks, namely cyan, magenta, yellow and black, are printed in succession — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Black ink alone is employed and coloured by light — 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the minimum number of packets of twelve pencils required in order that each of thirty pupils may receive one pencil.

- **1.** Thirty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two — no support
- **3.** Three — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Four — 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/e4/)

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