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title: "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" — how Mova does on the tests · World
description: Lesson 177 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# "Crime is up, I saw it on the news"

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**Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 177 of the world 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/).

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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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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Nan in Yorkshire: "I'm not going out after dark, love, crime's proper everywhere, I see it every night on the telly." What is the fair reply?

- **1.** The news gathers scary stories from everywhere; counts show how common crime is — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Crime only happens after dark, so she's right — no support
- **3.** She should watch even more news to be sure — no support
- **4.** She's right; nightly news means crime is on her street — 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Young cousin: "Yo, sharks lowkey everywhere in Cornwall, I saw a vid, I'm not swimming fr." What is the truth?

- **1.** Sharks only come close when children swim — no support
- **2.** One video proves that sharks are everywhere — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Cornwall has more shark bites every year than Australia — no support
- **4.** Shark bites around Britain are almost unheard of — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 172, line 11: «Videos show the exciting moments; seeing only the winners and not the losers is called survivorship bias.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «show» (+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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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What would happen if the news showed a story about every safe car trip and every safe flight?

- **1.** Plane crashes would become more common — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The roads would suddenly get more dangerous — no support
- **3.** It would never end, which is why news shows only the rare things — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nobody would ever dare to fly again — 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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Uncle Paul: "Planes? Nah mate, I'll drive, it's safer." Then he drives five hours on the motorway. Which is true?

- **1.** He chose the riskier trip, just slower — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He chose the safest possible way to travel — no support
- **3.** Motorways never have any accidents — no support
- **4.** Driving and flying are equally risky for the same distance — 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Aunt: "Burglaries up 50%! We're doomed!" Last year 2, this year 3. What do you say?

- **1.** It's one more burglary; ask for the real numbers — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It means the number of burglaries more than doubled — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** It means 50 more houses in the village were burgled — no support
- **4.** It means half the houses in the village were burgled — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 176, line 8: «A number like "30% more fun" measures nothing real; if nobody can say how it was measured, the number is decoration.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «number» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t5/)

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### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Grandpa from Pittsburgh: "Back in my day yinz kids played out all day, way safer." What is the fair answer?

- **1.** Everything was safer in the 1970s — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Some things were better then, but roads are much safer for children now — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nothing at all was better in the past — no support
- **4.** Children never played outside back then — 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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Ruby: "Dad, it's one bloke in a car park." Dad: "See, everybody hates the rule." Who is reasoning better?

- **1.** Neither; you can never find out what people think — no support
- **2.** Dad; if one man is angry, everyone must be — no support
- **3.** Dad; reporters always pick a typical person who speaks for all — score 5
- **4.** Ruby; one person on TV doesn't show what everybody thinks — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 174, line 4: «Big numbers don't settle it either: ten million subscribers don't make a fact true, and one famous person who got rich without finishing school doesn't show sc…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «show» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «one famous person» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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In a cartoon Grandad sees two news stories, and his thought bubble shows every teenager in the world throwing eggs. Put the cartoon right.

- **1.** Two stories about a few people don't describe millions — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Grandad must have seen every teenager on TV — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** Two stories are enough to describe every teenager in the world — no support
- **4.** Only teenagers in cartoons have no manners — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 126, line 5: «Family dates often line up with history: Ukraine became independent on 24 August 1991, and a grandad who watched the Moon landing on TV at 7, in 1969, was born…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «tv» (+2); the same doer «grandad» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Mum: "Flu's highkey everywhere, no party, end of." Only one kid in the class is ill. What is fair?

- **1.** Go to the party even if you are ill yourself — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Look at the local picture; one ill child is not an outbreak — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Keep everyone at home for the whole winter — no support
- **4.** Flu on TV means everyone you meet this week is already ill too — 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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"Seven hours on screens a day?! Tom, you're glued to that thing." The number includes the whiteboard at school. What should Mum do?

- **1.** Count only the hours Tom spends on his own phone — score 5
- **2.** Read past the headline to see what was counted — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Believe the headline number exactly as it is printed — no support
- **4.** Ban the whiteboard at school so the number goes down — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 177, line 7: «Official figures show that many kinds of crime have gone down over the years, even while many people feel things are getting worse.», 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 «go down» (+2); the same property (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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Dad: "One dog bit someone, it's in the paper. No dog for us, ever." The dog next door is a 14-year-old sausage dog. What is the better plan?

- **1.** Never walk past any dog again — no support
- **2.** Learn how to be safe around dogs instead of fearing them all — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Make every dog wear a muzzle at home — score 4
- **4.** Believe every headline about animals — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 177, line 10: «Most dogs never bite anyone; learning how to be safe around dogs is more useful than fearing all of them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+4); the same circumstance (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/t11/)

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

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Identify the principal reason for which persons who watch a great deal of news frequently overestimate the prevalence of crime.

- **1.** Crime occurs predominantly at the hour at which the news is broadcast — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** News broadcasts report only the crimes in the viewer's street — no support
- **3.** The news selects unusual and alarming events from a very large area — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Official crime figures are not compiled by any authority — 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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It is given that burglaries in a village increased from two in one year to three in the next. Determine the number of additional burglaries thereby represented.

- **1.** Fifty additional burglaries — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** One additional burglary — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Three additional burglaries — no support
- **4.** Two additional burglaries — 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/e2/)

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

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Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the comparative safety, over the same distance travelled, of air travel on major airlines and travel by car.

- **1.** Both are precisely equal in safety — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Air travel on major airlines is considerably safer — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Travel by car is considerably safer — no support
- **4.** No comparison has ever been made — 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the inference that a new rule is universally disliked because one angry man was shown on television?

- **1.** Reporters invariably select the most typical citizen — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Public opinion cannot be measured by any method — no support
- **3.** A single interviewee is sufficient to establish the opinion of the public — no support
- **4.** One interviewee does not establish the opinion of the population — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 177, line 14: «Reporters often pick dramatic people to interview; one angry man on TV doesn't show what most people think, but a fair survey can.», 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 doer «reporters» (+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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/e4/)

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