--- title: Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books description: The 21 test and exam questions of lesson 86 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / Just So Stories, How the First Letter… # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down The 21 questions of lesson 86 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 116 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t1/) — Ruby: «Head Chief was salty and punished Taffy, end of.» (salty = cross) Put it right. — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t2/) — Why does the Head Chief say pictures need «a man who can talk our language» with them? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t3/) — What would have happened if Taffy had drawn the spear once, small and clear, beside Mummy? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t4/) — Which is TRUE at the end of this story? — right ✓ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t5/) — Kipling ends: very few little girls like learning to read or write. What should we say about that today? — right ✓ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t6/) — Erin from Cork: «yer man the Stranger was a right eejit to run off.» (eejit = idiot) Was he? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t7/) — Real life: where did true writing first begin, about 5,000 years ago? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t8/) — Real life: when did writing reach Britain? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t9/) — Ben from Sunderland: «howay, the Wey's always been this size.» (howay = come on) What does the poem say? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t10/) — Looking back: in part 1, what did Taffy wish they could do to get the spear? — right ✓ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t11/) — Looking back: in part 1, what did Taffy pull from the Stranger-man? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t12/) — Looking back: the Tribe was wrong about the picture. Which earlier character was wrong about a nose that would not shrink? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t13/) — Looking back: like Taffy, Old Man Kangaroo got more than he asked for. What did he ask? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t14/) — Josh: «I'm dead, the ladies said "Idiot!" ever so politely.» (I'm dead = that's so funny) Why is it a joke? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t15/) — ★★★ «Then the Head Chief laughed; then the Stranger-man; then Tegumai; then all the Tribe.» Who laughed third? — right ✓ · ★ - [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t16/) — ★★★ The Head Chief says «some day men will call it writing. At present it is only pictures.» What is the difference he means? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/t17/) — ★★★ The poem says Taffy lived on Merrow Down «long and long before» the ancient Britons traded there. If the Britons traded about 2,500 years ago, when did Taffy live? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/e1/) — Identify the explanation furnished by Taffy in respect of the «bad people» depicted upon the birch-bark. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/e2/) — Ascertain the designation by which, according to the Head Chief, the invention would hereafter be known. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/e3/) — Select the response most consistent with the established facts concerning the fate of the Stranger-man. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the arrival of writing in Britain? — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [85. 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