--- title: Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books description: The 21 test and exam questions of lesson 88 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» 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 and pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/) [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 Alphabet Was… # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water The 21 questions of lesson 88 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 112 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/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t1/) — Finn: «Taffy guessed shu-ya cos she saw it raining, that's mid.» (mid = so-so) Is that fair? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t2/) — Why is writing «yo» better than Taffy's picture-letter way? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t3/) — What would happen if they used the plain snake for both s and sh? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t4/) — Taffy says a thin egg would be «a frog that hasn't eaten anything for years». Why is it a joke? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t5/) — Which is TRUE about this part? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t6/) — Real life: what is the «rebus» idea? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t7/) — Real life: why is an alphabet so powerful? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t8/) — Real life: how many letters does English need, and how many characters does Chinese writing use? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t9/) — Real life, on a dreich (grey, wet) day: where does «sky-water» come from? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t10/) — Looking back: the Tribe thought Taffy's picture showed Tegumai being speared. What does Tegumai joke here? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t11/) — Looking back: what did Tegumai pay the Stranger-man for the mud? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t12/) — Looking back: why did Tegumai draw a feeler on the carp-mouth? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t13/) — Looking back: which earlier character said one word, «Humph!», and got something on his back for it? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t14/) — Jake from Bristol: «gurt idea, Tegumai, draw a spear as a whole battle scene.» (gurt = great) What does he actually do? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t15/) — ★★★ Taffy reads «snake, pole, broken egg, carp-tail and carp-mouth». How many signs is that, and how many sounds does «shu-ya» have? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t16/) — ★★★ Using only the signs from this lesson (carp-mouth ah, carp-tail y, egg o, snake s, drying-poles sh, thin egg oo), which of these could they NOT write yet? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/t17/) — ★★★ Careful: «S'pose you saw this scratched by the side of a pool». Who drew the «yo» sign (8.)? — right ✓ · ★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/e1/) — Identify the meaning, in the language of the Tribe of Tegumai, of the word «yo». — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/e2/) — Ascertain the reason for which a separate sign was adopted for the sound sh. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/e3/) — It is given that Tegumai required a sign for the thin oo-sound. Select the response most consistent with his solution. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the advantage of an alphabet over picture-writing? — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [87. 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