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title: Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books
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# Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began

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The 22 questions of lesson 89 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 117 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/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t1/) — Ivy: «they made the whole alphabet in like five minutes, slay.» (slay = brilliant) Put it right. — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t2/) — Why does Taffy feel a little sad about «shi-las»? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t3/) — «The easier we make our sound-pictures the better.» Why is Tegumai right? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t4/) — What would happen if the T stayed a full family picture? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t5/) — Which is TRUE in this part? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t6/) — Real life: did one family make the alphabet in a day? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t7/) — Real life: what did the Greeks add to the alphabet they borrowed from the Phoenicians? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t8/) — Real life: which of our letters may have begun as wavy water? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t9/) — Real life: old Greek and Latin were often written how? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t10/) — Looking back: in part 2, what did «yo» mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t11/) — Looking back: in part 1, which sign meant ah? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t12/) — Looking back: what did the Tribe think Taffy's beavers were? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t13/) — Looking back: in the first Taffy story, the Head Chief foretold how many letters? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t14/) — Tom from Cardiff: «Tegumai gave Taffy a cwtch after the rain.» (cwtch = cuddle) What did Tegumai really do when the rain came? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t15/) — Real life: Kipling's poem says «none remain» and Tegumai is far behind, looking for his daughter. What sad real event do many readers think of? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t16/) — ★★★ Careful: «Ya-las» was chalked on the tank. Which signs from the story would spell it, in order? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t17/) — ★★★ Taffy, Tegumai, Teshumai all start with T. Which of these Tribe words, also in the story, starts with a sound they had already made a sign for BEFORE the T? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t18/) — ★★★ Real life: the Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters and English has 26. Which three letters did English add only in the last thousand years? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/e1/) — Identify the sign adopted by Tegumai for the rough sound r. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/e2/) — Ascertain the content of the message chalked upon the water-tank on the following morning. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/e3/) — It is given that the T-sound was represented by a family group. Select the response most consistent with the subsequent development of that sign. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the real historical origin of the alphabet? — wrong ✗ · exam

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