--- title: How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the al… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · History description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 82 «How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the alphabet» of the history course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / How writing began: from tally marks an… # How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the alphabet The 16 questions of lesson 82 «How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the alphabet» of the history course of Mova's primary school with their options, 87 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/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t1/) — Taffy sends a picture-letter and her mother thinks Tegumai has been hurt. What does this show about pictures? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t2/) — «lol writing was invented by one clever guy one day, like in the book» What is closer to the truth? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t3/) — You draw an eye, a can and a sea to write «I can see». Which trick is that? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t4/) — Turn a capital A upside down. Which old picture might you see? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t5/) — ★★ A Phoenician ship sails from Tyre to Carthage and Greece with dye and letters. Why did the alphabet spread so fast? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t6/) — «Chinese is just an alphabet with loads of letters innit» What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t7/) — «my teacher says the Greeks invented the alphabet» What is the fairer answer? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t8/) — Why could Kipling's Tegumai not really have written letters in Stone Age Surrey? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t9/) — Which pair of scripts both grew from the old alphabet of the Phoenicians? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t10/) — ★★ A Phoenician word «brd» could be read «bread», «bird», «bard» or «board». Which problem do the missing letters cause? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t11/) — ★★★ The Phoenicians had 22 letters. The Greeks added 5 new letters at the end and later dropped 3 old ones they did not need. How many letters has the Greek alphabet? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/t12/) — «writing came from cave paintings, cave people wrote stories on the walls» What would you say? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/e1/) — Identify the principal purpose for which writing was first employed in Mesopotamia. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the earliest alphabet? — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Phoenicians. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/e4/) — Ascertain the people to whom the alphabet owes the addition of letters for vowels. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [81. 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