--- title: What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 1 «What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares» of the language 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/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / What language is: sounds, words and ru… # What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares The 15 questions of lesson 1 «What language is: sounds, words and rules everyone shares» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 88 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/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t1/) — Your mate goes "slang ain't proper language bruv, it's just noise." What's the best answer? — right ✓ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t2/) — Your cousin reckons "cat" is the real name and other languages just copy English. Is she right? — wrong ✗ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t3/) — What would happen if English had no word-order rules at all? — wrong ✗ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t4/) — Grace's headline says "Man bites dog!" Her brother says "same as dog bites man, innit." Is he right? ("Innit" here just asks "isn't it?") — right ✓ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t5/) — Gran goes "back in my day babies just made noise till you taught 'em words." What is true? — right ✓ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t6/) — A Gen Z lad says "lowkey most people only speak one language, it's giving one-language world." ("Lowkey" means "a bit, quietly", "it's giving" means "it seems like".) Is he right? — wrong ✗ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t7/) — In a cartoon, an alien says "Take me to your leader" and every human understands instantly, in every country. What's wrong? — wrong ✗ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t8/) — Ollie's mate says "you got two voices, you're well fake." What's the wise reply? — wrong ✗ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t9/) — Kai has no idea what "dreich" means. What should he do? — wrong ✗ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t10/) — Your little brother insists "knee" has four sounds because it has four letters. What do you tell him? — right ✓ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/t11/) — Uncle Dave says y'all is just a mistake people make when they don't know better. What's true? — wrong ✗ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the phenomenon designated "language"? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/e2/) — Identify the principal reason for which the English word "cat" and the Ukrainian word "кіт" differ, notwithstanding their common referent. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/e3/) — Given the sentences "The dog bit the man" and "The man bit the dog", select the response consistent with the established facts concerning English grammar. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/e4/) — In respect of the alteration of a speaker's manner of speech according to the person addressed, which statement is most accurate? — right ✓ · exam - next →: [2. Nouns: the names of things, people, places and i…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/) - ↑ back to [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/)