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title: Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 23 «Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin» 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.
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# Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin

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The 15 questions of lesson 23 «Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 85 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/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t1/) — Your mate goes "the Vikings just smashed stuff, they never left any words, bruv." What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t2/) — Gran says "Mayday is a call about May Day, love, the spring holiday." Is she right? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t3/) — Your Aussie cousin says "brekkie at 7 a.m., means after midnight, yeah?" ("Brekkie" means breakfast.) What does a.m. really mean? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t4/) — What would happen if no French words had entered English? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t5/) — Leo reckons a printer in the 1400s made up the egg story to be funny. What does the story really show? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t6/) — A cartoon says "the word bus means BIG CAR in Old English!" What's the truth? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t7/) — Mo's big sis says "video is a new word, Latin's dead so it can't give us words." What's fair? — right ✓ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t8/) — Zara's mate from Glasgow says "aye, croissant's a pure Scottish word, ken." ("Ken" means you know.) What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t9/) — Which of these is a clipping, like "bus" from "omnibus"? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t10/) — Why is it surprising that English borrowed "they" from the Vikings? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/t11/) — Your mate says "English is pure, mate, no foreign words." What's the best way to describe English? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which English designates the animal "cow" but its flesh "beef". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the word "they"? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/e3/) — State the meaning of the abbreviation "p.m." pursuant to its Latin origin. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the composition of English vocabulary. — wrong ✗ · exam

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