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title: Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukra… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 14 test and exam questions of lesson 24 «Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more» 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 from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more

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The 14 questions of lesson 24 «Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and more» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 80 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/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t1/) — Josh's mate goes "emoji is obviously from emotion lol, no cap." ("No cap" means no lie.) What's true? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t2/) — Your cousin says "zero was invented in Europe, obvs." What's true? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t3/) — Adam's gamer bro says "avatar was made up by game programmers, innit." What's fair? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t4/) — Your mate says "jungle always meant rainforest, end of." What's true? — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t5/) — What would happen if English had never met Arabic? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t6/) — Mykola's mate says "borscht? that's just a Russian word, mate." What's a fair answer? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t7/) — Your dad says "these word stories are all certain facts." What should you say about ketchup? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t8/) — A game shows a pirate in 1600 squirting tomato ketchup. What's off? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t9/) — Puzzle: one word for the drink sailed to Europe on ships, the other came over land. Which English word came by sea? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/t10/) — Your uncle says "kowtow is about cows bowing". What's true? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/e1/) — Identify the origin of the English word "algorithm". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the words "tea" and "chai"? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the word "ketchup". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/e4/) — State the language from which English obtained the words "pyjamas", "shampoo" and "bungalow". — right ✓ · exam

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