--- title: Verbs: doing words and being words — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being words» 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/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/) [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/) / Verbs: doing words and being words # Verbs: doing words and being words The 15 questions of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language 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/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t1/) — Your mate goes "a sentence with no verb is fine if it's well long." Is he right? — wrong ✗ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t2/) — Ben first says the verb in "The dog barked" is "dog". What question would help him? — wrong ✗ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t3/) — A Gen Z cousin says "ngl 'ate' is ruined now, it doesn't mean food anymore." ("Ngl" means not gonna lie.) What's true? — wrong ✗ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t4/) — What would happen if verbs never agreed with their subjects? — wrong ✗ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t5/) — Your cousin says "you can't google something, Google's a company, innit." What's the best reply? — right ✓ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t6/) — In a video game, the hero only "does" things: run, jump, hit. A gamer says "thinking ain't a verb cos you can't see it." Is that right? — wrong ✗ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t7/) — Dylan says "In 'You must stop', there is only one verb." What's true? — wrong ✗ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t8/) — Mira from Derby says her pal from Bristol is "proper nesh" for wearing a scarf in May. What does she mean? — wrong ✗ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t9/) — Your brother writes "We should of left earlier." What should it be? — wrong ✗ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t10/) — Gran from Gateshead says "Howay, pet, we're gannin' yem." ("Yem" is home, "pet" is a friendly word like love.) What is she saying? — wrong ✗ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/t11/) — Why is "be" so hard to spot as a verb? — right ✓ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/e1/) — Identify the verb contained in the sentence "The dog barked". — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the word "is" in the sentence "The sky is blue"? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/e3/) — Ascertain the correct written form of the expression commonly heard as "could of come". — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/e4/) — Given a subject comprising two persons, select the response consistent with the rules of agreement in standard English. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [4. Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/) - ↑ back to [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/)