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title: Texting, abbreviations and emoji — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 30 «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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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# Texting, abbreviations and emoji

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The 15 questions of lesson 30 «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t1/) — Your mate goes "OMG is a phone word, invented like 2005, innit." What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t2/) — Your gran texts "So sorry about Goldie LOL" after your goldfish died. What has she probably mixed up? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t3/) — What would happen if you sent 💀 to someone who only knows the old meaning? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t4/) — Your Canadian cousin texts "brb, grabbing a double-double eh." ("Double-double" is a coffee with two creams and two sugars.) What does "brb" tell you? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t5/) — A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!" What's the real story? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t6/) — Your teenage sister says "a thumbs up from you is giving 'whatever', it's lowkey rude." ("It's giving" means it seems like; "lowkey" means a bit.) What's the wise move? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t7/) — Dad says "😂 can't be Word of the Year, it's not even a word!" What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t8/) — Your mum reads your mate's text "gtg ttyl" and asks if it's code for something bad. What should you say? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t9/) — Your mate says "texting wrecks spelling, everyone knows it." What's fairest? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t10/) — Isaac's dad turns his head sideways to read ":-(". What does it show? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t11/) — Your grandad in Yorkshire texts "SITTING IN T'CAR, WHERE ARE YOU LOT." ("T'" means the.) Should you assume he's furious? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the origin of the word "emoji"? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/e2/) — Identify the principal significance of a letter written by Lord Fisher in 1917 containing "O.M.G.". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of text abbreviations upon children's spelling. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/e4/) — Ascertain the meaning of the abbreviation "brb". — wrong ✗ · exam

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