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title: The big language quiz — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» 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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# The big language quiz

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The 16 questions of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 94 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/40-the-big-language-quiz/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t1/) — Your mate goes "quickly's an adjective, it describes stuff, innit." What's true? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t2/) — Your little cousin says "I saw three gooses and two mouses." What's the right way to say it? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t3/) — Your sis texts "the cat licked it's paw lol." What should she fix? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t4/) — Your grandad from Yorkshire says "ah brung thee a present, lad." ("Thee" is an old word for you.) In standard English what is the past of "bring"? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t5/) — Your Aussie mate texts "footy this arvo? then a cwtch with the dog lol." ("Footy" is football; "cwtch" is a Welsh word he picked up.) When is the football, and what's after? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t6/) — Your mate from Dublin says "the craic was mighty last night." What does she mean? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t7/) — A Gen Alpha kid says "emoji means emotion icon, no cap." ("No cap" means honestly.) What's the real answer? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t8/) — What would happen if you wrote "Let's eat Grandma!" on Grandma's birthday card with no comma? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t9/) — Your bro says "the Vikings just smashed stuff and left no words, bruv." Which everyday words prove him wrong? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t10/) — You call "Мама!" across a Ukrainian playground, and your friend smiles and says the calling form. What is it? — right ✓
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t11/) — You say "mǎ" to your Mandarin teacher when you meant mother. What did you really say? — wrong ✗
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/t12/) — Your American pen pal asks for a "cookie, the sidewalk and the elevator" in British English. What are they? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/e1/) — Ascertain the grammatical category of "quickly" in the sentence "She ran quickly". — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/e2/) — Identify the correctly punctuated sentence, consistent with the established conventions of English. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/e3/) — Which of the following most accurately characterises the distinction between the Mandarin syllables "mā" and "mǎ"? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/e4/) — State the number of grammatical cases possessed by Ukrainian, and the case employed when addressing one's mother. — wrong ✗ · exam

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