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title: "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world 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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# "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990

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The 15 questions of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 96 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/world/126-in-the-olden-days/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t1/) — Grandad: "No phones in our pockets in 1990." Kai: "So, like, the Middle Ages, then." Fix it. — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t2/) — Grandad: "Green and black screen, and we loved it, you ungrateful lot!" Which machine is he on about? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t3/) — Mum: "Beep, screech, kshhh, that was the internet connecting." Ava: "Your WiFi screamed? I'm crying." ("I'm crying" means I'm laughing so much.) What made the noise? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t4/) — Ella: "Was there YouTube when you were 10, Grandad?" He was 10 in 1980. What's right? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t5/) — Taras: "Dad was born in 1991. So Ukraine and Dad are the same age?" Is he right? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t6/) — Grandad, a proper Geordie (from Newcastle): "Sweets were 10p, man, now they're a quid, it's daylight robbery!" ("A quid" means £1.) What's the honest reply? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t7/) — Lily: "Why's this 1975 photo all orange and fuzzy? Was the world orange?" — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t8/) — Josh: "Mum, were you alive in the 1900s?" She sighs: "Born 1989, so technically yes. Cheers." What's true? — wrong ✗
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t9/) — Grandad: "Watched the Moon landing at 7, back in '69." Leo: "So how old are you now?" It's 2026. — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t10/) — Ava's dad: "Back in the day, we rewound cassettes with a pencil." Ava: "Back in what day?" What does he mean? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t11/) — What would happen if you tried to watch a film online at home in 1995? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/e1/) — Ascertain the interval elapsed between the year 1990 and the year 2026. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/e2/) — Identify the principal reason for which a household telephone line could not be employed for calls during an internet session in the 1990s. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the phenomenon designated inflation? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/e4/) — Given that a person was seven years of age at the first Moon landing in 1969, determine that person's approximate age in the year 2026. — wrong ✗ · exam

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