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title: Texting, abbreviations and emoji — how Mova does on the tests · Language
description: Lesson 30 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Texting, abbreviations and emoji

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**Tests:** 1 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 30 of the language course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Your mate goes "OMG is a phone word, invented like 2005, innit." What's true?

- **1.** It was invented by a game — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He's right, it's from 2005 — no support
- **3.** It's from an old Latin book — no support
- **4.** It was written in a letter in 1917 — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Your gran texts "So sorry about Goldie LOL" after your goldfish died. What has she probably mixed up?

- **1.** She thinks your goldfish was a joke and is laughing at you — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She thinks LOL means "lots of love" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She can't read texts — no support
- **4.** She is laughing at you — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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What would happen if you sent 💀 to someone who only knows the old meaning?

- **1.** They'd always laugh, because 💀 is funny to everybody — no support
- **2.** Their phone would crash — no support
- **3.** Nothing, everyone reads it the same — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **4.** They might think something terrible happened — **✓ the right answer** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 1: «A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word like up, out, on, in or off, and together they make a new meaning that you often can't guess from the parts.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «new meaning» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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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?

- **1.** He's going to bed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He's being rude — no support
- **3.** He'll be right back — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He's got to go for good — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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A cartoon says "Emoji means EMOTION icon!" What's the real story?

- **1.** It's from Spanish — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It's from Ukrainian — no support
- **3.** It's Japanese: picture + character — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It's right, from English — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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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?

- **1.** Only use capitals from now on — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Tell her emoji have one fixed meaning, written down in a big official rule book — no support
- **3.** Never text her again — no support
- **4.** Remember some people read 👍 as cold, and add a word if needed — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Dad says "😂 can't be Word of the Year, it's not even a word!" What's true?

- **1.** It was chosen in 2015 because it was used so much — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Dad's right, it never happened — no support
- **3.** It was Word of the Year in 1917 — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** It was chosen as Picture of the Year, not Word of the Year — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 7: «Rizz comes from "charisma" and means charm, the knack of getting people to like you; it was the Oxford Word of the Year for 2023.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same thing acted on «oxford word» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Your mum reads your mate's text "gtg ttyl" and asks if it's code for something bad. What should you say?

- **1.** It means "got to go, talk to you later" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** It's a spelling mistake — no support
- **3.** It means "go to the garden" — no support
- **4.** It is secret spy code — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 13: «"brb" means be right back, "gtg" means got to go, and "ttyl" means talk to you later.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+6); the same action «talk» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Your mate says "texting wrecks spelling, everyone knows it." What's fairest?

- **1.** He's right, it's fully proven by every study ever done on children and phones — no support
- **2.** Spelling doesn't matter at all — no support
- **3.** Texting makes everyone a perfect speller — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** Some studies found texting kids were no worse, but scientists still argue — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 5: «A pun that makes everyone groan has still worked; the groan is part of the fun, which is the whole secret of dad jokes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same thing acted on «everyone» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Isaac's dad turns his head sideways to read ":-(". What does it show?

- **1.** A secret password — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A sad face made from keyboard characters — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** An angry robot — no support
- **4.** A smiling sun — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Your grandad in Yorkshire texts "SITTING IN T'CAR, WHERE ARE YOU LOT." ("T'" means the.) Should you assume he's furious?

- **1.** Yes, Yorkshire people are always cross — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, capitals always mean anger, whoever types them and whatever their age — no support
- **3.** No, capitals mean he is happy — no support
- **4.** Not necessarily; many older people type in capitals to read easily — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the origin of the word "emoji"?

- **1.** It derives from the French "émoi" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It derives from the Japanese for "picture" and "character" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It derives from the English word "emotion" — no support
- **4.** It derives from the Latin "emovere" — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the principal significance of a letter written by Lord Fisher in 1917 containing "O.M.G.".

- **1.** It establishes that abbreviations were then prohibited — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It proves that Churchill devised text messaging — no support
- **3.** It demonstrates that such abbreviations predate mobile telephones — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It constitutes the earliest evidence for the invention of the mobile telephone — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of text abbreviations upon children's spelling.

- **1.** It is conclusively proven that spelling is destroyed — no support
- **2.** Certain studies found no detriment, though the matter remains disputed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** It is conclusively proven that spelling is perfected — no support
- **4.** No investigation of the question has ever been undertaken — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 14: «Some studies, including research in Britain, found that children who used text abbreviations were not worse at spelling, and some were better; scientists still…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same doer «studies» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the meaning of the abbreviation "brb".

- **1.** Bye, really bored — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bring round bread — no support
- **3.** Be right back — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Best regards, brother — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/e4/)

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