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title: Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes — how Mova does on the tests · Language
description: Lesson 9 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 9 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/).

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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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Your mate laughs at his little sister for "I runned fast." What's the kind thing to tell him?

- **1.** She should be told off — no support
- **2.** "Runned" is the correct old form — no support
- **3.** She'll never learn English properly if she talks like that — no support
- **4.** She's found the -ed rule; just say "ran" back to her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 2: «When little Ava says "I goed to the park and runned", she isn't being silly: she has discovered the -ed rule all by herself and uses it everywhere; she'll lear…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «discover» (+2); the same thing acted on «ed rule» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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An American kid says "I snuck a cookie, no cap." ("No cap" means no lie.) Is "snuck" a real word?

- **1.** No, it's only used in Scotland — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, it's very common in American English — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, but only for cookies — no support
- **4.** No, it's just slang and you won't find it in dictionaries — 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Your gran from Lancashire says "Who's seen me glasses? I seen 'em on the side." Should you correct her?

- **1.** No, because "seen" is the only correct form — no support
- **2.** Yes, loudly, so she learns to stop using dialect words — no support
- **3.** Yes, dialects are mistakes — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **4.** No need; she's speaking her dialect, and you write "saw" — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 5: «Verbs change over time and between countries: Americans often say dove and snuck where British say dived and sneaked; and many dialects say "I seen him at the…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «many dialects» (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Tyler argues "sing, sang, sung, so bring, brang, brung, innit." What's wrong with his logic?

- **1.** The pattern is real, but bring belongs to the -ought family — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Sing is irregular but bring is regular — no support
- **3.** Sing should be sing, singed, singed — no support
- **4.** Nothing, because brung is standard English in every country — 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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What would happen if every verb became regular?

- **1.** English would lose its past tense — no support
- **2.** Every verb would end in -ought — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Nothing at all, because verbs never really change their forms — score 2
- **4.** We'd say "goed" and "thinked", and the old forms would vanish — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 9, line 6: «A regular verb adds -ed for the past (jump, jumped); an irregular verb changes in another way (go, went).», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «regular verb» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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A teacher writes "Your story is lowkey sus: 'I teached my dog a trick.'" ("Lowkey" means a bit.) What's the fix?

- **1.** I teached my dog a trick — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** I taught my dog a trick — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** I have teached my dog a trick — no support
- **4.** I tought my dog a trick — 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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In a cartoon, a caveman says "Me catched fish, me bringed it home." Fix the verbs only.

- **1.** caught, brought — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** catched, brang — no support
- **3.** cotch, brung — no support
- **4.** caught, brang — 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Your cousin thinks irregular verbs never change. What fact proves her wrong?

- **1.** Irregular verbs are fixed by law and can never be changed — no support
- **2.** No irregular verb has ever changed — no support
- **3.** All irregular verbs are new — no support
- **4.** Many irregular verbs became regular over time, like reach — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 10: «Many irregular verbs have become regular over hundreds of years; reach once had an old past form like "raught" and now just says reached.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same doer «many irregular verbs» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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A British teacher marks "dove" wrong in an American boy's story. Is that fair?

- **1.** Yes, it's a spelling mistake — no support
- **2.** It's correct in American English, so it's a country difference — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** No, dove is the only correct form everywhere — no support
- **4.** Yes, because dove is only a bird, never a verb in English — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 11: «In American English "dove" is common for the past of dive; British English says "dived"; both are correct in their own country.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dove» (+2); the same place «american english» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Dad, embarrassed, says "I can't say 'I've drunk the milk', sounds dodgy." What's true?

- **1.** "I've drinked" is the polite form — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** "I have drunk" is correct; the funny double meaning doesn't change that — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** You can never say you drank milk — no support
- **4.** "I've drank" is the correct form, because drunk means something else — 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Which past form is a wrong "-ed" guess, like goed?

- **1.** thinked — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** jumped — no support
- **3.** watched — no support
- **4.** played — 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/t11/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises an irregular verb?

- **1.** A verb lacking any past form — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** A verb confined to interrogative sentences — no support
- **3.** A verb employed only in formal registers and official writing — no support
- **4.** A verb whose past forms are not made by adding "-ed" — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 4: «"I was swimming when the lifeguard blew the whistle" mixes a long action going on (was swimming) with a short one that cut in (blew).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «short one» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/e1/)

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

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Identify the principal reason for which a young child may produce the form "goed".

- **1.** The form "goed" is standard in contemporary English — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** The child has copied the form from adult speech — score 5
- **3.** The child is incapable of acquiring language — score 5
- **4.** The child has inferred the general rule and applied it to an exception — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 3, line 2: «Not all verbs are busy: "The sky is blue" has the verb is, a being word; am, is, are, was and were are all forms of the verb be, the most common verb in Englis…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «busy forms» (+2); the same place «english» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Ascertain the form consistent with standard English for the sentence "I have \_\_\_ two lengths of the pool" (verb: swim).

- **1.** swimming — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** swum — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** swam — no support
- **4.** swimmed — 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/e3/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the past forms "dived" and "dove".

- **1.** The former is erroneous in every variety of English — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The latter is erroneous in every variety of English — no support
- **3.** The former is standard in British usage and the latter common in American usage — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Neither form exists in any dictionary — 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/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/e4/)

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