Sentences: capital letters, full stops and the four types

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

Lesson 26 of the english 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.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · wrong ✗

«miss, 'Get out!' is an exclamation cos it's got !» What's the best reply?

1. It's a question, because it's short — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. It's a command: it tells someone to do something — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. It's a statement, because it tells a fact — no support
4. Yes, any sentence with ! is an exclamation — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 16: ««How are you?» is a question, not an exclamation, because it asks something.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «question» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · right ✓

★★★ Which of these is an exclamation, a question, a command and a statement, in that order?

1. How fast she runs! / Does she run? / Run! / She runs. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. She runs. / Run! / Does she run? / How fast she runs! — no support
3. How fast she runs! / Run! / Does she run? / She runs. — no support
4. Run! / How fast she runs! / She runs. / Does she run? — no support

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

Test 3 · wrong ✗

★★★ «What time is it» and «What a time we had» both start with What. Which needs a question mark?

1. Neither of them — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Both of them — no support
3. What time is it — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. What a time we had — no support

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

Test 4 · wrong ✗

★★★ «my nan lives in leeds and she has a cat called tom and he is fat.» How many capital letters are needed?

1. Two — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Four — no support
3. Three — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Five — no support

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

Test 5 · wrong ✗

Year 1 kid: «i went home and i had tea and i went to bed and i was tired.» What's the most helpful advice?

1. Add more «and»s so it flows better — ← Mova's choice · score -2
2. Make I a capital and split it into shorter sentences — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Cross out every «i» — no support
4. Write it all in capital letters — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 1: «Plural means more than one; singular means just one («singular» has «single» inside it). Most nouns just add -s: cat, cats. But after s, x, z, ch and sh you ad…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · right ✓

«shut the door, it's freezing». Which part is a command?

1. It's freezing — no support
2. The whole thing is a question — no support
3. The comma — no support
4. Shut the door — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 26, line 3: «There are four types. A statement tells you something: «The bus is late.» A question asks and ends with a question mark: «Where is my hat?» A command tells som…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «close» (+5); the same thing acted on «door» (+5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

In a cartoon, a character shouts «OH NO!!!!!!!!» in every speech bubble. What happens if a writer does that all the time?

1. Readers get more excited each time — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The marks lose their effect — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nothing, more is always better — no support
4. It becomes good grammar — no support

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

Test 8 · right ✓

What would happen if a long story had no full stops at all?

1. It would be very hard to read — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It would turn into a poem — no support
3. It would be quicker and easier to read — no support
4. Readers would never get tired — no support

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

Test 9 · wrong ✗

«ugh it was raining, we stayed in». Which fix is right?

1. it was raining so we stayed in. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It was raining, so we stayed in. — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It was raining, we stayed, in. — no support
4. It was raining, we stayed in, and we watched a film. — no support

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

Test 10 · wrong ✗

Grandad says «Stop.» isn't a real sentence, «it's nowt but a word». (nowt is northern for nothing.) Who is right?

1. It's a real sentence, a command with «you» understood — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Grandad, but only because it has no capital — no support
3. Neither, «Stop.» is a question, because you could ask it of somebody — no support
4. Grandad, one word can never be a sentence — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 3: «It works the other way too: one spelling can make more than one sound. «ea» says /ee/ in «eat» but /e/ in «head»; «ow» says /ow/ in «cow» but /oa/ in «snow»; «…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «real word» (+2); the same thing acted on «sentence» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · right ✓

Lucy: «Ey up! Fancy a brew?» What does «Ey up» mean?

1. Hello — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Hurry up — no support
3. Look up there — no support
4. Get up — no support

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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the type of sentence exemplified by «Close the door.»

1. A statement — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. An exclamation, the sentence expressing strong feeling — no support
3. A question — no support
4. A command — ✓ the right answer · no support

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

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following constitutes an exclamation as defined in the grammar of the primary curriculum?

1. Kindly be seated! — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Is the view remarkable? — no support
3. The view is remarkable! — no support
4. What a remarkable view this is! — ✓ the right answer · no support

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

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the sentence «It was raining, we went inside.»

1. It joins two sentences by a comma alone, and so requires correction — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
2. It lacks a verb — score 3
3. It is a command addressed to the persons who went inside — no support
4. It is correctly punctuated — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 17: «Joining two sentences with only a comma is a comma splice; use a full stop or a joining word instead.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «join» (+3); the same thing acted on «two sentences» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain which of the following groups of words constitutes a complete sentence.

1. A big red bus with a broken window. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Under the old oak tree. — no support
3. The dog. — no support
4. Stop. — ✓ the right answer · no support

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

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