Relative clauses

Tests: 2 of 10 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 5 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 30 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

«it's 'the boy which won', which is for everything innit». What's right?

1. What is the standard word for people — no support
2. Which is right for people and things — no support
3. Whose is the right word here, because the boy owns the race — score 1
4. Who is for people: «the boy who won» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 4: «You can sometimes leave the relative pronoun out: «The book that I read was good» can be «The book I read was good.» But not when the pronoun is the one doing…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «win» (+4); the same thing acted on «boy» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★ Which sentence has a relative clause?

1. The teacher helped me because I was stuck. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The teacher who helped me was kind. — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. After lunch, the teacher helped me. — no support
4. The kind teacher helped me. — no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★ «The dog which was barking loudly, ran away.» What is missing?

1. A comma after «ran» — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A full stop after «dog» — no support
3. Nothing, it is correct — no support
4. A comma after «dog» — ✓ 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

Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ «My brother who lives in Leeds is a chef» has no commas. What does that suggest?

1. I have only one brother, and he happens to live in Leeds — ← Mova's choice · score 11
2. My brother is not really a chef — no support
3. I may have more than one brother, and I mean the one in Leeds — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. Leeds is a person, not a place — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 3: «Sometimes the relative clause is extra information, and then a pair of commas fences it off: «The dog, which was barking loudly, ran away.» Cover the part betw…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same place «leeds» (+4); the same doer «brother» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ In which sentence can you leave out «that» and still be correct?

1. The boy that won smiled. — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. The bus that comes at eight is late. — no support
3. The cake that Mum made was huge. — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The dog that bit me ran off. — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 4: «You can sometimes leave the relative pronoun out: «The book that I read was good» can be «The book I read was good.» But not when the pronoun is the one doing…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «smile» (+4); the same doer «boy» (+4). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ «I met a girl at the park whose dog was huge.» Why is this sentence a bit muddled?

1. Parks can't have relative clauses — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Whose should be who's — no support
3. It has no verb at all — no support
4. Whose seems to belong to the park, not the girl — ✓ 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

Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓

In a cartoon, a pirate says «That's the parrot what stole me hat!» How would it be in standard English?

1. That's the parrot that stole my hat! — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. That's the parrot who's stole my hat! — no support
3. That's the parrot what stole my hat! — no support
4. That's the parrot whose stole my hat! — 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 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

What would happen to «The boy who won the race smiled» if you took out the relative clause?

1. You'd still have a sentence, but not know which boy — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It would become a question — no support
3. Nothing, it says the same — no support
4. It would no longer have a verb — ← 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 28, line 1: «A clause is a group of words with a verb in it. A main clause makes sense on its own: «The dog barked.» A subordinate clause has a verb too, but it leans on a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «subordinate clause» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

«whose and who's are the same, just spelt different». Are they?

1. Yes, they mean the same thing — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, who's is the name of a small place in Wales — no support
3. Yes, but who's is the American spelling — no support
4. No, whose shows belonging; who's means who is — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

«that's the caff where we had chips». (caff is British slang for café.) What is «where we had chips»?

1. A main clause — ← Mova's choice · score 11
2. A relative clause about the caff — ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. A fronted adverbial — no support
4. A question — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 4: «A phrase has no verb. «After the match» is a phrase; «after the match ended» is a clause, because ended is a verb. Kai writes «I like pizza and I like chips.»…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «two main clauses» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the relative pronoun appropriate to the completion of «The girl ___ bicycle was stolen reported the theft».

1. which — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. whose — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. who's — no support
4. what — 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 sentences most accurately employs a relative clause in standard English?

1. The man whose repaired the roof has departed. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The man which repaired the roof has departed. — no support
3. The man who repaired the roof has departed. — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The man what repaired the roof has departed. — 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 · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established conventions concerning the sentence «The dog, which was barking loudly, ran away».

1. The commas indicate a list — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The commas enclose additional information that may be omitted — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The commas render the sentence a question — no support
4. The commas are superfluous and must be removed — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain, in the sentence «The cat sat on the mat that was black», which noun the relative clause describes.

1. Both nouns equally — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The cat — no support
3. The mat — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. No noun, the clause being adverbial — 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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