Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 3 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 5 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.
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 ✗
Your mate goes "and I is always the posh correct one, innit." Which sentence proves him wrong?
- 1. Ben and I went home — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ben and me went home — no support
- 3. Me and Ben went home — no support
- 4. Gran sent a card to Ben and me — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
A girl from Glasgow says "Youse are pure dead brilliant!" ("Pure dead" means really.) Who is she talking to?
- 1. More than one person — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Herself — no support
- 3. Nobody, she means "use" — no support
- 4. One person only — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 5, line 15: «Young children often say "him did it" or "me want it"; this is a normal stage, and they grow out of it by hearing the grown-up forms.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
A kid from Pittsburgh asks "Are yinz coming to the game?" What does he mean?
- 1. Are your friends coming in? — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Are you all coming? — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Are the twins coming? — no support
- 4. Are you winning the game? — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Your cousin reckons "thou" was always the posh, formal word. What's true?
- 1. It was the friendly, informal word for one person — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. It was never a real English word — no support
- 3. It was the plural, like "you all" — no support
- 4. He's right, kings and queens used it only to each other — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 12: «Long ago "thou" was the friendly word for one person you knew well, like Ukrainian ти or French tu, and "you" or "ye" was for more than one person or someone y…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «friendly word» (+4); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Grandad says "singular they is a brand-new invention, no cap." What is the fact?
- 1. It has been used for one unknown person since the 1300s — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It was invented by a dictionary in 2020 for modern writing — no support
- 3. It was invented by a dictionary in 2020 — no support
- 4. It is only used in American films — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if English had no pronouns at all?
- 1. Sentences would become shorter — no support
- 2. Nothing, because names already do the same job perfectly — no support
- 3. We'd never know who did anything — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. We'd repeat names and nouns again and again — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 5: «English keeps making new verbs from nouns (to hoover, to google) and gives old verbs new slang meanings, like "she ate that" for "she did it brilliantly"; loca…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «english» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
A boomer teacher says "To whom it may concern" is the only way to start every letter. Do you need "whom" in a note to your mate?
- 1. Yes, "whom" is needed in every sentence — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, use "whomst" instead — no support
- 3. No, in everyday speech "who" is fine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, or the letter is illegal — 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 ✗
In a cartoon, a robot says "Me want battery!" and the kids laugh. What is the grown-up form?
- 1. Myself want battery — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Me wants a battery — no support
- 3. Him want battery — no support
- 4. I want a battery — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Tilly reads "Jo phoned Kim after she got home." Her friend asks who got home. What is the honest answer?
- 1. It must be Kim, the nearest name — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's nobody, "she" has no meaning — no support
- 3. It must be Jo, the first name — no support
- 4. It's ambiguous; it could be Jo or Kim — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
A Yorkshire grandad says "Where's tha going, lad?" What does he mean?
- 1. Where are you going? — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Where are they going? — no support
- 3. Where is the lad going? — no support
- 4. Where is that going? — 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
Lola's pal writes "The teacher smiled at Sam and I." Using the take-out trick, what should it be?
- 1. at Sam and me, because "smiled at me" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. at Sam and I, because "and I" is polite — no support
- 3. at I and Sam, because I comes first — no support
- 4. at Sam and myself, because it's posher — 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a pronoun?
- 1. A word conjoining two clauses — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A word employed in place of a noun so as to avoid repetition — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A word qualifying the action denoted by a verb in a clause — no support
- 4. A word denoting a collection of animals — 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 ✗
Ascertain the correctly formulated sentence in formal written English.
- 1. My mother gave sweets to I and Ben — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. My mother gave sweets to Ben and I — no support
- 3. My mother gave sweets to Ben and myself — no support
- 4. My mother gave sweets to Ben and me — ✓ 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 ✓
Identify the principal reason for the emergence of dialect forms such as "youse" and "y'all".
- 1. Standard English possesses no distinct plural form of the second-person pronoun — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Speakers of those dialects are unacquainted with the word "you" — no support
- 3. Such forms derive from errors in printed dictionaries — no support
- 4. Such forms were imposed by the authorities of those regions — 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 ✗
In respect of the sentence "Max told Leo that he had won", select the response consistent with sound reasoning.
- 1. The pronoun necessarily refers to Max — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The pronoun is ambiguous, as it may refer to either person — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The pronoun necessarily refers to Leo — no support
- 4. The pronoun refers to neither person — 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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