Dates and birthdays
Tests: 6 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 11 of the french 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 ✗
Emily asks, "Why's only the first one special?" What's the rule?
- 1. The 1st uses une because the month is feminine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only the last day of a month is special — no support
- 3. The 1st uses premier; all others use plain numbers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Every date uses premier, deuxième, troisième — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ryan's card arrives in March. He goes, "Bro, that's two months early." He had written 05/03 meaning May 3rd. What went wrong?
- 1. The French post is always two months fast — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. His penpal can't read numbers — no support
- 3. France has no month called May — no support
- 4. France writes day first, so his penpal read 5 March — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
The teacher tells Ava, "Use vous, cheeky." Why?
- 1. Ava should have spoken English — no support
- 2. Ava said ton to a teacher; votre is polite — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Ava said the wrong month — no support
- 4. Teachers don't have birthdays in France — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 3: «Picture Archie at the school gate saying "Salut, tu vas bien ?" to his French teacher: it sounds as cheeky as calling her "mate".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same receiver «french teacher» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Harry says, "Mint, same song!" ("Mint" means great.) What do the French kids sing?
- 1. Happy birthday in English — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Joyeux anniversaire, to the same tune — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Bonne année, to a different and much slower tune — no support
- 4. Frère Jacques, to a party tune — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Lily asks, "Is she telling me off?" when her cousin shouts "Souffle les bougies !" What's the truth?
- 1. Yes, she's saying wipe your nose — no support
- 2. No, she's saying cut the cake — no support
- 3. No, she's saying blow out the candles — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Yes, she's saying stop eating the cake — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 4: «At a French birthday party the tune is the same as "Happy birthday", but the words are Joyeux anniversaire, and someone shouts Souffle les bougies ! (blow out…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «blow out» (+2); the same thing acted on «candles» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Leo writes "vingt vingt-six". His teacher says, "Yeah nah, French says two thousand twenty-six." ("Yeah nah" means no.) What's right?
- 1. deux milles vingt-six — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. vingt cent vingt-six — no support
- 3. deux mille et vingt-six — no support
- 4. deux mille vingt-six — ✓ 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 ✓
Charlie says, "It's not my birthday, our kid," when Jules writes "Bonne fête !" on 4 November. ("Our kid" means my brother.) What happened?
- 1. Jules wished him a happy name day for Saint Charles — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Jules got his birthday wrong — no support
- 3. Jules meant "have a good party tonight" — no support
- 4. Jules was wishing him happy Christmas — 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 ✗
Isla's teacher says, "Grand, but which month?" ("Grand" means good.) Which is a full answer?
- 1. C'est le octobre quatorze. — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. C'est quatorze. — no support
- 3. C'est le quatorze octobre. — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. C'est le quatorzième. — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Ethan asks, "Is he boasting about his tea?" when a boy says "J'ai eu dix ans hier !" What did the boy mean?
- 1. He ate ten things yesterday — no support
- 2. He has had ten teas — no support
- 3. He's ten days old — no support
- 4. He turned ten yesterday — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 13
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 13, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 15: «J'ai eu dix ans hier ! means "I turned ten yesterday!"; learn it as a set birthday phrase.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «ten» (+3); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Grace asks, "Eh, they keep saying Bonne année for weeks?" ("Eh" asks you to agree.) What's the custom?
- 1. It's said only on 6 January — no support
- 2. It's said only to teachers — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. It's said only at midnight on New Year's Eve — no support
- 4. It's said all January, the first time you meet someone that year — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 5, line 3: «Picture Archie at the school gate saying "Salut, tu vas bien ?" to his French teacher: it sounds as cheeky as calling her "mate".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same receiver «french teacher» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
★★★ Mia's birthday is le premier mars. Her brother's is exactly one week later. How do you say his birthday?
- 1. le huit mars — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. le premier mars — no support
- 3. le neuf mars — no support
- 4. le sept mars — 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 12 · ★ · right ✓
★★★ An American penpal writes 12/04 for her birthday, month first. How should a French friend say it?
- 1. le quatre décembre — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. le quatre avril — no support
- 3. le douze avril — no support
- 4. le premier décembre — 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 · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the expression of the first day of a month in French?
- 1. It is expressed by premier, whereas subsequent days are expressed by cardinal numbers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. It is omitted, the month alone being stated — no support
- 3. It is expressed by the ordinal for every day of the month — no support
- 4. It is expressed by un, in the manner of all other days — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 9: «quatre-vingts has an s only when no other number follows it: 80 is quatre-vingts, but 81 is quatre-vingt-un, with no s and no et.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «other number» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the correct French rendering of the year 2026.
- 1. deux milles vingt-six — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. deux cent vingt-six — no support
- 3. deux mille vingt-six — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. vingt vingt-six — 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 facts concerning the French order of a written date.
- 1. The month precedes the day, after the American manner — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The order is left to the preference of the writer — no support
- 3. The day precedes the month, after the British manner — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The year precedes the day in all correspondence — 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 ✗
It is given that a person states "J'ai eu dix ans hier". Determine the meaning of this statement.
- 1. The person shall attain the age of ten on the following day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The person has resided in France for ten years — no support
- 3. The person consumed ten items on the preceding day — no support
- 4. The person attained the age of ten on the preceding day — ✓ 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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