Weather and seasons
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 3 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 13 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 · ★ · right ✓
It's chucking it down in Manchester ("chucking it down" means raining hard) and Ellie says "Il est rain." The class laughs. What should she say?
- 1. Il pleut. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Il fait pluie. — no support
- 3. Il y a pleut. — no support
- 4. Il est pleut. — 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 ✗
Aisha says "Il est chaud" about the weather. Her teacher says, "Close, but..." What's the rule?
- 1. Weather uses j'ai: j'ai chaud — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Weather uses il y a: il y a chaud — no support
- 3. Weather uses c'est: c'est chaud — no support
- 4. Weather uses il fait: il fait chaud — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Cooper's penpal replies "Tu veux dire : j'ai chaud !" Why?
- 1. French people never say they are hot — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only grown-ups can say they are hot — no support
- 3. For your body you use avoir: j'ai chaud — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. For your body you use être: je suis chaud — 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
Isla in Aberdeen says, "It's pure dreich." ("Dreich" means grey and gloomy.) What would a French person say?
- 1. Il fait gris. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Il est nuage. — no support
- 3. Il fait dreich. — no support
- 4. Il pleut des chiens. — 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 ✗
Lily asks, "Is that like 'it's neighing'? Is there a horse?" What would you build in the garden if il neige?
- 1. un cheval de neige, a snow horse — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. un bonhomme de neige, a snowman — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. un château de sable, a sandcastle — no support
- 4. un bonhomme de pluie, a rain man — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Tom asks, "Is orage orange?" during thunder. What's the truth?
- 1. No, un orage is a thunderstorm — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 15
- 2. No, orage is a flash of lightning — score 15
- 3. Yes, but only at sunset — no support
- 4. Yes, orage is the colour orange — score 10
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 15, tied with another option at 15 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 13, line 11: «un orage is a thunderstorm, le tonnerre is thunder and un éclair is a flash of lightning (and also a chocolate pastry); Il y a de l'orage means there's a storm.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «thunderstorm» (+4); the same doer «un orage» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Ruby says, "July's winter, mate, that's backwards!" Who is right?
- 1. Both: July is winter in Australia and summer in France — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Ruby: July is winter everywhere — no support
- 3. The French: July is summer everywhere — no support
- 4. Neither: July is always spring — 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 ✗
Leo asks, "Why's spring the odd one out?" after writing "en printemps". What's the reason?
- 1. Spring is too short to use en — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Leo is right: en printemps is correct — no support
- 3. printemps is feminine, so it takes au — no support
- 4. printemps starts with a consonant, so it takes au — ✓ 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 ✗
Jayden asks, "Is vingt degrés, like, freezing?" What's the truth?
- 1. No, 20 °C is warm, a T-shirt day — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Yes, 20 degrees is freezing — no support
- 3. No, 20 °C is a heatwave — no support
- 4. Yes, it is 20 degrees below zero — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 13, line 15: «France uses degrees Celsius, like the UK: il fait vingt degrés (20 °C) is warm, a T-shirt day; 0 °C is freezing; 20 °C is about 68 °F.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «degrees» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Hannah says, "A dog's weather? That's mental." ("Mental" means crazy.) Which English saying is closest?
- 1. it's a dog's life — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. let sleeping dogs lie — no support
- 3. every dog has its day — no support
- 4. raining cats and dogs — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
Mason guesses il fait beau means "wicked handsome weather". ("Wicked" means very.) What does it really mean?
- 1. The weather is sunny and nice — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. The weather is good-looking people — no support
- 3. It's a bit cold — no support
- 4. A storm is coming — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 17: «beau means beautiful or handsome, but il fait beau simply means the weather is sunny and nice.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «weather» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
★★★ It's July in Paris and in Sydney on the same day. Which pair of sentences fits best?
- 1. Paris: il neige. Sydney: il neige. — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Paris: c'est l'hiver. Sydney: c'est l'été. — no support
- 3. Paris: il fait chaud. Sydney: il fait froid. — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Paris: il fait froid. Sydney: il fait chaud. — 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 the expression of weather conditions in French?
- 1. They are invariably expressed in English — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They are customarily expressed by the construction il fait followed by an adjective — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They are customarily expressed by j'ai followed by a noun — no support
- 4. They are customarily expressed by the construction il est followed by an adjective — 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 · right ✓
Identify the correct expression of the sensation of personal coldness.
- 1. J'ai froid — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Il fait moi froid — no support
- 3. J'ai froide — no support
- 4. Je suis froid — 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the prepositions employed with the seasons.
- 1. En precedes all four seasons without exception — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. En precedes été, automne and hiver, whereas au precedes printemps — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Dans precedes été and hiver, whereas à precedes printemps — no support
- 4. Au precedes all four seasons without exception — 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 the temperature in France is reported as vingt degrés. Determine the most accurate characterisation of the conditions.
- 1. Mild cold, twenty degrees Fahrenheit — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Extreme heat, twenty degrees above boiling — no support
- 3. Warm, approximately sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Severe frost, twenty degrees below zero — 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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