The body
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 16 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 ✗
Archie's mate laughs, "Ey up, wrong bit," when Archie touches his knee. ("Ey up" means hey.) What would happen if the leader didn't say Jacques a dit?
- 1. You touch your head anyway — score 6
- 2. You should not move at all — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. You touch your knee instead — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. You must sing a song — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 1: «The quickest way to learn the body in French is a game: in Jacques a dit, touchez la tête ! means "Simon says, touch your head!", and anyone who touches a knee…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «touch» (+5); the same thing acted on «knee» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
Lily says les yeux is "lush but mad". ("Lush" means lovely.) What's the truth?
- 1. œil has a totally different plural: yeux — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeux means one eye — no support
- 3. œil adds -s like every word — no support
- 4. les yeux means the ears — 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 nurse asks Josh, "J'ai mal au ventre ?" Why au?
- 1. à + le becomes au — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Josh should say à le — score 3
- 3. au means "very" — no support
- 4. au is used for boys only — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 8: «j'ai mal à + body part means it hurts: à + le becomes au (j'ai mal au ventre), à + la stays à la (j'ai mal à la tête), à + les becomes aux (j'ai mal aux dents).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same doer «à le» (+2); the same thing acted on «au» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · wrong ✗
Jessica says, "It's just me hair, like, one hair-do." Why is les cheveux plural?
- 1. Jessica has two hair-dos — no support
- 2. Only long hair is plural — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. It is a mistake in French grammar — no support
- 4. French talks about hair as many single hairs — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 5: «French sees hair as many hairs, so your hair is always plural: les cheveux.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «hair» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
Riley says "le nose", then "Eh, so close." ("Eh" asks you to agree.) What should she say?
- 1. le nose, "NOZ" — ← Mova's choice · score 11
- 2. le nas, "NA" — no support
- 3. le nez, "NAY" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. la nez, "NEZ" — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 2: «Every body part has its own gender that has nothing to do with you: a boy says ma bouche (my mouth) and a girl says mon nez (my nose).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «mon nez» (+4); the same action «say» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
Liam stomps his feet: "Easy-peasy, wee lemon squeezy." ("Wee" means small.) What is right for two feet?
- 1. deux pieds — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. deux piedes — no support
- 3. deux pied — no support
- 4. deux pies — 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 ✓
Ava calls Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds "heaps good". ("Heaps good" means really good.) What is the plural of un genou?
- 1. des genoux — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. des genous — no support
- 3. des genouxs — no support
- 4. des genou — 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 ✓
Mia tells the dentist, "Like, a lot, honestly." What does aux dents tell the dentist?
- 1. the teeth are clean — no support
- 2. more than one tooth hurts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. one tooth hurts — score 4
- 4. the teeth are new — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 16, line 13: «une dent ("DAHN") is a tooth; j'ai mal aux dents means my teeth hurt.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hurt» (+2); the same doer «teeth» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Daniel says "Is his head in the clouds? That's boss." ("Boss" means great.) What does his French friend mean?
- 1. He is feeling ill — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He is very clever — no support
- 3. He is daydreaming — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He is on a plane — 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 ✗
Harvey asks, "It's my mouth, proper job, why's it a girl?" ("Proper job" means great.) What's the rule?
- 1. Body parts are always masculine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The gender belongs to the word, not to the person — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Mouths are feminine only for girls — no support
- 4. Harvey should use mon because he's a boy — 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 · wrong ✗
A cartoon girl says "Mes yeux sont bleu." What's the mistake?
- 1. The colour should come first: bleus yeux — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. There is no mistake — no support
- 3. The colour needs an s: bleus — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. yeux should be œils — 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 · wrong ✗
★★★ Your head, your teeth and your foot all hurt after a fall. Which sentence is right?
- 1. J'ai mal au tête, aux dents et à la pied. — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. J'ai mal à la tête, au dents et au pied. — no support
- 3. J'ai mal à la tête, aux dents et au pied. — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. J'ai mal à la tête, aux dents et aux pied. — 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 plural of the noun œil?
- 1. It possesses no plural form whatsoever — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is yeux, a form wholly unlike the singular — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is œilles, formed by the addition of -es — no support
- 4. It is œils, formed by the regular addition of s — 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 ✗
Identify the correct rendering of "my stomach hurts".
- 1. J'ai mal à le ventre — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Je suis mal au ventre — no support
- 3. J'ai mal au ventre — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Mon ventre est mal — 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 gender of body parts in French.
- 1. It is determined by whether the speaker is a boy or a girl — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is masculine for every part of the body — no support
- 3. It is feminine for every part above the neck — no support
- 4. It is fixed by the noun and is independent of the speaker's sex — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a person has blue eyes. Determine the correct French statement.
- 1. J'ai les bleus yeux — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. J'ai les yeux bleus — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. J'ai les yeux bleu — no support
- 4. Je suis les yeux bleus — 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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