Clothes
Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 3 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 17 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 ✗
Max says, "One trousers? That's mad, bruv." ("Bruv" means mate.) What's the truth?
- 1. French has no word for trousers — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. French counts one pair as one thing: un pantalon — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Max is right: it should be des pantalons — no support
- 4. Only shorts are singular in French — 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 ✗
Poppy's gran smiles at un pull, "like we used to say". What's the story of the word?
- 1. It means "pool" because jumpers get wet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was borrowed from English pullover and shortened — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It comes from the old French word for sheep — no support
- 4. It comes from pulling a jumper over your head in a race — 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 ✓
Sophie's host mum holds up une jupe bleue. Sophie says, "Ah'm no wearing that in this weather but okay." ("Ah'm no" means I'm not.) What is she being offered?
- 1. a blue skirt — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a blue dress — no support
- 3. a blue jumper — no support
- 4. a blue shirt — 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 ✗
Ethan says, "Hats are boys? Bummer." ("Bummer" means what a shame.) Which tip helps guess the gender?
- 1. Every hat in French is feminine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. -eau words are almost always masculine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Clothes for boys are masculine — no support
- 4. Long words are always feminine — 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 ✗
Hannah says, "No, it's a jacket, Ma." ("Ma" means Mum.) What could happen if her mum packs a vest instead?
- 1. Hannah would get a basket of trainers — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing, veste and vest are the same — no support
- 3. Hannah would have no jacket for the cold — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Hannah would have two jackets — 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 ✗
Noah says "Lucky them" when his penpal has no uniform. What would be a good French question to ask her?
- 1. Tu as combien de chats et de chiens à la maison ? — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Quelle heure est-il ? — no support
- 3. Où est ton maillot de bain ? — no support
- 4. Qu'est-ce que tu portes à l'école ? — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Isla tries, "They're thongs, er, flip-flops." What should she say in French?
- 1. des thongs — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. des flip-flops — score 3
- 3. des jandales — score 3
- 4. des tongs — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1, line 12: «In French ou says "oo" and oi says "wa": Louis sounds like "LWEE", moi like "mwa" and un croissant like "uhn krwa-SAHN".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «french» (+4); the same action «say» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Leo says, "That's two letters for one mistake, tamping." ("Tamping" means fuming.) Why both e and s on noires?
- 1. French always adds es to colours — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The teacher added letters to be fussy — no support
- 3. noires is a different colour from noir — no support
- 4. chaussures is feminine and plural — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Aisha texts home, "She's bossing me about my coat." What does Mets ton manteau ! mean?
- 1. Sell your coat! — score 8
- 2. Your coat is dirty! — no support
- 3. Put your coat on! — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 13
- 4. Your coat is too big! — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 13, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 14: «Mets ton manteau ! means "Put your coat on!"; mets comes from mettre, to put on; un manteau is a coat.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «coat» (+4); the same action «put on» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Charlie's sister says, "It's swimming stuff, you plum." ("You plum" means you silly.) Where would you wear un maillot de bain?
- 1. to post a letter at the post office — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. at the swimming pool — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. at a wedding — no support
- 4. in bed — 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 ✗
Ava says, "Okay, it's giving, but why the s?" ("It's giving" means it looks good.) Which colour does NOT take an s?
- 1. rose — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. violet — no support
- 3. orange — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. noir — 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 ✗
★★★ Kai's teacher says "Chur, perfect!" ("Chur" means great.) Which winter list has NO mistake?
- 1. une écharpe, des gants, une bonnet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. un écharpe, des gants, un bonnet — no support
- 3. une écharpe, des gants, un bonnet — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. une écharpe, des gant, une bonnet — 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 noun pantalon?
- 1. It denotes a jacket in formal usage — no support
- 2. It is feminine in the singular — no support
- 3. It is singular in French, though its English equivalent is plural — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. It is invariably plural in French — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 6: «un pantalon ("pahn-ta-LON") is one pair of trousers and is singular; so are un jean and un short.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «pantalon» (+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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the meaning of the French noun une veste.
- 1. A vest — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A pair of trainers — no support
- 3. A dressing gown — no support
- 4. A jacket — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning school uniform in France.
- 1. All schools require a uniform of navy blue — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The majority of state schools do not require one — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Uniform is required solely in primary schools — no support
- 4. Uniform is required solely on public holidays — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a plural feminine noun is qualified by the adjective noir. Determine the correct form.
- 1. noir — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. noires — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. noirs — no support
- 4. noire — 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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