Food and drink

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 18 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 ✗

Olivia asks, "Why does bread need 'the'?" What's the rule?

1. After j'aime, never use any little word — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. French always says "the" twice — no support
3. After j'aime, use le, la, l' or les for the food — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Bread is a special word that needs le — 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 ✗

Josh asks, "What's 'du' about?" when he gets du pain. What does du mean here?

1. of the day — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. some — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the — no support
4. two — 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 ✓

Charlotte says, "I wanted chips, la!" ("La" means mate.) What went wrong?

1. In France chips are crisps; hot chips are frites — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
2. She should have said "des chipsies" — score 4
3. The café ran out of potatoes — no support
4. Chips is the French word for fish — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 18, line 4: «Picture a café in Calais: Charlotte orders des chips, expecting hot chips, and gets a bag of crisps, because in France hot chips are des frites.», 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 doer «hot chips» (+3); the same thing acted on «frites» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Ruby asks, "Is chocolatine a different thing?" What's the truth?

1. It's a hot chocolate in a cup — no support
2. It's a pain au chocolat with no chocolate — no support
3. It's the same pastry with a local name — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. It's a chocolate made only in Belgium — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 9: «un pain au chocolat and une chocolatine are the same pastry; in the south-west of France many people say chocolatine, and people joke about which word is right.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «au chocolat» (+3); the same thing acted on «same pastry» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lily says, "Bare letters squeezing together." ("Bare" means lots of.) Why l'eau?

1. The apostrophe means "some" — no support
2. French drops the e of le before any word with three letters — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. eau is a feminine word with no vowel — no support
4. le and la lose their vowel before a vowel sound — ✓ the right answer · 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 6, line 12: «vingt means 20 and sounds like "van", through the nose; the g and t are silent letters left over from the old Latin word viginti.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «old latin word» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ollie says, "I'm eating snails. Me mam'll go mad." ("Me mam" means my mum.) What is true?

1. All French people eat snails every single day — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Snails are banned in France — no support
3. Snails are a special-occasion dish, not food French kids eat every day — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Snails are the most common school dinner in France — 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 ✗

At the market a man says "un kilo de pommes". Aisha says, "Still got my apples." What did she get wrong?

1. Nothing, she was right — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. kilo is masculine: un kilo — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. pommes needs des: de des pommes — no support
4. kilo is feminine: une kilo — 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 is strawberries 'fraises'? Sounds like phrases." Which list is all berries?

1. fraise, fromage, frites — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. framboise, pomme de terre, chips — no support
3. fraise, framboise, myrtille — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. myrtille, escargot, crêpe — 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 ✓

Grace asks, "Lost bread? Is it missing?" What is the story of le pain perdu?

1. It is bread that you hide for a game — score 6
2. The bread was lost in a forest by a baker, then found again by children — score 4
3. Old bread is soaked in egg and milk and fried, so it is not wasted — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
4. It is bread given to ducks in the park — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 18, line 15: «le pain perdu ("lost bread") is French toast: old bread soaked in egg and milk and fried.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «old bread» (+2); the same action «soak» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mason says, "So many little words, wicked hard." ("Wicked" means very.) Which is right?

1. Je n'aime pas carottes. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Je n'aime pas les carottes. — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Je n'aime pas de les carottes. — no support
4. Je n'aime pas des carottes. — 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 ✓

Freya's friend orders une galette and is surprised. "Proper lush, my lover," says Freya about her crêpe. ("Proper lush" means really lovely.) What did the friend get?

1. a biscuit tin — no support
2. a savoury buckwheat pancake with ham, cheese or egg — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. a sweet pancake filled with chocolate, banana and whipped cream — no support
4. a cake with candles — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 17: «In Brittany une crêpe is a thin, usually sweet pancake, and une galette is a buckwheat pancake, usually savoury, with ham, cheese or egg.», 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 thing acted on «buckwheat pancake» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Which shopping list is all correct?

1. du lait, du confiture, de l'eau, des pommes — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. de la lait, de la confiture, de l'eau, des pommes — no support
3. du lait, de la confiture, de la eau, des pommes — no support
4. du lait, de la confiture, de l'eau, des pommes — ✓ 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the use of articles after the verb aimer?

1. No article whatsoever is employed after aimer — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. The article is employed solely before masculine nouns — no support
3. The partitive du or de la is invariably required — no support
4. The definite article le, la, l' or les is required before the thing liked — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 6: «J'aime le pain means "I like bread"; after aimer, adorer, détester and préférer you use le, la, l' or les for things in general.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). 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

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the French term denoting what in Britain are called crisps.

1. des frites — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. des galettes — no support
3. des croquettes — no support
4. des chips — ✓ 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 ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning le pain perdu.

1. It denotes stale bread soaked in egg and milk and fried — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. It denotes bread fed to livestock — score 4
3. It denotes bread baked solely in Brittany — score 4
4. It denotes bread which has been mislaid — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 18, line 15: «le pain perdu ("lost bread") is French toast: old bread soaked in egg and milk and fried.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «pain perdu» (+2); the same thing acted on «french toast» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

It is given that a purchaser requests apples by weight. Determine the correct expression.

1. Un kilo de pommes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Une kilo de pommes — no support
3. Un kilo pommes — no support
4. Un kilo des pommes — 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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