My house and my home

Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 21 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 ✗

Your mate goes, "Houses are boys in French, innit - un maison." Put him right.

1. It's la maisons, every house is plural — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It's une maison: maison is feminine — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It's un maisone, with an extra e — no support
4. He's right, all buildings take un — 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 ✗

Tyler from Texas says, "Y'all, my room's on the first floor, same as the front door." His Paris friend hears "premier étage". Where will the friend look first?

1. In the garden, beside the front door — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. On the floor with the front door — no support
3. Down in the cellar below the house — no support
4. One floor up, above the front door — ✓ 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 ✗

A cartoon cat in a French book is "sous la table". Your little brother draws it on top of the table. What's wrong?

1. Nothing, sous means on top of — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. sous means behind, so it goes at the back — no support
3. sous means under, so the cat goes beneath the table — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. sous means next to, so it goes by the side — 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 ✗

Callum from Glasgow writes "J'habite à Écosse." His mate says, "Nae bother, à works for everything." Who's right?

1. His mate: à and en are always the same — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Callum: à goes with every place name — no support
3. Neither: for Scotland it's en Écosse — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Neither: it's au Écosse for Scotland — 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 ✓

Gran, back from a holiday in Brittany, says, "The cave had wine bottles and a washing machine in it, my lover." (She's from Somerset - "my lover" just means "love".) Why is that normal?

1. Une cave is a house's cellar, not a cave in a hill — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. French caves in hills are full of washing machines — no support
3. Gran mixed up la cave and le grenier, the attic — no support
4. Une cave is a garden shed for wine and laundry — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 14: «La cave is the cellar, not a cave; a cave in a hill is une grotte.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cave» (+2); the same thing acted on «cellar» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · right ✓

★★★ Max stays at his gran's at weekends and texts "Je suis à chez mamie." What's the problem?

1. chez needs à before it, so the sentence is fine — no support
2. chez is a person's name, so it needs a capital C — no support
3. chez can only go with moi, never with mamie — no support
4. chez already means "at the home of", so à is extra: Je suis chez mamie — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 13: «J'ai neuf ans means "I am nine"; je suis neuf would mean "I am new".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sui» (+2); the same doer «je» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

★★★ A French girl lives in un appartement on le deuxième étage. She walks down two flights of stairs. Where is she now?

1. On the first floor, le premier étage — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. In the cellar, la cave — no support
3. On the ground floor, le rez-de-chaussée — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. In the attic, le grenier — 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 ✗

Ben in Newcastle draws a house: "le cuisine, la salon, le jardin". He says, "Howay, two out of three's canny, like." (canny = pretty good) How many are actually right?

1. One: only le jardin is right — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. None: all three are wrong — no support
3. Two: le cuisine and le jardin — ← Mova's choice · score 10
4. All three are right as they are — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 9: «La cuisine means the kitchen and also the cooking, which is why English says "French cuisine".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «french cuisine» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · wrong ✗

What would happen if you asked a French hotel for "une chambre" when you meant the dining room?

1. They'd send you down to the cellar — no support
2. They'd show you to the dining room — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. They'd think you wanted a bathroom — score 2
4. They'd think you wanted a bedroom — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 16: «Le salon is the living room (masculine) and la salle à manger is the dining room (feminine, because salle is feminine).», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

★★★ Which sentence has every little word right?

1. Ma chambre est à côté de le salle de bains — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Ma chambre est à côté du salle de bains — no support
3. Mon chambre est à côté de la salle de bains — no support
4. Ma chambre est à côté de la salle de bains — ✓ 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

Test 11 · wrong ✗

Lily from Ohio asks, "Chez - is that like cheese, no cap?" (no cap = honestly) What do you tell her?

1. Yes: chez means kitchen, where cheese is kept — ← Mova's choice · score 10
2. No: chez is a polite word for sir — no support
3. No: chez means at someone's home — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. Yes: chez is how French people say cheese — score 10

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 18, line 10: «le fromage ("fro-MAZH") is cheese; France has hundreds of cheeses, and in a French meal cheese often comes after the main course and before dessert.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «cheese» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the grammatically correct rendering of the statement "I reside in a house" in the French language.

1. J'habite dans des maison — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. J'habite dans un maison — no support
3. Je habite dans une maison — no support
4. J'habite dans une maison — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that a dwelling comprises a rez-de-chaussée and a premier étage. Ascertain which of the two is situated at street level.

1. Neither, both being below ground — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Both, being synonymous terms — no support
3. The premier étage — no support
4. The rez-de-chaussée — ✓ 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 preposition required before the name of a feminine country, such as Écosse, pursuant to the rules of French usage.

1. à — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. aux — no support
3. au — no support
4. en — ✓ 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 ✗

Determine which possessive form accompanies the noun chambre, irrespective of the sex of the speaker.

1. mon, the speaker being male — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. ma, the noun being feminine — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. mes, the noun being singular — no support
4. mon, the noun being masculine — 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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