Hobbies and sport

Tests: 1 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 23 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, "Bruv, it's je joue du football, same as piano, innit." Put him right.

1. It's je fais au football — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Sport takes à: je joue au football — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It's je joue football with no little word — no support
4. He's right, du works for everything — 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 ✗

Gemma from Cardiff says, "Tidy, so I play the flute: je joue à la flûte." (tidy = nice, great) What's right?

1. Je fais à la flûte — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. Je joue à la flûte — no support
3. Je joue de la flûte — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Je joue au flûte — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 8: «Some activities use faire de: je fais du vélo (I go cycling), je fais de la natation (I go swimming), je fais du judo, je fais du surf; if you don't know the v…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fai» (+5); the same doer «je» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

A cartoon kid says "Je joue de la natation". Your sister says, "That's well dodgy." Fix it.

1. Je joue du natation — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Je natation — no support
3. Je joue à la natation — no support
4. Je fais de la natation — ✓ 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 4 · right ✓

Ethan says, "Pétanque? That's just for old blokes in flat caps, like." Is he right?

1. Yes, children are not allowed — no support
2. No, children play it too — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
3. No, it's only for children — no support
4. Yes, it is only played in cafés — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 11: «La pétanque is a French game of throwing metal balls close to a small wooden ball called le cochonnet (the piglet); children play it too.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «play» (+5); the same doer «children» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · wrong ✗

What would happen if you said "C'est trop !" instead of "C'est trop bien !" about a film?

1. You'd sound like the film was very short — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It would mean exactly the same thing — no support
3. You'd sound like it was too much, not that it was great — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It would mean the film was rubbish but funny — 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 ✗

Your brother says the yellow jersey in the Tour de France means you're in the yellow team, no cap. (no cap = honestly) What's true?

1. It goes to the youngest rider — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He's right, the yellow team wears it — no support
3. It goes to the rider who fell off most — no support
4. It goes to the rider leading the whole race — ✓ 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 ✗

★★★ Which sentence has ALL three patterns right?

1. Je joue au tennis, je joue au violon et je joue au judo — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Je joue au tennis, je joue du violon et je fais du judo — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Je fais du tennis, je joue au violon et je joue du judo — no support
4. Je joue du tennis, je joue au violon et je fais du judo — 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 8 · wrong ✗

Sophie from Edinburgh reads "Je lis" as "liss" and her pal goes, "Aye, sounds right tae me, hen." What should they know?

1. The s is said like z: zhuh LIZZ — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. The i is long: zhuh LICE — no support
3. The s is silent: zhuh LEE — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. The s is doubled: zhuh LISS — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 13: «le fils (the son) sounds like "FEESS": the l is silent and the s is said.», 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 «s» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · wrong ✗

★★★ A French girl says "J'aime nager et je fais du vélo, mais je ne joue pas au foot." Which is true about her?

1. She swims at football practice on her bike — no support
2. She swims and cycles but doesn't play football — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. She plays football but doesn't swim or cycle — ← Mova's choice · score 8
4. She cycles to football but can't swim — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 23, line 2: «So you say je joue au football, but je joue du piano, and je fais du vélo - a bit like how English says "play football" but "go cycling".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «play» (+4); the same thing acted on «football» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

Kai from Auckland goes, "Chur, sweet as, I'll make up a verb: je skate." (chur = thanks, cool) What's the safe trick when you don't know the verb?

1. Add an -o to the English word — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Use je fais du + the sport — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Use je joue de + the sport — no support
4. Just say the English word louder — 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 ✗

★★★ Hopscotch, tag and hide and seek - which list matches them in order?

1. la marelle, cache-cache, chat — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. la marelle, chat, cache-cache — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. cache-cache, chat, la marelle — no support
4. chat, la marelle, cache-cache — 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 ✗

Identify the construction prescribed in French for the playing of a musical instrument.

1. jouer à — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. faire à — no support
3. jouer de — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. jouer sans préposition — 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 ✗

Select the correct rendering of the statement "I engage in cycling" in the French language.

1. Je joue au vélo — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Je fais au vélo — no support
3. Je fais du vélo — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Je joue du vélo — 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 ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises le maillot jaune in the Tour de France?

1. The jersey worn by the rider leading the overall race — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The jersey awarded to the rider finishing last — no support
3. The jersey worn by every member of a designated team — no support
4. The jersey worn exclusively on the final day — 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 the form of the verb required subsequent to j'aime in the statement "I like dancing".

1. dance, the English form — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. danse, the present form — no support
3. danser, the base form — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. dansant, the -ing form — 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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