Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 2 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 24 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, "Je ne aime pas sounds fine, bruv, don't be extra." What's the rule?
- 1. It should be je aime ne pas — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Before a vowel ne becomes n': je n'aime pas — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. You drop pas before a vowel: je n'aime — no support
- 4. Je ne aime pas is the polite 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
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Ava from Ohio says broccoli is "mid" and her teacher asks "Pourquoi ?" (mid = average, nothing special) Which answer is the closest French?
- 1. Parce que c'est bof — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Parce que c'est trop bien — no support
- 3. Parce que c'est délicieux — no support
- 4. Parce que c'est génial — 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 ✓
Gran in Glasgow says, "Nul? That's a swear, hen, wash yer mouth oot!" Is she right?
- 1. Yes, nul is a very rude French word — score 3
- 2. No, nul just means rubbish and is fine in class — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. No, nul is a kind word meaning lovely — score 3
- 4. Yes, but only when you say it to a teacher — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 24, line 9: «C'est nul means "It's rubbish"; nul is not a rude word. Its opposite is c'est génial, "It's brilliant".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «nul» (+3); the same thing acted on «rubbish» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
★ Your sister thinks bof means "really bad". What would she get wrong if a friend said the pizza was bof?
- 1. Nothing, bof does mean really bad — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She'd think it was awful when it was just so-so — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She'd think it was a type of cheese — no support
- 4. She'd think it was the best pizza ever — 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 ✗
A cartoon cat says "Je déteste les souris !" Where is it on the ladder?
- 1. At the top: it loves mice — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. In the middle: it quite likes mice — no support
- 3. It prefers mice to fish — no support
- 4. At the bottom: it hates mice — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · right ✓
★ Why do French teachers want "je n'aime pas" in tests when kids in the street say "j'aime pas"?
- 1. Writing keeps ne; talk often drops it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Teachers are stricter than the dictionary — no support
- 3. J'aime pas is a different, rude meaning — no support
- 4. Street French is not real 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
★ Tom says, "J'aime le foot et je n'aime pas le rugby." His teacher says one little word would fit better. Which?
- 1. aussi — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. parce que — no support
- 3. mais — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. et — 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 ✓
★★★ Put these in order from most to least liked: j'aime bien, je déteste, j'adore, je n'aime pas, j'aime.
- 1. j'adore, j'aime, j'aime bien, je n'aime pas, je déteste — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. j'aime, j'adore, j'aime bien, je déteste, je n'aime pas — no support
- 3. j'adore, j'aime bien, j'aime, je n'aime pas, je déteste — no support
- 4. j'aime bien, j'aime, j'adore, je n'aime pas, je déteste — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
★★★ A French boy says: "Les chiens ? J'adore. Les chats ? Bof. Les araignées ? Beurk !" Which does he like least?
- 1. Cats — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cats and spiders the same — no support
- 3. Spiders — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Dogs — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Harry from Belfast's penpal says "Je kiffe" and he goes, "Wee bit of slang, eh, I'll stick it in me French exam." Good idea?
- 1. No, use j'adore or j'aime in written work — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. No, because kiffe means hate — no support
- 3. Yes, slang always gets extra marks — no support
- 4. Yes, kiffe is the only word for like — 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 ✓
What would happen if you said "Je préfère le basket" to a friend who asked about foot?
- 1. They'd know you like basketball more than football — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 2. They'd think you hate all sports — no support
- 3. They'd think you play basketball for France — no support
- 4. They'd think you don't know what foot is — score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score -2, tied with another option at -2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). 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 what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «know» (+4). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the correct negative form of the statement "J'aime les chiens" in written French.
- 1. Je ne aime pas les chiens — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. J'aime pas les chiens — no support
- 3. Je n'aime pas les chiens — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Je aime ne pas les chiens — 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 expression denoting the most intense degree of approval upon the conventional scale of preference.
- 1. J'aime — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. J'adore — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. J'aime bien — no support
- 4. Bof — 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 ✓
Ascertain the meaning of the interjection "Beurk", as employed in respect of food.
- 1. Disgust — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Surprise — no support
- 3. Delight — no support
- 4. Indifference — 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 · right ✓
Determine the conjunction appropriately employed to join a statement of preference to a statement of dislike.
- 1. mais — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. pourquoi — no support
- 3. donc — no support
- 4. et — 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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