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Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 3 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 27 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 · ★★ · right ✓

Your mate from Manchester goes, "French is backwards, every adjective goes after, our kid." What's true?

  • 1. Most go after, but BAGS words like grand go before — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Only colours go after, everything else before — no support
  • 3. No, every single one goes before — no support
  • 4. He's right, every single one goes after — 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 ✓

★★ A new adjective, joli, describes une maison. Where does it go and how is it spelled?

  • 1. Before, as jolie: une jolie maison — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. After, as joli: une maison joli — no support
  • 3. After, as jolie: une maison jolie — no support
  • 4. Before, as joli: une joli maison — 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 ✓

Tilly from Leeds asks, "Belle? Like the princess?" What's the link?

  • 1. The name Belle means beautiful — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Belle means princess in French — no support
  • 3. There's no link, it's just a name — no support
  • 4. Belle means bell, like a church bell — 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 ✓

★★ Nathan describes his gran as "vieux" and his teacher shakes her head. Why?

  • 1. Gran is feminine, so it is vieille — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. It should be vieuxe with an e — no support
  • 3. Vieux only goes with animals — no support
  • 4. Vieux is rude, you should say jeune — 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 shows four black cats, and the caption says "les chats noirs". Your brother says the adjective should not have an s, "cos colours don't count". Who's right?

  • 1. Neither: it should be les chat noir — no support
  • 2. Neither: it should be les chats noires — no support
  • 3. The caption: noirs agrees — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Your brother: colours never change — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 4: «Some colours never change: those already ending in e, like rouge and jaune, keep the same form, and marron and orange, named after a chestnut and a fruit, neve…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «change» (+2); the same doer «colours» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Which phrase has every word right?

  • 1. une maison grande blanche — no support
  • 2. une grande blanche maison — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 3. un grand maison blanche — no support
  • 4. une grande maison blanche — ✓ the right answer · 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 27, line 8: «A size word goes before the noun and still agrees: une grande maison.», 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 «une grande maison» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (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 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

What would happen if you said "une fille heureux" to a French teacher?

  • 1. She'd think the girl was sad — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. She'd understand, but correct it to heureuse — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. She'd think you said a different word — no support
  • 4. Nothing, it is completely correct — 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 ✗

★★ Jake from Bradford goes, "Two s's for a tiny mouse? Bruv, that's bare long." Which pair works like gros and grosse?

  • 1. sérieux and sérieuse — no support
  • 2. grand and grande — no support
  • 3. gentil and gentille — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. petit and petite — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 4: «Sometimes the change is loud: petit sounds "puh-TEE", but petite sounds "puh-TEET", because the e wakes up the t; and a few words change a lot, like beau into…», 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 «petit» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ "Les ___ sont très gentilles." Which word fits the gap?

  • 1. chiens — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. filles — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. garçons — no support
  • 4. chats — 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 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Ethan from Toronto says, "Eh, I'll say C'est un gâteau très bon." (eh = right?) What's the more natural French?

  • 1. C'est très un bon gâteau — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. C'est un bon gâteau très — no support
  • 3. C'est un gâteau bon très — no support
  • 4. C'est un très bon gâteau — ✓ 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 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Your cousin writes "Elle est Anglaise" with a capital A. What's the fix?

  • 1. Anglais with no e — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Nothing, it's fine — no support
  • 3. Anglaises with an s — no support
  • 4. anglaise with a small a — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the position customarily occupied by an adjective of colour in relation to the noun it qualifies.

  • 1. At the end of the sentence — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. After the noun — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Before the noun — no support
  • 4. At the beginning of the sentence — 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 correctly inflected form of the adjective heureux when qualifying the feminine noun fille.

  • 1. heureux — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. heureuxe — no support
  • 3. heureuse — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. heureuses — 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 ✓

Determine which of the following phrases conforms in all respects to the rules of position and agreement.

  • 1. une petite fille — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. une petit fille — no support
  • 3. une fille petit — no support
  • 4. un petite fille — 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 ✓

Ascertain the feminine form of the adjective "beau".

  • 1. belle — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. beaue — no support
  • 3. bel — no support
  • 4. beaux — 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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