Questions and simple sentences
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 30 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 ✓
★★★ Leo's friend says "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?" Leo is one year younger. What does he answer?
- 1. Moi, j'ai onze ans — no support
- 2. Je suis neuf ans — no support
- 3. Moi, je suis neuf — no support
- 4. J'ai neuf ans — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 28, line 5: «Some things English says with "to be" use avoir in French: you have hunger, thirst and years, so "I am hungry" is j'ai faim and "I am nine" is j'ai neuf ans.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «nine j'ai neuf ans» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Your mate goes, "Est-ce que? Just say every letter, est-say-kway, bruv." What's right?
- 1. He's right, every letter is said — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. It's said "ess-kuh" — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. It's said "kway" on its own — score 8
- 4. It's said "es-tee-say" — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1, line 1: «French writes lots of letters that nobody says out loud, a bit like the silent k in English "knee" and the silent b in "lamb".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same thing acted on «letters» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
★★★ A penpal writes: "J'ai deux sœurs et un frère." Lily asks "Combien de frères et sœurs tu as ?" What is the answer in numbers?
- 1. 2 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 1 — no support
- 3. 4 — no support
- 4. 3 — ✓ 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 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
★★★ Which question would a French person NOT answer with parce que?
- 1. Pourquoi tu aimes le foot ? — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Pourquoi tu es triste ? — no support
- 3. Combien de chats tu as ? — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Pourquoi tu ris ? — 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 ✗
Ruby from Galway goes, "Ah sure, there's only one right way to ask where you live, yeah?" What's true?
- 1. Only Tu habites où ? is ever correct — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Only Où est-ce que tu habites ? works — score 4
- 3. Several are right, like Tu habites où ? and Où habites-tu ? — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Only Où habites-tu ? is ever correct — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 30, line 9: «The same question can be asked in several correct ways: Tu habites où ?, Où est-ce que tu habites ?, Où habites-tu ? (the last is more formal).», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «habite» (+2); the same doer «tu» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
A cartoon kid says "Je pas aime ne les maths." Your sister says, "That's well wonky." Fix it.
- 1. Je aime pas ne les maths — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. J'aime ne pas les maths — no support
- 3. Je ne pas aime les maths — no support
- 4. Je n'aime pas les maths — ✓ 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 · ★★★ · right ✓
★★★ Match: "Comment ?", "Où ?", "Quand ?"
- 1. How, where, when — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. When, where, how — no support
- 3. Where, how, when — no support
- 4. How, when, who — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓
Max from Toronto asks his classmate "Tu es français ?" and gets "Non, je suis québécois !" He goes, "Oops, eh." What did he forget?
- 1. French is spoken in Quebec, in Canada, not only in France — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Québécois is a type of French food — no support
- 3. People in Quebec speak only English — no support
- 4. Quebec is a city 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 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
★★★ Which answer fits the question "Qu'est-ce que c'est ?"
- 1. Il s'appelle Biscuit — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. J'habite à Lyon — no support
- 3. J'ai dix ans — no support
- 4. C'est un escargot — ✓ 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 10 · ★★★ · right ✓
What would happen if you asked "Tu aimes les chats" with your voice going down at the end?
- 1. Nothing, the voice never matters — no support
- 2. It might sound like you're telling them they like cats — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. It would sound rude and they'd walk off — score 4
- 4. It would mean "you hate cats" — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 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 15, line 1: «Pets are short words in French: un chien is a dog and un chat is a cat, and since both start with ch, it is easy to say "Mon chat est un chien" by mistake.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «un chat» (+2); the same thing acted on «cat» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓
Your US cousin says, "No cap, quel is for everything, so quel âge, quel heure." (no cap = honestly) Which is true?
- 1. Both are wrong: quelle âge, quelle heure — no support
- 2. He's right, quel goes with every word — no support
- 3. Both are wrong: quel âges, quel heures — no support
- 4. Quel âge is right, but heure is feminine: quelle heure — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · 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 30, line 10: «Tu as quel âge ? means "How old are you?"; âge is masculine, so it is quel, not quelle; heure (hour) is feminine, so it is Quelle heure est-il ? (What time is…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «heure» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the expression which, placed at the commencement of a statement, renders it interrogative.
- 1. Ne ... pas — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Est-ce que — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Parce que — no support
- 4. Il y a — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the correct rendering of the question "How old are you?" addressed to a child.
- 1. Quel âge tu es ? — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Tu as quelle âge ? — no support
- 3. Tu as quel âge ? — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Tu es quel âge ? — 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 ✗
Determine the conjunction with which a question introduced by pourquoi is customarily answered.
- 1. pourquoi — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. parce que — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. quand — no support
- 4. comment — 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 ✗
Ascertain the position of the elements ne and pas in relation to the verb in a negative statement.
- 1. both after the verb — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. both before the verb — no support
- 3. ne before the verb, pas after it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. pas before the verb, ne after it — 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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