Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 1 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 32 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 ✗
Charlotte from Kent goes, "They have the big dinner the night before? Bit early, innit?" What's true?
- 1. Yes, but only in Quebec, never in France — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, the French don't eat anything special — no support
- 3. Yes, in many families it's on the 24th — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, French Christmas dinner is always on the 26th — 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 ✗
Mia from Ohio says, "Shoes by the tree? That's lowkey sus." (sus = suspicious) What's the real story?
- 1. It's to keep the floor clean for Santa — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Shoes are a present for the reindeer — no support
- 3. It's a French tradition: le Père Noël fills them — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. French kids hide their shoes from Santa — 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 ✗
Jack from Glasgow says, "Le bûche is brilliant, ken." Fix the little word.
- 1. le bûche is right, cakes are masculine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. la bûche, because bûche is feminine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. les bûche, because there are many slices — no support
- 4. l'bûche, because it starts with b — 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 ✗
Ethan from Boston drinks hot apple juice in Strasbourg and says, "Wicked festive, but Christmas markets are only German, right?" What do you tell him?
- 1. The French copied markets from America — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Strasbourg is in Germany, so he's right — no support
- 3. He's right, France has no Christmas markets — no support
- 4. Strasbourg's market is one of the oldest in Europe — ✓ 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 5 · right ✓
Lucas from Leeds asks, "Is the fève a choking hazard, though?" What is the sensible answer?
- 1. It's small, so you eat slowly and carefully — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It's a real bean, so it's healthy — no support
- 3. It's never inside the cake, it's on top — no support
- 4. It's made of chocolate, so you can swallow 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
Test 6 · wrong ✗
Ava from Cork goes, "Sure why's the wee one under the table? Did they get told off?" Explain.
- 1. Yes, the youngest is always punished at Epiphany — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, they ate the fève too early — no support
- 3. No, they say who gets each slice — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, they are looking for a lost shoe — 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 ✗
What would happen if you flipped a crêpe at la Chandeleur with a coin in your other hand, according to the tradition?
- 1. It'd turn to gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. You'd have luck all year — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. You'd become king for the day — no support
- 4. You'd have to pay for the crêpes — 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 ✗
Grace from Toronto says, "Pancake day on 2 February? Eh, it's not even Lent!" What's true?
- 1. 2 February is Mardi gras in France — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. La Chandeleur on 2 February is France's big crêpe day — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The French have no pancake day at all — no support
- 4. The French eat pancakes only at Christmas — 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 · right ✓
Harry from Swansea asks, "Fat Tuesday? Why's Tuesday fat, like?" Which is the best answer?
- 1. It's when the shops have a big sale — no support
- 2. It's the longest Tuesday of the whole year — no support
- 3. It was the last day for rich food before Lent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. People eat only fat on that Tuesday — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 11, line 14: «Quelle est la date aujourd'hui ? means "What's the date today?"; a full answer is C'est le quatorze octobre, or with the day, C'est mardi quatorze octobre.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «full answer» (+2); the same thing acted on «c'est quatorze octobre» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
★★★ A French family eats la galette with five people. The youngest is under the table. How many slices does the youngest call out names for?
- 1. Four, because the youngest gets none — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Six, one extra for the fève — no support
- 3. One, only their own slice — no support
- 4. Five, one for each person including the youngest — ✓ 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 · right ✓
Ruby from Brighton hears "Il est né, le divin enfant" and goes, "Bare old song, innit?" (bare = very) Is she right?
- 1. Yes, it's hundreds of years old — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, but it's sung only at Easter — no support
- 3. No, it was written last year for a film — no support
- 4. No, it's a pop song from the 1990s — 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 12 · right ✓
★★★ A galette is cut into 6 slices with one fève inside. Mum gets the first slice and there is no fève in it. How many slices could still hide it?
- 1. 5 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 6 — no support
- 3. 1 — no support
- 4. 4 — 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 occasion on which, in many French households, the principal Christmas meal is consumed.
- 1. The morning of 26 December — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The evening of 24 December — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The evening of 25 December — no support
- 4. The evening of 6 January — 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 ✗
State the function of the fève concealed within the galette des rois.
- 1. It designates the person who shall serve the cake — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It designates the person who shall pay for the cake — no support
- 3. It designates the king or queen for the day — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It serves merely to decorate the upper surface — 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 the date upon which la Chandeleur is observed.
- 1. 2 February — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 1 April — no support
- 3. 6 January — no support
- 4. 24 December — 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 literal meaning of the expression "Mardi gras".
- 1. Great Tuesday — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fat Tuesday — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Mad Tuesday — no support
- 4. Last Tuesday — 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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