False friends
Tests: 6 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 35 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 writes to a French pal, "Raisins are dry, innit?" when she said she ate du raisin. What's the mix-up?
- 1. She ate dried plums — no support
- 2. Nothing, they're the same — no support
- 3. She ate fresh grapes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. She ate a sort of pudding — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 7: «Le raisin means grapes; a dried raisin is un raisin sec.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «grapes» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
★★ Theo is about to ask for "préservatif" at breakfast. Why does his teacher stop him fast?
- 1. It's the word for butter, not jam — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It's the word for marmalade, which he hates — no support
- 3. It's a very posh word nobody uses — no support
- 4. It's an embarrassing word, not jam — ✓ 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 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Grace from Glasgow writes back, "Aye, sensible folk are great," about a sister who is très sensible. What did the penpal mean?
- 1. Her sister is wise and careful — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Her sister gets upset easily — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Her sister is very bossy — no support
- 4. Her sister is good at sport — 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 ✗
Leo from Sydney goes, "Attending the bus? Like a meeting? Yeah nah." What should he understand?
- 1. His friend hates the bus — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. His friend is waiting for the bus — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. His friend is driving the bus — score 8
- 4. His friend is going to a bus meeting — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 35, line 12: «Un car is a coach for trips; a car is une voiture and a city bus is un bus.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «une voiture» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Olivia from Ohio goes, "You're in college already? You're like eleven, no cap." What's true?
- 1. Collège is a sports club — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Collège is secondary school — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. French kids go to university at 11 — no support
- 4. Collège is a summer camp — 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 ✓
★★ Josh from Leeds hears "en car" and goes, "All thirty of us in one car? Mad, like." What will really happen?
- 1. They'll travel by coach — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They'll take the city bus — no support
- 3. They'll walk to the castle — no support
- 4. They'll squeeze into one car — 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 ✗
Ruby from Belfast hears "Voici votre monnaie" and goes, "Money? I gave her the money!" What's happening?
- 1. The baker wants more money — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The baker is giving her a free cake — no support
- 3. The baker is giving her change — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The baker is refusing the money — 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 ✗
Charlie from Kent hears "Tu es blessé ?" after falling off his bike and says "Bless you!" What should he have answered?
- 1. Non, je suis plein — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. À tes souhaits — no support
- 3. Oui, j'ai mal au genou — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Merci, je n'ai plus faim — 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 ✓
★★ Max from Manchester says "Je suis plein !" after lunch and his host laughs. What would sound natural?
- 1. Je suis vide — no support
- 2. Je n'ai plus faim — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 3. J'ai encore très faim — no support
- 4. Je suis faim — score 10
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 15: «To say you are full after a meal, French people say "Je n'ai plus faim" (I'm not hungry any more); "je suis plein" sounds odd.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sound» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «je» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
★★★ How many of these are false friends? la librairie, le raisin, la table, la lecture, l'animal
- 1. Three — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Five — no support
- 3. Four — no support
- 4. Two — 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 a tourist went into a "Location de vélos" to ask where the bikes were made?
- 1. They'd find out it's a place to hire bikes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They'd be shown a map of bike shops — no support
- 3. They'd get a tour of a bike factory — no support
- 4. They'd be sent to a museum of bikes — 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 ✓
Noah from Ohio hears "la lecture" and groans, "A lecture? I thought we were reading a story!" What's true?
- 1. La lecture is a school test — no support
- 2. It means reading: story time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. La lecture is a long, boring talk — no support
- 4. La lecture is a letter to parents — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 5: «A false friend can still be a good friend once you know it: un car is a coach, la monnaie is your change, and la lecture is reading time, not a boring talk.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «read» (+5); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a "faux ami"?
- 1. An English word with no French equivalent — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 2. A French word identical in form and meaning to an English word — score 10
- 3. A word of no fixed meaning — no support
- 4. A French word resembling an English one but differing in sense — ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 8: «Jam is la confiture; préservatif is an embarrassing false friend and does not mean jam.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «embarrassing false friend» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «préservatif» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the meaning of the French noun "raisin".
- 1. Cherry — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Plum — no support
- 3. Grape — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Dried grape — 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 meaning of the verb "attendre".
- 1. To attend — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To listen — no support
- 3. To arrive — no support
- 4. To wait — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the correct French term for the coins returned to a purchaser after payment.
- 1. la monnaie — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. le collège — no support
- 3. la location — no support
- 4. l'argent — 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
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