Numbers 21 to 69
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 7 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 ✓
Daniel moans, "Why's 21 got 'and' in it? Man, that's canny daft." ("Canny" means very.) What's the rule?
- 1. Only 21 uses et, because it is the first of the twenties — score 3
- 2. 21, 31, 41, 51 and 61 use et un; others use a hyphen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. It is a typo; French teachers argue about it a lot — no support
- 4. Every number in the twenties uses et, like vingt et deux — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 7, line 8: «21, 31, 41, 51 and 61 use et un: vingt et un, trente et un, quarante et un, cinquante et un, soixante et un.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+2); the same doer «21» (+2); the same thing acted on «et un» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Chloe says "soixante sounds like a sneeze, no cap." ("No cap" means honestly.) She says "swax-ant". What's the fix?
- 1. "soy-XANT", with an English x — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. "swa-ZAHNT", the x says z — no support
- 3. "swa-KSANT", with a clear ks — no support
- 4. "swa-SAHNT", the x says s — ✓ 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 ✗
Ruby says, "Our kid, she's reading out a lottery." Her penpal said "zéro six, douze, trente-quatre". What did she mean?
- 1. 0 6 1 2 3 4 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 06 21 43 — no support
- 3. 6 12 30 4 — no support
- 4. 06 12 34 — ✓ 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 ✗
A cartoon English boy in Paris says "Je suis dix!" to show he is ten. What should he say?
- 1. J'ai dix. — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Je dix ans. — no support
- 3. J'ai dix ans. — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Je suis dix ans. — 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 ✓
Olivia in Chicago reads quarante-quatre with "kwah" sounds. Her teacher says, "Close, but drop the w's." Why?
- 1. French w is said like v — no support
- 2. French quarante has no q — no support
- 3. French q is always silent — no support
- 4. French qu says just "k" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 10: «In quarante and quatre, qu says "k", with no w: quarante-quatre is "ka-rahnt-KATR".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «qu» (+2); the same thing acted on «k» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
The French driver laughs, "Trente et un, mon grand !" when Liam says "trente-un". What would 41 be?
- 1. quarante-un — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. quarante et un — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. quatre-un — no support
- 4. quatorze-un — 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 ✗
Sophie says "Like, bare amount" when asked how many sweets. ("Bare" means lots of.) What would a French kid say for 25?
- 1. Cinq-vingt bonbons. — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. J'ai beaucoup combien. — no support
- 3. J'en ai vingt-cinq. — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Vingt et cinq, merci. — 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 ✗
Oliver goes, "Proper boss, I know them now." ("Boss" means great.) He hears "le numéro dix-sept" at the match. Which shirt is it?
- 1. 70 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 17 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 10 — no support
- 4. 7 — 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 ✗
Ella says counting backwards is "heaps hard". What number comes right before quarante-sept?
- 1. quarante-huit — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. trente-six — score 3
- 3. quarante-six — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. quatorze-six — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 7, line 9: «The other numbers just join the ten and the unit with a hyphen: vingt-deux (22), trente-quatre (34), quarante-quatre (44), soixante-cinq (65).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «other numbers» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Ollie's family in Texas reads "soixante" as "sixteen". Why is that wrong?
- 1. Sixteen is seize; soixante is sixty — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Soixante is sixty-six, not sixteen — no support
- 3. They are right; both start with s — no support
- 4. Soixante is six hundred in 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
★★★ Mum pays "deux euros cinquante" for bread and "un euro vingt" for a croissant. How much in all?
- 1. €3.70 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. €3.50 — no support
- 3. €4.70 — no support
- 4. €3.25 — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
★★★ Which number word is spelled right?
- 1. trente-un — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. vingt et deux — no support
- 3. vingt et six — no support
- 4. soixante et un — ✓ 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 · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the formation of the numbers twenty-one, thirty-one and forty-one?
- 1. Each is formed by the conjunction et preceding un — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Each is formed by a hyphen alone, without any conjunction — no support
- 3. Each possesses a distinct single word — no support
- 4. Each is formed by placing the unit before the ten — 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 ✗
Identify the correct French expression of the statement "I am nine years of age".
- 1. J'ai neuf — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Je suis neuf ans — no support
- 3. J'ai neuf ans — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Je suis neuf — 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 ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning French telephone numbers.
- 1. They comprise ten digits, pronounced in groups of three — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. They comprise six digits, pronounced singly — score 4
- 3. They comprise ten digits, customarily pronounced in pairs — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. They are pronounced in English by statute — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 7, line 11: «French phone numbers have ten digits and are read in pairs: 06 12 34 56 78 is zéro six, douze, trente-quatre, cinquante-six, soixante-dix-huit.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «french phone numbers» (+2); the same thing acted on «ten digits» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a price is announced as "un euro vingt". Ascertain the sum payable.
- 1. Twenty euros and one cent — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Twenty-one euros — no support
- 3. One hundred and twenty euros — no support
- 4. One euro and twenty cents — ✓ 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
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