Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 8 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 ✗
Jayden says, "Sixty-ten?! Nah, bruv, that's maths homework." What's the best reply?
- 1. No, soixante-dix means sixteen — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, but only old people say it — no support
- 3. No, 70 is septante everywhere French is spoken — no support
- 4. Yes, 70 is said as 60 + 10 in France — ✓ 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 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Megan says 71 being "sixty and eleven" is "tamping". ("Tamping" means fuming.) What would 74 be?
- 1. soixante-dix-quatre — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. septante-quatorze — no support
- 3. soixante-quatorze — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. soixante et quatorze — 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 ✓
Ben's dad is impressed by "four score and seven". What number did Lincoln mean?
- 1. 74 — no support
- 2. 107 — no support
- 3. 47 — no support
- 4. 87 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 4: «English once counted in twenties too: Abraham Lincoln's "four score and seven years ago" means 87, because a score is 20.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «mean» (+2); the same thing acted on «87» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
Ivy's gran in Bristol asks, "Why's the s gone? That's proper weird, my lover." Ivy wrote "quatre-vingts-un". What's the rule?
- 1. The s moves to the end: quatre-vingt-uns — no support
- 2. The s stays only when no number follows — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. The s goes only on Fridays — no support
- 4. The s goes because 81 is odd — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 9: «quatre-vingts has an s only when no other number follows it: 80 is quatre-vingts, but 81 is quatre-vingt-un, with no s and no et.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «follow» (+2); the same doer «other number» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓
Ollie in Edinburgh groans, "Four twenty ten. Ma heid hurts." Which sum makes 90?
- 1. 4 × 20 + 10 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 4 + 20 + 10 — no support
- 3. 4 × 10 + 20 — no support
- 4. 40 + 20 + 10 + 20 — 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 ✗
A lady in Brussels says the price is "septante euros". Lily asks, "Isn't 70 soixante-dix? Was she having a laugh?" ("Having a laugh" means joking.) What is true?
- 1. Septante is slang only teenagers use — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Belgian lady made a mistake — no support
- 3. Septante means 7 in Belgium — no support
- 4. Septante is proper French in Belgium and Switzerland — ✓ 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Zac thinks "cent" means one cent. "Bargain, mate." What did it really cost?
- 1. 1 euro — no support
- 2. 100 euros — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 10 euros — no support
- 4. 1 cent — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 12: «cent ("sahn") means a hundred; a euro cent is called un centime ("sahn-TEEM").», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «euro cent» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Mia says, "That's like eleven syllables, I'm literally dead." How can she break up 99?
- 1. 4 + 20 + 9 + 10 + 9 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 80 + 19 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 90 + 9 said as nonante-neuf in France — no support
- 4. 9 + 9 — 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 ✓
Ethan shouts, "Is that 60 or 16, la?" ("La" means mate.) The teacher said soixante-seize. What should he do?
- 1. Wait for the whole number and mark 76 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Mark 60, it came first — no support
- 3. Mark 60 and 16 both — no support
- 4. Mark 16, it came last — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 5: «Picture bingo in Liverpool: the teacher calls "soixante-seize" and Ethan must wait for the whole number before he marks 76, not 60 or 16.», 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 action «wait» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
A cartoon penpal writes "Mon grand-père a quatre vingt huit ans" and Ava thinks he's 4,208. What would help her?
- 1. Add the parts: 4 × 20 + 8 = 88 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Ignore quatre and read 28 — no support
- 3. Read each word as a digit: 4, 20, 8 — no support
- 4. Multiply everything: 4 × 20 × 8 — 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 ✗
★★★ Noah's mum pays a coin of "un euro" for something that costs "quatre-vingt-quinze centimes". How much change?
- 1. 15 cents — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 95 cents — no support
- 3. 5 cents — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 25 cents — 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 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗
★★★ Which of these is the biggest number?
- 1. quatre-vingt-dix-neuf — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. soixante-dix-neuf — score 4
- 3. quatre-vingt-neuf — score 4
- 4. quatre-vingt-huit — ← Mova's choice · score 14
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 14, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 13: «Hyphens join all the parts of one number: quatre-vingt-huit is one number, 88, not four separate numbers.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «one number» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the French numeral soixante-dix?
- 1. It denotes seventy and is used solely in Belgium — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It denotes six hundred and ten — no support
- 3. It denotes sixteen and is formed as six plus ten — no support
- 4. It denotes seventy and is formed as sixty plus ten — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the numeral denoted by the expression quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.
- 1. Ninety-nine — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Eighty-nine — no support
- 3. Seventy-nine — no support
- 4. Four hundred and nineteen — 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 the terminal s of quatre-vingts.
- 1. It is retained solely in Switzerland — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is retained solely where no further numeral follows — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is retained in every numeral from eighty to ninety-nine — no support
- 4. It is omitted in every circumstance — 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 ✗
It is given that in Belgium the numerals for seventy and ninety differ from those employed in France. State those numerals.
- 1. Septante and huitante — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix — no support
- 3. Sept-dix and neuf-dix — no support
- 4. Septante and nonante — ✓ 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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