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title: Telling the time — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · French
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 12 «Telling the time» of the French course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Telling the time

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The 16 questions of lesson 12 «Telling the time» of the French course of Mova's primary school with their options, 100 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/12-telling-the-time/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t1/) — Noah asks, "Three hours of what?" What's the truth about Il est trois heures? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t2/) — Mia shrugs, "Wee word, wee mistake." ("Wee" means small.) Why does une heure need une? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t3/) — Oliver says, "There's no fourteen o'clock, like." What would happen if he read 14h30 as 4:30? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t4/) — Ava says "sure that's like half and quarter, grand," then writes "deux heures et demi". What's the mistake? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t5/) — Jake in Dallas says, "Five hours minus something? Y'all are making clocks hard." What is cinq heures moins dix? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t6/) — Lily asks, "Is midi like a skirt?" when her penpal says "Il est midi !" What does it mean? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t7/) — Jacob in Glasgow says proudly, "Ah'm no late for once." ("Ah'm no" means I'm not.) When did his class start? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t8/) — Olivia in Melbourne asks, "Arvo's not a thing in French?" ("Arvo" means afternoon.) At 3 pm, what should she say? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t9/) — Harvey grumbles, "Does it want me to do a boot?" when his alarm says "Debout !" What does it mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t10/) — Freya's gran says, "That's eight! I'd starve, my lover." ("My lover" means dear.) What's true about dinner in France? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t11/) — ★★★ The film starts à quatorze heures quarante-cinq and lasts one hour and a half. When does it end, the clock-face way? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t12/) — ★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart. Max's bus comes in twenty minutes. What time does it come? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the grammatical gender of the noun heure? — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/e2/) — Identify the time denoted by the expression cinq heures moins le quart. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the notation 14h30 upon a French timetable. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/e4/) — It is given that a lesson is stated to commence à neuf heures. Ascertain the hour of its commencement. — wrong ✗ · exam

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