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title: Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · French
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 3 «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» 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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# Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends

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The 16 questions of lesson 3 «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» of the French course of Mova's primary school with their options, 98 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/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t1/) — Poppy moans, "cafe is literally the same as English, so unfair." What would café sound like without its é? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t2/) — Daniel in Liverpool asks, "Boss, so the dad's the sea?" ("Boss" means great.) What is the truth? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t3/) — Hannah asks, "What's that wee hat on forêt for?" ("Wee" means small.) What is the best answer? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t4/) — Max says leaving off the cédille is "heaps unfair, it's just a squiggle." ("Heaps" means very.) What happens without it? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t5/) — Leah's mate says, "just put an accent on every a, it's safer." Why is that wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t6/) — Ollie wrote "Ou est la gare ?" His teacher laughs: "You asked 'or is the station'." What did he forget? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t7/) — Ben goes, "No way, capitals don't get accents." What would a French dictionary say? — right ✓ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t8/) — Lily in Atlanta says, "Y'all, dirty and salty look the same!" Which pair is she looking at? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t9/) — Alfie asks, "Them accents is well peng but what are they called?" ("Peng" means great.) Which name matches ç? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t10/) — Camille writes, "Ce n'est pas grave !" after Ellie forgets the hat on gâteau. Ellie panics. What should she understand? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t11/) — ★★★ Using the lost-s rule, which English word matches the French word île? — right ✓ · ★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t12/) — ★★★ A French word is written in four ways. Which is correct for "the boy is at the hospital"? — right ✓ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the function of accents in written French? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/e2/) — Identify the function of the cédille when placed beneath the letter c before a, o or u. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the words ou and où. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/e4/) — It is given that a circumflex accent frequently occupies the position of a letter lost from an older spelling. Determine the letter most commonly so replaced. — wrong ✗ · exam

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