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title: Colours — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · French
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 9 «Colours» 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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# Colours

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The 16 questions of lesson 9 «Colours» 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/9-colours/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t1/) — Amelia jokes the flag is "blue, white, red, but posh." ("Posh" means fancy.) How would she say it, and in what order? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t2/) — Oscar says, "That's backwards, like." What does French do with colours? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t3/) — Freya says, "Whit? It's still green." ("Whit" means what.) Why did "une jupe vert" get a red mark? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t4/) — Riley says, "I'm gonna say 'bloo'." What's the problem? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t5/) — Tilly asks, "Wait, it's a whole different word?" about blanche. What's true? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t6/) — Ruby says, "Sure that's just mean," when her teacher crosses out the s on marrons. What's the reason? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t7/) — A French boy hears Lucas say "John" and hands him his friend Jean. Everyone loses it. ("Loses it" means laughs a lot.) What did Lucas want? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t8/) — Grace asks, "Eh, did I get my own hair colour wrong?" when her penpal writes "Tu es brune !" ("Eh" asks you to agree.) What happened? — wrong ✗
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t9/) — Leo says, "Sweet as, one word for two things." ("Sweet as" means great.) Which word does he mean? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t10/) — Daisy shouts, "It's not green, it's grey, man!" What does gris mean? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t11/) — ★★★ Which phrase has NO mistake? — right ✓
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t12/) — ★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour. How do you write "a leaf" of that colour? (A leaf is une feuille.) — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the position of colour adjectives in French? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/e2/) — Identify the correct rendering of "a black mouse". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the adjectives marron and orange. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/e4/) — It is given that a girl possesses ginger hair. Determine the adjective appropriate to her. — wrong ✗ · exam

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