--- title: Telling the time — how Mova does on the tests · French description: Lesson 12 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/12-telling-the-time/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/) / 12 # Telling the time **Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 6 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 12 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1} Noah asks, "Three hours of what?" What's the truth about Il est trois heures? - **1.** It means it is three in the morning only — no support - **2.** It means the class has been on for three hours — no support - **3.** heures here means o'clock: it is three o'clock — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12 - **4.** It means you must wait three hours — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 8: «French timetables, cinemas and shops use the 24-hour clock written with h: 14h30 is quatorze heures trente, half past two in the afternoon.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «14h30 quatorze heures» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2} Mia shrugs, "Wee word, wee mistake." ("Wee" means small.) Why does une heure need une? - **1.** une means "o'clock" — score 3 - **2.** heure is a feminine word — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** heure is a word for girls only — score 5 - **4.** une is used for times before noon — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 12, line 2: «Heure is a feminine word, so one o'clock is une heure, and from two o'clock on it takes an s: deux heures.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «one o'clock» (+2); the same thing acted on «une heure» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Oliver says, "There's no fourteen o'clock, like." What would happen if he read 14h30 as 4:30? - **1.** He would be half an hour late — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He would be two hours early for nothing — no support - **3.** Nothing, 14h30 and 4:30 are the same — no support - **4.** He would miss his train by two hours — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4} Ava says "sure that's like half and quarter, grand," then writes "deux heures et demi". What's the mistake? - **1.** Half past is et quart, not et demi — no support - **2.** After heures, half is written demie with an e — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 13 - **3.** There is no mistake at all — no support - **4.** Demi must always go before heures — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 13, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 9: «et quart means quarter past and et demie means half past: deux heures et quart, deux heures et demie; after heures, half is written demie, with an e.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «half» (+4); the same action «write» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Jake in Dallas says, "Five hours minus something? Y'all are making clocks hard." What is cinq heures moins dix? - **1.** ten past five — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** ten to four — no support - **3.** five past ten — no support - **4.** ten to five — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6} Lily asks, "Is midi like a skirt?" when her penpal says "Il est midi !" What does it mean? - **1.** It's 12 noon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** It's half past twelve — no support - **3.** It's a skirt time — no support - **4.** It's midnight — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 11: «midi means noon and minuit means midnight; le Midi is also a name for the south of France.», 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 doer «midi» (+2); the same thing acted on «noon» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7} Jacob in Glasgow says proudly, "Ah'm no late for once." ("Ah'm no" means I'm not.) When did his class start? - **1.** à neuf heures, at nine — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nine minutes past — no support - **3.** after nine lessons — no support - **4.** at nineteen hours — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Olivia in Melbourne asks, "Arvo's not a thing in French?" ("Arvo" means afternoon.) At 3 pm, what should she say? - **1.** le matin — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** la nuit — no support - **3.** le soir — no support - **4.** l'après-midi — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Harvey grumbles, "Does it want me to do a boot?" when his alarm says "Debout !" What does it mean? - **1.** Put your boots on! — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Go back to sleep! — no support - **3.** Kick the alarm! — no support - **4.** Get up! — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Freya's gran says, "That's eight! I'd starve, my lover." ("My lover" means dear.) What's true about dinner in France? - **1.** It is at midnight in summer — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is often around 19h30 or 20h, later than in many UK homes — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It is always at 16h, straight after school — no support - **4.** There is no evening meal in France — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} ★★★ The film starts à quatorze heures quarante-cinq and lasts one hour and a half. When does it end, the clock-face way? - **1.** quatre heures et demie — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** trois heures et quart — no support - **3.** quatre heures et quart — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** quatre heures moins le quart — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} ★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart. Max's bus comes in twenty minutes. What time does it come? - **1.** deux heures cinq — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** une heure cinq — no support - **3.** deux heures et quart — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **4.** deux heures moins cinq — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 8: «French timetables, cinemas and shops use the 24-hour clock written with h: 14h30 is quatorze heures trente, half past two in the afternoon.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same circumstance (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the grammatical gender of the noun heure? - **1.** It is feminine, whence the expression une heure — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It possesses no gender whatsoever — no support - **3.** It is masculine, whence the expression un heure — no support - **4.** It is masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the time denoted by the expression cinq heures moins le quart. - **1.** Five minutes before four o'clock — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A quarter of an hour after five o'clock — no support - **3.** Five hours less a quarter of a day — no support - **4.** A quarter of an hour before five o'clock — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the notation 14h30 upon a French timetable. - **1.** It denotes fourteen minutes past three in the afternoon — no support - **2.** It denotes half past two in the afternoon, upon the twenty-four-hour system — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** It denotes half past four in the morning, upon the twelve-hour system — no support - **4.** It denotes a duration of fourteen hours and thirty minutes — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 4: «Picture a Paris station: the board says 14h30, because French timetables use the 24-hour clock; take 12 away and you know it is half past two in the afternoon.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} It is given that a lesson is stated to commence à neuf heures. Ascertain the hour of its commencement. - **1.** Ten minutes to nine — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nine o'clock — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nineteen o'clock — no support - **4.** Nine minutes past the hour — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/e4/) - ← previous: [11. Dates and birthdays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/) - next →: [13. Weather and seasons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/13-weather-and-seasons/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/)