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title: Songs and rhymes — how Mova does on the tests · French
description: Lesson 31 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 12 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Songs and rhymes

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**Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 6 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 31 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/31-songs-and-rhymes/).

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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/31-songs-and-rhymes/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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Your mate goes, "Frère Jacques is the same song in French and English, word for word, innit." Is he right?

- **1.** No: in French the song is about a dog — no support
- **2.** Yes: but the French one is sung faster — no support
- **3.** No: in French he must ring the bells — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Yes: every word is the same in both songs — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 6: «Frère Jacques is about a monk who has overslept: dormez-vous ? means "are you sleeping?" and sonnez les matines means "ring the bells for morning prayers"; in…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ring» (+3); the same thing acted on «bells» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Ruby from Belfast thinks "Alouette" is a soppy love song for a bird. Her teacher explains the words. Why does Ruby go "Ach, that's awful"?

- **1.** The bird is cooked in the very first line — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The bird flies away and never comes back — no support
- **3.** The song says birds are ugly and stupid — no support
- **4.** It's about plucking the bird — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/31-songs-and-rhymes/t2/)

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### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3}

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Gran from Bristol shows a photo of the broken bridge and goes, "Proper job, dancing on a broken bridge, my lover?" What do many people say?

- **1.** Nobody ever danced, the song is about fishing — no support
- **2.** They likely danced under it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** People still dance on the bridge every night — score 5
- **4.** The bridge broke because too many danced — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 31, line 9: «Many people say dancers really danced sous le pont, under the bridge, on an island in the river.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «bridge» (+4); the same action «dance» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Jake from Texas sings "Savez-vous planter les choux ?" and goes, "Y'all, this song is unhinged - I'm planting with my nose!" Why is it a good song for school?

- **1.** Each verse names a body part, so you learn them — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It helps you learn the days of the week — no support
- **3.** It teaches you real gardening tips — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** It is the French national anthem — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 2: «Songs are a clever way to learn: the tune carries the words into your memory, and many songs secretly teach numbers, body parts, clothes or how adjectives agre…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «teach» (+2); the same doer «many songs» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/31-songs-and-rhymes/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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A cartoon shows "Une souris vert". Your sister says it looks fine. Fix it.

- **1.** Un souris verte — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Un souris vert — no support
- **3.** Une souris verte — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Une souris vertes — no support

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**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/31-songs-and-rhymes/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Max from Newcastle plays the wolf game and goes, "Howay, I'm off!" as soon as the wolf says "Je mets ma chemise !" What's the problem?

- **1.** He runs too early, before the wolf shouts J'arrive ! — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The wolf never chases anyone — no support
- **3.** Nothing, you run on the first clothes — no support
- **4.** He should run when the wolf says bonjour — no support

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**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/31-songs-and-rhymes/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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What would happen if you sang "Meunier, tu dors" at one speed all the way through?

- **1.** Nothing, it is always sung at one speed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Children would think the miller woke up — no support
- **3.** The song would turn into Frère Jacques — no support
- **4.** You'd miss the fun of speeding up like the mill — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/31-songs-and-rhymes/t7/)

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### Test 8 · right ✓ {#t8}

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Lily from Cardiff asks, "Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois - is it just counting? Tidy." What's more to it?

- **1.** It's a song about a wolf in the woods — no support
- **2.** The numbers rhyme with a story — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** It's just numbers with no other words — no support
- **4.** It counts sheep at bedtime — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 13: «Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois is a counting rhyme where each number rhymes with the next line: trois and bois, six and cerises, douze and rouges.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «rhyme» (+3); the same doer «number» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/t8/)

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### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9}

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★ Your cousin reads "blancs moutons" and goes, "Blank sheep? Like, empty?" What does it mean?

- **1.** White sheep — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Small sheep — no support
- **3.** Black sheep — no support
- **4.** Empty sheep — no support

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**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/31-songs-and-rhymes/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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Kai from Auckland says, "Chur, why are these old songs free for everyone to sing?" What's the reason?

- **1.** Their singers are all still paid by the school — no support
- **2.** They are so old that nobody owns them any more — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** They were made by a French teacher last year — no support
- **4.** They are free only in France — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 1: «French children grow up with old songs that nobody owns any more - songs so old that the people who made them are long forgotten, so anyone may sing them anywh…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «own» (+2); the same doer «nobody» (+2); the same thing acted on «old songs» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/t10/)

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### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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★★★ Which song teaches clothes words, which teaches body parts, and which teaches numbers?

- **1.** Un deux trois, Alouette, Promenons-nous — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Promenons-nous, Un deux trois, Alouette — no support
- **3.** Alouette, Promenons-nous, Un deux trois — no support
- **4.** Promenons-nous, Alouette, Un deux trois — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/31-songs-and-rhymes/t11/)

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### Test 12 · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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★★★ Verses of "Alouette" add la tête, le bec, les yeux and le cou. How many of these four are masculine singular?

- **1.** One: only le bec — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two: le bec and le cou — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** None: all four are feminine — no support
- **4.** Three: le bec, le cou and les yeux — no support

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**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/31-songs-and-rhymes/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the subject of the traditional French song "Frère Jacques".

- **1.** A clown in need of writing materials — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A shepherd in search of his sheep — no support
- **3.** A monk who has failed to wake in time — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A miller whose mill has ceased to turn — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Ascertain the meaning of the expression "prête-moi ta plume" in the song "Au clair de la lune".

- **1.** Lend me your pen — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** Show me your hat — no support
- **3.** Pass me your plum — no support
- **4.** Give me your feather pillow — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 10: «Au clair de la lune means "in the moonlight"; Pierrot is a sad clown with a white face, and prête-moi ta plume means "lend me your pen", an old feather pen.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lend» (+4); the same thing acted on «pen» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Select the reason for which the adjective in "une souris verte" bears a final e.

- **1.** The adjective precedes the noun — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The noun souris is feminine — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The noun souris is plural — no support
- **4.** The mouse is very green — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Determine the date of composition of the song "Il pleut, il pleut, bergère".

- **1.** 1980 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 1680 — no support
- **3.** 1780 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 1880 — no support

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**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/31-songs-and-rhymes/e4/)

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