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title: Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ — how Mova does on the tests · French
description: Lesson 40 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 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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# Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

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**Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 4 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 40 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/).

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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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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★★★ Ella from Dundee says, "It's all the same word, ken? Vair, vair, vair." What does the spelling show?

- **1.** Two words: vert and verre — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Five words, one per vair — score 6
- **3.** One word said five times for fun — score 4
- **4.** Four words: ver, vert, vers, verre — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 39, line 2: «Start with the words you know (famille, chat, trois, fromage), then the lookalikes that really are friends (perché, perched; sucre, sugar), and only then guess…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «words» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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★★★ Mason from Boston says, "Wicked, a secret code!" Which list decodes forêt, hôpital, fête, île correctly?

- **1.** forty, hospital, fete, eel — no support
- **2.** forest, hotel, feast, isle — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** fort, hotel, fat, ill, all short — no support
- **4.** forest, hospital, feast, isle — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 3, line 4: «The little hat ê often marks a lost s from long ago, so forêt was once "forest", and fête was once "feste" (a feast).», 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 «forêt» (+2); the same thing acted on «forest» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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★★★ Lily from Brighton goes, "Bare hard, innit," trying to turn CHIEN into a dog's home. Why does NICHE work?

- **1.** It's CHIEN read backwards — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It adds a letter — no support
- **3.** It uses the same five letters — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It drops the H — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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★★★ Jake from Bradford counts on his fingers from mardi, calling mardi "one", and ends on jeudi. What's the fix?

- **1.** Count 11 days, so it's samedi — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He's right, it's jeudi — no support
- **3.** Start from mercredi: vendredi — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Count back, so it's samedi — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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★★★ Chloe from Toronto reads onze heures moins le quart as 11:15 and says the film ends at 12:45. What's the right ending time?

- **1.** 1:15 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 12:45 — no support
- **3.** 12:15 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 11:45 — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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★★★ Oscar from Birmingham guesses "loads, mate" for silent final letters in "Les petits chats sont gris", then counts 5. Which words did he miss a second letter in?

- **1.** sont and gris, each with two — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Only gris, with s and i — no support
- **3.** les and gris, each with two — no support
- **4.** petits and chats — **✓ 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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★★★ Aoife from Galway says, "Sure there's no z in Nous avons six oranges at all." How many are there, and where?

- **1.** One: only six\_oranges — no support
- **2.** None at all, she's right — no support
- **3.** Three: nous, avons and six — no support
- **4.** Two: avons and oranges — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 12: «A silent s or x is said as z only before a vowel sound: "Nous avons six oranges" has 2 z sounds, nous\_avons and six\_oranges.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «2 z sounds» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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★★★ Archie from Sheffield goes, "Ey up, they could all be green, so any word fits Les \_\_\_ sont vertes." Why only pommes?

- **1.** Pommes is the only plural — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Only apples are green — no support
- **3.** Vertes needs a feminine plural — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Pommes is the shortest word — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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★★★ Freya from Bristol decodes trois, huit, un, vingt with A = 0 and gets "DIBU". What went wrong?

- **1.** A is 1, not 0: CHAT — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** She should count from Z backwards — no support
- **3.** She mixed up huit and onze — no support
- **4.** Nothing, DIBU is a French word — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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★★★ Riley from Phoenix swaps the colours and writes "un chat blanche, une souris noir". What's wrong?

- **1.** Each colour must match: blanc, noire — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Only souris is wrong: it should be un souris — no support
- **3.** Nothing, the colours copy straight across — no support
- **4.** Only chat is wrong: it should be une chat — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 15: «Swapping the colours in un chat noir and une souris blanche gives un chat blanc and une souris noire: each colour changes to match its noun.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «match» (+3); the same doer «colour» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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★★★ Kai from Auckland matches chocolatine to Quebec and tuque to France. What's right?

- **1.** Both are made-up words — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Chocolatine: Paris; tuque: Haiti — no support
- **3.** Both are from Quebec — no support
- **4.** Chocolatine: France; tuque: Quebec — **✓ 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Determine the number of distinct words, homophonous with "vair", contained in the sentence "Un ver vert va vers un verre vert".

- **1.** Four — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Three — no support
- **3.** One — no support
- **4.** Five — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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It is given that the present day is mardi. Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall ten days hence.

- **1.** samedi — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** vendredi — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** mercredi — no support
- **4.** jeudi — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/e2/)

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

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A film commencing at onze heures moins le quart is of one and a half hours' duration. State the hour of its conclusion.

- **1.** midi et demi — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** midi moins le quart — no support
- **3.** midi et quart — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** une heure et quart — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/e3/)

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

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Select the noun which alone satisfies the requirements of agreement in the sentence "Les \_\_\_ sont vertes".

- **1.** chapeaux — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** pommes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** pantalon — no support
- **4.** chats — 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/e4/)

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