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title: Colours — how Mova does on the tests · French
description: Lesson 9 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 7 of 12 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Colours

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**Tests:** 7 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 5 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 9 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/9-colours/).

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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/9-colours/).

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### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Amelia jokes the flag is "blue, white, red, but posh." ("Posh" means fancy.) How would she say it, and in what order?

- **1.** bleu, rouge, blanc, from the top down — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** blanc, bleu, rouge, from the bottom up — no support
- **3.** rouge, blanc, bleu, from the flagpole outwards — no support
- **4.** bleu, blanc, rouge, from the flagpole outwards — **✓ 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/9-colours/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Oscar says, "That's backwards, like." What does French do with colours?

- **1.** It leaves the colour out — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It puts the colour after the noun — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It puts the colour at the end of the sentence — no support
- **4.** It puts the colour before the noun — 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/9-colours/t2/)

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### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3}

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Freya says, "Whit? It's still green." ("Whit" means what.) Why did "une jupe vert" get a red mark?

- **1.** The colour should come before the noun — no support
- **2.** vert is only for boys' clothes in France — no support
- **3.** Skirts can never be green in French — score 1
- **4.** jupe is feminine, so the colour needs an e: verte — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 2: «Colours also change their spelling to match the thing: a green jumper is un pull vert, but a green skirt is une jupe verte, because jupe is a feminine word.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jupe» (+2); the same property (+1); 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/9-colours/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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Riley says, "I'm gonna say 'bloo'." What's the problem?

- **1.** bleu has a rounded "uh" sound, not "oo" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** bleu is said "blay" — no support
- **3.** Nothing, it's exactly the English sound — no support
- **4.** bleu ends in a "ks" sound — 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/9-colours/t4/)

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### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5}

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Tilly asks, "Wait, it's a whole different word?" about blanche. What's true?

- **1.** blanche means pink — no support
- **2.** blanche is only used for snow — no support
- **3.** She is wrong: it is blance — no support
- **4.** blanc changes more than just adding e: blanche — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 10: «A few colours change more: blanc ("BLAHN") becomes blanche ("BLAHNSH"), and violet becomes violette.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «change» (+2); the same thing acted on «more» (+2). 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/9-colours/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Ruby says, "Sure that's just mean," when her teacher crosses out the s on marrons. What's the reason?

- **1.** Shoes are always singular in French — no support
- **2.** marron never changes, not even in the plural — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** The s was in the wrong place — no support
- **4.** marron should be brune for shoes — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 11: «marron (brown) and orange never change, not even in the plural: des chaussures marron (brown shoes).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «change» (+2); the same doer «marron» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/9-colours/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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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?

- **1.** The yellow pencil, jaune — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The pencil of a boy called John — no support
- **3.** A brown pencil, marron — no support
- **4.** A white pencil, blanc — 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/9-colours/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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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?

- **1.** Her penpal thinks she has grey hair — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Her penpal made a spelling mistake — no support
- **3.** Her penpal is saying she is sunburnt — no support
- **4.** Her penpal used the girl's form for dark hair — **✓ 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/9-colours/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Leo says, "Sweet as, one word for two things." ("Sweet as" means great.) Which word does he mean?

- **1.** bleu: blue, and the sky — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** rose: pink, and the flower — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** vert: green, and grass — no support
- **4.** noir: black, and the night — 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/9-colours/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Daisy shouts, "It's not green, it's grey, man!" What does gris mean?

- **1.** Grey or green, both — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Grey, so the French were right — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Black, so they were both wrong — no support
- **4.** Green, so Daisy was right — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 15: «gris ("GREE") means grey, not green; the s is silent; with a feminine noun it is grise ("GREEZ"); green is vert.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3); the same doer «gris» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, 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/9-colours/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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★★★ Which phrase has NO mistake?

- **1.** une souris noire et un chat blanc — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** une souris noir et un chat blanc — no support
- **3.** une souris noire et un chat blanche — no support
- **4.** un souris noire et un chat blanche — 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/9-colours/t11/)

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### Test 12 · right ✓ {#t12}

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★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour. How do you write "a leaf" of that colour? (A leaf is une feuille.)

- **1.** une feuille verte — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** un feuille verte — no support
- **3.** une verte feuille — no support
- **4.** une feuille vert — 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/9-colours/t12/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the position of colour adjectives in French?

- **1.** They are placed at the close of the sentence — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They are omitted where the colour is evident — no support
- **3.** They are customarily placed before the noun they qualify — no support
- **4.** They are customarily placed after the noun they qualify — **✓ 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/9-colours/e1/)

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

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Identify the correct rendering of "a black mouse".

- **1.** une noire souris — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** un souris noire — no support
- **3.** une souris noir — no support
- **4.** une souris noire — **✓ the right answer** · 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/9-colours/e2/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the adjectives marron and orange.

- **1.** They are employed solely before the noun — no support
- **2.** They remain invariable in gender and in number — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They add an e for the feminine and an s for the plural — no support
- **4.** They change wholly into other words for feminine nouns — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 11: «marron (brown) and orange never change, not even in the plural: des chaussures marron (brown shoes).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «change» (+2); the same doer «marron» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, 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/9-colours/e3/)

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

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It is given that a girl possesses ginger hair. Determine the adjective appropriate to her.

- **1.** roux — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** rouge — no support
- **3.** rousse — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** orange — 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/9-colours/e4/)

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