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title: French compared with English — how Mova does on the tests · Language
description: Lesson 35 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 10 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# French compared with English

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**Tests:** 4 of 10 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 9 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 35 of the language 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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/).

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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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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Your mate goes "French numbers are mad nonsense, sixty-ten, lol." What's fairer?

- **1.** French has no number 70 — score 0
- **2.** It's a spelling mistake — no support
- **3.** It's a different system counting in twenties, not a wrong one — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** He's right, French people just can't count properly past sixty — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 3: «French counts some numbers in twenties: 80 is "quatre-vingts", four twenties, like the old English "three score and ten" for 70.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «count» (+3); the same place «twenties» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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A Paris tourist laughs at a Quebec boy saying "C'est l'fun". What's true?

- **1.** Quebec people speak English, not French — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Only Paris French is correct, and Quebec French is a mistake — no support
- **3.** It's a typo — no support
- **4.** Quebec French is a real variety with its own expressions — **✓ 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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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What would happen if you told a French baker "I'd like some pain" in English, and she only knew French?

- **1.** She'd call a doctor — score 0
- **2.** She might think you want bread — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** She'd understand you're hurt — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** She'd sell you a coin — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 12: «English uses whole French phrases: "rendezvous" (a meeting), "déjà vu" (already seen, the odd feeling of having lived a moment before) and "bon appétit" (enjoy…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+2); the same doer «english» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Your gran from Somerset says "gurt lush, that French bread, proper job." ("Gurt" means very, "lush" means lovely.) Which French word means bread?

- **1.** Librairie — **← Mova's choice** · score 11
- **2.** Pain — **✓ the right answer** · score 11
- **3.** Raisin — score 11
- **4.** Coin — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 11, tied with another option at 11 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 8: «False friends look like English words but mean something different: "pain" means bread, "coin" means corner, "librairie" means bookshop and "raisin" means grap…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «librairie» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 11. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t4/)

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### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5}

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Your cousin looks for a "librairie" in Paris to borrow a book for free. What will he find?

- **1.** A bakery — no support
- **2.** A bookshop — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** A library — no support
- **4.** A pharmacy — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 8: «False friends look like English words but mean something different: "pain" means bread, "coin" means corner, "librairie" means bookshop and "raisin" means grap…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «bookshop» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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A Gen Z teen says "I'm lowkey having déjà vu, this lesson is giving yesterday." ("It's giving" means it seems like.) What does déjà vu mean?

- **1.** The feeling you've already lived this moment — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 13
- **2.** Seeing something new — score 0
- **3.** Feeling hungry — no support
- **4.** Feeling so bored that time seems to stop — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 13, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 12: «English uses whole French phrases: "rendezvous" (a meeting), "déjà vu" (already seen, the odd feeling of having lived a moment before) and "bon appétit" (enjoy…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same property (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «odd feeling» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Your mate writes "un rouge voiture" for "a red car". What would a French person say?

- **1.** Une rouge voiture — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Rouge une voiture — no support
- **3.** Une voiture rouge — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Le rouge voiture — 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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t7/)

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### Test 8 · right ✓ {#t8}

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A cartoon French kid says "Je suis faim!" for "I'm hungry". What's the usual French?

- **1.** J'ai froid — no support
- **2.** Je suis faim — no support
- **3.** J'ai faim — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Je faim — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 14: «French uses "to have" for some feelings and age: "j'ai faim" (I'm hungry), "j'ai froid" (I'm cold) and "j'ai dix ans" (I'm ten).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «french» (+2); the same thing acted on «j'ai faim» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Your brother says "English has only like five French words." What's true?

- **1.** All English words are French — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** English has many French words, especially in food, law and the army — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** He's right, only five, and they're all the names of foods like croissant — no support
- **4.** English has no French words — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 6: «French nouns have grammatical gender: masculine with "le" and feminine with "la"; it is a grammar label, not about real boys and girls; English lost gender for…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «french nouns» (+3); the same property (+3). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Max's mate says "only English has silent letters, French says everything." What shows he's wrong?

- **1.** "Ils parlent" sounds like "eel parl" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** English has no silent letters — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** French says every letter twice — no support
- **4.** French has no letters — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 18: «"Ghoti" is a famous joke spelling of fish (gh as in tough, o as in women, ti as in nation); real English never uses those letters that way at the start or end…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «letters» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «real english» (+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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t10/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises grammatical gender in French?

- **1.** A feature shared with English nouns in the present day — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** An indication that each object denoted by a noun is, in reality, either male or female in nature — no support
- **3.** A feature confined to the names of animals — no support
- **4.** A classification of nouns as masculine or feminine for grammatical purposes, unrelated to biological sex — **✓ 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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/e1/)

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

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Identify the literal sense of the French numeral "quatre-vingts".

- **1.** Forty-eight — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Four tens — no support
- **3.** Four twenties — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Eight tens — 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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the French word "librairie".

- **1.** It signifies a public library, as the English form suggests — score 2
- **2.** It signifies a laboratory — score 2
- **3.** It signifies a bakery — score 2
- **4.** It is a false friend signifying a bookshop — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 34, line 2: «Mei says "mā, má, mǎ, mà" and her friend hears "ma, ma, ma, ma"; but to Mei they are four words, mother, hemp, horse and scold, because in Mandarin the rise an…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ma» (+2); the same thing acted on «four words» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Ascertain the French expression signifying "I am hungry".

- **1.** J'ai faim — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Je suis fini — no support
- **3.** J'ai froid — no support
- **4.** Je suis faim — 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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/e4/)

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