Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat

Tests: 5 of 17 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 12 of 21 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 12 of the books 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.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Freddie goes: "Alice dropped the baby 'cos it was too heavy." Put him right.

1. She put it down as it was crying — score 5
2. She dropped it because it grew too big to hold — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. She set it down because it had turned into a pig — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. She gave it back to the cook in the kitchen — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 2: «But the baby keeps grunting, its nose turns into a snout and its eyes get tiny, until it is quite plainly a pig, so Alice puts it down and it trots off happily…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same doer «baby» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Maya, Gen Alpha: "The Cat said 'we're all mad here', it's giving villain era." ("it's giving villain era" = it looks like a baddie.) How did the Cat prove Alice was mad?

1. "You must be mad, since you came into this strange land where everyone is mad and you cannot find your way" — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. "You must be, or you wouldn't have come here" — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. "Because cats are never wrong about madness" — no support
4. "Nobody sensible would walk into my wood" — 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

Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Why is the Cat's proof that it is mad not a good proof?

1. The Cat is a cat, and so cannot possibly be mad, because it grins without a face at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Cat was never really mad, only sleepy — no support
3. Alice never actually saw the Cat growl — no support
4. A cat's purr is not the same as a dog's growl — ✓ the right answer · no support

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

Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗

What would have happened, Alice thought, if she had left the baby in the kitchen?

1. The cook would have fed it to the pigs — score 5
2. They would have killed it in a day or two — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. The Duchess would have shouted and the cook would have thrown the frying-pan at it for hours — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. They would have taken it to the Queen's palace and made it play croquet with the hedgehogs — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 6: «The Duchess says "Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!", flinging the baby at Alice, and goes to get ready to play croquet with the Queen; the cook throw…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «throw» (+2); the same doer «cook» (+2); the same thing acted on «frying pan» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Grandad from Yorkshire: "Nay, a baby turnin' into a pig, that's daft as a brush." ("daft as a brush" = very silly.) Which clue came first that it was turning into a pig?

1. Its sneeze — no support
2. Its nose turned up and then its grunting, which Alice first thought was a sneeze — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Its squealing — no support
4. Its grunting — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 18: «The Cat asks if Alice plays croquet with the Queen today; she has not been invited yet, and the Cat says "You'll see me there", and vanishes (that is the first…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «alice» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓

True or false: Alice is upset when the baby turns into a pig.

1. False: she feels "quite relieved" to see it trot away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. True: she feels very sad to see it trot away — score 5
3. True: she is so upset that she sits down and cries for an hour in the grass — no support
4. False: she is not upset at all, but quite happy and dancing with the pig after it runs — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 12: «Alice sets the pig down and feels "quite relieved" to see it trot away into the wood; she says "If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child:…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «trot away» (+2); the same doer «pig» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓

Kayla, rough: "Bloody cat won't give a straight answer, does my head in." ("does my head in" = drives me crazy.) Which answer is NOT straight?

1. "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. "Right, left, or straight on: that depends on how mad you feel today and whom you wish to visit" — no support
3. "The way you want is up to you, but I cannot say which" — no support
4. "Go that way, you'll see" — 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

Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Why does Alice think the March Hare might be less mad now?

1. Because the Hatter is out of tea — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Because it is May, so the March Hare has been moved to a different time of year and place — no support
3. Because it has eaten the bread — no support
4. Because it is May, not March — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 3: «The Cheshire Cat is grinning on a branch; Alice asks it which way to go, and it says that depends on where she wants to get to, then tells her that everyone ro…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Why is "a grin without a cat" so curious?

1. A grin should be on a face and the cat has no mouth — no support
2. A grin is part of a face, so it can't stay without the face, and the Cat has vanished completely — no support
3. Because the Cat had never been seen grinning before, and nobody knows what a grin without a face could mean — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. A grin is part of a face, so it can't stay without the face — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 20: «The Cat asks "Did you say pig, or fig?", then vanishes slowly, "beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin"; before that Alice asks it not to…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); the same thing acted on «cat» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Oisin from Galway: "Sure the Cat was grand, but it kept poppin' in and out like an eejit." What did Alice ask it to stop doing?

1. Appearing and vanishing so suddenly, and also staying in the trees above the croquet game — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. Appearing and vanishing so suddenly — ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. Growling at the Queen's gardeners — no support
4. Pointing its paws in the wrong direction and then vanishing so suddenly without any warning — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 12, line 20: «The Cat asks "Did you say pig, or fig?", then vanishes slowly, "beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin"; before that Alice asks it not to…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «vanish» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+3); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter IV Alice made a plan to get to her right size and then to the garden. What does she tell the Cat about where she wants to go?

1. That she wants to reach the croquet ground by way of the Hatter's tea party and the Duchess's little kitchen — no support
2. That she is looking for her lost pet, a small grey kitten — no support
3. That she doesn't much care where, so long as she gets somewhere — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
4. That she has no map and wants to go to the Hatter's — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 19: «Alice tells the Pigeon she is not looking for eggs, and would not want its eggs anyway: "I don't like them raw."; the Pigeon says sulkily "Well, be off, then!"…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+7); the same doer «alice» (+5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓

Looking back: Alice has met two cats in her mind and in Wonderland. How is Dinah different from the Cheshire Cat?

1. Dinah stays at home; the Cheshire Cat vanishes and talks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Dinah is a kitten at home in Alice's house, but the Cheshire Cat is grown and talks in Wonderland — score 5
3. Dinah is Alice's pet who sleeps by the fire all day — no support
4. Dinah stays at home by the fire and never talks, while the Cheshire Cat vanishes, grins, and gives directions — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 18: «The Cat asks if Alice plays croquet with the Queen today; she has not been invited yet, and the Cat says "You'll see me there", and vanishes (that is the first…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «vanish» (+3); the same doer «cat» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★★ · right ✓

Looking back to chapter V: Alice made herself nine inches to visit the Duchess's little house. Why does she grow to two feet before the March Hare's house?

1. She has no idea how big the house is — score 7
2. Because she needs to climb the chimneys to see if the March Hare is still at his tea party — score 7
3. She wants to see the Hare — score 7
4. The house is so large that she wants to be bigger first — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 12, line 21: «The March Hare's house is so large that Alice does not like to go nearer till she has nibbled some more of the left-hand bit and grown to about two feet high.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «house» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗

How has Alice changed since chapter I, when she wondered at the White Rabbit's watch?

1. Strange things hardly surprise her now — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. She now knows the Queen very well — score 5
3. She has grown up completely and now talks to cats and rabbits as if they were her oldest friends — score 3
4. She now laughs at the Rabbit's watch and tells him all the strange things she has seen at home — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 21: «Alice thinks "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!"; back in chapter III she said the same to the Mouse: "you're so easily offended, you know!"…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Count the Cat's vanishings in this part: after "You'll see me there", after "I thought it would", and the slow one at the end. How many times did it vanish?

1. Five times, counting the grin twice — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Four — no support
3. Three — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Two — 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

Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ "Did you say pig, or fig?" Why might the Cat mix them up?

1. Pigs and figs are both fruit, and both grow wild — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They are both foods — no support
3. They sound almost the same, with only the first sound different — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They look almost the same when written down, both words — 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

Test 17 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Alice says "I don't much care where—", and the Cat answers "Then it doesn't matter which way you go." Why is the Cat right?

1. Any road is fine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Because Alice does not know where she is — no support
3. If you have no place to reach, any road will do — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Roads are all the same — 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the transformation undergone by the infant entrusted to the protagonist.

1. It became a pig — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A pig — no support
3. It grew — no support
4. It turned to dust — no support

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

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the reply of the Cheshire Cat to the protagonist's enquiry as to which way she ought to go.

1. That the choice was hers to make alone — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. That she must ask the Duchess about it first — no support
3. That she should follow the cat — no support
4. That it depended upon where she wished to arrive — ✓ 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

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that the Cat claimed to growl when pleased. Determine the term which the protagonist preferred for this sound.

1. Mew — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Purring — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Hum — no support
4. Whining — 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the order in which the Cat finally vanished.

1. Commencing with the ears, passing the grin, and concluding with the tail after one last wink — no support
2. Commencing with the tail and concluding with the grin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Starting with the grin and ending with the tail — no support
4. Commencing with the tail and concluding with the grin, after a long yawn and a wink — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 4: «The Cat keeps vanishing and appearing, and at last fades away slowly, starting with its tail and ending with its grin, which hangs in the air on its own.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «start» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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