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Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)

Tests: 7 of 20 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 19 of 24 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 14 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 ✗

Sam: «the Hatter's song, bruv, the King said off with his head.» (bruv = mate) Put it right.

  • 1. It was the King who sang «Off with his head!» — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It was the Queen who bawled «Off with his head!» — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The King said it — no support
  • 4. Sam is right — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

«Murdering the time» — what is the joke?

  • 1. It means Time is a person, so the Hatter killed a friend of the Queen's — no support
  • 2. Singing out of rhythm is called murdering the time, but also Time is a person who can be hurt and was never asked — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 3. Singing out of rhythm is called murdering the time, and Time itself is a character who ran away from the Hatter — score 4
  • 4. Singing out of rhythm is called murdering it, but Time sounds like a person who could be hurt — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 14, line 6: «When the Hatter sang at the concert, the Queen «bawled out» (shouted) «He's murdering the time! Off with his head!»; to murder the time also means to sing it b…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «murder» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

What would happen, by the tea-party's rules, if they used up all the clean places?

  • 1. The book doesn't say: the March Hare changes the subject when Alice asks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 2. They would just wash the cups again — no support
  • 3. The Hatter would have to wash up all the cups by hand — score 4
  • 4. They would be out of cups — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 8: «They move round the table to clean places as the things get used up; when Alice asks what happens when they come back to the beginning, the March Hare says «Su…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Jess: «Alice was dead polite the whole time, never said owt rude.» (owt = anything, North England) Is that right?

  • 1. No: she snapped «Nobody asked your opinion» at the Hatter, which was a personal remark of her own, and the Hatter answered back — score 4
  • 2. No: she snapped «Nobody asked your opinion», a personal remark of her own — ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 3. Yes: she only said «Nobody asked your opinion» quietly — score 5
  • 4. No: she told the Hatter his hair wanted cutting, quite rightly — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 13, line 10: ««Your hair wants cutting» means your hair needs cutting; Alice tells the Hatter not to make personal remarks, rude comments about someone's looks.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+2); the same receiver «hatter» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

«They lived on treacle» — «They'd have been ill» — «So they were». What makes this funny?

  • 1. The Dormouse is always rude and silly — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. The Dormouse agrees with the Hatter instead of thinking about the story — score 5
  • 3. The Dormouse agrees with Alice's objection instead of changing the story — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 4. The Dormouse gets ill from the treacle and changes his mind — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 14, line 14: ««Draw» has two meanings: to pull liquid up out of a well, and to make pictures; the Dormouse uses both at once; Alice asks «What did they draw?», «quite forget…», 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 «dormouse» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Alice keeps her promise not to interrupt the Dormouse again.»

  • 1. True: she waits until the Dormouse is finished — score 4
  • 2. False: she asks «What did they draw?» at once, «quite forgetting her promise» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 3. True: she keeps her promise and does not interrupt the Dormouse at all again, since she is very polite — score 5
  • 4. False: she asks «Why?» at once and then promises again — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 6, line 2: «Then the Mouse says Alice needs a prize too, so the Dodo takes her own thimble and solemnly presents it back to her, and everyone cheers; Alice finds it absurd…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «need» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Ellie from Glasgow: «the wee sisters drew stuff beginning wi' T, like treacle.» (wee = little) Put it right.

  • 1. They drew things beginning with M, like mouse-traps, the moon, memory and muchness — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
  • 2. They drew things beginning with W, like wells — score 5
  • 3. They drew things beginning with T, like treacle, tea and teapots — score 5
  • 4. They drew things beginning with T — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 4: «The jokes are word tricks: the sisters «draw» treacle from the well, and also «draw» pictures of things that begin with M, like the moon, memory and «muchness»…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «things» (+3); the same action «begin» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Why can't you draw «a muchness»?

  • 1. «Much of a muchness» is just a saying for nearly the same, not a thing you can see — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 2. It is not a real thing — no support
  • 3. It is a word that means nothing at all — no support
  • 4. Because a muchness is a kind of soup that can not be drawn at all, like a picture — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 17: «The sisters draw everything that begins with M: «mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness»; «much of a muchness» is an old saying for nearly the sam…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old saying» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «much» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

«Really, now you ask me, I don't think—» «Then you shouldn't talk.» Why is that so rude?

  • 1. He pretends she has no thoughts because she said she does not think — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. He twists her «I don't think» to mean she has no thoughts, so she should shut up — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. He says she should keep quiet because she has nothing useful to say — no support
  • 4. He is teasing her about her hat — 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 10 · ★ · right ✓

Callum, kinda sus (suspicious): «Alice stayed for the end of the story, right?» Put it right.

  • 1. Yes, she stayed to the very end, and heard the Dormouse finish the whole story before she went happily to the wood — score 3
  • 2. No, she walked off in disgust before it ended, and the Dormouse fell asleep — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 3. Yes, she stayed to hear the whole story and then clapped loudly — no support
  • 4. Yes, she stayed until the end and then went home happily — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 18: «The Hatter's «Then you shouldn't talk» is «more than Alice could bear»; she leaves «in great disgust» before the story ends, the Dormouse falls asleep at once,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall» (+4); the same doer «dormouse» (+3); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Alice was rude at the start of the tea-party and rude again later. Who started the rudeness?

  • 1. The Dormouse, who was rude about treacle and wells — no support
  • 2. Alice, because she said there was no room — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 3. The Hatter and the Dormouse, when they said there was no room and that Alice's hair wanted cutting, and then the Hare too — score 7
  • 4. The March Hare and the Hatter, with «No room!» and «Your hair wants cutting» — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 19: «At last the puppy sits panting with its tongue out, and Alice runs off and leans against a buttercup to rest; later she says "what a dear little puppy it was!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «alice» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter III Alice also spoiled someone's story by interrupting. Whose?

  • 1. The Mouse's long and sad tale, which she spoiled by asking about the Dodo and the Lory, when the Mouse was in the pool — ← Mova's choice · score 7
  • 2. The Duchess's cooking lesson, when she pinched the baby — no support
  • 3. The Mouse's «long and sad tale», when she mixed up «not» and «knot» — ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 4. The Cheshire Cat's grin, when she asked it a question — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 6, line 13: «The Mouse says "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" and Alice answers "It is a long tail, certainly", mixing up tale (story) and tail.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «mouse» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Looking back: what did Alice do wrong the first time she was small enough for the little door, in chapter I?

  • 1. She forgot the golden key on the glass table, and couldn't reach it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
  • 2. She ate the cake and grew too big for the hall — score 9
  • 3. She forgot the golden key on the glass table, then grew so tall that she could not reach it, and her head hit the ceiling — score 11
  • 4. She went through the door without the mushroom at all — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 2, line 17: «She forgot the key on the table; the glass leg is too slippery to climb, so she cries.», 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 action «forget» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+2); the same thing acted on «key» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: where did Alice get the piece of mushroom she nibbles in the hall?

  • 1. From the Mock Turtle's basket, which she found in the wood by the river — no support
  • 2. From the Caterpillar's mushroom in the wood: one side makes you taller, the other shorter — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. From the Caterpillar's mushroom in the wood, which he gave her, and which she broke in two to see which side did what — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 4. From the Duchess's kitchen, where the cook was throwing pepper — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 18: «Alice "generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)", and she once tried to box her own ears for cheating at croquet against h…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same doer «alice» (+3); the same receiver «alice» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 15 · ★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter IV, Alice made a plan in the wood. What were its two parts?

  • 1. First grow to her right size, then find the way into the lovely garden through the little door in the tree — score 3
  • 2. First grow to her right size, then find the way into the lovely garden — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 3. Find the Hatter, then ask him for the golden key — score 3
  • 4. Shrink to the size of a mouse, then climb the tallest tree — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 8, line 16: «Her plan is first "to grow to my right size again" and second "to find my way into that lovely garden", but "she had not the smallest idea how to set about it".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same thing acted on «way» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 16 · ★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: who else has threatened «off with» someone's head before this chapter?

  • 1. The Duchess, in chapter VI, when she said «Talking of axes, chop off her head!» to the cook in her kitchen — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The Duchess, in chapter VI: «Talking of axes, chop off her head!» — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The Gryphon, in chapter X: «Off with his head, the teacher!» — no support
  • 4. The Mock Turtle, in chapter X, said it about his teacher — 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 ✗

Looking back: how high was the little door in chapter I?

  • 1. About fifteen inches, which was not quite high enough for her — no support
  • 2. About twelve inches — no support
  • 3. About fifteen inches, though Alice found the door far too small to pass through — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 4. About fifteen inches — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 5: ««The stupidest tea-party I ever was at», she says. Then she finds a door in a tree, comes back to the long hall from chapter one, and this time does it in the…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 18 · ★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Before moving, the order round the corner is: Hatter, Dormouse, March Hare, Alice. Each moves into the next place on. Whose old place does Alice take?

  • 1. The Dormouse's — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 2. Alice's — score 8
  • 3. The March Hare's — ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 4. Hatter's — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1, line 14: «Alice took a jar labelled "ORANGE MARMALADE" from a shelf; it was empty, and she put it into a cupboard because she did not want to kill somebody underneath by…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+5); the same doer «alice» (+5). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 19 · ★ · wrong ✗

★★★ The sisters draw things beginning with M. Which list fits the rule without a mistake?

  • 1. Mouse-traps, the moon, memory, muchness, mice and the mad March Hare — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. Muchness, the moon, the sun — no support
  • 3. Mouse-traps, the moon, treacle — score 1
  • 4. Mouse-traps, the moon, memory — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 8: «They move round the table to clean places as the things get used up; when Alice asks what happens when they come back to the beginning, the March Hare says «Su…», 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 «march hare» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 20 · ★ · wrong ✗

★★★ «It's very easy to take more than nothing.» If Alice had nothing and then took some tea, which is true?

  • 1. She took more than nothing but could not take less than nothing — ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 2. She took more than nothing, which is easy, and so she could take less than nothing too, as the Hatter says — ← Mova's choice · score 7
  • 3. Taking more than nothing is impossible for her now — score 7
  • 4. She took less tea than nothing, which is easy to do — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 14, line 11: ««Take some more tea,» says the March Hare; Alice has had none, so she «can't take more»; the Hatter says she means she can't take less, because «it's very easy…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same thing acted on «nothing» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the circumstance which, according to the Hatter, gave rise to the perpetual condition of six o'clock.

  • 1. The Hatter's song about the stars, after which the Hare sulked — score 7
  • 2. The Queen's pronouncement that he was murdering the time, after which Time declined to oblige him — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. The Queen's pronouncement that he was murdering the time, and then Alice's cup was spilt and nobody would wash up — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 4. The Queen's shout, after which the clock stopped — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 1: «The Dormouse starts singing «Twinkle, twinkle» in his sleep and won't stop till they pinch him. The Hatter finishes his tale: the Queen screamed «He's murderin…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «murder» (+4); the same doer «hatter» (+3); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

It is stated that the three sisters «lived on treacle». Ascertain the condition in which they were consequently said to be.

  • 1. Very ill — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Sick — no support
  • 3. Ill — no support
  • 4. Quite cross — 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 ✗

Select the response which most accurately characterises the disadvantage incurred by Alice when the party moved one place on.

  • 1. Her new place had milk spilt on its plate by the Hare — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. She was moved next to the Hatter, who was very rude — no support
  • 3. Her new place was spoiled by milk upset into the plate by the March Hare — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Her new place was spoiled by milk that the March Hare had upset into the plate, so she had nothing clean to drink from — 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 · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning Alice's progress after quitting the tea-party?

  • 1. She entered the garden by means of the golden key and the mushroom — ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 2. She left by the front door of the Hatter's house — score 4
  • 3. She walked out by the Caterpillar's wood into the town — score 3
  • 4. She entered the garden by means of the golden key, which she had forgotten, and then the mushroom, which made her small again — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 3, line 11: «She tells herself "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a great girl like you", a joke because she really is great, meaning huge, and orders herself: "Stop thi…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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