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Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)

Tests: 7 of 19 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 17 of 23 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 17 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 ✗

Finn: «the Duchess was dead mean again, slapping Alice.» Put it right.

  • 1. She was very angry now, calling her «you silly child» and shouting — no support
  • 2. She was very friendly now, calling her «you dear old thing» — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. She was very friendly now, calling Alice «my little pig» and sneezing — no support
  • 4. She was very cross now, calling Alice «you silly little thing» at once — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 6: «The Duchess greets Alice: «You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!»», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «thing» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓

Why is Alice's «rule» about pepper and barley-sugar a funny one?

  • 1. Her rule is a true one — score 7
  • 2. She invents a «rule» from one guess, and sour, bitter and sweet are both tastes and moods — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
  • 3. It is about pepper — no support
  • 4. It is a rule about cooks and soups and nothing else — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 1: «Out of prison, the Duchess is suddenly sweet to Alice: «You dear old thing!» She tucks her arm into Alice's and walks with her. Alice wonders if it was only th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «invent» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+3); the same thing acted on «rule» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓

What does «Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it» show about the Duchess now?

  • 1. She is so keen on morals that she finds one even where there is no sense — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 2. She is keen on morals and tells them to anyone at all — no support
  • 3. She is so keen on morals that she finds one even where there is no sense at all, and invents them on the spot — score 6
  • 4. She is so keen on morals that she finds one even in pepper, mustard, and the baby, and loves to shout them — no support

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 17, line 2: «The Duchess has a new habit: everything has «a moral», a lesson, and she finds one in every remark, even when it makes no sense. She keeps leaning her very sha…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «sense» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Ollie: «the Duchess said take care of the pence and the pounds sort themselves.» Put it right.

  • 1. She said «Take care of the pounds and the pence will look after themselves» as a warning — score 7
  • 2. She said «Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves» — a joke on that saying — ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 3. She said «Mind the sense, and the sounds will mind themselves», an old saying — score 5
  • 4. She said take care of the pence — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 17, line 12: ««Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves» is a joke on the real saying «Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of th…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «take» (+2); the same thing acted on «care» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗

What would happen if you tried to follow the Duchess's very long moral, «Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than...»?

  • 1. You'd get lost: it is a tangle of «not» and «otherwise» that cancels itself out, so nobody could ever repeat it aloud without stopping — score 0
  • 2. You'd be lost in the tangle of «not» and «otherwise», which is clearly nonsense that the Duchess invented in the kitchen for fun — ← Mova's choice · score 2
  • 3. You'd get lost: it is a tangle of «not» and «otherwise» that cancels itself out — ✓ the right answer · score 0
  • 4. It would be a clear rule that you could follow easily right to the end — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 2: «The Duchess has a new habit: everything has «a moral», a lesson, and she finds one in every remark, even when it makes no sense. She keeps leaning her very sha…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «duchess» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The Duchess agrees mustard is a mineral, then agrees it is a vegetable. What does this show?

  • 1. She agrees with whatever Alice says, without thinking at all, which shows she is simply a silly woman with no real opinions — score 7
  • 2. She agrees with whatever Alice says, without thinking, and so changes her mind about mustard each time the Queen calls — score 7
  • 3. She knows mustard is a vegetable and a mineral both — ← Mova's choice · score 10
  • 4. She agrees with whatever Alice says, without thinking — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 3: «The morals get sillier: mustard and flamingoes both «bite», mustard is a mineral from a «mustard-mine», and then a moral so long and tangled that nobody could…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mustard» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same thing acted on «mineral» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

«The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.» Which two meanings of «mine» does it use?

  • 1. A hole where minerals are dug, and «belonging to me», so the Duchess's joke is a pun on both — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. A pit for digging, and a sort of joke about soup — no support
  • 3. A hole where minerals are dug from the earth, and «belonging to me», which makes the joke clear — no support
  • 4. A hole where minerals are dug, and «belonging to me» — ✓ 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

Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Leo: «she's got mad rizz, the Duchess, Alice loved her chin on her shoulder.» (rizz = charm) Put it right.

  • 1. Alice didn't like it, but bore it politely so as not to be rude, and she thought about the cheap present all along — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Alice didn't like it, but bore it politely so as not to be rude, though she wished the chin would stop digging into her shoulder — no support
  • 3. Alice did like it very much, and told the Duchess so at once — no support
  • 4. Alice didn't like it, but bore it politely so as not to be rude — ✓ 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

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

«Just about as much right as pigs have to fly.» What does the Duchess mean?

  • 1. Alice may think, but pigs cannot fly at all — score 5
  • 2. Alice has a right to think, as pigs have a right to swim — ← Mova's choice · score 10
  • 3. Alice has no right to think at all, as pigs can't fly — ✓ the right answer · score 10
  • 4. Alice has very little right to think, since pigs can never fly — score 10

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 17, line 19: ««I've a right to think,» says Alice; «Just about as much right as pigs have to fly,» says the Duchess — then the Queen appears and her voice dies away.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «right» (+3); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same doer «alice» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «The Duchess argued with the Queen and won.»

  • 1. True: the Queen gave in to her at once — no support
  • 2. False: she «took her choice» and ran off in a moment — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 3. True: the Duchess argued with the Queen and won, and was pardoned by the King at last — score 4
  • 4. True: the Duchess argued with the Queen for an hour and then won the argument in the end — score 4

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 17, line 20: «The Queen: «either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Take your choice!» The Duchess «took her choice, and was gone in a moment».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «duchess» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter VI, what did the Duchess shout at the baby that made Alice jump?

  • 1. «Oi!» — score 6
  • 2. «Cat!» — score 8
  • 3. «Pig!» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
  • 4. «Ow!» — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 11, line 17: «The Duchess says "It's a Cheshire cat, and that's why. Pig!" (shouting "Pig!" at the baby) and tells Alice "You don't know much, and that's a fact"; Alice says…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «baby» (+4); the same action «shout» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «pig» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓

Looking back: what happened to the Duchess's baby in chapter VI?

  • 1. It was lost — no support
  • 2. It was taken by the cook into the sea — score 2
  • 3. It turned into a pig and trotted off into the wood — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 4. It ran away — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «trot off» (+2); the same doer «baby» (+2); the same place «wood» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★★ · right ✓

Looking back: «If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster.» What did Alice try to explain then?

  • 1. That the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis, and that people mind their business all day long — score 26
  • 2. That the earth is round and turns about the sun — score 5
  • 3. That the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 26
  • 4. That the sun takes a year to go round the earth — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 26, tied with another option at 26 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 11, line 19: «The Duchess says "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does", and Alice, "very glad to get an opportunity of…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+7); it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same property (+4); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: the Duchess answered «Talking of axes, chop off her head!» in chapter VI. What was the pun?

  • 1. The Duchess said «axes» and Alice thought she meant the sun — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. Alice said «axis», and the Duchess heard «ax», a word for pig — no support
  • 3. Alice said «axis», and the Duchess heard «axes», tools for chopping, so the Queen's head was in danger of being chopped — no support
  • 4. Alice said «axis», and the Duchess heard «axes», tools for chopping — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 17, line 19: ««I've a right to think,» says Alice; «Just about as much right as pigs have to fly,» says the Duchess — then the Queen appears and her voice dies away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «duchess» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter VIII the Duchess was in prison. Why, according to the White Rabbit?

  • 1. She sneezed at the Queen — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. She boxed the Queen's ears, and the Queen had her put into prison by the King at once — no support
  • 3. She boxed the Queen's ears — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. She boxed the Queen's ears for being rude to the baby and the pig in the garden — 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 ✗

Looking back: «mock» means pretend. Who loved to pretend in chapter I, even playing croquet against herself?

  • 1. The White Rabbit, always pretending to be a clock and a pig — no support
  • 2. The Mock Turtle, who was always telling jokes about soup — no support
  • 3. Alice, «very fond of pretending to be two people» — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. The Duchess — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. 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 same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «duchess» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 17 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Alice's rule: pepper → hot-tempered, vinegar → sour, camomile → bitter, barley-sugar → sweet. What do the four words describe?

  • 1. Foods that people cook in soup — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Both a taste and a person's mood — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Pepper's smell — no support
  • 4. Names of herbs from the garden — 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 18 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ «Birds of a feather flock together» is said about flamingoes and mustard. What is wrong with the moral as a piece of logic?

  • 1. It lists two things, but neither of them is a flamingo — no support
  • 2. It is about flamingoes, but flamingoes do not flock — no support
  • 3. It is about birds, but one of the two things is not a bird, and so the moral cannot prove anything about flamingoes at all — ← Mova's choice · score 1
  • 4. It is about birds, but one of the two things is not a bird — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 17, line 3: «The morals get sillier: mustard and flamingoes both «bite», mustard is a mineral from a «mustard-mine», and then a moral so long and tangled that nobody could…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «morals» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 19 · ★★ · right ✓

★★★ When the game stops, every player is in custody except three. If eight players had begun, how many are under arrest?

  • 1. 5 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Five players — no support
  • 3. Five of them, sadly — no support
  • 4. Five, since three were spared — 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 · wrong ✗

Identify the conjecture formed by Alice in respect of the Duchess's former savagery.

  • 1. Pepper alone — no support
  • 2. The pepper — no support
  • 3. That it was occasioned merely by the pepper — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. That it was caused by the cook — ← Mova's choice · score 3

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 17, line 3: «The morals get sillier: mustard and flamingoes both «bite», mustard is a mineral from a «mustard-mine», and then a moral so long and tangled that nobody could…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «duchess» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is stated that the Duchess was confronted by the Queen. Select the response which most accurately characterises the alternatives proposed.

  • 1. The arrest of the Duchess or of the King's cook — no support
  • 2. The freedom either of the Queen or of the King today — no support
  • 3. Her head off — ← Mova's choice · score 1
  • 4. The removal either of the Duchess or of her head — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 3: «Alice stays standing, because what is the use of a procession if everyone lies on their faces? The Queen asks her name; Alice answers very politely, but thinks…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the substance from which, according to the Queen, Mock Turtle Soup is prepared.

  • 1. A calf's head — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The Mock Turtle — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Turtle — no support
  • 4. A calf — 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 the King's conduct as Alice departed?

  • 1. He pardoned only the Duchess, speaking in a loud voice — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. He pardoned all persons under sentence, speaking in a low voice — ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 3. He spoke loudly and sentenced the Duchess to prison — score 4
  • 4. He pardoned all persons under sentence of execution, speaking in a low voice, and then went quietly back to his throne — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 16, line 10: «The Cheshire Cat appears grin first; Alice waits until its eyes, and then at least one ear, appear before talking, because «It's no use speaking to it till its…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «talk» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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