Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)

Tests: 3 of 16 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 20 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 3 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 ✗

Ruby goes: "Alice was crying 'cos the Rabbit was mean to her." Put her right.

1. She cried because she had grown too big for the garden door and the Rabbit had run off. — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. She cried because the Rabbit was rude to her — no support
3. She cried for hours because her tears made a pool and the Rabbit wanted her gloves back from her. — score 3
4. She cried because she was too big for the garden door — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 6: «The Rabbit, turning a corner, says "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!", and then disappears.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+2); the same doer «rabbit» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Darnell, young Gen Z: "Rabbit saw giant Alice and dipped, no cap." ("dipped" = left in a hurry, "no cap" = for real.) What did the Rabbit leave behind?

1. A letter and some keys — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Its white kid gloves and fan — ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Gloves. — score 6
4. Its pocket watch and gloves — score 6

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 2, line 1: «Alice jumps up after her fall, sees the White Rabbit hurrying down a passage and races after him, but he turns a corner and vanishes, leaving her in a long, lo…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same doer «rabbit» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why is it funny when Alice calls herself "a great girl like you"?

1. 'Great' only means excellent, but she is actually too tall to stand in the hall and that is funny. — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. 'Great' means clever, and she is not clever — score 1
3. "Great" means big, and she really is nine feet tall — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. 'Great' means big, and she really is nine feet tall, which is very funny indeed — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 3, line 6: «Alice cries "Curiouser and curiouser!", which is not good English (the right form is "more and more curious"), because she is so surprised she forgets how to s…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

What would have happened if Alice had stayed ten inches high and still had the key?

1. She could leave. — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. She could have reached the garden door — score 3
3. She could have gone through the little door — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. She would have been in the garden now — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 2, line 16: «She waits to see if she will shrink further, worried she might go out "like a candle".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «go out» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Freya from Newcastle: "Howay, she knows nowt, saying London's the capital of Paris!" ("howay" = come on, "nowt" = nothing.) Why does Alice get things wrong here?

1. She is tired and confused by the walk — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She is upset and muddled, and fears she has changed — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. She is hungry and cannot think well — no support
4. She is upset and muddled, and fears she has changed, so she guesses anything at all — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

True or false: Alice thinks she might have been changed for another child in the night.

1. False: she is sure she is still Alice — score 4
2. False: she thinks the Rabbit has swapped her for a bigger child in the night. — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. True: she wonders if she has become Mabel — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. False: she is certain she has not become Mabel, the poky little girl up the hill — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 11: «She followed it into a large rabbit-hole under the hedge, "never once considering how in the world she was to get out again".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «consider» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Nan, firm: "Don't you talk like that about poor Mabel, she can't help her house." Which is true in the book?

1. Mabel is mean. — no support
2. Alice only guesses that Mabel's house is poky — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Alice hates Mabel — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Alice wants to live in Mabel's house — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 3, line 19: «Alice thinks Mabel lives in a "poky little house" (small and cramped) with next to no toys and "ever so many lessons to learn", and these are only Alice's gues…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+2); the same thing acted on «mabel» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why does Alice decide that if she is Mabel she will stay down the hole?

1. She is afraid to go up into the house — score 4
2. She likes the hole — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. She would rather stay below and explore the hole than go up and be taught — score 5
4. She does not want to live Mabel's life with lots of lessons — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 2, line 11: «Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+3); the same action «wish» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

What does Alice really want at the end of this part?

1. For her sister to come down and fetch her — no support
2. For someone to bring her a tiny cake — no support
3. For people to put their heads down and call her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. To be bigger. — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 3, line 20: «In the end she bursts into tears: "I do wish they would put their heads down! I am so very tired of being all alone here!"», 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 action «put down» (+2); the same thing acted on «heads» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Looking back to the fall: what did Alice once say she knew about the earth that she could not use?

1. Words like Mercator and Equator — ← Mova's choice · score 10
2. Words like Latitude and Longitude — ✓ the right answer · score 10
3. Words like Antipodes and Latitude, which she learned from a book in the library. — no support
4. Words like Latitude and Longitude, and the names of every country in Europe — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1, line 16: «Alice guessed she was near the centre of the earth, "four thousand miles down", and said "Latitude" and "Longitude" without knowing what they meant, because th…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «nice grand words» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in part 2, Alice liked "pretending to be two people". What is she unsure of now?

1. Whether she is even one person, herself — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Whether she is still herself at all — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Who she is. — no support
4. Whether she is her sister today — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 19: «Alice thinks Mabel lives in a "poky little house" (small and cramped) with next to no toys and "ever so many lessons to learn", and these are only Alice's gues…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+2); the same thing acted on «mabel» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Looking back over the hall: what has Alice now been, size by size?

1. Normal, then ten inches, then over nine feet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Normal, then small, then over nine feet — no support
3. Tall then short. — no support
4. Small, then normal, then nine feet — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓

Tom, rough: "Stop blubbing, you big baby, it's only a door." ("blubbing" = crying noisily.) What does Alice say to herself?

1. 'Stop!' — no support
2. "Stop this moment, I tell you!" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. 'Hush now, I must not cry' — no support
4. 'Be quiet.' — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stop» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Alice says "four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen". If each answer goes up by one, what does she get for four times twelve, where the old times tables stopped?

1. Sixteen — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Sixteen, as the table went on rising by one each time — no support
3. Twenty-four, as any sensible table would say — no support
4. Nineteen — ✓ 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 15 · ★ · wrong ✗

★★★ That is why she says she will "never get to twenty at that rate". Why never?

1. Because she is nine feet tall now, her sums get bigger and bigger and she cannot keep up with them. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The tables she knows end at twelve and she forgets the rest — no support
3. The table stops at twelve before she reaches twenty — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The table stops at twelve before she reaches twenty, and she also forgets how the rest of the sums go — 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 ✗

★★★ Alice went from ten inches to more than nine feet. Nine feet is 108 inches. About how many times taller did she get?

1. About nine times — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. About eleven times — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. About eleven times taller than she was before, which is a great deal — no support
4. Almost twelve times as tall as she was at the start, a surprising amount — 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 reason for which the protagonist uttered the expression "Curiouser and curiouser".

1. Her surprise at growing so tall caused her to forget correct English, and also her manners — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Her surprise caused her to forget correct English, because the hall was hot and she was tired from the fall through the hole. — no support
3. Her surprise caused her temporarily to forget correct English — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Surprise at her new size made her speech go wrong for a moment — 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 approximate depth of the pool formed by the tears of the protagonist.

1. Two feet — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Two inches — no support
3. Four inches — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Six inches deep — 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 · right ✓

It is given that the protagonist addressed the White Rabbit with the words "If you please, sir". Determine the consequence thereof.

1. The Rabbit relinquished its gloves and fan and fled — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. The Rabbit relinquished its gloves and fan and fled down the hall in great haste — score 3
3. The Rabbit relinquished its gloves and fan, and then it fled to find the Duchess quickly. — score 3
4. The Rabbit tossed its fan aside and hopped away — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 3, line 14: «When Alice timidly says "If you please, sir—", the Rabbit drops the gloves and fan and scurries away into the darkness; Alice picks them up and, "as the hall w…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rabbit» (+2); the same thing acted on «gloves» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response most consistent with the established facts concerning the protagonist's recitation of verse.

1. It was about a cat. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The verse was recited correctly and about fish — no support
3. The words emerged altered, concerning a crocodile — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The words came out wrong, about a tortoise — 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

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