Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house

Tests: 1 of 17 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 15 of 21 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 7 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 ✗

Harvey goes: "Alice broke into the Rabbit's house to nick his stuff." ("nick" = steal.) Put him right.

1. She was sent to the house by the Rabbit for his gloves — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. The Rabbit sent her there to fetch his fan and gloves — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. The Rabbit asked her to fetch his fan and gloves for him — no support
4. She went in to take his cake — no support

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 7, line 1: «The White Rabbit comes back hunting for his lost fan and gloves, mistakes Alice for his housemaid Mary Ann, and sends her running home to fetch them; she is to…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+2); the same doer «white rabbit» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Amara, Gen Z: "Alice drank a random bottle AGAIN? The girl is not learning, it's giving chaos." ("it's giving" = it looks like.) What was her reason this time?

1. She drank because the last bottle had made her grow, and she hoped this one would do something as interesting — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She had learned that bottles without labels always hold cordial and that eating was the best thing she could do — no support
3. She thought the bottle was just juice for the Rabbit — no support
4. Something interesting always happened when she ate or drank — ✓ 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 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗

What would have happened if the door had opened outwards?

1. The Rabbit would have pushed it open — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. The Rabbit could have opened it and come in, and then he would have seen Alice trapped in the room — score 3
3. The Rabbit could have opened it and come in, and perhaps the Duchess would have seen the trouble — score 3
4. The Rabbit could have opened it and come in — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 7, line 16: «The door opens inwards and Alice's elbow is pressed against it, so the Rabbit cannot open it.», 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 «door» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Why is it funny that Alice trembles "till she shook the house"?

1. It is funny because the Rabbit is afraid of her, yet she is afraid of him, and both of them shake the walls of the house together — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. She is huge, so her fear shakes the whole house, yet she fears a tiny rabbit who ran away from her in the wood at the start of the book — score 7
3. She is huge, so her fear shakes the whole house, yet she fears a tiny rabbit — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. It is funny because the house is so small and she shakes it all — 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 7, line 17: «Alice is now "about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit", yet she "trembled till she shook the house" when she hears him coming, forgetting she has no reas…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Rory from Belfast: "Wee Pat's an eejit, diggin' for apples, so he is." ("wee" = little, "eejit" = idiot.) Why is "digging for apples" nonsense?

1. Apples grow on trees in orchards, and digging would only damage the roots and the soil around them — ← Mova's choice · score 12
2. Apples grow on trees, not under the ground, and nobody would dig for them in the cold winter months — score 12
3. Apples are grown in orchards by gardeners — score 3
4. Apples grow on trees, not under the ground — ✓ the right answer · score 12

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 12, tied with another option at 12 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 7, line 19: «Pat says he is "Digging for apples, yer honour!" ("yer honour" = sir), which is nonsense, since apples grow on trees; the Rabbit calls him "you goose" (silly),…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grow» (+4); the same doer «apples» (+4); the same place «trees» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 12. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗

True or false: Alice wants to stay in the Rabbit's house.

1. False: she wants to leave the house at once and go home — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. False: "I'm sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!" — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. True: she enjoys being in the Rabbit's house with his cake and bottles, and she wants to stay until dinner is served in the great hall — score 6
4. False: she is glad to stay in here because the Rabbit has kept her company and tea is coming soon — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «need» (+3); the same doer «alice» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Grandad, grumpy: "Back in my day a girl that size would've been in the circus." What does Alice herself think about her strange life?

1. Much pleasanter at home, and yet rather curious, though she is not sure what to do next about it all — no support
2. She thinks it is dull and rather silly here — no support
3. Much pleasanter at home, and yet rather curious — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She feels it is much pleasanter at home, and she wishes she had stayed by the fire — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 14: «She thinks "It was much pleasanter at home", but also "it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!", and says "There ought to be a book written about me".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «home» (+4); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Why does Alice say "How can you learn lessons in here?"?

1. The house is so small that the Rabbit has hung all her lesson-books on the wall, leaving her nowhere to sit — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. There is hardly room for her, and none for lesson-books — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. There is hardly room for her, and none for lesson-books, because the room is now too small to hold her and her things — no support
4. Her lesson books are lost in the great hall — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 6, line 8: «The Mouse says Alice must have a prize herself; all she has left is a thimble (a small metal cap that protects your finger when sewing).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓

Why does Alice think there must be a lot of cucumber-frames?

1. Glass fell after the shrieks each time — no support
2. She hears birds — no support
3. She hears broken glass after both snatches — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. She sees cucumbers — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 4: «The Rabbit can't get in at the door, so he tries the window; Alice snatches at the air, hears a shriek and breaking glass, and guesses he has fallen into a cuc…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «break» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Jess, rough: "Do as I tell you, you coward!" Who says this?

1. The Rabbit, to Pat — ✓ the right answer · score 9
2. The Duchess, to Alice — score 13
3. The Duchess, to Pat, in the garden by the cucumber frames — score 13
4. The Rabbit, to Pat, when Pat was digging for apples — ← Mova's choice · score 18

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 18, against 13 for the next best. Its support: lesson 7, line 19: «Pat says he is "Digging for apples, yer honour!" ("yer honour" = sir), which is nonsense, since apples grow on trees; the Rabbit calls him "you goose" (silly),…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «dig» (+4); the same doer «pat» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). The right option, 1, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter II the Rabbit ran away in fright from giant Alice. How does he treat her at the start of chapter IV?

1. He orders her about, thinking she is his maid — ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. He orders her about, thinking she is his maid, though she is now a giant who could crush him easily — ← Mova's choice · score 12
3. He orders her about, thinking she is his maid, and then he sends her off to fetch gloves from the hall — score 6
4. He asks her politely to leave his house at once — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 3, line 3: «The White Rabbit comes back, dressed up, with white kid gloves and a fan, muttering about the Duchess; when giant Alice says "If you please, sir", he drops eve…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «giant alice» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: what has Alice now drunk or eaten, in order, since the start of the book?

1. DRINK ME bottle, EAT ME cake, the Rabbit's fan and gloves, and now his bottle with no label at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. DRINK ME bottle, a fan, and then the Rabbit's gloves — no support
3. DRINK ME bottle, EAT ME cake, a pool of tears, and now the Rabbit's bottle with no label — no support
4. DRINK ME bottle, EAT ME cake, and now the Rabbit's bottle — ✓ 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 13 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back to chapter I: Alice checked the first bottle for "poison". What does she check this time?

1. Nothing; she does not check the label at all, but first she sniffs the bottle for poison and then drinks — score 11
2. Nothing; there is no label, so she checks the colour in the light and then she drinks it all — no support
3. Nothing; there is no label and she just drinks — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She tastes it carefully to see if it is poison — ← Mova's choice · score 16

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 16, against 11 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 3: «Back at the table a bottle labelled "DRINK ME" has appeared; sensible Alice checks it is not marked "poison", tastes it, finds it delicious and shrinks to ten…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «bottle» (+4); the same action «taste» (+3); the same doer «sensible alice» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗

How has Alice's way of thinking changed since chapter I?

1. She now expects magic whenever she eats or drinks, which she did not expect when she first came into Wonderland — no support
2. She now trusts the Rabbit's advice completely — score 4
3. She now expects magic whenever she eats or drinks, and she no longer checks for poison at all — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. She now expects magic whenever she eats or drinks — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 7, line 20: «After the second snatch Alice thinks "I'm sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!"», 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 same property (+1). Against it: a different action (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 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ First snatch: "a little shriek". Second snatch: "two little shrieks". How many shrieks did Alice hear altogether?

1. Two — no support
2. Five shrieks in all — ← Mova's choice · score 11
3. Eleven — no support
4. Three — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 4: «The Rabbit can't get in at the door, so he tries the window; Alice snatches at the air, hears a shriek and breaking glass, and guesses he has fallen into a cuc…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «shriek» (+4); the same action «hear» (+3). Against it: a different doer (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 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ "I'm grown up now," Alice says. What are the two meanings of "grown up" in her joke?

1. Grown big in size, and become an adult, which she has done several times now in Wonderland — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Grown big in size, and become an adult — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Taller in height and older in mind — no support
4. Grown big in size, and become an adult, and also grown tired of the Rabbit's silly house — 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 ✗

★★★ Read carefully: was Alice right to be afraid of the Rabbit?

1. No: she was a thousand times larger and had no reason to fear him — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. No: she was a thousand times larger, so the Rabbit was the one who ought to have been afraid of her and her elbow — no support
3. Yes, he could hurt her with his strong paws — no support
4. No: she was a thousand times larger than him and had no reason at all to fear the little Rabbit in his house — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 17: «Alice is now "about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit", yet she "trembled till she shook the house" when she hears him coming, forgetting she has no reas…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the person for whom the White Rabbit mistook the protagonist.

1. His housemaid, Mary Ann — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. His cook, Nelly Brown — no support
3. His gardener, Peter Kell — no support
4. Mary Ann — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the reason for which the protagonist consumed the contents of the unlabelled bottle.

1. Her expectation that something of interest would ensue, after many previous bottles and cakes had done just that — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She guessed it would cure her headache soon — no support
3. Her expectation that something of interest would ensue — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She thought the bottle was a harmless tonic — 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 door of the chamber opened inwards. Determine the reason the Rabbit's attempt to enter proved a failure.

1. The hinge was rusted and would not turn — no support
2. The Rabbit's paws slipped on the brass plate — no support
3. The protagonist's elbow was pressed hard against it — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. The protagonist's elbow was pressed hard against the door, so the Rabbit could not push it open from outside at all — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 7, line 16: «The door opens inwards and Alice's elbow is pressed against it, so the Rabbit cannot open it.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «press» (+3); the same thing acted on «elbow» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the protagonist's dimensions relative to the Rabbit.

1. Approximately one thousand times as large as the Rabbit, which she had found out by growing in the hall — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Around a hundred thousand times as heavy — no support
3. Approximately one thousand times as large, or about the size of a house in the garden of the Duchess — no support
4. Approximately one thousand times as large — ✓ 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

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