Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 41 of the physics 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 ✗

«Alice fell so slow she grabbed some marmalade on the way, could I do that down a well?» What would really happen?

1. You would stop halfway down and float in the middle — no support
2. You would fall slowly if you held your breath and kept your arms out wide — score 0
3. You would fall slowly like Alice if the well was deep enough — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. You would fall faster every second, far too fast to grab anything — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 41, line 1: «Alice falls down the rabbit hole so slowly that she takes a jar of orange marmalade off a shelf on the way and puts it back further down. In real life a fall g…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fall down» (+4); 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 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

A boy says, «heavy things always fall faster, everyone knows that». What does the Moon test show?

1. Nothing falls at all on the Moon because there is no air — score 3
2. Without air, a hammer and a feather fall at the same speed — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Light things fall faster because air holds heavy things back — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. Heavy things fall faster everywhere, even on the Moon — 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 4, line 1: «A push or a pull is called a force, and a force is what starts things moving, stops them, speeds them up or turns them.», 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 «stop» (+2); the same thing acted on «things» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓

Alice worries the people on the other side of the Earth walk «with their heads downward». What would they say about us?

1. That we are the ones walking upside down — no support
2. That we need to hold on to the ground with both hands to stop ourselves falling into the sky — no support
3. Nothing odd: everyone stands with their feet towards the Earth's centre — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. That we all fall off the Earth at night — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 41, line 11: «People in Australia and New Zealand stand with their feet down and heads up just like us, because «down» always means towards the centre of the Earth.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «stand» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓

«I'm gonna dig through to Australia from my back garden in Leeds» Why will that not work?

1. The middle of the Earth is hot melted metal, and the point opposite Britain is in the ocean anyway — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. You would come out in Australia but upside down, so you could not climb out — no support
3. You would get stuck in the middle because there is no up or down there, so you could not dig any further — no support
4. It would work, but it would take about a week with a good spade — 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 5 · ★★★ · right ✓

In an imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth, what happens after you reach the far side?

1. You come out and keep flying up into the sky — score -1
2. You stop at the far side and stay there forever — no support
3. You fall back down again, like a swing going to and fro — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. You float out into space and never come back — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 9, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 41, line 9: «In an imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth, you would speed up until the middle, then slow down and just reach the other side, then fall back again, like…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall back» (+5); the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Your little brother drinks a whole bottle of milk and says, «watch me, I'm gonna get taller now». What is true?

1. If he drinks two bottles he will grow twice as fast — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He will grow about a centimetre in the next hour — no support
3. Milk makes you grow, but only if you drink it upside down while standing on your head — no support
4. Milk is good food, but growing takes months and years, not seconds — ✓ 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 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

When Alice is three inches tall, why would she get cold faster than a normal girl?

1. Small people cannot wear clothes of any kind, so their skin would be bare to the wind — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Small bodies have no blood, so they cannot keep warm — no support
3. The air is colder close to the ground everywhere — no support
4. Small bodies have lots of skin for their size, so they lose heat quickly — ✓ 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 ✗

Why would a real giant of nine times Alice's height have a terrible time standing up?

1. Giants are always too sleepy to stand up for long — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Its weight would grow far faster than the strength of its bones — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The air at that height has no oxygen in it at all — no support
4. Giants have no knees at all, so their legs would not bend — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

«Alice cried a whole pool, could you really fill a bath with tears?» What is true?

1. No: even a long cry makes far less than a cupful — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. Yes: grown-ups cry about a bucket a day — no support
3. No: tears dry up before they reach the floor — no support
4. Yes: if you cry for a whole afternoon — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 41, line 17: «When Alice cries as a giant she makes a pool of tears deep enough to swim in; real tears come in small drops, and even a long cry makes far less than a cupful.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «less» (+2); the same action «make» (+1); the same doer «long cry» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓

The book ends with Alice waking up on the river bank. Why can the fall, the sizes and the pool of tears break the real rules of science?

1. Because the rules were different in 1865 — no support
2. Because Wonderland is on the Moon — no support
3. Because it was all a dream — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Because Alice was a magician — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 41, line 1: «Alice falls down the rabbit hole so slowly that she takes a jar of orange marmalade off a shelf on the way and puts it back further down. In real life a fall g…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «book» (+1); the same thing acted on «dream» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ A toy brick 1 cm long weighs 1 gram. A brick of the same shape and stuff, 3 cm long, 3 cm wide and 3 cm tall, weighs how much?

1. 3 grams — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 27 grams — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 9 grams — no support
4. 6 grams — 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 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Alice grows from 10 inches to 9 feet (108 inches). About how many times taller has she become?

1. About 100 times — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. About 9 times — no support
3. About 2 times — no support
4. About 11 times — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the principal effect of gravitational attraction upon a body falling freely near the surface of the Earth.

1. Its velocity increases continually throughout the descent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Its velocity remains constant throughout the descent — no support
3. Its velocity becomes zero at the midpoint of the descent — no support
4. Its velocity diminishes as the ground is approached — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the antipodes of a given location?

1. The nearest island situated across the adjacent sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The poles situated at the summit and base of a map — no support
3. The highest point of elevation within the same territory — no support
4. The point upon the Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it — ✓ 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 · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the interior of the Earth.

1. Its central region consists of exceedingly hot metal, partly in a molten state — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It consists of a hollow chamber filled with air — no support
3. It consists of a subterranean ocean of fresh water — no support
4. It consists of frozen rock of uniform temperature, unchanged since the formation of the planet — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the approximate factor by which the weight of a body increases when each of its three dimensions is doubled.

1. Two — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Eight — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Sixteen — no support
4. Four — 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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