--- title: Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 41 «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / Alice's word games: puns, parodies and… # Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense The 16 questions of lesson 41 «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 85 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t1/) — «the old crab taught Laughing and Grief lol what even is that» What is the joke? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t2/) — Your teacher writes «Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, Derision» on the board and asks what they are. What do you say? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t3/) — «the lessons got shorter every day, so on day 11 they had none, right?» Why does the Gryphon say they «lessen»? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t4/) — A friend writes a poem: «Hickory dickory dog, the mouse ran up the frog». What has she written? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t5/) — Why is «You are old, Father William» funnier if you know Southey's poem? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t6/) — The Hatter's riddle has no answer. Why might Carroll have written a riddle like that? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t7/) — A boy says «I'm gooder at football than him». Like whom in the book has he forgotten good English? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t8/) — «my nan said she's going to the antipathies for Christmas» What does Nan mean, and what slip did she make? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t9/) — Is «I eat what I see» the same as «I see what I eat»? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t10/) — Which of these lines from the book is NOT a pun? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t11/) — ★★★ Using the Mock Turtle's code (Reeling = reading, Drawling = drawing, Mystery = history), what would «Fizzicks and Kemistree» probably mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/t12/) — ★★★ Change the order of words and the Hatter's point shows: which pair means two DIFFERENT things? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/e1/) — Identify the device employed by the author in the line «because he taught us», given in explanation of the name Tortoise. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a parody? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the riddle propounded by the Hatter. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/41-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense/e4/) — Ascertain the expression of which «Curiouser and curiouser» constitutes an ungrammatical rendering. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [40. 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