--- title: Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 54 «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» 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/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/) [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/) / Off with her head and the finest house… # Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad The 15 questions of lesson 54 «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» 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/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t1/) — «the queen chops off heads every minute, Wonderland is literally a horror film» What does the book really say? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t2/) — Your little brother reads that Alice made a pool of tears and tries to cry a pool in the bath. What should you tell him? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t3/) — ★ «Toad says his house is the finest on the whole river, so it is, he lives there» What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t4/) — ★ «Rat says nothing is as good as messing about in boats, so school is pointless» What has gone wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t5/) — ★ Alice boasts she'd think nothing of tumbling down stairs. A cartoon shows her cheerfully jumping off a roof. What is wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t6/) — «Toad says it's the end of everything, so the book's over??» What really happens? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t7/) — ★★ The Queen's «Off with her head!» and Josh's sister's «touch my straighteners and I'll KILL you». What do they have in common? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t8/) — ★★ The Rat's «a little wet» and a British dad's «slight problem in the kitchen». Which kind of talk do both use? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t9/) — ★★★ Alice is «more than nine feet high». Her pool of tears is «about four inches deep». A child of 4 feet stands in it. About how far up her legs does it come? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t10/) — ★★★ Toad's song says the clever men at Oxford «none of them know one half as much» as Toad. If that were true and Toad knew 100 facts, what is the most any Oxford man could know? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t11/) — ★★★ Which of these is Carroll making a saying come TRUE, rather than a character exaggerating? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/e1/) — Identify the device by which Lewis Carroll represents Alice, weeping, as producing «a large pool all round her». — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises Toad's assertion that Toad Hall is the «Finest house on the whole river»? — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the account of the Gryphon in respect of the Queen's repeated command «Off with her head!». — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/e4/) — Ascertain the purpose of the Water Rat's question «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?», addressed to the Mole after the upsetting of the boat. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [53. Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/53-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down/) - next →: [55. ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/) - ↑ back to [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/)