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title: Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 10 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 17 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon

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

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Lesson 10 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Josh goes: "Alice ate the left bit first and went tiny." Put him right.

- **1.** The left bit shrank her, and the right bit then stretched her neck out long above the trees of the wood — no support
- **2.** The left bit shrank her first; the right bit made her neck long — no support
- **3.** Alice ate the left bit first, and the right bit then made her neck grow long, which was the wrong order — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** The right bit shrank her first; the left bit made her neck long — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 12: «She drinks because "I know something interesting is sure to happen" "whenever I eat or drink anything".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same doer «alice» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Destiny, Gen Z: "The Pigeon was so pressed, screaming 'Serpent!' at a whole girl." ("pressed" = upset, stressed.) Why was the Pigeon so stressed?

- **1.** It had been hit by a stone that morning — no support
- **2.** It had guarded its eggs from serpents for weeks without sleep — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Alice had stolen eggs from its nest only a day before — score 3
- **4.** It had watched a hungry girl eat its eggs from the nest — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 3: «A Pigeon flies at her face screaming "Serpent!": she has spent weeks guarding her eggs from serpents, and now one seems to have come wriggling down from the sk…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «guard» (+4); the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on «eggs» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why is the Pigeon's thinking wrong?

- **1.** Being a girl is different from being a bird — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two things that both eat eggs are not the same thing — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Snakes and girls are both very long and thin — no support
- **4.** Because it is only the Pigeon who is wrong, and it has never met a girl before in its whole life — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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What would have happened if Alice had eaten only the left-hand bit after that?

- **1.** Her head would have hit the clouds — no support
- **2.** Her neck would have grown even longer — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** She would have shrunk very small — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Her feet would grow very long — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 3: «Next they throw pebbles in at the window, but the pebbles turn into little cakes; Alice eats one, shrinks, and runs past the crowd into a thick wood.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «shrink» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Auntie Sue from Manchester: "She's dead honest, our Alice, admits she's had eggs an' all." ("dead" = very, "an' all" = as well.) Why does Alice admit it?

- **1.** She was told to say so — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** She is a very truthful child — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Because the Pigeon had already seen her eating eggs from the nest and she could not lie to it — score 5
- **4.** She thought the Pigeon was kind — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 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 action «say» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+2); the same thing acted on «mabel» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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True or false: Alice is completely sure she is a little girl.

- **1.** False: she says it "rather doubtfully", after so many changes — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** True: she says it firmly, with no doubt at all — score 6
- **3.** True: she says it boldly, as she has never once doubted her own size or her name after all those changes — score 6
- **4.** True: she says it firmly and clearly, without any hesitation, because she knows exactly who she is — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 15: «Alice says "I—I'm a little girl", "rather doubtfully", because she has changed so many times that day.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «alice» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). The right option, 1, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Liam, rough: "Get lost, you sneaky snake!" Which of the Pigeon's lines is closest to this?

- **1.** Well, you can be off now, and don't come back near my eggs or my nest again! — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** I think you had better go away at once, and never come back to this tree again! — no support
- **3.** "Well, be off, then!" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** I'll call the police — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Why does Alice make herself nine inches before visiting the little house?

- **1.** So she won't frighten whoever lives there — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** Because the Pigeon is worried — no support
- **3.** To hide from snakes — score 2
- **4.** To look smaller — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 10, line 5: «Nibbling first one bit and then the other, Alice gets back to her normal height, then makes herself nine inches tall so as not to scare whoever lives in a tiny…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «scare» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Why does the Pigeon say it does not matter whether Alice is a girl or a serpent?

- **1.** Either way, it thinks she is after its eggs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** Either way, a girl or a serpent would surely try to climb the tree and steal all of the eggs — score 6
- **3.** She will never grow up to be a bird — score 3
- **4.** Snakes and girls both have long necks — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 10, line 4: «Alice insists she is a little girl, but when she admits she has eaten eggs, the Pigeon decides that little girls must be a kind of serpent too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «little girls» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Pete from Boston: "That neck was wicked long, kid." ("wicked" = very, in New England.) What did the long neck look like from above?

- **1.** A tree trunk with no leaves on top — no support
- **2.** A very long neck stretching up from a sea of green leaves, with a small head on top — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **3.** A stalk rising out of a sea of green leaves — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A thin pole in the grass — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 2: «Quickly she nibbles the left-hand bit, and her neck shoots up and up like a stalk, far above the treetops, bending about like a snake.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «neck» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-4). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Looking back to chapter V part 1: the Caterpillar asked "Who are you?". How does that question come back here?

- **1.** Alice is unsure what she is when the Pigeon asks — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The Pigeon asks it, and Alice still cannot say — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** She answers the same way — no support
- **4.** She still does not know — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Looking back to chapter I: Alice wished she could "shut up like a telescope". What does she do here?

- **1.** Opens out like a telescope, in her neck — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** She shrinks herself to be small again — score 7
- **3.** She tries to fold her long neck away into a tiny ball, just like a telescope does when shut — score 8
- **4.** She shuts up like a telescope in the garden, pulling her neck back down into her shoulders — **← Mova's choice** · score 16

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 16, against 8 for the next best. 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «alice» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same action «shut up» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Looking back over the whole book: which of these has NOT changed Alice's size so far?

- **1.** Cake — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The comfits — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The window — no support
- **4.** Tea — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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How is Alice different now from chapter I, where she cried because she could not control her size?

- **1.** She can now choose her size with the two bits of mushroom — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** She now grows and shrinks by herself without any help — score 4
- **3.** She is calm now, and does not cry at all — score 4
- **4.** She now chooses her size easily with the two bits of mushroom and no longer cries about it at all — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 21: «After the first little bite nothing happened and she stayed the same size; this seemed "quite dull and stupid", because she now expected only out-of-the-way th…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+4); the same thing acted on «same size» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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★★★ The Pigeon says: serpents eat eggs; little girls eat eggs; so little girls are serpents. Which argument has the SAME mistake?

- **1.** Dogs can bark — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cats have tails — no support
- **3.** Cats have tails; so dogs must too — no support
- **4.** Cats have tails; dogs have tails; so dogs are cats — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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★★★ To shrink from her usual height down to nine inches near the house, which bit did Alice nibble? Use the first nibble as your clue.

- **1.** The smaller bit — score 5
- **2.** The bit she nibbled second, which was the one on the left — **← Mova's choice** · score 13
- **3.** The right-hand bit — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** The left-hand bit — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 13, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 1: «The mushroom is perfectly round, so Alice cannot tell which side is which; she breaks off a bit from each side and nibbles the right-hand bit, and shrinks so f…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «nibble» (+5); the same thing acted on «hand bit» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «alice» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t17}

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★★★ Count the places the Pigeon names for keeping its eggs safe: roots of trees, banks, hedges, and finally the highest tree. How many is that?

- **1.** Four — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** One — no support
- **3.** Five, if you also count the hedges and the banks separately — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **4.** Two — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 12: «A Pigeon beats her with its wings, screaming "Serpent!"; it has tried "the roots of trees", "banks" and "hedges" to keep its eggs safe.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «roots» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/t17/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the effect produced upon the protagonist by consumption of the right-hand portion of the mushroom.

- **1.** A rapid diminution of stature — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A sudden increase in height — no support
- **3.** Growth — no support
- **4.** A change — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Ascertain the reason for which the Pigeon identified the protagonist as a serpent.

- **1.** The excessive length of her neck and her presence among the treetops — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Her neck was excessively long, and she was standing among the treetops where only birds usually live — no support
- **3.** Because the excessive length of her neck meant that she had to be a serpent, which every bird knows well — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** The colour of her dress and the noise of her feet in the wood — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 18: «The Pigeon adds "You're looking for eggs, I know that well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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It is given that the protagonist admitted to having tasted eggs. Determine the conclusion drawn therefrom by the Pigeon.

- **1.** That eggs are only eaten by fat birds — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** That she is hungry — no support
- **3.** That little girls constitute a kind of serpent — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** That girls have never eaten any eggs before — score 3

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**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 10, line 4: «Alice insists she is a little girl, but when she admits she has eaten eggs, the Pigeon decides that little girls must be a kind of serpent too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same thing acted on «eggs» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the protagonist's stature upon approaching the small house.

- **1.** A foot — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Ten inches — no support
- **3.** Eight inches — no support
- **4.** Nine inches — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/e4/)

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