--- title: Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 2 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 7 of 16 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 2 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME **Tests:** 7 of 16 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 20 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 2 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/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/). 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/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Ollie goes: "Alice just glugged the bottle straight away, she's well reckless." Put him right. - **1.** She made Dinah taste a drop of it first of all — score 3 - **2.** She asked the Rabbit if it was safe to drink it — score 4 - **3.** She first checked it was not marked "poison" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** She only smelled it and never drank a drop at all — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 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 a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «check» (+3); the same doer «sensible alice» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Zara, Gen Z: "The garden was giving main character energy, but Alice couldn't even fit, bruh." ("giving main character energy" = looking amazing and special.) Why couldn't she fit at first? - **1.** She was much too big for the doorway — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The Rabbit was blocking the way — no support - **3.** She was too scared to crawl through — no support - **4.** The garden gate was locked from inside — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «shut up» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+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/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} What would have happened if Alice had picked up the key before she drank? - **1.** She could have unlocked the little door and gone in — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** The key would have grown too heavy for her to carry — score 4 - **3.** The bottle would have refused to make her any smaller — score 3 - **4.** The little door would have vanished behind the curtain — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 2, line 2: «All the doors are locked; then she finds a little glass table with a tiny golden key, which opens only a little door fifteen inches high, and through it she se…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «get in» (+2); 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/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Jake from Yorkshire: "She were right mardy, crying on t' floor." ("mardy" = grumpy or sulky.) What does Alice do after crying? - **1.** She goes back up the passage to the well — no support - **2.** She shouts for her big sister to help — **← Mova's choice** · score 12 - **3.** She tells herself off sharply to stop — **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** She falls asleep under the glass table — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 17: «She wondered if she would fall right through the earth and come out among people walking upside down and called them "the Antipathies"; she meant the Antipodes…», 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 action «call» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} True or false: Alice thinks it is dull that the first bite of cake does nothing. - **1.** True: she wanted to grow taller than the Rabbit — no support - **2.** False: she is happy to stay the same size — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** False: she never notices her size at all — no support - **4.** True: she expected only out-of-the-way things now — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same thing acted on «same size» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). 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/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Why does the book call it "stupid" that life went "on in the common way" after the cake? - **1.** Alice now expected strange things to happen every time — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **2.** The cake tasted stale and dry and quite horrible — no support - **3.** Alice was tired and wanted to go back to bed — score 4 - **4.** Her sister had said that cake makes you stupid — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. 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 cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «expect» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Dad, sarcastic: "Oh brilliant, shrink yourself and leave the key on the table, genius." What mistake does he mean? - **1.** Alice drank a bottle of poison by accident — score 8 - **2.** Alice forgot the key before she shrank — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 14 - **3.** Alice gave the key to the Rabbit — score 8 - **4.** Alice lost the key down the well — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 14, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 17: «She forgot the key on the table; the glass leg is too slippery to climb, so she cries.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «forget» (+4); the same thing acted on «key» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} Why does Alice say there is "hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person"? - **1.** She is so tiny now, and she likes pretending to be two — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** She has lost both her shoes and her stockings — no support - **3.** The Rabbit said she was not respectable enough — no support - **4.** She is hungry and has not eaten all day long — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wish» (+2); 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/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} The book tells of children who were burnt or eaten by wild beasts because they forgot simple rules. What is it saying about Alice? - **1.** She never listens to any rules at all — no support - **2.** She learnt the rules from the White Rabbit — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** She remembers the rules, so she checks the bottle — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** She had been eaten by a wild beast before — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 14: «Alice remembers stories of children who were burnt or eaten by wild beasts because they forgot simple rules, so she checks the bottle is not marked "poison"; o…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «simple rules» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Gran in Cornwall: "That cake were proper job, my lover." ("proper job" = really good, "my lover" = a friendly way to say dear.) What is the cake's message written in? - **1.** Currants — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Jam — no support - **3.** Chocolate — no support - **4.** Icing sugar — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} Looking back over the whole book so far: what has Alice followed, from the bank to the hall? - **1.** The White Rabbit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **2.** Her cat Dinah — no support - **3.** Her big sister — score 1 - **4.** A trail of currants — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 2: «She is lazily wondering whether to make a daisy-chain when a White Rabbit with pink eyes runs past, says "I shall be late!", and pulls a watch out of his waist…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «white rabbit» (+4); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Looking back: when Alice fell, she thought she would come out among the "Antipathies". Now at the bottom, where is she really? - **1.** At the centre of the earth — **← Mova's choice** · score 16 - **2.** Back on the riverbank — no support - **3.** In New Zealand or else in Australia — no support - **4.** In a long hall with locked doors — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 16, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 16: «Alice guessed she was near the centre of the earth, "four thousand miles down", and said "Latitude" and "Longitude" without knowing what they meant, because th…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «alice» (+4); the same place «centre» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Compare Alice now with Alice at the start, when she found her sister's book dull. What has changed? - **1.** She is even more bored than she was before — **← Mova's choice** · score 9 - **2.** She has gone home and found a better book — score 9 - **3.** She has fallen asleep and stopped thinking — score 9 - **4.** She is busy, curious and puzzling things out — **✓ the right answer** · score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). 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 same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «sensible alice» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} ★★★ The "EAT ME" plan: "if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door". Which result would NOT get her into the garden? - **1.** Growing larger — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Growing very small — score 4 - **3.** Growing smaller — score 4 - **4.** Staying the same size — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 2, line 20: «A glass box under the table holds a small cake with "EAT ME" marked in currants (small dried grapes); her plan: "if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the ke…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grow» (+4); the same property (+2). 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15} ★★★ The little door was about fifteen inches high, and the drink made Alice ten inches high. How much shorter than the door was she? - **1.** Ten inches — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Fifteen inches — no support - **3.** Five inches — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Twenty-five inches — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t15/) ### Test 16 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t16} ★★★ Read carefully: did Alice find the little door the first time she went round the hall? - **1.** Yes, at once, behind the table — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, on the second time round — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, because the Rabbit showed her — no support - **4.** No, only on the third time round — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/t16/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the object discovered by the protagonist upon the three-legged table of solid glass on the first occasion. - **1.** A diminutive golden key — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** A cake marked in currants — score 4 - **3.** A bottle bearing a label — no support - **4.** A box constructed of glass — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 2: «All the doors are locked; then she finds a little glass table with a tiny golden key, which opens only a little door fifteen inches high, and through it she se…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Ascertain the precaution observed by the protagonist prior to the consumption of the contents of the bottle. - **1.** She requested the Rabbit's permission to drink — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** She awaited the advice of her elder sister — no support - **3.** She examined it for the word "poison" — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** She first poured a quantity upon the floor — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} It is given that the protagonist attained a height of ten inches. Determine the principal obstacle which subsequently prevented her entry into the garden. - **1.** The key had been left upon the table beyond her reach — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The curtain had been drawn across the doorway — no support - **3.** The door had been locked anew by the White Rabbit — no support - **4.** Her stature remained excessive for the passage — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Select the response that most accurately characterises the protagonist's habit as regards counsel addressed to herself. - **1.** It was generally sound but seldom followed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It was invariably followed without delay — no support - **3.** It was given exclusively to her elder sister — no support - **4.** It was offered solely in the French language — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/e4/) - ← previous: [1. 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