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title: Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 20 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 19 tests right, exam 0 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 X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)

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**Tests:** 5 of 19 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 17 of 23 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 20 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/).

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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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Isla from Edinburgh: «dreich day, and Alice says she was the same person yesterday.» (dreich = grey, gloomy) Put it right.

- **1.** She said she was a different person yesterday — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** She claimed she had been the same girl yesterday — no support
- **3.** She was different yesterday — no support
- **4.** She said she was the same person yesterday — 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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«Explanations take such a dreadful time,» says the Gryphon. Who in the book has been asking Alice to explain herself before?

- **1.** The Caterpillar on the mushroom, who kept telling her to explain herself very sharply and often — score 4
- **2.** The Duchess's cook and the Mock Turtle, both of whom asked Alice many times to explain what she meant — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **3.** The White Rabbit, who was late — no support
- **4.** The Caterpillar: «Explain yourself!» — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 20, line 3: «Her head is so full of the Lobster Quadrille that the poem comes out as nonsense about a lobster who has been «baked too brown» and must «sugar his hair». The…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same receiver «turtle» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why does the Mock Turtle find «It all came different!» so interesting?

- **1.** He wants to hear Alice recite something new now, to see whether it comes out wrong again the same way as before, which he finds funny — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** He wants to hear Alice recite something now and see if it goes wrong — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He had never before heard a girl say those words, so he wants to know the whole story of her adventures right away — score 3
- **4.** He wants Alice to sing the Quadrille while he listens closely — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 20, line 15: ««What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?» says the Mock Turtle: «It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!»…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hear» (+3); the same doer «mock turtle» (+2). 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Alice tells the Lobster poem perfectly.»

- **1.** False: it comes out as nonsense about a Lobster baked too brown — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** True: it is about a Lobster and a sea of soup — no support
- **3.** True: she recites the Lobster poem correctly, every line — score 4
- **4.** True — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 20, line 3: «Her head is so full of the Lobster Quadrille that the poem comes out as nonsense about a lobster who has been «baked too brown» and must «sugar his hair». The…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come out» (+2); the same doer «poem» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Josh, tamping (furious): «why's the Mock Turtle so obsessed with explaining stuff?» What does he say?

- **1.** «Why can't he just skip the explaining and get on with the poem?» — no support
- **2.** «What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?» — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** «Honestly, what is the use of any of this chatter about soup, lobsters and explanations, if nobody will just tell a plain story to the end?» — no support
- **4.** «What is the point of all this repeating and explaining, when nobody here ever finishes a single sentence or gets to the end of anything?» — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 15: ««What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?» says the Mock Turtle: «It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!»…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «repeat» (+2); the same doer «use» (+2); the same thing acted on «stuff» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«I must sugar my hair.» What real thing might Alice be mixing up, after «baked me too brown»?

- **1.** Powdered sugar used for decorating biscuits — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Lobster being cooked alive in a pot, which is a grim thing to think about while a girl is trying to recite a silly poem — no support
- **3.** Cooking: sugar on a cake or a pie that was baked in the oven, and then glazed with honey and cream for a fancy party — no support
- **4.** Cooking: sugar on a cake or a pie baked in the oven — **✓ 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Why is it sad, and a bit funny, that the Mock Turtle sings about «Beautiful Soup»?

- **1.** Because the soup he sings about is made from turtles, and he is the turtle who was supposed to become that very soup — score 5
- **2.** Mock turtle soup is what he is supposed to be made into — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Because he is sad and cannot sing well at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** Because he sings about soup in a very gloomy voice, which is funny, although the sad song is about a green bowl — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 18, line 12: ««Once I was a real Turtle» — the Mock Turtle is sad because he is only a «mock» (pretend) turtle; his story is broken now and then by the Gryphon's odd cry «Hj…», 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) (+3); the same doer «mock turtle» (+2); the same property (+2). 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Ben from Liverpool: «the Gryphon was boss happy Alice picked the song.» (boss = great) Put it right.

- **1.** He was offended: «Hm! No accounting for tastes!» — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He was thrilled, and clapped, saying «What a clever girl, you have the very best taste in all the sea» — no support
- **3.** He was offended, and muttered that nobody here understands good taste, and he would rather have the Quadrille — no support
- **4.** He was delighted: «Ha! Good taste indeed!» — 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What would happen if Alice told her adventures «going back to yesterday», by her own logic?

- **1.** They'd be very long — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** They'd be about her sister instead — score 4
- **3.** They'd be about someone she isn't any more — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** They'd be about a girl from London — score 4

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**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 20, line 6: «Alice: «I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning... but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.»», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «adventures» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Why does the Gryphon only answer «Come on!» as they run?

- **1.** He is hurrying because the Queen has ordered everyone to be on time, and he is afraid of what she will do to them all — score 5
- **2.** He's in a hurry and, like everyone here, just orders Alice about — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** He wants to escape before the Mock Turtle finishes singing — no support
- **4.** He's in a hurry because the trial is starting, and like everyone else here he only ever gives orders and never explains anything at all — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 20, line 2: «When she gets to the part where «You are old, Father William» came out all wrong for the Caterpillar, the Mock Turtle wants to hear her try again. The Gryphon…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «order» (+3); the same doer «gryphon» (+2); the same receiver «alice» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Looking back: in chapter II, Alice tried to say «How doth the little busy bee». What came out?

- **1.** «How doth the little fish improve his golden fins» — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** «How doth the crocodile» — no support
- **3.** «How doth the little mouse improve his silver tail» — no support
- **4.** «How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail» — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 19: ««No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise» — porpoise (a sea animal like a small dolphin) sounds like purpose (a reason); «I mean what I say,» says th…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «fish» (+3). Against it: a different action (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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Looking back: in chapter V, what did the Caterpillar say about Alice's «Father William»?

- **1.** «It is nonsense from start to finish» — no support
- **2.** «It is wrong from beginning to end, and I am certain no child could ever say it properly» — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** «It is wrong from beginning to end» — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** «It is wrong from beginning to end, and the poem should be recited again from the start by you» — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 21: «Alice thinks "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!"; back in chapter III she said the same to the Mouse: "you're so easily offended, you know!"…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «alice» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Looking back: in chapter II, Alice wondered «Who in the world am I?» Which line in this part shows she still feels changed?

- **1.** «It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then» — **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** «Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle, you see, for I've changed» — score 7
- **3.** «I was a different person» — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **4.** «I'm not the same girl I was when I came down the hole, you see» — score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 3, line 4: «Fanning herself, Alice wonders whether she has been changed in the night into another girl, tests herself with times tables, geography and a poem, and gets the…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «alice» (+3); the same doer «alice» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Looking back: in chapter V, Alice told the Caterpillar «I can't explain myself... because I'm not myself». What does this part's line about yesterday have in common with it?

- **1.** Both say she has changed so much that she isn't the same person, and both were said to the Caterpillar and the Gryphon — no support
- **2.** Both say she has changed so much she isn't the same person — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Both complain that the creatures are very rude to her — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Both say she should be allowed to leave the hall now, since she has been treated so badly and has nothing more to explain — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 20, line 6: «Alice: «I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning... but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.»», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «gryphon» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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Looking back: which other soup has been in the book, and what was wrong with it?

- **1.** The Duchess's soup, which had far too little salt — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Duchess's cook's soup, with far too much pepper — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Duchess's cook's soup, which was served cold in a silver tureen and was full of onions and far too much pepper — no support
- **4.** The Duchess's cook's soup, which was made with far too much pepper, so that everyone in the kitchen sneezed all day long — 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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Looking back: in chapter IX, the Gryphon had already ordered Alice about. What did Alice think then?

- **1.** «Everybody says "come on!" here... I never was so ordered about in all my life» — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** «Nobody here ever listens to a word I say, and they all shout at me» — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** «Everybody says "come on!" here, and everyone says "explain yourself!", and I think I shall go home right now and never come back» — score 1
- **4.** «Everybody says "come on!" here, and the Gryphon says it too, which is very annoying, and I have never been so bossed about before» — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 18, line 3: «He tells about his school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle they called Tortoise, «because he taught us». Whenever Alice asks a sensible question, the t…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+5); the same circumstance (+3). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t17}

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★★★ Alice's three wrong poems so far: the crocodile (ch II), Father William (ch V) and the Lobster (ch X). What do the new versions have in common with what was on Alice's mind?

- **1.** Each new version is mixed up with the Caterpillar's mushroom, the Duchess's pepper, and the Queen's croquet, all of which she is thinking about — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** The Lobster one is full of the dance she just saw, so her head mixes in recent things — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** They each repeat a song that she heard the Gryphon sing earlier in the hall — score 5
- **4.** Each one comes out wrong because Alice is secretly trying to remember the names of everyone she has ever met in her whole life — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 20, line 13: «Asked how the Lobster could turn out his toes with his nose, Alice says «It's the first position in dancing» — but she is «dreadfully puzzled by the whole thin…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «first position» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «version» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t17/)

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### Test 18 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t18}

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★★★ «Who would not give all else for two p / ennyworth only of beautiful Soup?» What is odd about how this line is printed?

- **1.** The line is printed in a smaller font size — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **2.** The line has a missing word at the end — no support
- **3.** The line is split across two pages, and the first page ends with «Who would not give all else for two» — no support
- **4.** The word «pennyworth» is split across two lines — **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**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 20, line 17: ««Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!» A tureen is a big deep dish for serving soup; «pennyworth» means as much as a penny buys; in the…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «line» (+5); the same action «print» (+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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t18/)

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### Test 19 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t19}

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★★★ Careful: does the Mock Turtle finish the chorus the second time?

- **1.** Yes: the chorus finishes calmly, and only after he has bowed and wiped his eyes does anyone shout that the trial is beginning — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Yes, he finishes the whole chorus and every verse, then the cry «The trial's beginning!» is heard from far away across the sea — score 7
- **3.** Yes: he sings all the verses and the chorus, and then he stops — score 5
- **4.** No: the cry «The trial's beginning!» comes just after he begins it — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 20, line 18: ««Chorus again!» cries the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle has just begun it when the cry «The trial's beginning!» is heard in the distance; the Gryphon takes Alic…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «begin» (+4); the same doer «trial» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/t19/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the reason adduced by Alice for declining to narrate the events of the preceding day.

- **1.** That the events of the preceding day were too long to narrate, and that she had been sleeping at the time of them — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** That she had been a different person then, since the Queen had ordered her about and she had since grown very much — score 4
- **3.** That she had then been a different person — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** That she had then been someone else entirely — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 7, line 17: «Alice is now "about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit", yet she "trembled till she shook the house" when she hears him coming, forgetting she has no reas…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+3); the same property (+1). 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/e1/)

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

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It is given that Alice was required to recite a poem. Select the response which most accurately characterises the consequence.

- **1.** The words came very queer, her head being full of the Lobster Quadrille — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** She got all the words right but spoke too slowly and quietly — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** The words were fine — no support
- **4.** The words came out in the wrong order — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 10: «The Cheshire Cat appears grin first; Alice waits until its eyes, and then at least one ear, appear before talking, because «It's no use speaking to it till its…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «talk» (+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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/e2/)

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

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Ascertain the remark of the Gryphon upon Alice's expressed preference for a song.

- **1.** «Well, that is a matter of taste» — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** «Hm! No accounting for tastes!» — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** «Hm! No accounting for tastes, and I did not ask you to choose at all, child!» — no support
- **4.** «Hm! Nobody asked for your opinion» — 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the conclusion of the chapter?

- **1.** The Mock Turtle finished his soup song completely, and only then did a cry that the trial was beginning cause the Gryphon to hurry away with Alice, who had been longing to leave — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A cry that the trial was beginning caused the Gryphon to hurry away with Alice, while the Mock Turtle wept and the Lobster danced by the sea — no support
- **3.** A cry that the trial was beginning caused the Gryphon to hurry away with Alice — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Alice recited a poem and the Gryphon asked her to leave — 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/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/e4/)

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