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title: Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles an… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy

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**Tests:** 6 of 17 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 13 of 21 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 8 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/).

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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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Ethan goes: "Alice kicked Bill 'cos she hates lizards." Put him right.

- **1.** She kicked the lizard out of the house because she felt sorry for the Rabbit and his friends — score -2
- **2.** She kicked because she was cross with Bill for coming down the chimney and making a mess of the whole house — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** She kicked because she hated Bill so much — no support
- **4.** She kicked to stop whatever was coming down the chimney — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against -2 for the next best. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+2); the same thing acted on «house» (+2). Against it: a different action (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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Chloe, Gen Z: "Poor Bill is literally the group project guy, they dump everything on him." ("group project guy" = the one who ends up doing all the work.) Which line from Alice says the same?

- **1.** "Bill is always given the hard jobs" — no support
- **2.** "they seem to put every single job upon poor Bill, who never gets any rest at all" — score 8
- **3.** "they seem to put everything upon Bill!" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 15
- **4.** "Bill is literally the group project guy, they dump everything on him all the time" — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 15, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 8: «Nobody wants to go down the chimney, so it is "Bill's to go down"; Alice says "they seem to put everything upon Bill!", meaning he gets all the jobs nobody wan…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+6); the same action «put» (+5); the same thing acted on «everything» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Why did the Rabbit's crowd go silent when Alice mentioned Dinah?

- **1.** They worried a dog would bite them all — no support
- **2.** They fell asleep — no support
- **3.** They were scared the cat would attack them — no support
- **4.** They were afraid of a cat being set on them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 11: «The Rabbit says "We must burn the house down!", and Alice shouts "If you do, I'll set Dinah at you!", after which there is "a dead silence".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «set» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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What would have happened if the pebbles had stayed pebbles?

- **1.** The pebbles would have rolled out the window and Alice would have been trapped in the wood with the puppy and the caterpillar — score 2
- **2.** Alice would have had no cake and stayed stuck — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** She would have kept her size and no cake — no support
- **4.** Alice would have had no cake to eat, so she could never shrink or grow again, and would be stuck forever — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. 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 what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Grandpa from Somerset: "That were a gurt big puppy, my lover." ("gurt" = great, very.) Why did the puppy seem so huge?

- **1.** Alice had shrunk very small — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** The puppy was really big — no support
- **3.** The puppy had eaten a lot of food and grown very large that morning — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** Alice had become a mouse — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 17: «An enormous puppy reaches out a paw to her; Alice speaks to it "in a coaxing tone" (gently and sweetly), but she is afraid it might be hungry and eat her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same doer «puppy» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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True or false: Alice was relaxed and happy playing with the puppy.

- **1.** False: she was bored — no support
- **2.** True: she enjoyed the game very much — no support
- **3.** True: she was calm and relaxed — no support
- **4.** False: she was terribly frightened it might trample or eat her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 17: «An enormous puppy reaches out a paw to her; Alice speaks to it "in a coaxing tone" (gently and sweetly), but she is afraid it might be hungry and eat her.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same doer «puppy» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Mum, sarcastic: "Oh lovely, and NOW she calls it a dear little puppy." Why is that funny?

- **1.** The puppy had just bitten her on the arm and she was sobbing loudly in the garden — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She was terrified of it a minute ago — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She is joking about how a huge dangerous beast was suddenly a cute little pet to her — no support
- **4.** The puppy was really quite tiny — 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Why does Alice look on top of the mushroom?

- **1.** Because the mushroom was taller than she was and she had to climb up on the stalk to be sure — score 8
- **2.** She had looked under it, beside it and behind it already — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** She wanted to see what was above — score 7
- **4.** She wanted to check the top of the caterpillar's hat — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 20: «She looks under the big mushroom, on both sides of it and behind it, and then thinks of looking on the top: there, on top of the mushroom, as tall as she is, s…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+4); the same doer «alice» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What would a real caterpillar never do that this one does?

- **1.** Smoke a hookah with its arms folded — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Sit calmly on a mushroom and speak to a young girl passing by in the wood — score 5
- **3.** Wear a hat and sit on a stool — score 5
- **4.** Sit on top of a mushroom — **← Mova's choice** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 5: «Resting, she wonders what to eat or drink to grow again, and peeps over a big mushroom to find a large blue caterpillar sitting on top: noisy and slapstick fir…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same place «top» (+4); the same action «sit» (+3). Against it: a different doer (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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Megan from the Valleys: "Alice was tamping, kicking that lizard!" ("tamping" = furious, in Wales.) Was Alice furious when she kicked?

- **1.** No: she wanted to stop whatever was coming, not to hurt it out of anger — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No: she was only trying to get some attention from the lizard in the chimney — no support
- **3.** Not at all — no support
- **4.** Yes: she kicked it out of pure anger and wanted to hurt the lizard badly — 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Looking back: in chapter III Alice's talk of Dinah upset her friends by mistake. How does she use Dinah here?

- **1.** By chance, to scare them off — no support
- **2.** She uses Dinah carefully, as a warning, in order to frighten the Rabbit's crowd into leaving the house — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** On purpose, as a threat to stop them — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** To make them laugh — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 19: «Dinah is Alice's cat; Alice hoped someone would remember Dinah's saucer of milk at tea-time, and said there were no mice in the air, but Dinah might catch a ba…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «dinah» (+4); the same thing acted on «cat» (+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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Looking back to chapter I: what was Alice's reasoning about the EAT ME cake?

- **1.** Larger or smaller, either way she would reach the garden — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Whether bigger or smaller, she would still get lost — no support
- **3.** She thought the cake would make her big — no support
- **4.** Whichever size she became, she would never reach the garden because the door was locked and too far — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. 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 same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «reach» (+3); the same doer «alice» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Looking back: the lovely garden was first seen in chapter I. Where was it?

- **1.** Through a little door behind the large mirror in the hall of locked doors, down a corridor — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Through a little door in the hall of locked doors — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Through a little door in the hall of locked doors, past the Rabbit's garden shed and the old well — no support
- **4.** Through a tiny window in the wall of the house — 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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How has Alice changed since she first met the Rabbit?

- **1.** She is braver — no support
- **2.** She has grown more polite and quiet — score 4
- **3.** She now shouts at everyone around her — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** She now stands up for herself and threatens back — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1, line 9: «Alice did not find a talking rabbit strange at the time; what made her start to her feet was the Rabbit taking "a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket"; a waistco…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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★★★ Read carefully: Alice says a cake "can't possibly make me larger". Was she sure, or did she just suppose?

- **1.** She was certain the cake would grow her — score 3
- **2.** She was completely sure of the outcome — score 8
- **3.** She was sure — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** She just supposed: "it must make me smaller, I suppose" — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 7, line 20: «After the second snatch Alice thinks "I'm sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!"», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+4); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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★★★ In the puppy's game it ran "a very little way forwards each time and a long way back". If it ran 1 step forward and 3 steps back each time, where was it after 4 charges?

- **1.** 4 steps forward from the start — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 8 steps behind where it started — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** 4 steps behind — no support
- **4.** 8 steps behind where it started, having walked back and forth through the whole field — 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t17}

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★★★ The voices said "I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's got the other". How many ladders were there?

- **1.** No — no support
- **2.** Two — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Three — no support
- **4.** Three ladders in total — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 7: «They tie the ladders together, because one alone does not "reach half high enough"; a loose slate (a flat stone tile of the roof) falls with a crash, and someo…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ladders» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «ladders» (+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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/t17/)

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

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Identify the creature dispatched down the chimney of the Rabbit's residence.

- **1.** A young lizard named Bill, who was dispatched through the house's chimney on the Rabbit's orders — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bill, a small lizard who was sent to climb the Rabbit's chimney — no support
- **3.** A cat, Dinah — no support
- **4.** Bill, a Lizard — **✓ 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Ascertain the transformation undergone by the pebbles subsequent to their arrival upon the floor.

- **1.** Conversion into small cakes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Turned into little loaves — no support
- **3.** Melted away — no support
- **4.** They vanished — 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/e2/)

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

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It is given that the protagonist threatened to set Dinah upon the assembled company. Determine the immediate consequence thereof.

- **1.** They laughed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A dead silence instantly prevailed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They all screamed and ran about — no support
- **4.** Everyone fled — 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/e3/)

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

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Select the response most consistent with the established facts concerning the creature observed upon the summit of the mushroom.

- **1.** A small brown mouse reading a book — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A large grey cat sleeping on a stool — no support
- **3.** A large blue caterpillar smoking a hookah and sitting with its arms folded, saying nothing — no support
- **4.** A large blue caterpillar smoking a hookah — **✓ 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/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/e4/)

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