Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio: the Marionette bec…

What judgement did Pinocchio pass upon his former self, the wooden Marionette?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judgement · What happens: pass · To what, where: former self

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1413 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio: the Marionette becomes a real boy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 pass	obj
2	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pass	aux
4	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pass	nsubj
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 self	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 self	nmod:poss
8	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 self	amod
9	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Marionette	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Marionette	det
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Marionette	amod
13	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 self	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · do-support	judgement			Pinocchio's former self			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent what=Theme upon self=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

He laughed at himself.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 laughed	obl
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He					at himself = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He called himself foolish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 called	obj
4	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	He	himself = he				foolish property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He called himself ridiculous.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 called	obj
4	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	He	himself = he				ridiculous property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient

Option 4

He blamed the wooden doll.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blamed	nsubj
2	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doll	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 doll	amod
5	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blamed	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blamed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	He	the wooden doll					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Theme

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