Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…

Mate, what did the physician beg for on his knees?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do · To what, where: physician beg

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 166 «Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, part 6: the king doubts the vizir, then condemns the physician to death» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beg	det
6	physician	physician	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beg	amod
7	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 knees	case
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 knees	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knees	nmod:poss
11	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the physician beg				for Mate's knees	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beg=Eventuality

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

for a fair trial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 trial	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trial	det
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trial	amod
4	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to spare his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 spare	mark
2	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	to-infinitive		his life					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset

Option 3

for mercy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 mercy	case
2	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a pardon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pardon	det
2	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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