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title: Mate, what did the physician beg for on his knees? — Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the physician beg for on his knees? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/166-pg128-part6/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t9:1
# text = Mate, what did the physician beg for on his knees?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	physician	physician	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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for a fair trial

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t9:o1:1
# text = for a fair trial
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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to spare his life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t9:o2:1
# text = to spare his life
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	spare	spare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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for mercy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t9:o3:1
# text = for mercy
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a pardon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t9:o4:1
# text = a pardon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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