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title: What condition did the blind man attach to accepting alms? — Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haro… · tree and pragmatics
description: What condition did the blind man attach to accepting alms? Exam question 3 of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

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What condition did the blind man attach to accepting alms?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition · **What happens:** attach, accept · **To what, where:** alms

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/214-pg128-part54/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:e3:1
# text = What condition did the blind man attach to accepting alms?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	attach	attach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	accepting	accept	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attach** | past · do-support | what condition |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **accept** | gerund | what condition *not said here* | alms |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:e3:o1:1
# text = a coin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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that he get a meal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:e3:o2:1
# text = that he get a meal
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | infinitive | he | a meal |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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that he receive chastisement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:e3:o3:1
# text = that he receive chastisement
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	chastisement	chastisement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | infinitive | he | chastisement |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chastisement=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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that he be paid in gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:214-pg128-part54:e3:o4:1
# text = that he be paid in gold
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | infinitive · passive |  | he |  | gold |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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