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title: Which object did the king expressly forbid the couple to uncover? — Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the king expressly forbid the couple to uncover? Exam question 1 of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 1 · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

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Which object did the king expressly forbid the couple to uncover?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, forbid, uncover · **To what, where:** king, couple

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» 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/1286-pg3454-part11/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e1:1
# text = Which object did the king expressly forbid the couple to uncover?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	expressly	expressly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	uncover	uncover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object | the king |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 2 | **forbid** | infinitive |  | the couple |  |  |  | expressly *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer couple=Theme |
| 3 | **uncover** | to-infinitive |  | the couple *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The soup-tureen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e1:o1:1
# text = The soup-tureen
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tureen	tureen	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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The golden coach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e1:o2:1
# text = The golden coach
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The green bath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e1:o3:1
# text = The green bath
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bath	bath	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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Plate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e1:o4:1
# text = Plate
1	Plate	plate	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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