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title: Which object did the fox formally forbid the prince to touch? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the fox formally forbid the prince to touch? Exam question 1 of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri…

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Which object did the fox formally forbid the prince to touch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object, fox · **What happens:** do, forbid, touch · **To what, where:** fox, prince

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» 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/1636-pg5615-part25/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:e1:1
# text = Which object did the fox formally forbid the prince to touch?
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	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	touch	touch	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 fox |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality |
| 2 | **forbid** | infinitive | the fox *not said here* | the prince |  |  |  | formally *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer prince=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** | to-infinitive | the fox *not said here* | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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 whip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:e1:o1:1
# text = A whip
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whip	whip	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 bridle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:e1:o2:1
# text = The bridle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The golden saddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:e1:o3:1
# text = The golden saddle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	saddle	saddle	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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The iron bridle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:e1:o4:1
# text = The iron bridle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bridle	bridle	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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