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title: Describe the single action the youngest Princess was forbidden to pe… — Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Describe the single action the youngest Princess was forbidden to perform during the night in the golden bed. Exam question 4 of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the d
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# Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…

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Describe the single action the youngest Princess was forbidden to perform during the night in the golden bed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** describe, forbid, perform · **To what, where:** single action, youngest Princess, golden bed

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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/1699-pg640-part23/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e4:1
# text = Describe the single action the youngest Princess was forbidden to perform during the night in the golden bed.
1	Describe	describe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | imperative | you *not said here* | the single action |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent action=Theme |
| 2 | **forbid** | past · passive |  | the youngest Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **perform** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the golden bed | night |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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To leave the bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e4:o1:1
# text = To leave the bed
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | the bed |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To speak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e4:o2:1
# text = To speak
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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To cry out aloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e4:o3:1
# text = To cry out aloud
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To sing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e4:o4:1
# text = To sing
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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