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title: Which prohibition did the wife's curiosity repeatedly violate? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Childr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which prohibition did the wife's curiosity repeatedly violate? Exam question 3 of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

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Which prohibition did the wife's curiosity repeatedly violate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** prohibition, curiosity · **What happens:** do, violate · **To what, where:** curiosity

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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/1931-pg7277-part68/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:e3:1
# text = Which prohibition did the wife's curiosity repeatedly violate?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	prohibition	prohibition	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	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	violate	violate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which prohibition | the wife's curiosity |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Eventuality |
| 2 | **violate** | infinitive | the wife's curiosity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | repeatedly *property* | 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 injunction against disclosure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:e3:o1:1
# text = the injunction against disclosure
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	injunction	injunction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the warning about the cupboard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:e3:o2:1
# text = the warning about the cupboard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the command about the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:e3:o3:1
# text = the command about the castle
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the promise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:e3:o4:1
# text = the promise
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	promise	promise	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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