Opacity
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Grammatical structures are called opaque[1] when they block inner quantifiers from moving up to the front of the outer clause like normal.
For example, object-incorporating verbs are said to be opaque: quantifications in phrases like po tu poq are restricted to a ficticious small "po + object clause", rather than the encompassing clause.
Another way to think about this is that the tu doesn't leave the definition of the new verb created by po tu X.
Thus po tu pỏq always means "[∀P: poq(P)] ___ is P's", or in English: "___ is everyone's".
And thus po tu pỏq sa kủa means "some rooms are everyone's", regardless of the other quantifiers in the sentence, and not something like "∀[P: poq(P)] ∃[K: kua(K)] K is P's."