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title: With what implement did Theseus effect the decapitation of the monst… — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: With what implement did Theseus effect the decapitation of the monster? Exam question 1 of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependenc
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# Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

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With what implement did Theseus effect the decapitation of the monster?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Theseus effect

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» 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/2049-pg976-part8/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e1:1
# text = With what implement did Theseus effect the decapitation of the monster?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	decapitation	decapitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Theseus effect |  |  |  | with what implement | 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 {#o1}

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a bronze axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e1:o1:1
# text = a bronze axe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e1:o2:1
# text = a sword
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	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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a short club

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e1:o3:1
# text = a short club
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	club	club	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 sword he carried at his side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e1:o4:1
# text = the sword he carried at his side
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the sword |  |  | sword's side |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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