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title: was the thunder fr thunder or was it the monster? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the thunder fr thunder or was it the monster? Test 4 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

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was the thunder fr thunder or was it the monster?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** thunder, monster · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fr thunder, it

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This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t4:1
# text = was the thunder fr thunder or was it the monster?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | thunder | the fr thunder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the monster | it |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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the bull's bellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t4:o1:1
# text = the bull's bellow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bellow	bellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bellow** |  | the bull |  |  |  |  |  | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the monster's roar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t4:o2:1
# text = the monster's roar
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** |  | the monster |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the monster's roar from the labyrinth walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t4:o3:1
# text = the monster's roar from the labyrinth walls
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** |  | the monster |  |  | the labyrinth walls |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it was the monster's roar in the maze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t4:o4:1
# text = it was the monster's roar in the maze
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	maze	maze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | the monster's roar |  | the maze |  |  | tree rules |

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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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