Understanding thematic relations of a verb
A) always results in the disambiguation of a garden path sentence.
B) does not help to disambiguate a garden path sentence.
C) allows a listener to make inferences about the event and participant relationships being described in a sentence.
D) is helpful for resolving ambiguities involving reduced relative clauses, but not other ambiguities.

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Understanding the thematic relations of a verb allows a listener to make inferences about the event and participant relationships being described in a sentence. This can help with understanding the overall meaning of the sentence and disambiguating it, but it is not a guarantee that all ambiguities will be resolved.

Understanding Thematic Relations of a Verb