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title: Mate, that story about Hercules was a proper moral, innit? — Aesop's Fables, The Blacksmith and His… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, that story about Hercules was a proper moral, innit? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 141 «Aesop's Fables, The Blacksmith and His Dog: the lazy dog is fed only when the work stops» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Blacksmith and His Dog: the lazy dog i…

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Mate, that story about Hercules was a proper moral, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be, innit · **To what, where:** proper moral

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 141 «Aesop's Fables, The Blacksmith and His Dog: the lazy dog is fed only when the work stops» 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/141-pg11339-part11/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:141-pg11339-part11:t12:1
# text = Mate, that story about Hercules was a proper moral, innit?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and that story about Hercules | a proper moral |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Work hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:141-pg11339-part11:t12:o1:1
# text = Work hard
1	Work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Heaven helps those who help themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:141-pg11339-part11:t12:o2:1
# text = Heaven helps those who help themselves
1	Heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Heaven | those |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **help** | present |  | themselves *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wealth comes to the quiet and humble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:141-pg11339-part11:t12:o3:1
# text = Wealth comes to the quiet and humble
1	Wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Wealth |  |  | the quiet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to quiet=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fortune favours those who wait patiently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:141-pg11339-part11:t12:o4:1
# text = Fortune favours those who wait patiently
1	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	favours	favour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **favour** | present | Fortune | those |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | present |  |  |  |  |  | patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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