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title: wait, the tortoise actually beat the hare, bruv? — Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the H… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, the tortoise actually beat the hare, bruv? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

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wait, the tortoise actually beat the hare, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, tortoise · **What happens:** wait, beat · **To what, where:** hare

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» 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/143-pg11339-part13/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t1:1
# text = wait, the tortoise actually beat the hare, bruv?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | present | the tortoise | the hare and bruv |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hare=Theme |

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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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Nah, the tortoise got lost on the way and quit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t1:o1:1
# text = Nah, the tortoise got lost on the way and quit
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	quit	quit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · passive |  | the tortoise |  | the way and quit |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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

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Yeah, the hare fell asleep mid-race

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the hare fell asleep mid-race
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mid-race	mid-race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the hare | asleep mid-race |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mid-race=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, the tortoise ran off mid-race lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t1:o3:1
# text = Nah, the tortoise ran off mid-race lol
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	mid-race	mid-race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past | the tortoise | mid-race |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mid-race=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nah, the hare didn't sleep, he just took a massive lead and kept it going all the way

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, the hare didn't sleep, he just took a massive lead and kept it going all the way
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | past · do-support | the hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | hare | a massive lead |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | hare *not said here* | lead |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | lead *not said here* | all way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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