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title: so what's the moral, proper simple? — Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the H… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what's the moral, proper simple? Test 4 · ★ 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 choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

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so what's the moral, proper simple?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t4:1
# text = so what's the moral, proper simple?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Slow and steady wins the race

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t4:o1:1
# text = Slow and steady wins the race
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | Slow | the race |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Slow and steady wins the race, so never sleep mid-run

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t4:o2:1
# text = Slow and steady wins the race, so never sleep mid-run
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	mid-run	mid-run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | Slow | the race |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **sleep** | infinitive |  | mid-run |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mid-run=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Never trust a sleepy hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t4:o3:1
# text = Never trust a sleepy hare
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	trust	trust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trust** | imperative | you *not said here* | a sleepy hare |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Always be quick but never boast about it to anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t4:o4:1
# text = Always be quick but never boast about it to anyone
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	boast	boast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, quick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **boast** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | anyone |  |  | about it | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic PP.recipient»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to anyone=Recipient |

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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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