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title: ok so what's the moral of the peacock one, in short? — Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Ju… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so what's the moral of the peacock one, in short? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 368 «Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock's heavy train keeps him from flying» 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 for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock…

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ok so what's the moral of the peacock one, in short?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 368 «Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock's heavy train keeps him from flying» 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/368-pg19994-part7/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t12:1
# text = ok so what's the moral of the peacock one, in short?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the moral of the peacock |  |  | short |  |  | 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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do not waste your life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t12:o1:1
# text = do not waste your life
1	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	waste	waste	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **waste** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | your life |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |

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

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don't trade freedom for show

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t12:o2:1
# text = don't trade freedom for show
1	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	trade	trade	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trade** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | freedom |  |  |  | for show | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme for show=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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never be proud and vain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t12:o3:1
# text = never be proud and vain
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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be humble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t12:o4:1
# text = be humble
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | humble *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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