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title: What moral is appended to the narrative of the race? — Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Torto… · tree and pragmatics
description: What moral is appended to the narrative of the race? Exam question 3 of lesson 384 «Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare loses a race to a slow but steady Tortoise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

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What moral is appended to the narrative of the race?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** append · **To what, where:** moral

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 384 «Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare loses a race to a slow but steady Tortoise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/384-pg21-part5/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e3:1
# text = What moral is appended to the narrative of the race?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	appended	append	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **append** | present · passive |  | moral |  |  |  | to the narrative of the race | 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 but steady wins the race

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e3:o1:1
# text = Slow but steady wins the race
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
2	but	but	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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Never laugh at slower animals, since even the swift can lose if they stop to nap

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e3:o2:1
# text = Never laugh at slower animals, since even the swift can lose if they stop to nap
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	nap	nap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at slower animals | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | can | the swift |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **nap** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Speed wins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e3:o3:1
# text = Speed wins
1	Speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wins	win	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pride always goes before a fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e3:o4:1
# text = Pride always goes before a fall
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Pride |  |  | a fall |  | always *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fall=Location |

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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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