--- title: What's the big lesson, like the moral, mate? — Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Torto… · tree and pragmatics description: What's the big lesson, like the moral, mate? Test 7 · ★ 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 option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/384-pg21-part5/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Torto…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/384-pg21-part5/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare… What's the big lesson, like the moral, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big lesson This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t7:1 # text = What's the big lesson, like the moral, mate? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 moral moral NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the big lesson | | | | | tree rules | 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} Pride comes before a fall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t7:o1:1 # text = Pride comes before a fall 1 Pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Pride | | | a fall | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before fall=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Speed wins ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t7:o2:1 # text = Speed wins 1 Speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 wins win NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Slow but steady wins the race ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t7:o3:1 # 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 _ _ ``` | # | 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 4 {#o4} Be quick ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t7:o4:1 # text = Be quick 1 Be be VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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