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title: Be real, what's the moral here? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be real, what's the moral here? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

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Be real, what's the moral here?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** moral

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» 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/387-pg21-part8/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t8:1
# text = Be real, what's the moral here?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the moral |  | here |  |  | 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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work hard always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t8:o1:1
# text = work hard always
1	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a friend who works hard is best

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t8:o2:1
# text = a friend who works hard is best
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | a friend |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | a friend |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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always wish for an easy life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t8:o3:1
# text = always wish for an easy life
1	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	wish	wish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a easy life; always *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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don't wish for someone else's easy life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t8:o4:1
# text = don't wish for someone else's easy life
1	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	wish	wish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	life	life	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** **wish** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for someone's easy life | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=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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