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title: In the fable by Aesop, an ancient Greek teller of animal stories, th… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: In the fable by Aesop, an ancient Greek teller of animal stories, the boy who cried wolf was not believed when a real wolf came. Who acts: boy, real wolf. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 7

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In the fable by Aesop, an ancient Greek teller of animal stories, the boy who cried wolf was not believed when a real wolf came.

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**Who acts:** boy, real wolf · **What happens:** cry, not believe, come · **To what, where:** wolf, boy, fable

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, real wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:7
# text = In the fable by Aesop, an ancient Greek teller of animal stories, the boy who cried wolf was not believed when a real wolf came.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the boy | wolf |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **believe** | past · passive |  | the boy |  | the fable by Aesop |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | a real wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:7`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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