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# The Hare and the Tortoise

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The Hare and the Tortoise of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 12 sentences and 197 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/1/) — A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/2/) — "Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/3/) — "Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/4/) — I'll run you a race and prove it."
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/5/) — The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/6/) — So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off. — checked by a teacher
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/7/) — The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/8/) — The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/9/) — But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/10/) — The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/11/) — \_The race is not always to the swift.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/128/12/) — \_

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