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# The Mole and His Mother

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The Mole and His Mother of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 10 sentences and 100 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/1/) — A little Mole once said to his Mother:
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/2/) — "Why, Mother, you said I was blind!
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/3/) — But I am sure I can see!"
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/4/) — Mother Mole saw she would have to get such conceit out of his head.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/5/) — So she put a bit of frankincense before him and asked him to tell what it was.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/6/) — The little Mole peered at it.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/7/) — "Why, that's a pebble!"
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/8/) — "Well, my son, that proves you've lost your sense of smell as well as being blind."
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/9/) — \_Boast of one thing and you will be found lacking in that and a few other things as well.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/142/10/) — \_

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