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# The Cock and the Jewel

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The Cock and the Jewel of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 6 sentences and 88 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/pg19994/41/1/) — A Cock was busily scratching and scraping about to find something to eat for himself and his family, when he happened to turn up a precious jewel that had been lost by its owner.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/41/2/) — "Aha!" said the Cock. "
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/41/3/) — No doubt you are very costly and he who lost you would give a great deal to find you.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/41/4/) — But as for me, I would choose a single grain of barleycorn before all the jewels in the world."
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/41/5/) — \_Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/41/6/) — \_

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