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# The Bull and the Goat

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The Bull and the Goat of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 7 sentences and 123 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/pg19994/98/1/) — A Bull once escaped from a Lion by entering a cave which the Goatherds used to house their flocks in stormy weather and at night.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/98/2/) — It happened that one of the Goats had been left behind, and the Bull had no sooner got inside than this Goat lowered his head and made a rush at him, butting him with his horns.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/98/3/) — As the Lion was still prowling outside the entrance to the cave, the Bull had to submit to the insult.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/98/4/) — "Do not think," he said, "that I submit to your cowardly treatment because I am afraid of you.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/98/5/) — When that Lion leaves, I'll teach you a lesson you won't forget."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/98/6/) — \_It is wicked to take advantage of another's distress.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/98/7/) — \_

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