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# Tales

42 books of fairy tales, fables and children's stories from [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/), one plain-text file per book (`pgNNNN.txt`, where NNNN is the Gutenberg ebook number: the original is at `https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/NNNN`).

**Changed:** the Project Gutenberg header and footer (license boilerplate and trademark) are removed; the text itself is unchanged.

**License:** [public domain](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) in the USA, as marked by Project Gutenberg. Copyright terms differ between countries: if you are outside the USA, check the status of a book (author's and translator's dates) in your country.

**How Mova uses it:** the reading experiments in `world` (`world read`, `world read-train`) split each book into stories and paragraphs, summarize paragraphs, ask short questions about them and train the sentence retriever and answer extractor on those questions. Aesop's fables (`pg21`) also drive the fable-logic experiments: judgments derived from predicates over the story world, not from trigger words.

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