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[Star Wars] On the Clone Wars animated series in general

I have never understood how the Clone Wars animated movie and TV series can be canon, because one of the major parts of the story is the fact that Anakin has a padawan, Ashoka, but we see in Revenge of the Sith that that can't have been the case, because the council has Anakin join them (as Palpatine's representative), but they don't grant him the rank of master, so he gets all pissy and hormonal about it. I don't understand how the Clone Wars movie/series is supposed to fit into all of this, because the existence of Ashoka's character seems to undermine a few big events in Revenge of the Sith.
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Not only do you not have to be a Master in order to take on a Padawan, training a Padawan up to passing their Trials of Knighthood is one of the ways that a Jedi Knight attains the rank of Master.

Anakin was made a Knight sometime in the first couple months of the war, and given Ahsoka to train. She left the Jedi Order after betrayal and half-hearted apologies from the Council, so Anakin never was recognized for his accomplishments with training her even though they said she essentially passed her Trials.