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title: inactivity — English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «inactivity» in the English dictionary: The state of doing nothing, or of being still. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# inactivity

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**Who acts:** state · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** nothing, state

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«inactivity» in the English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [inactivity in the English dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/inactivity/).

## In Jewish tradition, meaning 1 {#m1}

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The state of doing nothing, or of being still.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:english:inactivity:m1:1
# text = The state of doing nothing, or of being still.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | the state *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader, each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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