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title: Whether you get away, or whether you don't ... you're always busy, a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether you get away, or whether you don't ... you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular.» Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» of the books course of Mova's prim
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 28

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Whether you get away, or whether you don't ... you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular.»

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get away, be, not do · **To what, where:** anything, particular

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:28
# text = Whether you get away, or whether you don't ... you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:mark
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
11	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get away** | present | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | always, busy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present | you | anything |  | particular |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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