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title: Getting away with something does not make it right or safe. — Excuses and the lies that grow · tree and pragmatics
description: Getting away with something does not make it right or safe. Who acts: Getting. A sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 20

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Getting away with something does not make it right or safe.

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**Who acts:** Getting · **What happens:** get away, not make · **To what, where:** lie

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» of the everyday 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 (Getting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:20
# text = Getting away with something does not make it right or safe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with something; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Getting | lie |  |  |  | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:20`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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