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title: Getting away with wasting for weeks does not make it free; somebody… — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics
description: Getting away with wasting for weeks does not make it free; somebody paid for every sandwich in the bin. Who acts: Getting, somebody. A sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wasting food and water, sentence 11

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Getting away with wasting for weeks does not make it free; somebody paid for every sandwich in the bin.

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**Who acts:** Getting, somebody · **What happens:** get away, waste, not make, pay · **To what, where:** work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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, somebody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:11
# text = Getting away with wasting for weeks does not make it free; somebody paid for every sandwich in the bin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	wasting	waste	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
14	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **waste** | gerund |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Getting | work |  |  |  | free *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **pay** | past | somebody |  |  |  |  | for every sandwich in the bin | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sandwich=Theme |

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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:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:11`.

**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): 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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