--- title: Thinking like a lifeguard — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Everyday description: The 23 test and exam questions of lesson 50 «Thinking like a lifeguard» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / Thinking like a lifeguard # Thinking like a lifeguard The 23 questions of lesson 50 «Thinking like a lifeguard» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with their options, 120 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t1/) — A girl in a thunderstorm on a golf course in Florida can run to the clubhouse or to a big lone oak. Which is safer and why? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t2/) — A family on a camping trip counts 15 seconds between a flash and its thunder. About how far away is the lightning? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t3/) — Which is true about a car in a lightning storm? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t4/) — On a beach with big waves, where would you expect the strongest flow out to sea? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t5/) — A boy from Toronto steps off the kerb in Auckland after looking left and seeing nothing. Which lane might have a car he missed? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t6/) — A swimmer is pulled out by a rip but stays calm, floats and then swims across the beach. Why did this work? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t7/) — If there were no gaps between sandbanks along a beach, where could a rip still form? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t8/) — Why is a fluorescent vest useful for a road worker in the day but not enough at night? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t9/) — Thunder and lightning come at the same moment. What does this tell you? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t10/) — why is swimming sideways out of a rip enough — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t11/) — storm on the golf course, under the big tree? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t12/) — in the car in the storm, are we safe — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t13/) — visiting london from texas, cross like at home? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t14/) — our dog's in the river and can't get out!! — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t15/) — kid at the pool has gone quiet with his head low in the water — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t16/) — Max says good swimmers can always save someone who's drowning. true? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t17/) — heard a guy got struck by lightning cos he stood under the only tree in the field to stay dry — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t18/) — my cousin reckons ur safe in a car in a storm cos the rubber tyres stop the lightning — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/t19/) — Jayden got pulled out by a lifeguard at the beach and people say he can't swim, pass it on — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the formation of a rip current? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/e2/) — Identify the principal reason for which a short swim parallel to the shore is effective in escaping a rip. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/e3/) — It being given that thunder is heard nine seconds after the flash, determine the approximate distance of the lightning. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/e4/) — Select the response that is consistent with established guidance where thunder is audible. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [49. 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