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title: why is swimming sideways out of a rip enough — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics
description: why is swimming sideways out of a rip enough Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Thinking like a lifeguard» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Thinking like a lifeguard

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why is swimming sideways out of a rip enough

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** swim · **To what, where:** rip

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Thinking like a lifeguard» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety:t10:1
# text = why is swimming sideways out of a rip enough
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present · progressive |  |  |  | a rip |  | enough, sideways *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out rip=Trajectory |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The sea is flatter sideways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety:t10:o1:1
# text = The sea is flatter sideways
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	flatter	flat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | flat, sideways *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Most rips are narrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety:t10:o2:1
# text = Most rips are narrow
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	rips	rip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Most rips |  |  |  |  | narrow *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rips stop sideways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety:t10:o3:1
# text = Rips stop sideways
1	Rips	rip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Rips |  |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rips pull you under

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety:t10:o4:1
# text = Rips pull you under
1	Rips	rip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull under** | present | Rips | you |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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