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title: Only swim as far as you can easily swim back, with a grown-up watchi… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: Only swim as far as you can easily swim back, with a grown-up watching, because distances in water are hard to judge. Who acts: you, grown, distances. A sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 11

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Only swim as far as you can easily swim back, with a grown-up watching, because distances in water are hard to judge.

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**Who acts:** you, grown, distances · **What happens:** swim, swim back, watch, be, judge

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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 (you, grown, distances), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:11
# text = Only swim as far as you can easily swim back, with a grown-up watching, because distances in water are hard to judge.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 232-lakes-and-beaches.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound	_	_
17	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **swim** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a grown; far *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with grow=Theme |
| 2 | **swim back** | can | you |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | a grown *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | distances in water |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **judge** | to-infinitive | distances in water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |

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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:232-lakes-and-beaches.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): R8-pos-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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