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title: At beaches with lifeguards, swim between the red and yellow flags, t… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: At beaches with lifeguards, swim between the red and yellow flags, the area they watch. Who acts: you, 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 every clause.
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# Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 12

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At beaches with lifeguards, swim between the red and yellow flags, the area they watch.

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**Who acts:** you, distances · **What happens:** swim, watch · **To what, where:** beaches, area

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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, 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:12
# text = At beaches with lifeguards, swim between the red and yellow flags, the area they watch.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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* |  |  | beaches with lifeguards |  | between the red flags | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at beach=Trajectory |
| 2 | **watch** | present | distances *= distance* | the area *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=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:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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