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title: A rip is a strong current that pulls swimmers out to sea; if one cat… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: A rip is a strong current that pulls swimmers out to sea; if one catches you, float, stay calm, raise a hand and swim sideways, along the beach, not straight back. Who acts: rip, strong current, one. A sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 25

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A rip is a strong current that pulls swimmers out to sea; if one catches you, float, stay calm, raise a hand and swim sideways, along the beach, not straight back.

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**Who acts:** rip, strong current, one · **What happens:** be, pull, catch, float, stay, raise · **To what, where:** strong current, swimmers, you, hand, beach

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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 (rip, strong current, one), 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:25
# text = A rip is a strong current that pulls swimmers out to sea; if one catches you, float, stay calm, raise a hand and swim sideways, along the beach, not straight back.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card
16	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	float	float	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	raise	raise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	along	along	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a rip | a strong current |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** | present | a strong current | swimmers |  |  |  | out *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **float** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **raise** | infinitive |  | a hand |  | the beach |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme along beach=Destination |
| 7 | **swim** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:25`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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