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title: In a boat or canoe always wear a life jacket that fits and stay seat… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: In a boat or canoe always wear a life jacket that fits and stay seated, because boats can tip over and a life jacket keeps you afloat even when you are tired or hurt. Who acts: you, life jacket, boats. A sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday course of Mova's primary scho
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# Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 9

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In a boat or canoe always wear a life jacket that fits and stay seated, because boats can tip over and a life jacket keeps you afloat even when you are tired or hurt.

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**Who acts:** you, life jacket, boats · **What happens:** wear, fit, stay, seat, tip over, keep · **To what, where:** life jacket, boat, you

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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, life jacket, boats), 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:9
# text = In a boat or canoe always wear a life jacket that fits and stay seated, because boats can tip over and a life jacket keeps you afloat even when you are tired or hurt.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	tip	tip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	afloat	afloat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | imperative | you *not said here* | a life jacket |  | a boat or canoe |  | always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme |
| 2 | **fit** | present | a life jacket |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stay** | infinitive | a life jacket *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seat** | participle | a life jacket *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **tip over** | can | boats |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **keep** | present | a life jacket | you |  |  |  | afloat *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **hurt** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-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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