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title: Never turn your back on the sea; with a grown-up near, turn sideways… — The sea, waves and swimming pools · tree and pragmatics
description: Never turn your back on the sea; with a grown-up near, turn sideways to a big wave or dive under it. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The sea, waves and swimming pools, sentence 11

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Never turn your back on the sea; with a grown-up near, turn sideways to a big wave or dive under it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not turn, turn, dive · **To what, where:** back, sea, big wave

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:11
# text = Never turn your back on the sea; with a grown-up near, turn sideways to a big wave or dive under it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 233-sea-and-pools.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	obl	_	_
11	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound	_	_
14	near	near	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc
23	dive	dive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | your back |  | the sea |  | grown *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive |  |  |  | a big wave |  | sideways *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to wave=Trajectory |
| 3 | **dive** | infinitive |  |  |  | sea |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under it=Location |

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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:233-sea-and-pools.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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