--- title: The flags mark the safest water the lifeguards are watching; outside… — Going where you're not allowed · tree and pragmatics description: The flags mark the safest water the lifeguards are watching; outside them there may be rip currents that pull swimmers out to sea. Who acts: flags, lifeguards, rip currents. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flags, lifeguards, rip currents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.lesson:12 # text = The flags mark the safest water the lifeguards are watching; outside them there may be rip currents that pull swimmers out to sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 flags flag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mark mark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lifeguards lifeguard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 outside outside ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 14 there there PRON EX _ 16 expl _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 rip rip ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 currents current NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 swimmers swimmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 out out ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark** | present | the flags | the safest water | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Destination | | 2 | **watch** | present · progressive | the lifeguards | the safest water *not said here* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **be** | may | rip currents | | | there | | outside flags *= flag* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside they=Location | | 4 | **pull** | present | rip currents | swimmers | | | | out *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme | 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. **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:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed.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/). - ← previous: [Going where you're not allowed, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/11/) - next →: [Going where you're not allowed, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/)