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title: You never swim alone; a grown-up should be watching you all the time. — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics
description: You never swim alone; a grown-up should be watching you all the time. Who acts: You, grown. A sentence of the lesson «The beach and the sea» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The beach and the sea, sentence 11

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You never swim alone; a grown-up should be watching you all the time.

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**Who acts:** You, grown · **What happens:** not swim, watch · **To what, where:** you

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:044-the-beach-and-the-sea.lesson:11
# text = You never swim alone; a grown-up should be watching you all the time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 044-the-beach-and-the-sea.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 ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
7	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **not** **swim** | present | You |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | should · progressive | grown | you |  |  | time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:044-the-beach-and-the-sea.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): R5-strong ×2. **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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