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title: If a rip takes you, you float, signal for help, or swim parallel to… — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics
description: If a rip takes you, you float, signal for help, or swim parallel to the shore, which means sideways, along the beach. Who acts: rip, you, shore. 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 claus
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# The beach and the sea, sentence 15

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If a rip takes you, you float, signal for help, or swim parallel to the shore, which means sideways, along the beach.

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**Who acts:** rip, you, shore · **What happens:** take, float, signal, swim, mean · **To what, where:** you, shore, sideways

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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 (rip, you, shore), 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:15
# text = If a rip takes you, you float, signal for help, or swim parallel to the shore, which means sideways, along the beach.
# 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 ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	signal	signal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	parallel	parallel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	sideways	sideway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	along	along	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a rip |  | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 2 | **float** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **signal** *speech: other* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Topic |
| 4 | **swim** | present | a rip *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 5 | **mean** | present | the shore | sideways |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sideway=Topic |

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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:15`.

**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 ×3. **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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