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title: Swimming straight back against a rip makes you tired, because the cu… — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics
description: Swimming straight back against a rip makes you tired, because the current is often faster than you. Who acts: Swimming, current. 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 16

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Swimming straight back against a rip makes you tired, because the current is often faster than you.

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**Who acts:** Swimming, current · **What happens:** swim, make, be · **To what, where:** rip, 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 (Swimming, current), 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:16
# text = Swimming straight back against a rip makes you tired, because the current is often faster than you.
# 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): no change
1	Swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advcl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  | a rip |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rip=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | present | Swimming | you |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | the current |  |  |  |  | than you; fast, often *property* | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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/).

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