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title: If a rip carries you out, stay calm and float, raise an arm and call… — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics
description: If a rip carries you out, stay calm and float, raise an arm and call for help, or swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the rip, and then swim back in at an angle. Who acts: rip, you. A sentence of the lesson «The beach and the sea» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# The beach and the sea, sentence 3

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If a rip carries you out, stay calm and float, raise an arm and call for help, or swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the rip, and then swim back in at an angle.

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**Who acts:** rip, you · **What happens:** carry out, stay, float, raise, call, swim · **To what, where:** you, arm, shore, rip, angle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:3
# text = If a rip carries you out, stay calm and float, raise an arm and call for help, or swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the rip, and then swim back in at an angle.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
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	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
9	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
11	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
13	raise	raise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
17	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
22	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	parallel	parallel	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
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## 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 | **carry out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a rip | you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **float** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **raise** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a arm |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 6 | **swim** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | parallel *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 7 | **is** | present | you |  |  | the rip |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **swim back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a angle | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at angle=Trajectory |

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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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**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 ×3, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.

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