--- title: A rip is usually narrow, often only a few house-widths wide, so swim… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics description: A rip is usually narrow, often only a few house-widths wide, so swimming sideways for a short way gets you out of it, while swimming straight against it can be like running the wrong way on a moving walkway. Who acts: rip, swimming. 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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 (rip, swimming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:1 # text = A rip is usually narrow, often only a few house-widths wide, so swimming sideways for a short way gets you out of it, while swimming straight against it can be like running the wrong way on a moving walkway. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 widths width NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 14 wide wide ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 17 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj 18 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 30 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 nsubj _ _ 31 straight straight ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 36 like like SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 amod _ _ 44 walkway walkway NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nmod 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a rip | | | | | a few house widths *obl*; narrow, usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **swim** | gerund | | | | | | for a short way; sideways *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | swimming | you | | rip | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **swim** | gerund | | | | rip | | straight *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against it=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** | can | | | | a moving walkway | | run *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/0/) - next →: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/)