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title: Most rips are narrow, so a short swim parallel to the shore takes yo… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics
description: Most rips are narrow, so a short swim parallel to the shore takes you out of them. Who acts: Most rips, short swim. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 10

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Most rips are narrow, so a short swim parallel to the shore takes you out of them.

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**Who acts:** Most rips, short swim · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (Most rips, short swim), 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:10
# text = Most rips are narrow, so a short swim parallel to the shore takes you out of them.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	rips	rip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
9	swim	swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound
10	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | Most rips |  |  |  |  | narrow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | a short swim | you |  |  |  | out Waves *= wave* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent you=Theme out they=Initial\_Location |

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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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:10`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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