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title: Floating on your back with your arms and legs spread, ears in the wa… — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: Floating on your back with your arms and legs spread, ears in the water and tummy up, lets you rest and breathe without using much energy, so it is the first thing to do if you get tired or scared. Who acts: arms, Floating, you, water. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water confidence» 
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# Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 1

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Floating on your back with your arms and legs spread, ears in the water and tummy up, lets you rest and breathe without using much energy, so it is the first thing to do if you get tired or scared.

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**Who acts:** arms, Floating, you, water · **What happens:** float, spread, let, rest, breathe, use · **To what, where:** back, you, much energy, first thing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water confidence» 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 (arms, Floating, you, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:007-swimming-and-water.lesson:1
# text = Floating on your back with your arms and legs spread, ears in the water and tummy up, lets you rest and breathe without using much energy, so it is the first thing to do if you get tired or scared.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 007-swimming-and-water.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	Floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	amod	_	_
35	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
41	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  | your back |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 2 | **spread** | participle | your arms and legs |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | present | Floating | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rest** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **breathe** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | much energy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | present | water | the first thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | Floating *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): 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.

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