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title: If a rip current carries you, you should float, signal for help or s… — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: If a rip current carries you, you should float, signal for help or swim parallel to the shore, not straight against it. Who acts: rip current, you. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water confidence» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 11

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If a rip current carries you, you should float, signal for help or swim parallel to the shore, not straight against it.

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**Who acts:** rip current, you · **What happens:** carry, float, signal, swim · **To what, where:** you, shore

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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 (rip current, you), 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:11
# text = If a rip current carries you, you should float, signal for help or swim parallel to the shore, not straight against it.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	signal	signal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	parallel	parallel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **carry** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a rip current | you |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **float** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **signal** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Topic |
| 4 | **swim** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |

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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:007-swimming-and-water.lesson:11`.

**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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