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title: A rip current is a strong stream of water flowing out from the beach… — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: A rip current is a strong stream of water flowing out from the beach; if one carries you, do not fight it: float, raise an arm and shout for help, or swim along the beach until you are out of it. Who acts: rip current, strong stream, one, you. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water conf
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# Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 3

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A rip current is a strong stream of water flowing out from the beach; if one carries you, do not fight it: float, raise an arm and shout for help, or swim along the beach until you are out of it.

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**Who acts:** rip current, strong stream, one, you · **What happens:** be, flow out, carry, not fight, float, raise · **To what, where:** strong stream, beach, you, water, arm

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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, strong stream, one, 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:3
# text = A rip current is a strong stream of water flowing out from the beach; if one carries you, do not fight it: float, raise an arm and shout for help, or swim along the beach until you are out of 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	along	along	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	out	out	ADV	RB	_	37	advcl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a rip current | a strong stream |  |  |  | of water | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow out** | gerund | a strong stream *not said here* |  |  | the beach |  | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | you |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **fight** | infinitive · do-support |  | water |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **float** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **raise** | infinitive |  | a arm |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 8 | **swim** | infinitive |  |  |  | the beach |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along beach=Trajectory |
| 9 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | of water; out *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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