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title: If someone else is in trouble, do not jump in after them: call for h… — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone else is in trouble, do not jump in after them: call for help, then reach out with a stick or throw them something that floats; a boy in Sydney throws a body board to his sister and shouts to the lifeguard. Who acts: someone, you, boy. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water co
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# Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 4

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If someone else is in trouble, do not jump in after them: call for help, then reach out with a stick or throw them something that floats; a boy in Sydney throws a body board to his sister and shouts to the lifeguard.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, boy · **What happens:** be, not jump in, call, reach out, throw, float · **To what, where:** trouble, something, arms, body board, sister, lifeguard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (someone, you, boy), 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:4
# text = If someone else is in trouble, do not jump in after them: call for help, then reach out with a stick or throw them something that floats; a boy in Sydney throws a body board to his sister and shouts to the lifeguard.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	.	.	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 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  | trouble |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **jump in** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after arms *= arm* |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 4 | **reach out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | with a stick | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **throw** | infinitive |  | something | arms *= arm* |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination something=Theme |
| 6 | **float** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **throw** | present | a boy in Sydney | a body board | boy's sister |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent board=Theme to sister=Destination |
| 8 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | a boy in Sydney *not said here* |  | the lifeguard |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lifeguard=Recipient |

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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): 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.

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