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title: A boy of nine swam out past the flags at Bondi; the rip pulled him o… — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy of nine swam out past the flags at Bondi; the rip pulled him out and the lifeguards could not reach him in time. Who acts: boy, rip, lifeguards. 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 prag
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# Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 5

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A boy of nine swam out past the flags at Bondi; the rip pulled him out and the lifeguards could not reach him in time.

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**Who acts:** boy, rip, lifeguards · **What happens:** swim out, pull out, not reach · **To what, where:** flags, boy

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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 (boy, rip, lifeguards), 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:5
# text = A boy of nine swam out past the flags at Bondi; the rip pulled him out and the lifeguards could not reach him in time.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	past	past	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Bondi	Bondi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **swim out** | past | a boy of nine |  |  | the flags at Bondi |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past flag=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pull out** | past | the rip | boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **reach** | could | the lifeguards | boy |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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