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title: In Australia, New Zealand and the UK, lifeguards mark the safest pla… — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australia, New Zealand and the UK, lifeguards mark the safest place to swim with red and yellow flags. Who acts: 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 9

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In Australia, New Zealand and the UK, lifeguards mark the safest place to swim with red and yellow flags.

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**Who acts:** lifeguards · **What happens:** mark, swim · **To what, where:** safest place, Australia

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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 (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:9
# text = In Australia, New Zealand and the UK, lifeguards mark the safest place to swim with red and yellow flags.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mark	mark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **mark** | present | lifeguards | the safest place |  | Australia and New Zealand and the UK |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme in australia=Destination |
| 2 | **swim** | to-infinitive | lifeguards *not said here* | the safest place *not said here* |  |  |  | with red flags | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with flag=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:9`.

**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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