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title: Fall into cold water and your body gasps for about a minute, so the… — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics
description: Fall into cold water and your body gasps for about a minute, so the RNLI says Float to Live: lean back, spread your arms and legs, and float until your breathing calms, then call for help. Who acts: you, body, RNLI. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine course of Mova's pri
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# Swimming and cycling, sentence 4

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Fall into cold water and your body gasps for about a minute, so the RNLI says Float to Live: lean back, spread your arms and legs, and float until your breathing calms, then call for help.

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**Who acts:** you, body, RNLI · **What happens:** fall, gasp, say, live, lean back, spread · **To what, where:** cold water, Float, arms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine 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 (you, body, RNLI), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:4
# text = Fall into cold water and your body gasps for about a minute, so the RNLI says Float to Live: lean back, spread your arms and legs, and float until your breathing calms, then call for help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 042-swimming-and-cycling.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 ×2
1	Fall	fall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gasps	gasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	RNLI	RNLI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	Float	float	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	Live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	until	until	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	calms	calm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **fall** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into cold water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |
| 2 | **gasp** | present | your body |  |  |  | minute |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the RNLI | Float |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | the RNLI *not said here* | Float *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lean back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spread** | infinitive |  | your arms and legs |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme |
| 7 | **float** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | until your breathing calms |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **call** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=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 ×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.

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