---
title: At the coast, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard; wind blowing off… — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and qua… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the coast, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard; wind blowing off the land can push inflatables far out to sea in minutes. Who acts: you, wind. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lak…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/) / 15

# Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At the coast, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard; wind blowing off the land can push inflatables far out to sea in minutes.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, wind · **What happens:** call, ask, blow off, push · **To what, where:** 999, land, inflatables · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» 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, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.lesson:15
# text = At the coast, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard; wind blowing off the land can push inflatables far out to sea in minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Coastguard	coastguard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	inflatables	inflatable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | 999 |  |  |  | at the coast | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent 999=Theme at coast=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Coastguard | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **blow off** | gerund | wind *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 4 | **push** | can | wind | inflatables |  |  | minute | out *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inflatable=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:medicine:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.lesson:15`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lak…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/14/)
- next →: [Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lak…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/16/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/)

