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title: Lifeguards watch the water between the red-and-yellow flags; outside… — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and qua… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lifeguards watch the water between the red-and-yellow flags; outside them nobody may be watching. Who acts: Lifeguards, nobody. 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 and the pragmatics
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# Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries, sentence 5

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Lifeguards watch the water between the red-and-yellow flags; outside them nobody may be watching.

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**Who acts:** Lifeguards, nobody · **What happens:** watch · **To what, where:** water

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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 (Lifeguards, nobody), 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:5
# text = Lifeguards watch the water between the red-and-yellow flags; outside them nobody may be watching.
# 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): no change
1	Lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present | Lifeguards | the water |  |  |  | between the red yellow flags | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | may · progressive | nobody |  |  |  |  | outside children *= child* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside they=Location |

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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:medicine:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.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): 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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