--- title: A rip current is a strong channel of water flowing away from the bea… — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and qua… · tree and pragmatics description: A rip current is a strong channel of water flowing away from the beach; it pulls you out, not under, people drown when they tire and chill fighting it, and a strong rip can move about as fast as an Olympic swimmer. Who acts: rip current, water, people, strong rip. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rip current, water, people, strong rip), 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:6 # text = A rip current is a strong channel of water flowing away from the beach; it pulls you out, not under, people drown when they tire and chill fighting it, and a strong rip can move about as fast as an Olympic swimmer. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 channel channel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 drown drown VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 tire tire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 chill chill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 31 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 40 about about ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 as as ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 43 as as ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 Olympic olympic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 swimmer swimmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a rip current | a strong channel | | | | of water | tree rules | | 2 | **flow away** | gerund | water *not said here* | | | the beach | | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pull out** | present | water | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **drown** | infinitive | people | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tire** | present | people | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **chill** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fight** | gerund | people *not said here* | water | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 8 | **move about** | can | a strong rip | | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:6`. **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, 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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