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title: If someone is in trouble in water: Call 999, Tell them to float, Thr… — Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall… · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone is in trouble in water: Call 999, Tell them to float, Throw something that floats, and never go in after them. Who acts: someone, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall tales ★★★» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall tales ★★★, sentence 9

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If someone is in trouble in water: Call 999, Tell them to float, Throw something that floats, and never go in after them.

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**Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** be, call, tell, float, throw, not go in · **To what, where:** trouble, 999, matches, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall tales ★★★» 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 (someone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:077-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales.lesson:9
# text = If someone is in trouble in water: Call 999, Tell them to float, Throw something that floats, and never go in after them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 077-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
10	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  | trouble |  | in water | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive |  | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | matches *= match* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **float** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 6 | **float** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **go in** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after matches *= match* |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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.

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