The beach and the sea Lesson 44 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 The sea is never as still as a pool: waves knock you over, the tide comes in and out, and hidden currents move water much faster than you can swim. 1 At patrolled beaches in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland, lifeguards put up red and yellow flags; you swim between them, because that is the area they watch; in the USA you swim near a lifeguard tower that is open. 2 A rip current is a narrow, fast stream of water flowing away from the shore; it does not pull you under, it pulls you out to sea. 3 If a rip carries you out, stay calm and float, raise an arm and call for help, or swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the rip, and then swim back in at an angle. 4 A boy on a Queensland beach who fights straight back against a rip gets tired and frightened, while the boy who floats or swims sideways soon escapes it, because the rip is narrow. 5 A boy in Cornwall played at the edge of the water when a big wave knocked him over and pulled him out; his dad, who was watching closely, got to him in time. 6 A family in Australia went to a beach with no lifeguards and swam where the water looked calm; it was a rip, and the father had to be rescued by a surfer. 7 You should always swim at a beach with lifeguards. 8 Red and yellow flags mark the area that lifeguards watch, and you swim between them. 9 Lifeguards move the flags during the day, because the safe place changes as the tide and currents change. 10 A red flag on its own means it is too dangerous to swim. 11 You never swim alone; a grown-up should be watching you all the time. 12 A rip current is a narrow, fast flow of water moving away from the shore. 13 A rip current pulls you out to sea; it does not pull you under the water. 14 Rips often look like a calmer, darker gap where fewer waves break. 15 If a rip takes you, you float, signal for help, or swim parallel to the shore, which means sideways, along the beach. 16 Swimming straight back against a rip makes you tired, because the current is often faster than you. 17 If you see someone in trouble, you call a lifeguard or the emergency number instead of swimming out yourself. 18 Waves can knock you over even in shallow water, so you never turn your back on the sea for long. 20 Calm-looking dark water between breaking waves can be a rip current. 21 Many people who drown at the beach swim where there are no lifeguards. ← previous Buses, trains and being seennext → Pools, lakes and ice↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/