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title: Identify the four recognised swimming strokes. — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the four recognised swimming strokes. Exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 1 · Swimming and cycling

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Identify the four recognised swimming strokes.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, be · **To what, where:** four swimming strokes

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:e1:1
# text = Identify the four recognised swimming strokes.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the four swimming strokes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:e1:o1:1
# text = Front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly
1	Front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	crawl	crawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	backstroke	backstroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	breaststroke	breaststroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Backstroke, diving, gliding and breaststroke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:e1:o2:1
# text = Backstroke, diving, gliding and breaststroke
1	Backstroke	backstroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	diving	dive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	breaststroke	breaststroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **glide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Front crawl, sidestroke, sculling and diving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:e1:o3:1
# text = Front crawl, sidestroke, sculling and diving
1	Front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	crawl	crawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sidestroke	sidestroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sculling	sculling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	diving	diving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Butterfly, treading, floating and paddling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:42-swimming-and-cycling:e1:o4:1
# text = Butterfly, treading, floating and paddling
1	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	treading	tread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	paddling	paddling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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