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title: Being confident in water starts with small skills: putting your face… — Swimming basics and water confidence · tree and pragmatics
description: Being confident in water starts with small skills: putting your face in and blowing bubbles, floating on your back, and getting back to the edge on your own. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water confidence» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Swimming basics and water confidence, sentence 0

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Being confident in water starts with small skills: putting your face in and blowing bubbles, floating on your back, and getting back to the edge on your own.

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**What happens:** be, start, put in, blow, float, get back · **To what, where:** water, face, bubbles, back, own

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming basics and water confidence» of the everyday 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:007-swimming-and-water.lesson:0
# text = Being confident in water starts with small skills: putting your face in and blowing bubbles, floating on your back, and getting back to the edge on your own.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 007-swimming-and-water.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	cop	_	_
2	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	csubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	parataxis	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
15	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
16	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
24	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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** | gerund |  |  |  | water |  | confident *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with small skills | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with skill=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **put in** | gerund |  | your face |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent face=Goal |
| 4 | **blow** | gerund |  | bubbles |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient |
| 5 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  | your back |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 6 | **get back** | gerund |  |  |  | your own |  | to the edge *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to edge=Result |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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