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title: Swim goes swim, swam, swum: "I swam" alone and "I have swum" after h… — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Swim goes swim, swam, swum: "I swam" alone and "I have swum" after have; sing, sang, sung and ring, rang, rung work the same way. Who acts: Swim, British English, I. A sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes, sentence 11

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Swim goes swim, swam, swum: "I swam" alone and "I have swum" after have; sing, sang, sung and ring, rang, rung work the same way.

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**Who acts:** Swim, British English, I · **What happens:** go, swim, have, sing · **To what, where:** swum, sing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language 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 (Swim, British English, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:11
# text = Swim goes swim, swam, swum: "I swam" alone and "I have swum" after have; sing, sang, sung and ring, rang, rung work the same way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.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	Swim	swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	swam	swam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	swum	swum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	swum	swum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sang	sang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
31	rang	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	rung	rung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Swim |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim** *in a quote* | past | British English *= english* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I | swum |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swum=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | sing and sang |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Patient |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  | sing and sang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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