--- title: Swimming is great exercise and a lifesaving skill, and in England pr… — Exercise and posture · tree and pragmatics description: Swimming is great exercise and a lifesaving skill, and in England primary schools aim for every child to swim at least 25 metres; people can learn to swim at any age. Who acts: Swimming, primary schools, people. A sentence of the lesson «Exercise and posture» of the medicine course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Exercise and posture](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/) / 13 # Exercise and posture, sentence 13 Swimming is great exercise and a lifesaving skill, and in England primary schools aim for every child to swim at least 25 metres; people can learn to swim at any age. **Who acts:** Swimming, primary schools, people · **What happens:** be, aim, swim, learn · **To what, where:** great exercise, England, 25 metres, age This is a sentence of the lesson «Exercise and posture» 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 (Swimming, primary schools, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:034-exercise-and-posture.lesson:13 # text = Swimming is great exercise and a lifesaving skill, and in England primary schools aim for every child to swim at least 25 metres; people can learn to swim at any age. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 034-exercise-and-posture.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 exercise exercise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 lifesaving lifesaving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 13 primary primary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 15 aim aim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 nmod _ _ 23 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Swimming | great exercise and a lifesaving skill | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **aim** | present | primary schools | England | | | | for every child | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **swim** | to-infinitive | primary schools *not said here* | 25 metres | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory | | 4 | **learn** | can | people | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **swim** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | at any age | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at age=Trajectory | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:034-exercise-and-posture.lesson:13`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Exercise and posture, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/12/) - next →: [Exercise and posture, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/)