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title: In England the school curriculum says children should be able to swi… — Swimming and cycling · tree and pragmatics
description: In England the school curriculum says children should be able to swim at least 25 metres by the end of primary school. Who acts: school curriculum, children. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Swimming and cycling, sentence 8

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In England the school curriculum says children should be able to swim at least 25 metres by the end of primary school.

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**Who acts:** school curriculum, children · **What happens:** say, be, swim · **To what, where:** England, 25 metres · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming and cycling» 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 (school curriculum, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:8
# text = In England the school curriculum says children should be able to swim at least 25 metres by the end of primary school.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 042-swimming-and-cycling.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	curriculum	curriculum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nmod	_	_
15	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the school curriculum |  |  | England |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in england=Manner |
| 2 | **is** | should | children |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | 25 metres |  |  | by the end of primary school |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory |

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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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**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:042-swimming-and-cycling.lesson:8`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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