--- title: The Olympics and Paralympics — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Olympics and Paralympics», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The Summer Olympics come every four years, Paris 2024, Los Angeles 2028, Brisbane 2032, with the Winter Games two years in between, and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/) [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/) / The Olympics and Paralympics # The Olympics and Paralympics Lesson 62 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/0/) — The Summer Olympics come every four years, Paris 2024, Los Angeles 2028, Brisbane 2032, with the Winter Games two years in between, and the Paralympics follow straight after each one in the same city. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/1/) — Zara in Croydon wants to be in it, and her dad says «Get training, our kid» (Northern for my child or mate): every athlete there has spent years training muscles, heart and lungs, and even the greatest still lose some races. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/2/) — The Paralympic movement grew from the 1948 Stoke Mandeville Games in England, started by Dr Ludwig Guttmann for injured Second World War servicemen; the first Paralympics were in Rome in 1960. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/3/) — Paralympians are grouped into classes by their kind of impairment so races are fair, which is why one distance has several finals; running blades spring back, but the runner's own muscles, balance and heart do the work, and in goalball everyone wears eyeshades and follows a ball with bells inside. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/4/) — The Summer Olympics come every 4 years: Paris 2024, Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/6/) — An Olympic gold medal is mostly silver with a coating of gold; the rules say at least 6 g of gold. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/7/) — The five rings stand for the inhabited continents coming together, but no ring officially belongs to one continent. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/8/) — Usain Bolt ran 100 m in 9.58 seconds in 2009, still the world record, about 10.4 metres every second. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/9/) — Michael Phelps won 28 Olympic medals, 23 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze, the most of anyone, so even he lost some races. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/10/) — The Paralympic movement began with the 1948 Stoke Mandeville Games, and the first Paralympics were in Rome in 1960. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/12/) — Paralympians are put into classes by the kind and level of their impairment, so one distance can have several finals. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/13/) — Carbon-fibre running blades spring back, but the athlete's muscles, balance and heart still do the work, and it takes years to learn to run on them. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/14/) — Goalball is played 3 against 3 by athletes with visual impairments; everyone wears eyeshades so it is fair, and the ball has bells inside. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/15/) — The Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy, were in February 2026; skaters balance using the inner ear, eyes and strong leg and core muscles. - ← previous: [The World Cup](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/61-the-world-cup/) - next →: [Famous athletes and what being a professional takes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)