Swimming and cycling, sentence 7

The four swimming strokes are front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly; in front crawl the arms do most of the pushing and the legs kick mainly to keep the body flat.

Who acts: four swimming strokes, arms, legs · What happens: be, do, kick, keep · To what, where: front crawl, most, body

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 (four swimming strokes, arms, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 strokes	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 strokes	nummod
3	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strokes	compound
4	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crawl	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crawl	cop
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crawl	amod
7	crawl	crawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 backstroke	punct
9	backstroke	backstroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crawl	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breaststroke	punct
11	breaststroke	breaststroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crawl	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 butterfly	cc
13	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crawl	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 crawl	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 crawl	case
16	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crawl	compound
17	crawl	crawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 do	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 arms	det
19	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crawl	parataxis
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 do	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pushing	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pushing	det
24	pushing	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 most	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 kick	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 legs	det
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kick	nsubj
28	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 do	conj
29	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	28 kick	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 keep	mark
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 kick	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 body	det
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	obj
34	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 keep	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crawl	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the four swimming strokes	front crawl and backstroke and breaststroke and butterfly			tree rules
2	do	present	the arms	most of the pushing	front crawl		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality
3	kick	present	the legs			mainly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	keep	to-infinitive	the legs not said here	the body		flat property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme

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, 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:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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