swim
part of speech
verb, noun (swim, swims, swam, swum, swimming)
meaning for a pupil
1) To swim means to move through water using your arms and legs. tree →
2) A swim is a time when you swim: go for a swim. tree →
3) Fish swim using their fins and tails. tree →
4) «My head is swimming» means you feel dizzy. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: an action with distance, laps or time (swim 10 laps, swim for 30 minutes); laps or meters per day is a rate. Sport: swimming lessons, swimming pool, strokes like front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. Safety: swim only where a lifeguard can see you, between the flags, never alone.
examples
- Lily swims 8 laps each day. tree →
- He swam 200 meters. tree →
- They swim for 45 minutes. tree →
- How many laps did she swim in a week? tree →
- Always swim between the red and yellow flags. tree →
- Fish swim in schools. tree →
- We go for a swim after school on Fridays. tree →
- I learned to swim when I was five. tree →
- “Shall we swim or fly, Peter?” tree →
note
Irregular: swim, swam, swum; doubles the m: swimming, swimmer. The action of the story; laps or meters per day is a rate, so the total is days × laps. Trap: a lap may be one length or there and back; read the problem.
In the corpora
- Fake photos of sharks swimming in flooded streets have spread after many hurricanes; they were edited or taken from somewhere else.
- Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres.
- Elephants can swim and use the trunk as a snorkel, keeping only its tip above the water.
- Sharks have no swim bladder, so many sink if they stop swimming.
- The octopus's body heart stops while it swims, so swimming tires it quickly, and octopuses mostly crawl over the rocks instead.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «swim» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.