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title: caught a fish, gonna squeeze it to get the hook out — Catch and release, practising well and… · tree and pragmatics
description: caught a fish, gonna squeeze it to get the hook out Test 15 · ★ of lesson 305 «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 15 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

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caught a fish, gonna squeeze it to get the hook out

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** catch, squeeze, get out · **To what, where:** fish, hook

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 305 «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear:t15:1
# text = caught a fish, gonna squeeze it to get the hook out
1	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past |  | a fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 2 | **squeeze** | infinitive |  | fish |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **get out** | to-infinitive |  | the hook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Throw it on the grass first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear:t15:o1:1
# text = Throw it on the grass first
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | the grass |  | first *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grass=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Squeeze hard so it can't move

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear:t15:o2:1
# text = Squeeze hard so it can't move
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **move** | can | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hold it by the eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear:t15:o3:1
# text = Hold it by the eyes
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | by the eyes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by eye=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wet hands, hold it gently, let an adult help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear:t15:o4:1
# text = Wet hands, hold it gently, let an adult help
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | infinitive | Wet hands | it |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | Wet hands *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive | a adult *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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