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title: To release a fish, you wet your hands and put it back gently, becaus… — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing · tree and pragmatics
description: To release a fish, you wet your hands and put it back gently, because dry hands damage its slime coat. Who acts: you, dry hands. A sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing, sentence 17

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To release a fish, you wet your hands and put it back gently, because dry hands damage its slime coat.

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**Who acts:** you, dry hands · **What happens:** release, wet, put back, damage · **To what, where:** fish, hands, licence, slime coat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday 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 (you, dry hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.lesson:17
# text = To release a fish, you wet your hands and put it back gently, because dry hands damage its slime coat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wet	wet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	19	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case
17	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	damage	damage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **release** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a fish |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer fish=Source |
| 2 | **wet** | present | you | your hands |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **put back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | licence |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **damage** | present | dry hands | licence's slime coat |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient |

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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:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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