--- title: A boy in Ontario catches a trout, wets his hands before holding it a… — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ontario catches a trout, wets his hands before holding it and lets it go gently, so its protective slime stays on. Who acts: boy, trout, protective slime. A sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing/4/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing/) / 4 # Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing, sentence 4 A boy in Ontario catches a trout, wets his hands before holding it and lets it go gently, so its protective slime stays on. **Who acts:** boy, trout, protective slime · **What happens:** catch, wet, hold, let, go, stay on · **To what, where:** trout, hands 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 (boy, trout, protective slime), 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:4 # text = A boy in Ontario catches a trout, wets his hands before holding it and lets it go gently, so its protective slime stays on. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ontario Ontario PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 trout trout NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 wets wet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 before before SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 gently gently ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 protective protective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 on on ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | present | a boy in Ontario | a trout | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trout=Theme | | 2 | **wet** | present | a boy in Ontario *not said here* | boy's hands | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 3 | **hold** | gerund | a boy in Ontario *not said here* | trout | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **let** | present | a boy in Ontario *not said here* | trout | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | trout *not said here* | | | | | gently *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stay on** | present | trout's protective slime | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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](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. 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