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title: A fish is covered in a thin layer of slime that protects it from ger… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics
description: A fish is covered in a thin layer of slime that protects it from germs, like a coat. Who acts: slime. A sentence of the lesson «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 0

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A fish is covered in a thin layer of slime that protects it from germs, like a coat.

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**Who acts:** slime · **What happens:** cover, protect · **To what, where:** fish

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» 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 (slime), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:0
# text = A fish is covered in a thin layer of slime that protects it from germs, like a coat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.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	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cover** | present · passive |  | a fish |  |  |  | in a thin layer of slime | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in layer=Theme |
| 2 | **protect** | present | slime | fish |  |  |  | from germs and a coat | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from germ=Theme |

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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:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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