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title: A fish hook is sharp, so let an adult help take it out while you hol… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics
description: A fish hook is sharp, so let an adult help take it out while you hold the fish gently. Who acts: fish hook, adult, you. 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
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# Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 11

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A fish hook is sharp, so let an adult help take it out while you hold the fish gently.

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**Who acts:** fish hook, adult, you · **What happens:** be, let, help, take out, hold · **To what, where:** adult, 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 (fish hook, adult, you), 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:11
# text = A fish hook is sharp, so let an adult help take it out while you hold the fish gently.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5: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	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a fish hook |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | a adult |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive | a adult *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **take out** | infinitive | a adult *not said here* | adult |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | present | you | the fish |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:11`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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