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title: Before touching a fish you will release, wet your hands so you do no… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before touching a fish you will release, wet your hands so you do not rub off its protective slime coat. Who acts: 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 8

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Before touching a fish you will release, wet your hands so you do not rub off its protective slime coat.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** touch, release, wet, not rub off · **To what, where:** fish, hands, protective slime coat

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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 (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:8
# text = Before touching a fish you will release, wet your hands so you do not rub off its protective slime 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wet	wet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	protective	protective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | a fish |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fish=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **release** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **wet** | infinitive |  | your hands |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **rub off** | present · do-support | you | fish's protective slime coat |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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:8`.

**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): 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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