--- title: The slime coat protects a fish from germs; damage to it can make the… — Catch and release, practising well and sharing s… · tree and pragmatics description: The slime coat protects a fish from germs; damage to it can make the fish ill. Who acts: slime coat, damage. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/9/) [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/) / [Catch and release, practising well and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/) / 9 # Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear, sentence 9 The slime coat protects a fish from germs; damage to it can make the fish ill. **Who acts:** slime coat, damage · **What happens:** protect, make · **To what, where:** fish 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 coat, damage), 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:9 # text = The slime coat protects a fish from germs; damage to it can make the fish ill. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 10 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | present | the slime coat | | a fish | | | from germs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fish=Beneficiary from germ=Theme | | 2 | **make** | can | damage to coat | the fish | | | | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fish=Product | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear.lesson:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Catch and release, practising well and…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/8/) - next →: [Catch and release, practising well and…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/)