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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catches	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ontario	case
4	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trout	det
7	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catches	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wets	punct
9	wets	wet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 catches	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wets	obj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 holding	mark
13	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wets	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 holding	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lets	cc
16	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 catches	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lets	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lets	xcomp
19	gently	gently	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stays	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 stays	advmod
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 slime	nmod:poss
23	protective	protective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 slime	amod
24	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stays	nsubj
25	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 catches	parataxis
26	on	on	ADV	_	25 stays	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 catches	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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, 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:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.lesson:4.

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.

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