A group of people hold on to a long skinny object.
A group of people let go of the object
There is a difference between the group of people let go of the object and the group of people hold on to the object. You can not know that they let go of the object when they were holding it.
exists e1 s1 s2 x1 x2 x3 x4.(to(e1,x3) & n_object(x3) & of(x3,x4) & n_skinny(x4) & a_long(s2) & Theme(s2,x3) & a_on(s1) & Manner(e1,s1) & Actor(e1,x1) & v_hold(e1) & of(x1,x2) & n_people(x2) & n_group(x1))
exists e1 x1 x2 x3 x4.(n_object(x4) & Theme(e1,x3) & Actor(e1,x1) & v_let(e1) & of(x3,x4) & n_go(x3) & of(x1,x2) & n_people(x2) & n_group(x1))