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title: «we moved ages ago, never bothered changing the chip details, whatev… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «we moved ages ago, never bothered changing the chip details, whatever» What would happen if the dog got lost? Test 2 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 2 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

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«we moved ages ago, never bothered changing the chip details, whatever» What would happen if the dog got lost?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** we, whatever · **What happens:** move, not bother, not change, happen, lose · **To what, where:** ages, chip details, dog

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This is test 2 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t2:1
# text = «we moved ages ago, never bothered changing the chip details, whatever» What would happen if the dog got lost?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	bothered	bother	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** *in a quote* | past | we | ages |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent age=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **bother** *in a quote* | participle | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **change** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* | the chip details |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient |
| 4 | **happen** | would | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The chip would lead the finder to the old address

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t2:o1:1
# text = The chip would lead the finder to the old address
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	finder	finder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | would | the chip | the finder |  | the old address |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finder=Theme to address=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The chip would ring the owner's phone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t2:o2:1
# text = The chip would ring the owner's phone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | would | the chip | the owner's phone |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location phone=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The chip would update itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t2:o3:1
# text = The chip would update itself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	update	update	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **update** *speech: other* | would | the chip | chip |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The dog could not be scanned at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t2:o4:1
# text = The dog could not be scanned at all
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	scanned	scan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **scan** | could · passive |  | the dog |  | all |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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