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title: A microchip is a tiny chip under a pet's skin that holds a number li… — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics
description: A microchip is a tiny chip under a pet's skin that holds a number linked to the owner, so a lost pet can be returned. Who acts: microchip, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 11

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A microchip is a tiny chip under a pet's skin that holds a number linked to the owner, so a lost pet can be returned.

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**Who acts:** microchip, skin · **What happens:** be, hold, link, lose, return · **To what, where:** tiny chip, skin, number, lost pet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» of the biology 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 (microchip, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:11
# text = A microchip is a tiny chip under a pet's skin that holds a number linked to the owner, so a lost pet can be returned.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	microchip	microchip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | a microchip | a tiny chip |  | a pet's skin |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | a pet's skin | a number |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 3 | **link** | participle |  | a number *not said here* |  |  |  | to the owner | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to owner=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **return** | can · passive |  | a lost pet |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:biology:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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