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title: A tiny microchip under the skin helps a lost pet get back home, walk… — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics
description: A tiny microchip under the skin helps a lost pet get back home, walks and play keep it fit and happy, and a clean cage keeps it from getting ill. Who acts: tiny microchip, lost pet, walks, clean cage. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» of the biology cours
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# Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 3

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A tiny microchip under the skin helps a lost pet get back home, walks and play keep it fit and happy, and a clean cage keeps it from getting ill.

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**Who acts:** tiny microchip, lost pet, walks, clean cage · **What happens:** help, lose, get back, keep, get · **To what, where:** lost pet, 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 (tiny microchip, lost pet, walks, clean cage), 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:3
# text = A tiny microchip under the skin helps a lost pet get back home, walks and play keep it fit and happy, and a clean cage keeps it from getting ill.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	microchip	microchip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | a tiny microchip under the skin | a lost pet |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent pet=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get back** | infinitive | a lost pet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | walks and play | pet |  |  |  | fit *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | a clean cage | pet |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | gerund | a clean cage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:3`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×3. **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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