--- title: Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A lost pet cannot tell anyone where it lives, so people have given pets ways to "speak" for them: a tag you can read with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo… # Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house Lesson 332 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/0/) — A lost pet cannot tell anyone where it lives, so people have given pets ways to "speak" for them: a tag you can read with your eyes and a tiny chip you can read with a scanner. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/1/) — At the vet's, a microchip about the size of a grain of rice slides under the skin between a puppy's shoulder blades. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/2/) — It has no battery and never runs out; it just holds a 15-digit number that links to the owner's name and address on a list. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/3/) — If the dog runs off on Bonfire Night and a stranger finds it shaking in a park, a vet waves a scanner over its back, reads the number, and the dog can be home that same evening, as long as the owner kept the details up to date. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/4/) — Pets also get lost in other ways: a cat let out too soon after moving house may wander back to the old home, and a scared cat hides silently in a shed instead of answering its name. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/5/) — A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under the skin between the shoulder blades. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/6/) — A scanner held close reads the chip's number, which links to the owner's details on a list, so owners must update their details when they move. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/7/) — Most microchips carry a 15-digit number that no other animal shares; the chip has no battery, lasts for life, and cannot track a pet like a GPS tracker. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/8/) — In Britain dogs must be microchipped by law, and since 2024 pet cats must be too. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/9/) — In Britain a dog out in public must wear a collar tag with its owner's name and address; cats wear safety collars that snap open if they catch on a branch. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/10/) — Lost cats often hide close by, quiet and scared, in sheds, garages and under cars, so checking neighbours' sheds, putting up posters, calling vets and calling at quiet times help. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/11/) — Bobbie the Wonder Dog was reported to walk about 4,000 kilometres home across the USA in 1924, and scientists still do not know how some pets find their way home. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/12/) — Kennels, catteries, pet sitters or friends can look after pets during holidays; kennels ask for proof of vaccinations, and a sitter lets a pet stay calm in its own home. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/13/) — To cross many borders pets need a microchip, a rabies vaccine and papers, and dogs coming into Britain also need a worm treatment; the rules keep diseases like rabies out. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/14/) — After moving house a cat is kept inside for a couple of weeks to learn its new home; butter on the paws does not help, it just makes greasy paws. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/15/) — More pets go missing around fireworks than at almost any other time, because a dog's hearing is much sharper than ours; keeping pets inside with curtains closed and a den helps. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/16/) — A found dog should not be grabbed, because a scared dog may bite; a grown-up can call the dog warden or take it to a vet, who scans the chip for free. - ← previous: [Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies/) - next →: [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)