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title: A lost pet cannot tell anyone where it lives, so people have given p… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: lost pet, pet, people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the bi
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# Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** lost pet, pet, people, you · **What happens:** lose, not tell, live, give, speak, read · **To what, where:** anyone, pets ways, tag, tiny chip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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 (lost pet, pet, people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
16	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tag	tag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obj
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	scanner	scanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	.	.	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 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | a lost pet |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
| 3 | **live** | present | pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present · perfect | people | pets ways |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | pets ways *not said here* |  |  |  | for people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **read** | can | you | a tag *not said here* |  |  |  | with your eyes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=Topic |
| 7 | **read** | can | you | a tiny chip |  |  |  | with a scanner | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Topic |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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