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title: At the vet's, a microchip about the size of a grain of rice slides u… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics
description: At the vet's, a microchip about the size of a grain of rice slides under the skin between a puppy's shoulder blades. Who acts: microchip. A sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 1

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At the vet's, a microchip about the size of a grain of rice slides under the skin between a puppy's shoulder blades.

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**Who acts:** microchip · **What happens:** slide · **To what, where:** vet

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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 (microchip), 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:1
# text = At the vet's, a microchip about the size of a grain of rice slides under the skin between a puppy's shoulder blades.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	microchip	microchip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	slides	slide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | present | a microchip about the size of a grain of rice |  |  | the vet |  | under the skin between a puppy's shoulder blades | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at vet=Source under skin=Trajectory |

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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:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.lesson:1`.

**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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