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title: Lost cats often hide close by, quiet and scared, in sheds, garages a… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Lost cats, checking. A sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the biolog
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# Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 10

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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.

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**Who acts:** Lost cats, checking · **What happens:** lose, hide, check, put up, call, help · **To what, where:** sheds, posters, vets · **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 cats, checking), 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:10
# text = 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.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
5	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sheds	shed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	garages	garage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	csubj	_	_
22	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	sheds	shed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
28	posters	poster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
31	vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37: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 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hide** | present | Lost cats |  |  | sheds and garages and cars |  | close, often *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shed=Location |
| 3 | **check** | gerund |  | neighbours's sheds |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shed=Theme |
| 4 | **put up** | gerund |  | posters |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent poster=Goal |
| 5 | **call** | gerund |  | vets |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient |
| 6 | **call** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **help** | present | checking |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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