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title: If the dog runs off on Bonfire Night and a stranger finds it shaking… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: dog, stranger, vet, owner. A sentence of the lesson «Lost pets
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# Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** dog, stranger, vet, owner · **What happens:** run off, find, shake, wave, read, be · **To what, where:** dog, park, scanner, back, number, details

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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 (dog, stranger, vet, owner), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Bonfire	Bonfire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	Night	night	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	waves	wave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	scanner	scanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	conj	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **run off** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the dog |  |  |  | on Bonfire Night | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on night=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | present | a stranger | dog |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund | dog *not said here* |  |  | a park |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location |
| 4 | **wave** | present | a vet | a scanner |  | vet's back |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scanner=Patient |
| 5 | **read** | present | a vet *not said here* | the number |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | can | the dog |  |  |  | evening | home *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **keep** | past | the owner | the details |  |  |  | up date | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme |

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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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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.

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