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title: Pets also get lost in other ways: a cat let out too soon after movin… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: cat, scared cat. A sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the biology 
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# Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 4

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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.

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**Who acts:** cat, scared cat · **What happens:** lose, let out, move, wander back, hide, answer · **To what, where:** Pets, other ways, house, old home, shed, name

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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 (cat, scared cat), 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:4
# text = 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.
# 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 ×2
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
15	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
31	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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** | infinitive · passive |  | Pets |  | other ways |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **let out** | infinitive | a cat |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  | house |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **wander back** | may | a cat *not said here* |  |  | the old home |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to home=Destination |
| 5 | **hide** | present | a scared cat |  |  | a shed |  | silently *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shed=Location |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | a scared cat *not said here* | cat's name |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality |
| 7 | **name** |  | cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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 ×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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