--- title: A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics description: A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under the skin between the 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 pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/) / 5 # Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 5 A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under the skin between the shoulder blades. **Who acts:** microchip · **What happens:** be, place · **To what, where:** size, skin 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:5 # text = A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under the skin between the 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 microchip microchip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 between between ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a microchip | the size | | | | of a grain of rice; about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **place** | present · passive | a microchip *not said here* | | | the skin between the shoulder blades | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: under skin=Destination | 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. **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:5`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/4/) - next →: [Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/)