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title: A scanner held close reads the chip's number, which links to the own… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics
description: A scanner held close reads the chip's number, which links to the owner's details on a list, so owners must update their details when they move. Who acts: scanner, number, owners, details. A sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 6

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A scanner held close reads the chip's number, which links to the owner's details on a list, so owners must update their details when they move.

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**Who acts:** scanner, number, owners, details, owner · **What happens:** hold, read, link, update, move, detail · **To what, where:** scanner, number, details, list

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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 (scanner, number, owners, details), 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:6
# text = A scanner held close reads the chip's number, which links to the owner's details on a list, so owners must update their details when they move.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scanner	scanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:root
3	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	close	close	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	links	link	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	update	update	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hold** | participle |  | a scanner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | present | a scanner | the chip's number |  |  |  | close *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 3 | **link** | present | the chip's number |  |  |  |  | to the owner's details on a list | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to detail=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **update** *speech: other* | must | owners | details's details |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent detail=Recipient |
| 5 | **move** | present | details *= detail* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **detail** |  | the owner |  |  | a list |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
| 7 | **detail** |  | details *= detail* |  |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition 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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**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:6`.

**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): R7-rel-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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