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title: In Britain dogs must be microchipped by law, and since 2024 pet cats… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics
description: In Britain dogs must be microchipped by law, and since 2024 pet cats must be too. Who acts: law, pet cats. 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 every clause.
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# Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 8

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In Britain dogs must be microchipped by law, and since 2024 pet cats must be too.

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**Who acts:** law, pet cats · **What happens:** microchip, be · **To what, where:** dogs, Britain

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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 (law, pet cats), 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:8
# text = In Britain dogs must be microchipped by law, and since 2024 pet cats must be too.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	microchipped	microchip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
13	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **microchip** | must · passive | law | dogs |  | Britain |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | must | pet cats |  |  |  | since 2024 | too *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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