Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 11
A microchip is a tiny chip under a pet's skin that holds a number linked to the owner, so a lost pet can be returned.
Who acts: microchip, skin · What happens: be, hold, link, lose, return · To what, where: tiny chip, skin, number, lost pet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» 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, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 microchip | det |
| 2 | microchip | microchip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chip | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chip | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chip | det |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chip | amod |
| 6 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pet | det |
| 9 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 pet | case |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chip | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 holds | nsubj |
| 13 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 skin | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holds | obj |
| 16 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 number | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 owner | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 owner | det |
| 19 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 linked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 returned | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 returned | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pet | det |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 pet | amod |
| 24 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 returned | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 returned | aux:pass |
| 27 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chip | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chip | punct |
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 | a tiny chip | a pet's skin | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | present | a pet's skin | a number | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 3 | link | participle | a number not said here | to the owner | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to owner=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | return | can · passive | a lost pet | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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, 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:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:11.
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.
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