Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 8
In Britain dogs must be microchipped by law, and since 2024 pet cats must be too.
Who acts: law, pet cats · What happens: microchip, be · To what, where: dogs, Britain
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 microchipped | obl |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 microchipped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 microchipped | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 microchipped | aux:pass |
| 6 | microchipped | microchip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 microchipped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 too | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 too | cc |
| 11 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 2024 | case |
| 12 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 too | obl |
| 13 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cats | compound |
| 14 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 too | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 too | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 too | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 microchipped | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 microchipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 |
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: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.
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