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title: What is the main reason a prank call to 999 is so harmful? — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheat… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the main reason a prank call to 999 is so harmful? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 312 «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks

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What is the main reason a prank call to 999 is so harmful?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 312 «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t5:1
# text = What is the main reason a prank call to 999 is so harmful?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | harmful *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It can break the phone line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t5:o1:1
# text = It can break the phone line
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | can | It | the phone line |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes the operators tired and bored of doing their job

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t5:o2:1
# text = It makes the operators tired and bored of doing their job
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	operators	operator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the operators |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material operator=Product |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  | operators's job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 3 | **job** |  | operators *= operator* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It costs the caller a large fee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t5:o3:1
# text = It costs the caller a large fee
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	caller	caller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | present | It | the caller |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme caller=Beneficiary fee=Value |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It can delay help for someone in a real emergency

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks:t5:o4:1
# text = It can delay help for someone in a real emergency
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delay** | can | It | help |  | a real emergency |  | for someone | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent help=Source |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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