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title: «999 is only for fires innit». Correct? — When the police come · tree and pragmatics
description: «999 is only for fires innit». Correct? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 384 «When the police come» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · When the police come

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«999 is only for fires innit». Correct?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 999 · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 384 «When the police come» 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/384-when-the-police-come/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «999 is only for fires innit».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:384-when-the-police-come:t10:1
# text = «999 is only for fires innit».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | 999 |  |  |  |  | for fires innit | 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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*Sentence 2:* Correct?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:384-when-the-police-come:t10:2
# text = Correct?
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, it's for police, ambulance, fire and coastguard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:384-when-the-police-come:t10:o1:1
# text = No, it's for police, ambulance, fire and coastguard
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	coastguard	coastguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | for police and ambulance and fire and coastguard | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it's only for fires and nothing else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:384-when-the-police-come:t10:o2:1
# text = Yes, it's only for fires and nothing else
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	conj	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | for fires | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only for robberies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:384-when-the-police-come:t10:o3:1
# text = Only for robberies
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	robberies	robbery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only if an adult rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:384-when-the-police-come:t10:o4:1
# text = Only if an adult rings
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | present | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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