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title: Which needs 999 rather than 111? — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: Which needs 999 rather than 111? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the medicine 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 11 · ★★ · Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E

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Which needs 999 rather than 111?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** need · **To what, where:** 999

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the medicine 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/medicine/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t11:1
# text = Which needs 999 rather than 111?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	6	cc	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present |  | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 999=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Someone not breathing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t11:o1:1
# text = Someone not breathing
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A mild sprain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t11:o2:1
# text = A mild sprain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sprain	sprain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A small graze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t11:o3:1
# text = A small graze
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	graze	graze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A cough for three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t11:o4:1
# text = A cough for three days
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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