--- title: 999 is the emergency number in the UK (112 also works, and in the US… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: 999 is the emergency number in the UK (112 also works, and in the USA and Canada it is 911); it is for real emergencies only, and prank calls block the line. Who acts: 999, 112, siren, prank calls. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (999, 112, siren, prank calls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:7 # text = 999 is the emergency number in the UK (112 also works, and in the USA and Canada it is 911); it is for real emergencies only, and prank calls block the line. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 10 112 112 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nsubj _ _ 11 also also ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 911 911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 conj _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 emergencies emergency NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 block block VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | 999 | the emergency number and real emergencies | | the UK | | | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | present | 112 | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | siren | 911 | | the USA and Canada | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | siren | | | | | for real emergencies | tree rules | | 5 | **block** | present | prank calls | the line | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer line=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Police, courts and prison, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/6/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)