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title: In an emergency, call the emergency number straight away instead of… — Bots are not doctors, helplines are people · tree and pragmatics
description: In an emergency, call the emergency number straight away instead of asking a bot. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Bots are not doctors, helplines are people» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bots are not doctors, helplines are people, sentence 12

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In an emergency, call the emergency number straight away instead of asking a bot.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** call, ask · **To what, where:** emergency number, emergency, bot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bots are not doctors, helplines are people» of the ai 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:015-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people.lesson:12
# text = In an emergency, call the emergency number straight away instead of asking a bot.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 015-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | the emergency number |  | a emergency |  | away *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* | a bot |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient |

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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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**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:ai:015-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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