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title: Never prank call an emergency number like 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111;… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Never prank call an emergency number like 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help someone really needs and is against the law. Who acts: you, number, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Lies that do real harm, sentence 17

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Never prank call an emergency number like 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help someone really needs and is against the law.

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**Who acts:** you, number, someone · **What happens:** not call, tie up, need, be · **To what, where:** emergency number, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday 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, number, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:17
# text = Never prank call an emergency number like 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help someone really needs and is against the law.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 197-harmful-lies.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **not** **call** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | a emergency number |  |  |  | like 911 | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 2 | **tie up** | present | number | help |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | someone | help *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the law | 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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**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:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:17`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/).

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