--- title: Teenagers in Glasgow made a fake 999 call as a prank; an ambulance w… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: Teenagers in Glasgow made a fake 999 call as a prank; an ambulance went to the address while a real patient across town had to wait longer for help. Who acts: Teenagers, ambulance, real patient. 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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 (Teenagers, ambulance, real patient), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:204-pranks.lesson:28 # text = Teenagers in Glasgow made a fake 999 call as a prank; an ambulance went to the address while a real patient across town had to wait longer for help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 204-pranks.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Teenagers teenager NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nummod 8 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ambulance ambulance NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 address address NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:mark 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 patient patient NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 across across ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Teenagers in Glasgow | a fake 999 call | | | | as a prank | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset call=Product | | 2 | **go** | past | a ambulance | | | the address | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to address=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **have** | past | a real patient across town | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wait** | to-infinitive | a real patient across town *not said here* | | | | | for help; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:204-pranks.lesson:28`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/27/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)