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title: Prank calls to 911, 999, 000 or 111 tie up help that someone in real… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics
description: Prank calls to 911, 999, 000 or 111 tie up help that someone in real danger needs, and they are against the law. Who acts: Prank calls, someone, calls. A sentence of the lesson «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 30

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Prank calls to 911, 999, 000 or 111 tie up help that someone in real danger needs, and they are against the law.

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**Who acts:** Prank calls, someone, calls · **What happens:** tie up, need, be · **To what, where:** help

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pranks: harmless fun or 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 (Prank calls, someone, calls), 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:30
# text = Prank calls to 911, 999, 000 or 111 tie up help that someone in real danger needs, and they are against the law.
# 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): no change
1	Prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
11	tie	tie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | present | Prank calls to 911 | help |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | someone | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | calls *= call* |  |  |  |  | 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:204-pranks.lesson:30`.

**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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