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title: Every prank call to an emergency number takes a call taker away from… — Covering up, false alarms and playing fair · tree and pragmatics
description: Every prank call to an emergency number takes a call taker away from someone who may be in real danger. Who acts: prank call. A sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 20

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Every prank call to an emergency number takes a call taker away from someone who may be in real danger.

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**Who acts:** prank call · **What happens:** take, be · **To what, where:** call taker, real danger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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 call), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:20
# text = Every prank call to an emergency number takes a call taker away from someone who may be in real danger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	taker	taker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **take** | present | every prank call to a emergency number | a call taker |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taker=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | may |  |  |  | real danger |  |  | 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:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:20`.

**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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