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title: Never prank call 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help that som… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never prank call 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help that someone in a real emergency needs, and it is against the law. Who acts: you, truth, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 12

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Never prank call 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help that someone in a real emergency needs, and it is against the law.

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**Who acts:** you, truth, someone · **What happens:** not call, tie up, need, be · **To what, where:** 911, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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, truth, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:12
# text = Never prank call 911, 999, 112, 000 or 111; it ties up help that someone in a real emergency needs, and it is against the law.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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): R1-cc-next ×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	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
19	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
32	.	.	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* | 911 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=Recipient |
| 2 | **tie up** | present | truth | help |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | someone | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | truth |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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