--- title: Calling emergency services well — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Calling emergency services well», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: An emergency is when someone's life, health or home is in danger right now and help must come fast: a fire, a person who will not wake up --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Calling emergency services well # Calling emergency services well Lesson 36 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/0/) — An emergency is when someone's life, health or home is in danger right now and help must come fast: a fire, a person who will not wake up or cannot breathe, a bad injury, or a crime happening. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/1/) — Each country has one short number for police, fire and ambulance: 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and Ireland, 000 in Australia and 111 in New Zealand. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/2/) — A call to it is free. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/3/) — The person who answers asks which service you need and then asks questions. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/4/) — You answer clearly: what happened, where you are, and who is hurt. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/6/) — For example, a boy says: "My grandma fell and won't wake up. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/7/) — We're at 14 Oak Street, Denver, the blue house." Then he stays on the line, does what he is told, and does not hang up until the call taker says so. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/8/) — If you do not know the address, you describe what you can see: a shop name, a street sign, a park or a big building nearby. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/9/) — Mobile phones can usually call the emergency number even when they are locked. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/10/) — A girl in Texas called 911 when her grandpa collapsed but did not know her address; it took the ambulance longer to find the house. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/11/) — Prank calls to 999 in England tied up the line while real people needed help, and the callers' families were visited by police. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/12/) — The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and Ireland, 000 in Australia and 111 in New Zealand. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/13/) — In the UK and Ireland, 112 also reaches the emergency services. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/14/) — Calls to the emergency number are free. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/15/) — The most important thing to tell the call taker is where you are. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/17/) — You should stay on the line until the call taker tells you to hang up. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/18/) — If you do not know the address, you describe landmarks such as shops, signs or parks. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/19/) — Most mobile phones can call the emergency number even when they are locked. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/20/) — Calling the emergency number as a joke is wrong and can stop real emergencies from getting help. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/21/) — If you call the emergency number by mistake, you should stay on the line and say it was a mistake. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/22/) — A lost toy, a broken game or a small scrape is not an emergency. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/23/) — Prank or silly calls to emergency numbers can stop someone in real danger getting help. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/24/) — Knowing your address helps an ambulance or fire engine reach you faster. - ← previous: [Home alone, the door and the phone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/) - next →: [Taking care of your things and money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/37-things-and-money/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)