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title: An emergency is when someone's life, health or home is in danger rig… — Calling emergency services well · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: emergency, home, help, person. A sentence of the lesson «Calling emergency services well» of the 
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# Calling emergency services well, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** emergency, home, help, person, crime · **What happens:** be, come, not wake up, not breathe, happen · **To what, where:** life, danger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Calling emergency services well» 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 (emergency, home, help, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:036-calling-emergency-services.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 036-calling-emergency-services.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl:unmarked
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
45	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	acl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a emergency | someone's life and health or danger and a fire and a person and a bad injury or a crime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | home |  |  | danger | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | must | help |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **wake up** | future | a person and a bad injury or a crime |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **breathe** | can | a person and a bad injury or a crime *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **happen** | gerund | a crime *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:036-calling-emergency-services.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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