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title: A girl in Texas called 911 when her grandpa collapsed but did not kn… — Calling emergency services well · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: girl, grandpa, it. A sentence of the lesson «Calling emergency services well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Calling emergency services well, sentence 10

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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.

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**Who acts:** girl, grandpa, it · **What happens:** call, collapse, not know, take, find, address · **To what, where:** 911, address, ambulance, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl, grandpa, it), 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:10
# text = 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.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Texas | 911 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=Recipient |
| 2 | **collapse** | past | girl's grandpa |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | girl's grandpa *not said here* | girl's address |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer address=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | past | it | the ambulance |  |  |  | long *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent ambulance=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the house |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
| 6 | **address** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:10`.

**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): R8-pos-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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