--- title: Prank calls to 999 in England tied up the line while real people nee… — Calling emergency services well · tree and pragmatics description: Prank calls to 999 in England tied up the line while real people needed help, and the callers' families were visited by police. Who acts: Prank calls, real people, police. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prank calls, real people, police), 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:11 # text = Prank calls to 999 in England tied up the line while real people needed help, and the callers' families were visited by police. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 callers caller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 ' 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 visited visit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:agent _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tie up** | past | Prank calls to 999 in England | the line | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | | 2 | **need** | past | real people | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 3 | **visit** | past · passive | police | the callers's families | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | 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. **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:11`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Calling emergency services well, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/10/) - next →: [Calling emergency services well, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/)