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title: The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and… — Calling emergency services well · tree and pragmatics
description: The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and Ireland, 000 in Australia and 111 in New Zealand. Who acts: emergency number. A sentence of the lesson «Calling emergency services well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Calling emergency services well, sentence 12

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The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and Ireland, 000 in Australia and 111 in New Zealand.

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**Who acts:** emergency number · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 911, USA

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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 number), 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:12
# text = The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada, 999 in the UK and Ireland, 000 in Australia and 111 in New Zealand.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:unmarked
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the emergency number | 911 |  | the USA and Canada |  | 999 in the UK and Ireland *nmod:unmarked* | 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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**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:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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