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title: You should stay on the line until the call taker tells you to hang up. — Calling emergency services well · tree and pragmatics
description: You should stay on the line until the call taker tells you to hang up. Who acts: You, call taker. 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 every clause.
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# Calling emergency services well, sentence 17

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You should stay on the line until the call taker tells you to hang up.

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**Who acts:** You, call taker · **What happens:** stay, tell, hang up · **To what, where:** line, you · **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 (You, call taker), 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:17
# text = You should stay on the line until the call taker tells you to hang up.
# 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): no change
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	taker	taker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stay** | should | You |  |  | the line |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on line=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the call taker |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hang up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the call taker *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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