--- title: Calling the emergency number as a joke is wrong and can stop real em… — Calling emergency services well · tree and pragmatics description: Calling the emergency number as a joke is wrong and can stop real emergencies from getting help. Who acts: Calling. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Calling emergency services well](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/) / 20 # Calling emergency services well, sentence 20 Calling the emergency number as a joke is wrong and can stop real emergencies from getting help. **Who acts:** Calling · **What happens:** call, be, stop, get · **To what, where:** emergency number, real emergencies, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Calling), 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:20 # text = Calling the emergency number as a joke is wrong and can stop real emergencies from getting help. # 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 Calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 emergencies emergency NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 from from SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ _ 17 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | gerund | | the emergency number | | | | as a joke | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | Calling | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | can | Calling *not said here* | real emergencies | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality emergency=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | gerund | Calling *not said here* | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | 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:20`. **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/). - ← previous: [Calling emergency services well, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/19/) - next →: [Calling emergency services well, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/)