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title: Prank or silly calls to emergency numbers can stop someone in real d… — Calling emergency services well · tree and pragmatics
description: Prank or silly calls to emergency numbers can stop someone in real danger getting help. Who acts: Prank. 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 23

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Prank or silly calls to emergency numbers can stop someone in real danger getting help.

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**Who acts:** Prank · **What happens:** stop, get · **To what, where:** someone, real danger, help

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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 (Prank), 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:23
# text = Prank or silly calls to emergency numbers can stop someone in real danger 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	Prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
15	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **stop** | can | Prank or silly calls to emergency numbers | someone |  | real danger |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality someone=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | gerund |  | help |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |

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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:23`.

**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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