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title: We're at 14 Oak Street, Denver, the blue house." Then he stays on th… — Calling emergency services well · tree and pragmatics
description: We're at 14 Oak Street, Denver, the blue house." Then he stays on the line, does what he is told, and does not hang up until the call taker says so. Who acts: boy, call taker. A sentence of the lesson «Calling emergency services well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Calling emergency services well, sentence 7

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We're at 14 Oak Street, Denver, the blue house." Then he stays on the line, does what he is told, and does not hang up until the call taker says so.

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**Who acts:** boy, call taker · **What happens:** be, stay, do, tell, not hang up, say · **To what, where:** 14, line, boy · **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 (boy, 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:7
# text = We're at 14 Oak Street, Denver, the blue house." Then he stays on the line, does what he is told, and does not hang up until the call taker says so.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	're	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Denver	Denver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	taker	taker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **be** | present |  |  |  | 14  Oak |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | present | boy |  |  | the line | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on line=Location |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · passive |  | boy |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **hang up** *in a quote* | present · do-support | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the call taker |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:7`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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