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title: Someone called 999, an ambulance came, and the boy had a concussion;… — What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone called 999, an ambulance came, and the boy had a concussion; he was fine after a week, but Jake could not sleep for nights. Who acts: Someone, ambulance, boy, Jake. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 11

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Someone called 999, an ambulance came, and the boy had a concussion; he was fine after a week, but Jake could not sleep for nights.

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**Who acts:** Someone, ambulance, boy, Jake · **What happens:** call, come, have, be, not sleep · **To what, where:** 999, concussion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» 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 (Someone, ambulance, boy, Jake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:11
# text = Someone called 999, an ambulance came, and the boy had a concussion; he was fine after a week, but Jake could not sleep for nights.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.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	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Someone | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past | a ambulance |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the boy | a concussion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concussion=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Jake |  |  |  | week | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **sleep** | could | Jake |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:11`.

**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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