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title: In the UK the emergency number is 999 (112 also works); in the USA a… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK the emergency number is 999 (112 also works); in the USA and Canada it is 911, in Australia 000 and in New Zealand 111. Who acts: emergency number, number. A sentence of the lesson «When the police come» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# When the police come, sentence 22

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In the UK the emergency number is 999 (112 also works); in the USA and Canada it is 911, in Australia 000 and in New Zealand 111.

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**Who acts:** emergency number, number · **What happens:** be, work · **To what, where:** 999, UK, 911, USA

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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 (emergency number, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:22
# text = In the UK the emergency number is 999 (112 also works); in the USA and Canada it is 911, in Australia 000 and in New Zealand 111.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 384-when-the-police-come.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
31	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the emergency number | 999 |  | the UK |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | number | 911 |  | the USA and Canada and Australia and New Zealand |  |  | tree rules |

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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:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:22`.

**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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