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title: 999 reaches the police, an ambulance, the fire service or the coastg… — When the police come · tree and pragmatics
description: 999 reaches the police, an ambulance, the fire service or the coastguard (who rescue people at sea). Who acts: 999, coastguard. A sentence of the lesson «When the police come» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the police come, sentence 23

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999 reaches the police, an ambulance, the fire service or the coastguard (who rescue people at sea).

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**Who acts:** 999, coastguard · **What happens:** reach, rescue · **To what, where:** police, people, sea

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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 (999, coastguard), 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:23
# text = 999 reaches the police, an ambulance, the fire service or the coastguard (who rescue people at sea).
# 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	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	coastguard	coastguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rescue	rescue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **reach** | present | 999 | the police and a ambulance and the fire service or the coastguard |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent police=Theme |
| 2 | **rescue** | present | the coastguard | people |  | sea |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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**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.

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