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title: The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada. — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics
description: The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada. Who acts: emergency number. A sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 12

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The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada.

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

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:12
# text = The emergency number is 911 in the USA and Canada.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | the emergency number | 911 |  | the USA and Canada |  |  | 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:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:12`.

**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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