--- title: The call handler is trained to help even a frightened child: they as… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics description: The call handler is trained to help even a frightened child: they ask where you are and what happened, send help, and tell you what to do until it arrives, so you don't hang up. Who acts: call handler, they, you, handler. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (call handler, they, you, handler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:026-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e.lesson:1 # text = The call handler is trained to help even a frightened child: they ask where you are and what happened, send help, and tell you what to do until it arrives, so you don't hang up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 026-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 handler handler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 ccomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 nsubj _ _ 20 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 send send NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound 23 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 31 until until SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **train** | present · passive | | the call handler | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | the call handler *not said here* | | a frightened child | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | they | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | you | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 8 | **arrive** | present | handler | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **not** **hang up** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:medicine:026-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/0/) - next →: [Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/)