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title: In an emergency the most important thing is to tell the services whe… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: In an emergency the most important thing is to tell the services where you are, so children should learn their full address and postcode. Who acts: important thing, you, children, things. A sentence of the lesson «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school w
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# Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, sentence 12

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In an emergency the most important thing is to tell the services where you are, so children should learn their full address and postcode.

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**Who acts:** important thing, you, children, things · **What happens:** be, learn, address · **To what, where:** emergency, full address · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the medicine 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 (important thing, you, children, things), 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:12
# text = In an emergency the most important thing is to tell the services where you are, so children should learn their full address and postcode.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	ccomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	postcode	postcode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | the important thing |  |  | a emergency |  | tell *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | should | children | things's full address and postcode |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Topic |
| 4 | **address** |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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:medicine:026-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e.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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