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title: Hoax 999 calls take time away from real emergencies and can lead to… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: Hoax 999 calls take time away from real emergencies and can lead to trouble with the police. Who acts: Hoax 999 calls. A sentence of the lesson «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, sentence 15

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Hoax 999 calls take time away from real emergencies and can lead to trouble with the police.

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**Who acts:** Hoax 999 calls · **What happens:** take, lead

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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 (Hoax 999 calls), 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:15
# text = Hoax 999 calls take time away from real emergencies and can lead to trouble with the police.
# 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	Hoax	hoax	NOUN	NN	_	3	compound	_	_
2	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	_	12	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Hoax 999 calls |  |  |  | time | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lead** | can | Hoax 999 calls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to trouble with the police | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to trouble=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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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