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title: Not every problem needs 999: for urgent but not life-threatening wor… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: Not every problem needs 999: for urgent but not life-threatening worries, like a high fever at night, UK families ring 111, and small injuries can go to an urgent treatment centre. Who acts: problem, UK families, small injuries. A sentence of the lesson «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the m
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# Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, sentence 3

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Not every problem needs 999: for urgent but not life-threatening worries, like a high fever at night, UK families ring 111, and small injuries can go to an urgent treatment centre.

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**Who acts:** problem, UK families, small injuries · **What happens:** not need, threaten, ring, go · **To what, where:** 999, 111, urgent treatment centre

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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 (problem, UK families, small injuries), 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:3
# text = Not every problem needs 999: for urgent but not life-threatening worries, like a high fever at night, UK families ring 111, and small injuries can go to an urgent treatment centre.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	threatening	threaten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ring	ring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
26	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **need** | present | every problem | 999 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **threaten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **ring** | present | UK families | 111 |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 111=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | can | small injuries |  |  | a urgent treatment centre |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to centre=Initial\_Location |

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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:3`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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