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title: 999 is the UK emergency number for ambulance, fire, police or coastg… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: 999 is the UK emergency number for ambulance, fire, police or coastguard, and 112 also works in the UK and across Europe. Who acts: 999, 112. 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 
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# Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, sentence 4

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999 is the UK emergency number for ambulance, fire, police or coastguard, and 112 also works in the UK and across Europe.

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**Who acts:** 999, 112 · **What happens:** be, work · **To what, where:** UK emergency number

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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 (999, 112), 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:4
# text = 999 is the UK emergency number for ambulance, fire, police or coastguard, and 112 also works in the UK and across Europe.
# 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	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	coastguard	coastguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | 999 | the UK emergency number |  |  |  | for ambulance and fire; police or coastguard *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | 112 |  |  |  |  | in the UK and Europe | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in uk=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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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