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title: A defibrillator gives an electric shock to restart a heart with a da… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: A defibrillator gives an electric shock to restart a heart with a dangerous rhythm; public ones, often in a box marked AED, give spoken instructions and only shock if the heart needs it; unlike in films, the person often needs more CPR and hospital care, and it doesn't always work. Who acts: defibri
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# Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E, sentence 9

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A defibrillator gives an electric shock to restart a heart with a dangerous rhythm; public ones, often in a box marked AED, give spoken instructions and only shock if the heart needs it; unlike in films, the person often needs more CPR and hospital care, and it doesn't always work.

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**Who acts:** defibrillator, box, public ones, heart, person · **What happens:** give, restart, mark, speak, need, not work · **To what, where:** electric shock, heart, AED, spoken instructions, box, defibrillator · **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 (defibrillator, box, public ones, heart), 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:9
# text = A defibrillator gives an electric shock to restart a heart with a dangerous rhythm; public ones, often in a box marked AED, give spoken instructions and only shock if the heart needs it; unlike in films, the person often needs more CPR and hospital care, and it doesn't always work.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	defibrillator	defibrillator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	restart	restart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	AED	AED	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	often	often	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
46	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	amod	_	_
47	CPR	cpr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=47:cc
49	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=45:cc
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
55	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
56	always	always	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | present | a defibrillator | a electric shock |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme |
| 2 | **restart** | to-infinitive | a defibrillator *not said here* | a heart |  |  |  | with a dangerous rhythm | tree rules |
| 3 | **mark** | participle | a box *not said here* | AED |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent aed=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive | public ones | spoken instructions and shock |  | a box |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the heart | defibrillator |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 7 | **need** | present | the person | more CPR and hospital care |  |  |  | unlike films; often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cpr=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | heart |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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