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title: The emergency number, 999 in the UK and 112 across Europe and in the… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics
description: The emergency number, 999 in the UK and 112 across Europe and in the UK, connects you to an operator who sends police, fire, ambulance or coastguard; it works without credit, and you must say clearly where you are. Who acts: emergency number, operator, coastguard, you. A sentence of the lesson «Phon
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# Phones and how a call travels, sentence 18

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The emergency number, 999 in the UK and 112 across Europe and in the UK, connects you to an operator who sends police, fire, ambulance or coastguard; it works without credit, and you must say clearly where you are.

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**Who acts:** emergency number, operator, coastguard, you · **What happens:** connect, send, work, say, be · **To what, where:** you, police · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology 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 (emergency number, operator, coastguard, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson:18
# text = The emergency number, 999 in the UK and 112 across Europe and in the UK, connects you to an operator who sends police, fire, ambulance or coastguard; it works without credit, and you must say clearly where you are.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	operator	operator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:appos
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	coastguard	coastguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=34:cc
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
42	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	ccomp	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present | the emergency number | you |  |  |  | to a operator | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to operator=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **send** | present | a operator | police and fire and ambulance or coastguard |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | present | coastguard |  |  |  |  | without credit | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | must | you |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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:technology:035-phones-and-how-a-call-travels.lesson:18`.

**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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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