Police, courts and prison, sentence 7

999 is the emergency number in the UK (112 also works, and in the USA and Canada it is 911); it is for real emergencies only, and prank calls block the line.

Who acts: 999, 112, siren, prank calls · What happens: be, work, block · To what, where: emergency number, UK, 911, USA, line

This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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, siren, prank calls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 number	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 number	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 number	det
4	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 number	compound
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 UK	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 UK	det
8	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 number	nmod
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 works	punct
10	112	112	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 works	nsubj
11	also	also	ADV	_	12 works	advmod
12	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 number	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 911	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 USA	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 USA	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 USA	det
17	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 911	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Canada	cc
19	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 USA	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 911	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 911	cop
22	911	911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 works	conj
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 works	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 emergencies	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 emergencies	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 emergencies	cop
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 emergencies	case
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 emergencies	amod
29	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 number	conj
30	only	only	ADV	_	29 emergencies	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 block	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 block	cc
33	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 calls	compound
34	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 block	nsubj
35	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 emergencies	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 line	det
37	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 block	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 number	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	999	the emergency number and real emergencies	the UK		tree rules
2	work	present	112				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	siren	911	the USA and Canada		tree rules
4	is	present	siren			for real emergencies	tree rules
5	block	present	prank calls	the line			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer line=Theme

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.

Licence: CC 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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:7.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

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