Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 14
Never prank call an emergency number (911, 999, 112, 000 or 111); it ties up help someone really needs and is against the law.
Who acts: you, number, someone · What happens: not call, tie up, need, be · To what, where: emergency number, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday 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 (you, number, someone), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 call | advmod |
| 2 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | compound |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 5 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 number | compound |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 911 | punct |
| 8 | 911 | 911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 number | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 999 | punct |
| 10 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 911 | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 112 | punct |
| 12 | 112 | 112 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 911 | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 000 | punct |
| 14 | 000 | 000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 911 | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 111 | cc |
| 16 | 111 | 111 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 000 | conj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 911 | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 ties | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ties | nsubj |
| 20 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 ties | compound:prt |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ties | obj |
| 23 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 needs | nsubj |
| 24 | really | really | ADV | _ | 25 needs | advmod |
| 25 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 law | cc |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 law | cop |
| 28 | against | against | ADP | _ | 30 law | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 law | det |
| 30 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 needs | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a emergency number | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tie up | present | number | help | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient | ||||
| 3 | need | present | someone | help not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | someone not said here | against the law | tree rules |
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:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:14.
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 ×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.
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