Calling emergency services well, sentence 11
Prank calls to 999 in England tied up the line while real people needed help, and the callers' families were visited by police.
Who acts: Prank calls, real people, police · What happens: tie up, need, visit · To what, where: line, help, families
This is a sentence of the lesson «Calling emergency services well» 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 (Prank calls, real people, police), 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 | Prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | compound |
| 2 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 999 | case |
| 4 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 calls | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 England | case |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | nmod |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 tied | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 line | det |
| 10 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | obj |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 needed | mark |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 needed | nsubj |
| 14 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tied | advcl |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 visited | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 visited | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 callers | det |
| 19 | callers | caller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 families | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 19 callers | case |
| 21 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 visited | aux:pass |
| 23 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tied | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 police | case |
| 25 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 visited | obl:agent |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | past | Prank calls to 999 in England | the line | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | ||||
| 2 | need | past | real people | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 3 | visit | past · passive | police | the callers's families | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent |
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:036-calling-emergency-services.lesson:11.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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