Phones and how a call travels, sentence 18
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 · What happens: connect, send, work, say, be · To what, where: you, police · Speech: someone speaks here
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 number | compound |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 connects | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 999 | punct |
| 5 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 number | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 UK | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 UK | det |
| 8 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 999 | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 112 | cc |
| 10 | 112 | 112 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 999 | conj |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 Europe | case |
| 12 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 112 | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 UK | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 UK | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 UK | det |
| 16 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Europe | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 number | punct |
| 18 | connects | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 connects | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 operator | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 operator | det |
| 22 | operator | operator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 connects | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sends | nsubj |
| 24 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 operator | acl:relcl |
| 25 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sends | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fire | punct |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 police | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ambulance | punct |
| 29 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 police | conj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 coastguard | cc |
| 31 | coastguard | coastguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ambulance | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 works | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 works | nsubj |
| 34 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 connects | conj |
| 35 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 credit | case |
| 36 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 works | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 say | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 say | cc |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 say | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 say | aux |
| 41 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 works | conj |
| 42 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 41 say | advmod |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 say | ccomp |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 where | nsubj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 where | cop |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 connects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | 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 |
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: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.
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