--- title: Why is it dangerous if a small child swallows a button battery? — Balconies, blades, batteries and stran… · tree and pragmatics description: Why is it dangerous if a small child swallows a button battery? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Balconies, blades, batteries and stran…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles Why is it dangerous if a small child swallows a button battery? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it, small child · **What happens:** be, swallow · **To what, where:** button battery This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t5:1 # text = Why is it dangerous if a small child swallows a button battery? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | it | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **swallow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a small child | a button battery | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} It passes through and does no harm ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t5:o1:1 # text = It passes through and does no harm 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 through through ADP IN _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass through** | present | It | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | present | | no harm | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} It can burn through the throat within about two hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t5:o2:1 # text = It can burn through the throat within about two hours 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 within within ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | can | It | | | the throat | hour | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} It only causes a small tummy ache ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t5:o3:1 # text = It only causes a small tummy ache 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 ache ache NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present | It | a small tummy ache | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ache=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} It makes the child feel full ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t5:o4:1 # text = It makes the child feel full 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | It | the child | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | infinitive | the child *not said here* | | | | | full *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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