--- title: Babies, button batteries and magnets — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Babies, button batteries and magnets», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A baby's body is still weak in places: its neck cannot hold up its heavy head, and its brain can be badly hurt by shaking, so babies --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Babies, button batteries and magnets # Babies, button batteries and magnets Lesson 113 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/0/) — A baby's body is still weak in places: its neck cannot hold up its heavy head, and its brain can be badly hurt by shaking, so babies are handled only gently and only with a grown-up's say-so. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/1/) — Some small things in a home are far more dangerous than they look: a coin-sized button battery and a pair of tiny strong magnets can do terrible harm inside a child's body. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/2/) — A swallowed button battery makes a current in the wet throat and can burn through it within about two hours, and two swallowed magnets can pull together through the walls of the gut, the long tube food passes through, and tear it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/3/) — For example, a boy in Florida sees his baby sister holding the little round battery from the TV remote; he takes it away, tells his mum at once, and she checks whether any is missing. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/4/) — Batteries also need care when they are old, leaking or swollen, because their chemicals burn skin and big lithium batteries can catch fire. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/5/) — A baby should be picked up only when a grown-up says so and shows you how to support its head. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/6/) — A baby must never be shaken, because shaking can cause serious brain damage. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/7/) — Babies try to eat creams and wipes, so nappy cream, wipes and lotion are kept out of their reach. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/8/) — Cords, strings and long scarves are kept away from small children because they can wrap around the neck. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/9/) — A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within about two hours, so the child must go to hospital immediately. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/10/) — If a child swallows two small strong magnets, they can pull together through the gut and tear it, so medical help is needed at once. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/11/) — Batteries should be recycled at a battery bin, because in ordinary rubbish they can leak poison and start fires in bin lorries. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/12/) — The white crust on a leaking battery can burn skin, so it should not be touched with bare hands. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/13/) — A phone or tablet battery that swells or gets very hot can catch fire, so it should be unplugged and put on a hard surface away from things that burn. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/14/) — Strong magnets can wipe the strips on bank cards and damage some electronics. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/15/) — A toddler in Texas swallowed a button battery from a TV remote; within hours it burnt the inside of his throat, and he needed emergency surgery. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/16/) — A girl in the UK swallowed two small magnets; they joined through her gut and made holes in it, and she needed an operation. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/17/) — A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat in about two hours, so it needs emergency help straight away. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/18/) — Swallowing two or more small magnets can tear holes in the gut and needs urgent help. - ← previous: [Sharp things, small objects and little ones](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/) - next →: [Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)