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title: Some small things in a home are far more dangerous than they look: a… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: small things, things, sized button battery. A sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the ev
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# Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** small things, things, sized button battery · **What happens:** be, look, size, do · **To what, where:** terrible harm, body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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 (small things, things, sized button battery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some small things in a home |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | can | a sized button battery and a pair of tiny strong magnets | terrible harm |  | a child's body |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.lesson:1`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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