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title: If a child swallows two small strong magnets, they can pull together… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: child, magnets. A sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 10

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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.

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**Who acts:** child, magnets · **What happens:** swallow, pull together, tear, need · **To what, where:** two small strong magnets, gut, child, medical help

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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 (child, magnets), 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:10
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **swallow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a child | two small strong magnets |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Patient |
| 2 | **pull together** | can | magnets *= magnet* |  |  | the gut |  | together *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tear** | infinitive | magnets *= magnet* *not said here* | child |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present · passive |  | medical help |  |  |  | once *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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:10`.

**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): no change. **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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