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title: A phone or tablet battery that swells or gets very hot can catch fir… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: phone battery, things. A sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with
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# Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 13

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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.

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**Who acts:** phone battery, things · **What happens:** swell, get, catch, unplug, put, burn · **To what, where:** fire, hard surface

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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 (phone battery, things), 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:13
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
5	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	unplugged	unplug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell** | present | a phone battery |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **get** | present | a phone battery *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **catch** | can |  | fire |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 4 | **unplug** | should · passive |  | fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | a hard surface |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on surface=Destination |
| 6 | **burn** | present | things |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:13`.

**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): 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.

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

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