--- title: A toddler in Texas swallowed a button battery from a TV remote; with… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: toddler, Texas. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toddler, Texas), 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:15 # text = 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. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 remote remote NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 within within ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 burnt burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 27 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 surgery surgery NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | past | a toddler in Texas | a button battery | | a TV remote | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | | 2 | **burn** | past | toddler | the inside of Texas's throat | | | hour | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | | 3 | **need** | past | Texas | emergency surgery | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=Theme | 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. **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:15`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/14/) - next →: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/)