--- title: A girl in the UK swallowed two small magnets; they joined through he… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in the UK swallowed two small magnets; they joined through her gut and made holes in it, and she needed an operation. Who acts: girl, magnets. 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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 (girl, 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:16 # text = A girl in the UK swallowed two small magnets; they joined through her gut and made holes in it, and she needed an operation. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 13 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | past | a girl in the UK | two small magnets | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Patient | | 2 | **join** | past | magnets *= magnet* | | | girl's gut | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | past | magnets *= magnet* *not said here* | holes | | gut | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | | 4 | **need** | past | girl | a operation | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=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:16`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/15/) - next →: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/)