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title: A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat in about two… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat in about two hours, so it needs emergency help straight away. Who acts: swallowed button battery, throat. A sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 17

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A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat in about two hours, so it needs emergency help straight away.

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**Who acts:** swallowed button battery, throat · **What happens:** swallow, burn, need · **To what, where:** throat, emergency 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 (swallowed button battery, throat), 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:17
# text = A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat in about two hours, so it needs emergency help straight away.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **burn** | can | a swallowed button battery |  |  | the throat | hour |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location |
| 3 | **need** | present | throat | emergency help |  |  |  | away *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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**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.

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