--- title: A swallowed button battery makes a current in the wet throat and can… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics description: A swallowed button battery makes a current in the wet throat and can burn through it within about two hours, and two swallowed magnets can pull together through the walls of the gut, the long tube food passes through, and tear it. 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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 (swallowed button battery, two swallowed magnets, long tube food), 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:2 # text = A swallowed button battery makes a current in the wet throat and can burn through it within about two hours, and two swallowed magnets can pull together through the walls of the gut, the long tube food passes through, and tear it. # 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 5 nsubj _ _ 5 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 within within ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 28 together together ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 41 through through ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | a swallowed button battery | a current | | the wet throat | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset current=Product | | 3 | **burn** | can | a swallowed button battery *not said here* | | | throat | hour | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location | | 4 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pull together** | can | two swallowed magnets | | | the walls of the gut | | together *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pass through** | present | the long tube food | | | | | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **tear** | infinitive | the long tube food *not said here* | food | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/1/) - next →: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/)