--- title: Batteries also need care when they are old, leaking or swollen, beca… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics description: Batteries also need care when they are old, leaking or swollen, because their chemicals burn skin and big lithium batteries can catch fire. Who acts: Batteries, battery, chemicals, big lithium batteries. 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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 (Batteries, battery, chemicals, big lithium batteries), 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:4 # text = Batteries also need care when they are old, leaking or swollen, because their chemicals burn skin and big lithium batteries can catch fire. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 leaking leak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 swollen swollen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 lithium lithium NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 25 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Batteries | care | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | battery | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **leak** | gerund | battery *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 4 | **burn** | present | battery's chemicals | skin | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 5 | **catch** | can | big lithium batteries | fire | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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:4`. **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, R8-pos-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/3/) - next →: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/)