--- title: A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within about… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics description: A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within about two hours, so the child must go to hospital immediately. Who acts: swallowed button battery, child. 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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, child), 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:9 # text = A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within about two hours, so the child must go to hospital immediately. # 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 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 within within 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 , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | 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 | **go** | must | the child | | | hospital | | immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial\_Location | 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:9`. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/8/) - next →: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/)