--- title: A little boy swallowed a button battery from a remote control; withi… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics description: A little boy swallowed a button battery from a remote control; within two hours it burned a hole in his throat, and he needed many operations. Who acts: little boy, battery, boy. 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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 (little boy, battery, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:18 # text = A little boy swallowed a button battery from a remote control; within two hours it burned a hole in his throat, and he needed many operations. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 remote remote ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 within within ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 operations operation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 little boy | a button battery | | a remote control | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | | 2 | **burn** | past | battery | a hole | | boy's throat | hour | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 3 | **need** | past | boy | many operations | | | | | 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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:18`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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