--- title: A button battery swallowed by a small child can burn through the thr… — Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles · tree and pragmatics description: A button battery swallowed by a small child can burn through the throat within about two hours, so it means going to hospital at once. Who acts: button battery, battery. 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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 (button battery, battery), 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:2 # text = A button battery swallowed by a small child can burn through the throat within about two hours, so it means going to hospital at once. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:agent _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:parataxis 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 within within ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 22 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 ccomp _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 21 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 | | a button battery *not said here* | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **burn** | can | a button battery | | | the throat | hour | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location | | 3 | **mean** | present | battery | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** | gerund | | | | hospital | | | 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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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): R5-strong ×2. **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: [Balconies, blades, batteries and stran…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/1/) - next →: [Balconies, blades, batteries and stran…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/)