--- title: A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours,… — Safe toys for you and little ones · tree and pragmatics description: A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours, so give a loose one to an adult at once; swallowing one is an emergency. Who acts: swallowed button battery, swallowing. 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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, swallowing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:241-safe-toys.lesson:9 # text = A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours, so give a loose one to an adult at once; swallowing one is an emergency. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 241-safe-toys.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 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 _ 11 case _ _ 11 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 14 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 swallowing swallow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 csubj _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **burn** | can | a swallowed button battery | | | the throat | hour | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location | | 3 | **give** | infinitive | | a loose one | a adult | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme to adult=Recipient at once=Asset | | 4 | **swallow** | gerund | | one | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | swallowing | a emergency | | | | | tree rules | 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:241-safe-toys.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Safe toys for you and little ones, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/241-safe-toys/8/) - next →: [Safe toys for you and little ones, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/241-safe-toys/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/241-safe-toys/)