--- title: A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours… — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in gam… · tree and pragmatics description: A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours and needs hospital at once. Who acts: swallowed button battery. A sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Why people lie, harmful lies and cheat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks/) / 24 # Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 24 A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours and needs hospital at once. **Who acts:** swallowed button battery · **What happens:** swallow, burn, need · **To what, where:** throat, hospital This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:24 # text = A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours and needs hospital at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.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 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 _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 once once ADV RB _ 13 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **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 | **need** | present | a swallowed button battery *not said here* | hospital | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hospital=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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:24`. **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. **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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