--- title: A swallowed button cell battery can burn a child's throat within hou… — Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers an… · tree and pragmatics description: A swallowed button cell battery can burn a child's throat within hours, even if it seems flat, so a child who may have swallowed one goes to hospital at once. Who acts: swallowed cell battery, it, child. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» of the te --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/16-electricity-dangers/15/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Electricity dangers: sockets, water, c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/16-electricity-dangers/) / 15 # Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries, sentence 15 A swallowed button cell battery can burn a child's throat within hours, even if it seems flat, so a child who may have swallowed one goes to hospital at once. **Who acts:** swallowed cell battery, it, child · **What happens:** swallow, burn, seem, go · **To what, where:** throat, one, hospital This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» of the technology 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 cell battery, it, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:016-electricity-dangers.lesson:15 # text = A swallowed button cell battery can burn a child's throat within hours, even if it seems flat, so a child who may have swallowed one goes to hospital at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 016-electricity-dangers.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 3 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 9 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 within within ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 19 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 21 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 25 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux _ _ 27 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 obj _ _ 29 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 once once ADV RB _ 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 cell battery | a child's throat | | | hour | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent throat=Theme | | 3 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it | | | | | flat *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **swallow** | may · perfect | a child | one | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 5 | **go** | present | a child | | | 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:technology:016-electricity-dangers.lesson:15`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Electricity dangers: sockets, water, c…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/16-electricity-dangers/14/) - next →: [Electricity dangers: sockets, water, c…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/16-electricity-dangers/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/16-electricity-dangers/)