Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 1

Some small things in a home are far more dangerous than they look: a coin-sized button battery and a pair of tiny strong magnets can do terrible harm inside a child's body.

Who acts: small things, things, sized button battery · What happens: be, look, size, do · To what, where: terrible harm, body

This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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 (small things, things, sized button battery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 things	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dangerous	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 home	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 home	det
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 things	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dangerous	cop
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 dangerous	advmod
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 look	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dangerous	advcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 battery	det
16	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sized	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 coin	punct
18	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 battery	amod
19	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 battery	compound
20	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pair	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pair	det
23	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 battery	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 magnets	case
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 magnets	amod
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 magnets	amod
27	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pair	nmod
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 look	conj
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 harm	amod
31	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	obj
32	inside	inside	ADP	_	36 body	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 child	det
34	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 body	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 child	case
36	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dangerous	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	some small things in a home			dangerous property	tree rules
2	look	present	things = thing				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	size	participle					tree rules
4	do	can	a sized button battery and a pair of tiny strong magnets	terrible harm	a child's body		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

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, 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:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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