Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 10

If a child swallows two small strong magnets, they can pull together through the gut and tear it, so medical help is needed at once.

Who acts: child, magnets · What happens: swallow, pull together, tear, need · To what, where: two small strong magnets, gut, child, medical help

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 (child, magnets), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 swallows	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallows	nsubj
4	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pull	advcl
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 magnets	nummod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 magnets	amod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 magnets	amod
8	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swallows	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swallows	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pull	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pull	aux
12	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 pull	advmod
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 gut	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gut	det
16	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pull	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tear	cc
18	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pull	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tear	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 needed	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 needed	advmod
22	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 help	amod
23	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 needed	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 needed	aux:pass
25	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tear	advcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	fixed
27	once	once	ADV	_	25 needed	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pull	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	swallow a condition, not said to happen	present	a child	two small strong magnets			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Patient
2	pull together	can	magnets = magnet		the gut	together property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tear	infinitive	magnets = magnet not said here	child			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
4	need	present · passive		medical help		once property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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, 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:10.

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): no change. 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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