Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 15
A toddler in Texas swallowed a button battery from a TV remote; within hours it burnt the inside of his throat, and he needed emergency surgery.
Who acts: toddler, Texas · What happens: swallow, burn, need · To what, where: button battery, TV remote, inside, emergency surgery
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 (toddler, Texas), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 toddler | det |
| 2 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swallowed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 toddler | nmod |
| 5 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 battery | det |
| 7 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 battery | compound |
| 8 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swallowed | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 remote | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 remote | det |
| 11 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remote | compound |
| 12 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 battery | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 burnt | punct |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 hours | case |
| 15 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 burnt | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 burnt | nsubj |
| 17 | burnt | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swallowed | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 inside | det |
| 19 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burnt | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 throat | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 throat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inside | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 needed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 needed | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 needed | nsubj |
| 26 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 burnt | conj |
| 27 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 surgery | compound |
| 28 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 needed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | a toddler in Texas | a button battery | a TV remote | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | |||
| 2 | burn | past | toddler | the inside of Texas's throat | hour | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | |||
| 3 | need | past | Texas | emergency surgery | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=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: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. 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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