Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 16

A girl in the UK swallowed two small magnets; they joined through her gut and made holes in it, and she needed an operation.

Who acts: girl, magnets · What happens: swallow, join, make, need · To what, where: two small magnets, gut, holes, operation

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 (girl, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallowed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 UK	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 UK	det
5	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 magnets	nummod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 magnets	amod
9	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swallowed	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 joined	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 joined	nsubj
12	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swallowed	parataxis
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 gut	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 gut	nmod:poss
15	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 joined	conj
18	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 holes	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 needed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 needed	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 needed	nsubj
24	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swallowed	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 operation	det
26	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 needed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swallow	past	a girl in the UK	two small magnets		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Patient
2	join	past	magnets = magnet		girl's gut	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	magnets = magnet not said here	holes	gut	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
4	need	past	girl	a operation		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=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:16.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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