Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 18
Swallowing two or more small magnets can tear holes in the gut and needs urgent help.
Who acts: Swallowing · What happens: swallow, tear, need · To what, where: two small magnets, holes, gut, urgent 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 (Swallowing), 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 | Swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 tear | csubj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 magnets | nummod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 more | cc |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 two | conj |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 magnets | amod |
| 6 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Swallowing | obj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tear | aux |
| 8 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tear | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gut | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gut | det |
| 12 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holes | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 needs | cc |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tear | conj |
| 15 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 help | amod |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tear | 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 | gerund | two small magnets | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Patient | |||||
| 2 | tear | can | Swallowing | holes | the gut | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hole=Theme | |||
| 3 | need | present | Swallowing not said here | urgent help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:18.
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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