Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 2
A swallowed button battery makes a current in the wet throat and can burn through it within about two hours, and two swallowed magnets can pull together through the walls of the gut, the long tube food passes through, and tear it.
Who acts: swallowed button battery, two swallowed magnets, long tube food · What happens: swallow, make, burn, pull together, pass through, tear · To what, where: current, wet throat, throat, walls, food
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 (swallowed button battery, two swallowed magnets, long tube food), 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 | 4 battery | det |
| 2 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 battery | amod |
| 3 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 battery | compound |
| 4 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 current | det |
| 7 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 throat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 throat | det |
| 10 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 throat | amod |
| 11 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burn | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 burn | aux |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 makes | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 burn | obl |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 hours | case |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 two | advmod |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hours | nummod |
| 20 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burn | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pull | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pull | cc |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 magnets | nummod |
| 24 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 magnets | amod |
| 25 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pull | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 pull | aux |
| 27 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 makes | conj |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 pull | advmod |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 walls | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 walls | det |
| 31 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pull | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gut | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 gut | det |
| 34 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 walls | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 passes | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 food | det |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 food | amod |
| 38 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 food | compound |
| 39 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 passes | nsubj |
| 40 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | parataxis |
| 41 | through | through | ADV | _ | 40 passes | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 tear | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 tear | cc |
| 44 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 passes | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 tear | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | a swallowed button battery | a current | the wet throat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset current=Product | |||
| 3 | burn | can | a swallowed button battery not said here | throat | hour | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location | |||
| 4 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | pull together | can | two swallowed magnets | the walls of the gut | together property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | pass through | present | the long tube food | through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tear | infinitive | the long tube food not said here | food | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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:2.
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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