Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 4

Batteries also need care when they are old, leaking or swollen, because their chemicals burn skin and big lithium batteries can catch fire.

Who acts: Batteries, battery, chemicals, big lithium batteries · What happens: need, be, leak, burn, catch · To what, where: care, skin, fire

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 (Batteries, battery, chemicals, big lithium batteries), 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	Batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 old	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 old	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 need	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leaking	punct
10	leaking	leak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 old	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 swollen	cc
12	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaking	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burn	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 burn	mark
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 chemicals	nmod:poss
16	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 burn	nsubj
17	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	advcl
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burn	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 catch	cc
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 batteries	amod
21	lithium	lithium	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 batteries	compound
22	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 catch	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 catch	aux
24	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 burn	conj
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 catch	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Batteries	care		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme
2	is	present	battery		old property	tree rules
3	leak	gerund	battery not said here			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	burn	present	battery's chemicals	skin		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
5	catch	can	big lithium batteries	fire		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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:4.

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, R8-pos-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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