Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 12
A swallowed button battery means going to hospital immediately.
Who acts: swallowed button battery · What happens: swallow, mean, go · To what, where: hospital
This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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), 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 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hospital | case |
| 8 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | 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 | mean | present | a swallowed button battery | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | gerund | a swallowed button battery not said here | hospital | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial_Location |
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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.lesson:12.
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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