Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 18

A little boy swallowed a button battery from a remote control; within two hours it burned a hole in his throat, and he needed many operations.

Who acts: little boy, battery, boy · What happens: swallow, burn, need · To what, where: button battery, remote control, hole, throat, many operations

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 (little boy, battery, boy), 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	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallowed	nsubj
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 battery	det
6	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 battery	compound
7	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallowed	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 control	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 control	det
10	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 control	amod
11	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 battery	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 burned	punct
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 hours	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hours	nummod
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 burned	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burned	nsubj
17	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swallowed	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hole	det
19	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burned	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 throat	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 throat	nmod:poss
22	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hole	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 needed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 needed	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 needed	nsubj
26	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 burned	conj
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 operations	amod
28	operations	operation	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 needed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	swallow	past	a little boy	a button battery	a remote control		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient
2	burn	past	battery	a hole	boy's throat	hour	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
3	need	past	boy	many operations			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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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