Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 2

A button battery swallowed by a small child can burn through the throat within about two hours, so it means going to hospital at once.

Who acts: button battery, battery · What happens: swallow, burn, mean, go · To what, where: button battery, throat, hospital · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (button battery, 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	3 battery	det
2	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 battery	compound
3	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burn	nsubj
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 battery	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swallowed	obl:agent
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 burn	aux
10	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 throat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 throat	det
13	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burn	obl
14	within	within	ADP	_	17 hours	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 two	advmod
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hours	nummod
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 burn	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 battery	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 means	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 means	nsubj
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 burn	parataxis
22	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 means	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 hospital	case
24	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 going	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 going	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	swallow	participle		a button battery not said here			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burn	can	a button battery		the throat	hour	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location
3	mean	present	battery				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	gerund			hospital		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: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): R5-strong ×2. 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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