Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 20
A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat in about two hours, so it is always an emergency.
Who acts: swallowed button battery, battery · What happens: swallow, burn, be · To what, where: throat, emergency
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, 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 | 6 burn | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 burn | aux |
| 6 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 throat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throat | det |
| 9 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burn | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hours | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 two | advmod |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hours | nummod |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 emergency | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 emergency | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 emergency | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 emergency | cop |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 emergency | advmod |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 emergency | det |
| 20 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burn | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burn | 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 | burn | can | a swallowed button battery | the throat | hour | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | present | battery | a emergency | always property | tree rules |
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:20.
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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