Safe toys for you and little ones, sentence 9

A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within hours, so give a loose one to an adult at once; swallowing one is an emergency.

Who acts: swallowed button battery, swallowing · What happens: swallow, burn, give, be · To what, where: throat, loose one, adult, one, emergency

This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys for you and little ones» 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, swallowing), 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	within	within	ADP	_	11 hours	case
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 give	advmod
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 burn	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 adult	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 adult	det
20	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 give	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 swallowing	punct
24	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 emergency	csubj
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 swallowing	obj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 emergency	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 emergency	det
28	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 burn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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	give	infinitive		a loose one	a adult			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme to adult=Recipient at once=Asset
4	swallow	gerund		one				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	is a	present	swallowing	a emergency				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:241-safe-toys.lesson:9.

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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