Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries, sentence 15

A swallowed button cell battery can burn a child's throat within hours, even if it seems flat, so a child who may have swallowed one goes to hospital at once.

Who acts: swallowed cell battery, it, child · What happens: swallow, burn, seem, go · To what, where: throat, one, hospital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» of the technology 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 cell battery, it, child), 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	5 battery	det
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 battery	amod
3	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cell	compound
4	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 battery	compound
5	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	aux
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throat	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 child	case
11	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	obj
12	within	within	ADP	_	13 hours	case
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burn	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seems	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 seems	advmod
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 seems	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seems	nsubj
18	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	advcl
19	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seems	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 goes	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	29 goes	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 goes	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 swallowed	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 swallowed	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 swallowed	aux
27	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 child	acl:relcl
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 swallowed	obj
29	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 hospital	case
31	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 goes	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	_	29 goes	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burn	can	a swallowed cell battery	a child's throat		hour		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent throat=Theme
3	seem a condition, not said to happen	present	it				flat property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	swallow	may · perfect	a child	one				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	go	present	a child		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:technology:016-electricity-dangers.lesson:15.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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