Test 1 · Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons
Your mate says, "Cartoons are easy, you just draw once and the computer moves it." What is the best answer?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Cartoons, you, computer, best answer · What happens: say, be, draw, move · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 23 «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Your mate says, "Cartoons are easy, you just draw once and the computer moves it."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 easy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 easy | punct |
| 6 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 easy | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 easy | cop |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 draw | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 draw | nsubj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 draw | advmod |
| 12 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 easy | parataxis |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 draw | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 moves | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 computer | det |
| 16 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moves | nsubj |
| 17 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 draw | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 moves | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 easy | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 easy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Cartoons | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw in a quote | present | you | once property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | move in a quote | present | the computer | mate | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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.
Sentence 2: What is the best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Only stop-motion needs any work, the rest is automatic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 motion | advmod |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Only | cop |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 4 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needs | nsubj |
| 5 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 work | det |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 automatic | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rest | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rest | det |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | conj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 automatic | cop |
| 12 | automatic | automatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 needs | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | only property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | need | present | motion | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | any work and the rest | automatic property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Animators decide every move, slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animators | animator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 decide | nsubj |
| 2 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 move | det |
| 4 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decide | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 decide | punct |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 decide | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | Animators | every move | slowly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent move=Topic |
Option 3
Cartoons are really filmed with real actors in costumes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 filmed | aux:pass |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 filmed | advmod |
| 4 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 actors | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 actors | amod |
| 7 | actors | actor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filmed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 costumes | case |
| 9 | costumes | costume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filmed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | film | present · passive | Cartoons | costumes | with real actors | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in costume=Destination |
Option 4
He is right, the whole thing takes only a few minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 takes | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 takes | nsubj |
| 8 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 minutes | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 minutes | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 minutes | amod |
| 12 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 takes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the whole thing | minute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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