Test 10 · Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons

How is a flipbook like a film?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: flipbook · What happens: be

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flipbook	det
4	flipbook	flipbook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 film	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 film	det
7	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flipbook	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a flipbook like a film					how 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.

The options

Option 1

Both need electricity to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Both	electricity					tree rules
2	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	electricity not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both show still pictures fast to look like movement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 pictures	advmod
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 show	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	advcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 movement	case
9	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Both	pictures				fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent picture=Recipient
2	look	to-infinitive	Both not said here					like movement	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Both are made of plasticine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 plasticine	case
5	plasticine	plasticine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Both				of plasticine	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Both show one picture only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 picture	nummod
4	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Both	one picture					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent picture=Recipient

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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