Test 7 · Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons
Which is the best first try for a kid making a cartoon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, try, make · To what, where: cartoon
This is test 7 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 best | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 best | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 try | advmod |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 best | csubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 kid | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kid | det |
| 9 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | obl |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 try | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cartoon | det |
| 12 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | infinitive | for a kid; first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a cartoon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cartoon=Product |
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 · ← Mova's choice
A whole series in one day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 series | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 series | amod |
| 3 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 series | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A very short animation, like a few seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 animation | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 short | advmod |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animation | amod |
| 4 | animation | animation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seconds | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 seconds | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 seconds | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seconds | amod |
| 9 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 animation | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nothing, kids cannot animate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 animate | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 animate | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 animate | advmod |
| 6 | animate | animate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not animate | can | kids | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A two-hour film in one weekend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 film | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hour | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 two | punct |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 film | compound |
| 5 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 weekend | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 weekend | nummod |
| 8 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 film | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/t7/