Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 1
Draw a stick man in the corner of every page of a notebook, moving his arm a little each time, then flick the pages: he waves, though no single drawing moves at all.
Who acts: you, man, single drawing · What happens: draw, move, flick, wave, page · To what, where: stick man, corner, arm, pages, all, notebook
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the arts 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 (you, man, single drawing), 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 | Draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Draw | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Draw | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 page | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 page | det |
| 10 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corner | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 notebook | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 notebook | det |
| 13 | notebook | notebook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 page | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moving | punct |
| 15 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Draw | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moving | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moving | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flick | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 flick | advmod |
| 24 | flick | flick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Draw | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pages | det |
| 26 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 flick | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 waves | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 waves | nsubj |
| 29 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 flick | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 waves | punct |
| 31 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 35 moves | mark |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 drawing | det |
| 33 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 drawing | amod |
| 34 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 moves | nsubj |
| 35 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 waves | advcl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 all | case |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 moves | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Draw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | imperative | you not said here | a stick man | the corner of every page of a notebook | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in corner=Destination | |||
| 2 | move | gerund | you not said here | man's arm | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | flick | infinitive | you not said here | the pages | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Theme | |||
| 4 | wave | present | man | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | move | present | no single drawing | all | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | page | a notebook | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:arts:023-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons.lesson:1.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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