Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 15
Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have four fingers because it is quicker to draw and looks clearer.
Who acts: Many cartoon characters, it · What happens: have, be, draw, look · To what, where: four fingers
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 (Many cartoon characters, it), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 characters | amod |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 characters | compound |
| 3 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mouse | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 Mouse | case |
| 6 | Mickey | mickey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mouse | compound |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 characters | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Simpsons | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Simpsons | det |
| 10 | Simpsons | simpson | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 characters | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 characters | punct |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fingers | nummod |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 quicker | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 quicker | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 quicker | cop |
| 18 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 have | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 draw | mark |
| 20 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 quicker | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looks | cc |
| 22 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 quicker | conj |
| 23 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 looks | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons | four fingers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | look | present | clear property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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