Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 16
Cartoons break the rules of physics on purpose to be funny, like running off a cliff and falling only after looking down.
Who acts: Cartoons, physics · What happens: break, be, run off, fall, look down, rule · To what, where: rules, purpose, cliff
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 (Cartoons, physics), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 break | nsubj |
| 2 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rules | det |
| 4 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 break | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 physics | case |
| 6 | physics | physic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rules | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 purpose | case |
| 8 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 break | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 funny | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 funny | cop |
| 11 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 break | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 running | punct |
| 13 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 14 running | mark |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 funny | advcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 running | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cliff | det |
| 17 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 running | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 falling | cc |
| 19 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 running | conj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 falling | advmod |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 looking | mark |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 falling | advcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 looking | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Cartoons | the rules of physics | purpose | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Cartoons not said here | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run off | gerund | Cartoons not said here | a cliff | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | gerund | Cartoons not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look down | gerund | Cartoons not said here | down property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | rule | physics | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/16/