Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 3

All three are slow: one second of cartoon can need a dozen or more pictures, so a few seconds can take an animator a whole day.

Who acts: three, one second, few seconds · What happens: be, need, take · To what, where: dozen, animator

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 (three, one second, few seconds), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 slow	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 second	nummod
7	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 need	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cartoon	case
9	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 second	nmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 need	aux
11	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dozen	det
13	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 need	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 pictures	cc
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 dozen	conj
16	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dozen	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 take	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 seconds	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seconds	amod
21	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 take	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 need	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 animator	det
25	animator	animator	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 day	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 day	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all three			slow property	tree rules
2	need	can	one second of cartoon	a dozen or pictures			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dozen=Theme
3	take	can	a few seconds	a animator	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animator=Theme

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:3.

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 ×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.

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