cartoon
part of speech
noun (a cartoon, cartoons)
meaning for a pupil
1) A film or TV show made from drawings or computer pictures that move, usually funny. tree →
2) A funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine, often about the news. tree →
3) A short story told in drawn pictures, like a comic strip. tree →
sense in the lessons
Children watch cartoons on TV; in lessons about media, cartoons show how pictures can tell stories and make jokes. In art, pupils draw their own cartoons. In safety, cartoon tricks (falling off cliffs and being fine) are not real. Phrases: «watch cartoons», «cartoon character», «a cartoon strip».
examples
- We watch cartoons on Saturday morning. tree →
- My favourite cartoon character is a talking dog. tree →
- She drew a cartoon of our teacher as a superhero. tree →
- The newspaper cartoon made fun of the mayor. tree →
- In cartoons, people fall from cliffs and get up, but real falls really hurt. tree →
- We made a cartoon strip with six boxes. tree →
- Old cartoons were drawn by hand. tree →
note
Countable: cartoons. «Cartoon» and «animation» overlap; animation can be serious too. In real life, people and animals do not bounce back like cartoon characters.
In the corpora
- Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS.
- Cartoons often use 12 to 24 pictures for every second of film; each single still picture is called a frame.
- Classic cartoons were drawn by hand, often on clear sheets called cels.
- Many TV cartoons are written in one country and drawn in another, often in South Korea, Japan or the Philippines.
- Ukraine has a long cartoon history: a Kyiv studio made the silly Cossacks cartoons from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cartoon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.