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title: Which is the best first try for a kid making a cartoon? — Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, com… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the best first try for a kid making a cartoon? Test 7 of lesson 23 «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons

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Which is the best first try for a kid making a cartoon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, try, make · **To what, where:** cartoon

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This is test 7 of lesson 23 «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons:t7:1
# text = Which is the best first try for a kid making a cartoon?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a kid; first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  | a cartoon |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cartoon=Product |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A whole series in one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons:t7:o1:1
# text = A whole series in one day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A very short animation, like a few seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons:t7:o2:1
# text = A very short animation, like a few seconds
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animation	animation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, kids cannot animate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing, kids cannot animate
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	animate	animate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **animate** | can | kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A two-hour film in one weekend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons:t7:o4:1
# text = A two-hour film in one weekend
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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