--- title: Animation is a lovely trick on your brain: lots of still pictures, e… — Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cart… · tree and pragmatics description: Animation is a lovely trick on your brain: lots of still pictures, each a tiny bit different, are shown so fast that your eyes and brain blend them into movement. Who acts: Animation, lots, eyes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Animation, lots, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:023-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons.lesson:0 # text = Animation is a lovely trick on your brain: lots of still pictures, each a tiny bit different, are shown so fast that your eyes and brain blend them into movement. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 023-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Animation animation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 19 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 blend blend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Animation | a lovely trick | | your brain | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | present · passive | lots of pictures *not said here* | each | | | | fast *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **blend** | present | your eyes and brain | pictures *= picture* | | | | into movement | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient into movement=Co-Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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. 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