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title: Draw a stick man in the corner of every page of a notebook, moving h… — Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cart… · tree and pragmatics
description: Draw a stick man in the corner of every page of a notebook, moving his arm a little each time, then flick the pages: he waves, though no single drawing moves at all. Who acts: you, man, single drawing. A sentence of the lesson «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the arts course
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# Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 1

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Draw a stick man in the corner of every page of a notebook, moving his arm a little each time, then flick the pages: he waves, though no single drawing moves at all.

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**Who acts:** you, man, single drawing · **What happens:** draw, move, flick, wave, page · **To what, where:** stick man, corner, arm, pages, all, notebook

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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 (you, man, single drawing), 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:1
# text = Draw a stick man in the corner of every page of a notebook, moving his arm a little each time, then flick the pages: he waves, though no single drawing moves at all.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	notebook	notebook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	flick	flick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	waves	wave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det
33	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:amod
34	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | imperative | you *not said here* | a stick man |  | the corner of every page of a notebook |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in corner=Destination |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | you *not said here* | man's arm |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 3 | **flick** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the pages |  |  | then |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** | present | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **move** | present | no single drawing |  |  | all |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
| 6 | **page** |  |  | a notebook |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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 ×2. **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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