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title: Stop-motion looks jumpy if the camera moves, the light changes or th… — Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cart… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stop-motion looks jumpy if the camera moves, the light changes or the table is bumped, so animators fix the camera on a stand called a tripod. Who acts: Stop motion, camera, light, animators. A sentence of the lesson «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's
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# Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 12

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Stop-motion looks jumpy if the camera moves, the light changes or the table is bumped, so animators fix the camera on a stand called a tripod.

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**Who acts:** Stop motion, camera, light, animators, stand · **What happens:** stop, look, move, change, bump, fix · **To what, where:** table, camera, stand, tripod · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Stop motion, camera, light, animators), 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:12
# text = Stop-motion looks jumpy if the camera moves, the light changes or the table is bumped, so animators fix the camera on a stand called a tripod.
# 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 ×1
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	jumpy	jumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
8	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	bumped	bump	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	animators	animator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fix	fix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tripod	tripod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | present | Stop motion |  |  |  |  | jumpy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **move** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the camera |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **change** | present | the light |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bump** | present · passive |  | the table |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **fix** | present | animators | the camera |  | a stand |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent camera=Patient |
| 7 | **call** | participle | a stand *not said here* | a tripod |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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