--- title: Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have fo… — Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cart… · tree and pragmatics description: Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have four fingers because it is quicker to draw and looks clearer. Who acts: Many cartoon characters, it. 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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 (Many cartoon characters, it), 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:15 # text = Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have four fingers because it is quicker to draw and looks clearer. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Mickey mickey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Simpsons simpson PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 quicker quick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 advcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 clearer clear ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Many cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons | four fingers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | it | | | | | quick *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **draw** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look** | present | | | | | | clear *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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): 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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