--- title: Cartoons break the rules of physics on purpose to be funny, like run… — Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cart… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons break the rules of physics on purpose to be funny, like running off a cliff and falling only after looking down. Who acts: Cartoons, physics. A sentence of the lesson «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, com…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/) / 16 # Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 16 Cartoons break the rules of physics on purpose to be funny, like running off a cliff and falling only after looking down. **Who acts:** Cartoons, physics · **What happens:** break, be, run off, fall, look down, rule · **To what, where:** rules, purpose, cliff 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 (Cartoons, physics), 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:16 # text = Cartoons break the rules of physics on purpose to be funny, like running off a cliff and falling only after looking down. # 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 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 physics physic NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 after after SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | Cartoons | the rules of physics | | purpose | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Cartoons *not said here* | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **run off** | gerund | Cartoons *not said here* | a cliff | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | gerund | Cartoons *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **look down** | gerund | Cartoons *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **rule** | | physics | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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:16`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, com…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/15/) - next →: [Voices, sound and music in films and c…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/)