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title: Classic cartoons were drawn by hand, often on clear sheets called ce… — Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cart… · tree and pragmatics
description: Classic cartoons were drawn by hand, often on clear sheets called cels. Who acts: hand, clear sheets. A sentence of the lesson «Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons, sentence 8

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Classic cartoons were drawn by hand, often on clear sheets called cels.

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**Who acts:** hand, clear sheets · **What happens:** draw, call · **To what, where:** Classic cartoons, clear sheets, cels · **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 (hand, clear sheets), 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:8
# text = Classic cartoons were drawn by hand, often on clear sheets called cels.
# 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): no change
1	Classic	classic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	cels	cel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **draw** | past · passive | hand | Classic cartoons |  | clear sheets |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on sheet=Destination |
| 2 | **call** | participle | clear sheets *not said here* | cels |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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