Choose an Action from Want and Obstacle

Supplied materials

• Paper and a pencil, typed notes or a browser scratch area. Color names can replace colored supplies; drawn figures and timelines can replace performance.
• Complete teaching inputs: Original scene: a character wants to borrow a pencil, but the other character is busy. Which playable action directly addresses both objective and obstacle? Supplied candidates: (A) Ask for a pencil and offer to return it after the task (B) Claim the character has no goal (C) Ignore both the need and obstacle (D) Specify only a costume color with no action.
• Independent check: Original scene: a character wants to keep a seedling watered, but the cup is empty. Which playable action directly addresses both objective and obstacle? Supplied candidates: (A) Ask to refill the cup and point toward the plant (B) Claim the character has no goal (C) Ignore both the need and obstacle (D) Specify only a costume color with no action.

Learn the idea

Move from labels to transformations and reasons. Calculate dotted durations, compare semitone positions, reverse an ordered movement motif and connect a fictional character’s goal and obstacle to a playable action. An objective names what a fictional character wants. A playable action is something the character can do toward that objective while confronting the supplied obstacle.

Reason through the supplied case: The proposed action moves toward borrow a pencil while responding to the obstacle that the other character is busy. A playable action can be represented in speech, gesture or a written scene; an emotion label or costume choice alone does not define what the character does.

An emotion label alone does not specify an action. Keep the response grounded in the fictional scene; planning or reading it does not verify an acted performance.

1. Read the complete teaching inputs and mark the feature, rule or constraint being tested.
2. Compare the model decision with one rejected candidate; state the visible evidence or calculation that distinguishes them.
3. Solve the independent check and the three changed-input practice cases before reading feedback.
4. Write a two-line scene brief with a want and obstacle, then specify one action the character can take.
5. Check your artifact against these explicit criteria: The action is doable, relevant to the want and addresses the named obstacle without inventing a guaranteed result.

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Take it further

New-input analysis: Original scene: a character wants to tell someone an important message, but the conversation is interrupted. Which playable action directly addresses both objective and obstacle? Supplied candidates: (A) Claim the character has no goal (B) Ignore both the need and obstacle (C) Request a pause and state the message concisely (D) Specify only a costume color with no action. Expected relationship: Request a pause and state the message concisely. The proposed action moves toward tell someone an important message while responding to the obstacle that the conversation is interrupted. A playable action can be represented in speech, gesture or a written scene; an emotion label or costume choice alone does not define what the character does. Create your own artifact: Write a two-line scene brief with a want and obstacle, then specify one action the character can take. Completion criteria: The action is doable, relevant to the want and addresses the named obstacle without inventing a guaranteed result.

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