Event cognition is a rapidly developing and promising
research area. Meanwhile, some domains are not considered in
detail in this scope. In particular, event cognition is not
precisely explored from the perspective of cognitive
development. In this paper, we compare the capacity to cut a
visual narrative into events for kindergarten students, primary
school students, high school students and adults. “The pear
film” by W. Chafe (1975) is used as the material for our
experiment. We also examine a correlation between event
comprehension and other cognitive skills for primary school
students. Our work provides clear evidence that, in contrast
with high school students and adults, kindergarten students
and primary school students perceive visual narrative on the
surface level
