More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 17

Chameleons change colour mainly to show mood, warm up or cool down and send signals, not mostly to match what they sit on, and they could never copy a tartan pattern.

Who acts: Chameleons · What happens: change, show, warm up, cool down, send, not match · To what, where: colour, mood, signals, tartan pattern

This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology 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 (Chameleons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
4	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	2 change	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	advcl
7	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 warm	punct
9	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 warm	compound:prt
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 cool	cc
12	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 cool	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 send	cc
15	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
16	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 send	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 match	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 match	advmod
19	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	21 match	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 match	mark
21	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 send	conj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 match	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sit	nsubj
24	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
25	on	on	ADV	_	24 sit	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 copy	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 copy	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 copy	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 copy	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 copy	advmod
31	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 pattern	det
33	tartan	tartan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pattern	amod
34	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 copy	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	present	Chameleons	colour	mainly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here	mood		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient
3	warm up	infinitive	Chameleons not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	cool down	infinitive	Chameleons not said here		down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	send	infinitive	Chameleons not said here	signals		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme
6	not match	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here		mostly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
7	sit on	present	Chameleons = chameleon			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not copy	could	Chameleons = chameleon	a tartan pattern		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme

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, 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:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:17.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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