Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 2
Cartoons show chameleons turning tartan on a tartan blanket; a real chameleon changes colour mostly to show its mood and signal to others, and to warm up or cool down.
Who acts: Cartoons, chameleons, real chameleon · What happens: show, turn, change, warm up, cool down · To what, where: chameleons, tartan, tartan blanket, colour, mood, others
This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 (Cartoons, chameleons, real chameleon), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | chameleons | chameleon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 chameleons | acl |
| 5 | tartan | tartan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 blanket | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blanket | det |
| 8 | tartan | tartan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blanket | amod |
| 9 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 changes | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chameleon | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chameleon | amod |
| 13 | chameleon | chameleon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changes | nsubj |
| 14 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | parataxis |
| 15 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changes | obj |
| 16 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 14 changes | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 changes | advcl |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mood | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 signal | cc |
| 22 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mood | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 others | case |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 show | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 warm | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 warm | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 warm | mark |
| 28 | warm | warm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 warm | compound:prt |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 cool | cc |
| 31 | cool | cool | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 warm | conj |
| 32 | down | down | ADP | _ | 31 cool | compound:prt |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Cartoons | chameleons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chameleon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | chameleons not said here | tartan | a tartan blanket | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme | |||
| 3 | change | present | a real chameleon | colour | mostly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | |||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | a real chameleon not said here | chameleon's mood and signal | others | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Topic to other=Recipient | |||
| 5 | warm up | to-infinitive | a real chameleon not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | cool down | infinitive | a real chameleon not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:2.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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