Masters of camouflage, sentence 2

Others change: a cuttlefish switches colour and pattern in less than a second, and a flounder matches the sea floor, while a decorator crab simply dresses itself in sponge and seaweed.

Who acts: Others, cuttlefish, flounder, decorator crab · What happens: change, switch, match, dress · To what, where: colour, sea floor, crab, sponge

This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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 (Others, cuttlefish, flounder, decorator crab), 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 switches	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cuttlefish	det
5	cuttlefish	cuttlefish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 switches	nsubj
6	switches	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	parataxis
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 switches	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pattern	cc
9	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 second	case
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	14 second	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 less	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 second	det
14	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 switches	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 matches	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 matches	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flounder	det
18	flounder	flounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 matches	nsubj
19	matches	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 switches	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 floor	compound
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 matches	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dresses	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 dresses	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 crab	det
26	decorator	decorator	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crab	compound
27	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dresses	nsubj
28	simply	simply	ADV	_	29 dresses	advmod
29	dresses	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 matches	advcl
30	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 dresses	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 sponge	case
32	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dresses	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 seaweed	cc
34	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sponge	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Others					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	switch	present	a cuttlefish	colour and pattern		second		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
3	match	present	a flounder	the sea floor				vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient
4	dress	present	a decorator crab	crab	sponge and seaweed		simply property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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:189-masters-of-camouflage.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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