Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 15

Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood, to signal to other chameleons and to warm up or cool down; on a chessboard a chameleon would not turn checked.

Who acts: Chameleons, chameleon · What happens: change, show, signal, warm up, cool down, not turn · To what, where: colour, mood, other chameleons, chessboard

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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, 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	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	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 change	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mood	nmod:poss
8	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 signal	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 signal	mark
11	signal	signal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 chameleons	case
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chameleons	amod
14	chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 signal	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 warm	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 warm	mark
17	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 warm	compound:prt
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 cool	cc
20	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 warm	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 cool	compound:prt
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 turn	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 chessboard	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 chessboard	det
25	chessboard	chessboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 chameleon	det
27	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 turn	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 turn	advmod
30	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	parataxis
31	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 turn	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	present	Chameleons	colour			mostly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here	Chameleons's mood				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient
3	signal speech: other	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here		other chameleons			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to chameleon=Recipient
4	warm up	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	cool down	infinitive	Chameleons not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	not turn	would	a chameleon			a chessboard		tree rules
7	check	participle	a chameleon not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:15.

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 ×2, 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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