Snakes and lizards, sentence 4

And cartoon chameleons turn into tartan or vanish against any background; real chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and control their temperature, not to hide.

Who acts: cartoon chameleons, real chameleons · What happens: turn, vanish, change, show, control, not hide · To what, where: tartan, mood, temperature

This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» 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 (cartoon chameleons, real 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 turn	cc
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chameleons	compound
3	chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 tartan	case
6	tartan	tartan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 vanish	cc
8	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	conj
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 background	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 background	det
11	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vanish	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 colour	punct
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chameleons	amod
14	chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 change	nsubj
15	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 colour	compound
16	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	parataxis
17	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	19 show	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 show	mark
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 colour	advcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mood	nmod:poss
21	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 control	cc
23	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 show	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 temperature	nmod:poss
25	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 control	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hide	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 hide	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hide	mark
29	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 show	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	cartoon chameleons		tartan		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tartan=Trajectory
2	vanish	present	cartoon chameleons not said here			against any background	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	change		real chameleons				tree rules
4	show	to-infinitive	cartoon chameleons not said here	chameleons's mood		mostly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient
5	control	infinitive	cartoon chameleons not said here	chameleons's temperature			vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme
6	not hide	to-infinitive	cartoon chameleons not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: 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:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:4.

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, R5-strong ×1, 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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