More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 10

Chameleons change colour mostly to signal to other chameleons and to warm up or cool down, not to match any background; a cold chameleon turns darker to soak up more sunlight.

Who acts: Chameleons, cold chameleon · What happens: change, signal, warm up, cool down, not match, turn · To what, where: colour, other chameleons, background, more sunlight

This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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, cold 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 signal	mark
6	signal	signal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 chameleons	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chameleons	amod
9	chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 signal	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 warm	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 warm	mark
12	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 signal	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 warm	compound:prt
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 cool	cc
15	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 warm	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 cool	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 match	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 match	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 match	mark
20	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 warm	parataxis
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 background	det
22	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 match	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 turns	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chameleon	det
25	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chameleon	amod
26	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turns	nsubj
27	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	parataxis
28	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 turns	xcomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 soak	mark
30	soak	soak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 turns	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 soak	compound:prt
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 sunlight	amod
33	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 soak	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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	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
3	warm up	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	cool down	infinitive	Chameleons not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	not match	to-infinitive		any background			vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=Patient
6	turn	present	a cold chameleon			dark property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	soak up	to-infinitive	a cold chameleon not said here	more sunlight			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source

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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:10.

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 ×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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