How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, sentence 4

Cartoons show a chameleon turning tartan on a tartan blanket and vanishing; the real chameleon cannot copy patterns at all and changes colour mostly to show its mood and to warm up or cool down.

Who acts: Cartoons, chameleon, real chameleon · What happens: show, turn, vanish, not copy, change, warm up · To what, where: chameleon, tartan, tartan blanket, patterns, colour, mood

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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, chameleon, 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chameleon	det
4	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
5	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 chameleon	acl
6	tartan	tartan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turning	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 blanket	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blanket	det
9	tartan	tartan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blanket	amod
10	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turning	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 vanishing	cc
12	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 turning	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 copy	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chameleon	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chameleon	amod
16	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 copy	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 copy	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 copy	advmod
19	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	parataxis
20	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 copy	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 colour	det
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 colour	cc
24	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 copy	conj
25	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 changes	obj
26	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	28 show	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 show	mark
28	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 changes	advcl
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mood	nmod:poss
30	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 show	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 warm	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 warm	mark
33	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 show	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 warm	compound:prt
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 cool	cc
36	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 warm	conj
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 cool	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	Cartoons	a chameleon			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chameleon=Recipient
2	turn	gerund	a chameleon not said here	tartan	a tartan blanket		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme
3	vanish	gerund	a chameleon not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not copy	can	the real chameleon	patterns			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme
5	change	present	the real chameleon not said here	all colour			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
6	show	to-infinitive	the real chameleon not said here	chameleon's mood		mostly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient
7	warm up	to-infinitive	the real chameleon not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	cool down	infinitive	the 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:051-how-animals-hide.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): R5-strong ×4, 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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