The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 2

In cartoons a chameleon turns tartan on a picnic blanket and a tortoise steps out of its shell for a bath, but a chameleon changes colour mostly to show its mood or warm up, and a tortoise's shell is part of its skeleton, joined to its ribs and backbone.

Who acts: chameleon, tortoise, changes colour, shell · What happens: turn, step out, change, show, warm up, be · To what, where: tartan, cartoons, shell, mood, part

This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 (chameleon, tortoise, changes colour, shell), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 cartoons	case
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turns	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chameleon	det
4	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	nsubj
5	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tartan	tartan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 blanket	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 blanket	det
9	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blanket	compound
10	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 steps	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tortoise	det
13	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 steps	nsubj
14	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turns	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 shell	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 shell	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shell	nmod:poss
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 steps	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 bath	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bath	det
21	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 steps	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 show	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 show	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 chameleon	det
25	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 changes	nsubj
26	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 colour	compound
27	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	nsubj
28	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	30 show	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 show	mark
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turns	advcl
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mood	nmod:poss
32	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	obj
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 warm	cc
34	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 show	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 warm	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 part	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 part	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 tortoise	det
39	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shell	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 tortoise	case
41	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 part	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 part	cop
43	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 skeleton	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 skeleton	nmod:poss
46	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 part	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 joined	punct
48	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 part	conj
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 ribs	case
50	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 ribs	nmod:poss
51	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 joined	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 backbone	cc
53	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 ribs	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turns	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a chameleon	tartan	cartoons	on a picnic blanket	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme in cartoon=Source on blanket=Trajectory
2	step out	present	a tortoise	chameleon's shell		for a bath	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location shell=Theme
3	change		a chameleon				tree rules
4	show	to-infinitive	changes colour	chameleon's mood		mostly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient
5	warm up	infinitive	changes colour not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is a	present	a tortoise's shell	part		of chameleon's skeleton	tree rules
7	join	participle	a tortoise's shell not said here			to chameleon's ribs and backbone	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to rib=Co-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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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