The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 7

Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and to warm up or cool down, not mainly to match the background.

Who acts: Chameleons · What happens: change, show, warm up, cool down, not match · To what, where: colour, mood, background

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 (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	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 warm	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 warm	mark
11	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 warm	compound:prt
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 cool	cc
14	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 warm	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 cool	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 match	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 match	advmod
18	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	20 match	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 match	mark
20	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 background	det
22	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 match	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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	show	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here	eggs's mood		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=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	Chameleons not said here	the background	mainly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=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:7.

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): no change. 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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