When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 7
Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, signalling and temperature, not only to blend in.
Who acts: Chameleons · What happens: change, not blend in · To what, where: colour
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths 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 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 2 change | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 mood | case |
| 6 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 change | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 signalling | punct |
| 8 | signalling | signalling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mood | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 temperature | cc |
| 10 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blend | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 blend | advmod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 blend | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 blend | mark |
| 15 | blend | blend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 change | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 blend | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Chameleons | colour | for mood and signalling and temperature; mainly property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent colour=Theme for mood=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | not blend in | to-infinitive | Chameleons not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP 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:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): R7-rel-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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