Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 13

Chameleons change colour mostly to show mood, send signals and control their temperature, not to match whatever they sit on.

Who acts: Chameleons · What happens: change, show, send, control, not match, sit on · To what, where: colour, mood, signals, temperature, whatever

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» 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	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 change	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	advcl
7	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 send	punct
9	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
10	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 send	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 control	cc
12	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 temperature	nmod:poss
14	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 control	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 match	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 match	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 match	mark
18	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
19	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 match	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sit	nsubj
21	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 whatever	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 sit	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	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	mood		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient
3	send	infinitive	Chameleons not said here	signals		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme
4	control	infinitive	Chameleons not said here	Chameleons's temperature		vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme
5	not match	to-infinitive	Chameleons not said here	whatever		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Patient
6	sit on	present	Chameleons = chameleon			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:13.

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): R3-conj-first ×2. 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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