--- title: Chameleons change colour mainly to show mood, warm up or cool down a… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Chameleons change colour mainly to show mood, warm up or cool down and send signals, not mostly to match what they sit on, and they could never copy a tartan pattern. Who acts: Chameleons. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:17 # text = Chameleons change colour mainly to show mood, warm up or cool down and send signals, not mostly to match what they sit on, and they could never copy a tartan pattern. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 16 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 19 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 obj _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 on on ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 tartan tartan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Chameleons | colour | | | | mainly *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 | **warm up** | infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **cool down** | infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **send** | infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | signals | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | | 6 | **not** **match** | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | mostly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 7 | **sit on** | present | Chameleons *= chameleon* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **copy** | could | Chameleons *= chameleon* | a tartan pattern | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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