--- title: A chameleon's tongue shoots out faster than you can blink, longer th… — Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenr… · tree and pragmatics description: A chameleon's tongue shoots out faster than you can blink, longer than its own body, and snaps back with a cricket stuck to its sticky tip, like a party blower that grabs a sweet. Who acts: tongue, you, party blower. 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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 (tongue, you, party blower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:1 # text = A chameleon's tongue shoots out faster than you can blink, longer than its own body, and snaps back with a cricket stuck to its sticky tip, like a party blower that grabs a sweet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 7 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 13 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 20 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 blower blower NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sweet sweet NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot out** | present | a chameleon's tongue | | | | | fast *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **blink** | can | you | | | | | than tongue's own body | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **snap back** | present | a chameleon's tongue *not said here* | | | | | with a cricket | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with cricket=Theme | | 4 | **stick** | participle | | a cricket *not said here* | | | | to tongue's sticky tip; like a party blower | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to tip=Co-Patient | | 5 | **grab** | present | a party blower | a sweet | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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