--- title: Cartoons show chameleons turning tartan on a tartan blanket; a real… — Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenr… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show chameleons turning tartan on a tartan blanket; a real chameleon changes colour mostly to show its mood and signal to others, and to warm up or cool down. Who acts: Cartoons, chameleons, real chameleon. 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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 (Cartoons, chameleons, real chameleon), 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:2 # text = Cartoons show chameleons turning tartan on a tartan blanket; a real chameleon changes colour mostly to show its mood and signal to others, and to warm up or cool down. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 tartan tartan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 tartan tartan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 warm warm VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 cool cool VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | chameleons | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chameleon=Recipient | | 2 | **turn** | gerund | chameleons *not said here* | tartan | | a tartan blanket | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme | | 3 | **change** | present | a real chameleon | colour | | | | mostly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 4 | **show** | to-infinitive | a real chameleon *not said here* | chameleon's mood and signal | others | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Topic to other=Recipient | | 5 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | a real chameleon *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **cool down** | infinitive | a real chameleon *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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](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:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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