--- title: Chameleons change colour mostly to show their feelings and signal to… — Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenr… · tree and pragmatics description: Chameleons change colour mostly to show their feelings and signal to other chameleons, and to warm up or cool down; they cannot copy any pattern they sit on. Who acts: Chameleons, eyes. A sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed ge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/) / 5 # Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 5 Chameleons change colour mostly to show their feelings and signal to other chameleons, and to warm up or cool down; they cannot copy any pattern they sit on. **Who acts:** Chameleons, eyes · **What happens:** change, show, signal, warm up, cool down, not copy · **To what, where:** colour, feelings, pattern This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» of the biology 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, eyes), 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:5 # text = Chameleons change colour mostly to show their feelings and signal to other chameleons, and to warm up or cool down; they cannot copy any pattern they sit on. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 10 signal signal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 12 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 27 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 on on ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . 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 | **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* | eyes's feelings | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient | | 3 | **signal** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **cool down** | infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **not** **copy** | can | eyes *= eye* | any pattern | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | | 7 | **sit on** | present | eyes *= eye* | any pattern *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:5`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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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