--- title: Flounders change colour to match the sea floor and bury themselves i… — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics description: Flounders change colour to match the sea floor and bury themselves in sand, and as they grow both eyes move to one side of the head. Who acts: Flounders, eyes. A sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/10/) [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/) / [Masters of camouflage](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/) / 10 # Masters of camouflage, sentence 10 Flounders change colour to match the sea floor and bury themselves in sand, and as they grow both eyes move to one side of the head. **Who acts:** Flounders, eyes · **What happens:** change, match, bury, grow, move · **To what, where:** colour, sea floor, sand, one side This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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 (Flounders, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:10 # text = Flounders change colour to match the sea floor and bury themselves in sand, and as they grow both eyes move to one side of the head. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 189-masters-of-camouflage.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Flounders Flounders NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 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 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 10 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 19 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | Flounders | colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 2 | **match** | to-infinitive | Flounders *not said here* | the sea floor | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient | | 3 | **bury** | infinitive | Flounders *not said here* | colour | | sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in sand=Destination | | 4 | **grow** | present | Flounders | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **move** | present | both eyes | | | one side of the head | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | 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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Masters of camouflage, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/9/) - next →: [Masters of camouflage, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/)