--- title: Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood, to signal to oth… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics description: Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood, to signal to other chameleons and to warm up or cool down; on a chessboard a chameleon would not turn checked. Who acts: Chameleons, 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 (Chameleons, chameleon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:15 # text = Chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood, to signal to other chameleons and to warm up or cool down; on a chessboard a chameleon would not turn checked. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 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 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 signal signal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 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 _ _ 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=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 chessboard chessboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 31 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 xcomp _ _ 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* | Chameleons's mood | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient | | 3 | **signal** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | other chameleons | | | | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to chameleon=Recipient | | 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** **turn** | would | a chameleon | | | a chessboard | | | tree rules | | 7 | **check** | participle | a chameleon *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. 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