--- title: A chameleon is a four-legged lizard, and its tongue can be longer th… — Snakes and lizards · tree and pragmatics description: A chameleon is a four-legged lizard, and its tongue can be longer than its body and shoots out in a fraction of a second, and chameleons change colour mostly to show mood and control temperature. Who acts: chameleon, tongue, chameleons. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/15/) [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/) / [Snakes and lizards](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/) / 15 # Snakes and lizards, sentence 15 A chameleon is a four-legged lizard, and its tongue can be longer than its body and shoots out in a fraction of a second, and chameleons change colour mostly to show mood and control temperature. **Who acts:** chameleon, tongue, chameleons · **What happens:** be, shoot out, change, show, control · **To what, where:** legged lizard, fraction, colour, mood, temperature This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» 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 (chameleon, tongue, chameleons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:15 # text = A chameleon is a four-legged lizard, and its tongue can be longer than its body and shoots out in a fraction of a second, and chameleons change colour mostly to show mood and control temperature. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 030-snakes-and-lizards.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nummod 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 legged leg ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 conj _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fraction fraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 32 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 36 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a chameleon | a legged lizard | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | can | ceiling's tongue | | | | | than ceiling's body; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **shoot out** | present | ceiling's tongue *not said here* | | | a fraction of a second | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in fraction=Destination | | 4 | **change** | present | chameleons | colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | chameleons *not said here* | mood | | | | mostly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient | | 6 | **control** | infinitive | chameleons *not said here* | temperature | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=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:030-snakes-and-lizards.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Snakes and lizards, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/14/) - next →: [Snakes and lizards, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/)