--- title: And cartoon chameleons turn into tartan or vanish against any backgr… — Snakes and lizards · tree and pragmatics description: And cartoon chameleons turn into tartan or vanish against any background; real chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and control their temperature, not to hide. Who acts: cartoon chameleons, real chameleons. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Snakes and lizards, sentence 4 And cartoon chameleons turn into tartan or vanish against any background; real chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and control their temperature, not to hide. **Who acts:** cartoon chameleons, real chameleons · **What happens:** turn, vanish, change, show, control, not hide · **To what, where:** tartan, 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 (cartoon chameleons, real 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:4 # text = And cartoon chameleons turn into tartan or vanish against any background; real chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and control their temperature, not to hide. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 tartan tartan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 vanish vanish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 background background NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 15 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 17 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | cartoon chameleons | | | tartan | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tartan=Trajectory | | 2 | **vanish** | present | cartoon chameleons *not said here* | | | | | against any background | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **change** | | real chameleons | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **show** | to-infinitive | cartoon chameleons *not said here* | chameleons's mood | | | | mostly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mood=Recipient | | 5 | **control** | infinitive | cartoon chameleons *not said here* | chameleons's temperature | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme | | 6 | **not** **hide** | to-infinitive | cartoon chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: 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:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/3/) - next →: [Snakes and lizards, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/)