--- title: Chameleons change colour mostly to signal to other chameleons and to… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: Chameleons change colour mostly to signal to other chameleons and to warm up or cool down, not to match any background; a cold chameleon turns darker to soak up more sunlight. Who acts: Chameleons, cold 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, cold chameleon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:10 # text = Chameleons change colour mostly to signal to other chameleons and to warm up or cool down, not to match any background; a cold chameleon turns darker to soak up more sunlight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.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 ×1, 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 signal signal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 chameleons chameleon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 21 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 background background NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 28 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 soak soak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **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 | | 3 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **cool down** | infinitive | Chameleons *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **match** | to-infinitive | | any background | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=Patient | | 6 | **turn** | present | a cold chameleon | | | | | dark *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **soak up** | to-infinitive | a cold chameleon *not said here* | more sunlight | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source | 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. 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