--- title: Each chameleon eye moves on its own, so it can look forward and back… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: Each chameleon eye moves on its own, so it can look forward and backward at once; to catch an insect both eyes turn forward and its tongue shoots out, sometimes longer than its body. Who acts: chameleon eye, eye, eyes, tongue. 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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 (chameleon eye, eye, eyes, tongue), 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:12 # text = Each chameleon eye moves on its own, so it can look forward and backward at once; to catch an insect both eyes turn forward and its tongue shoots out, sometimes longer than its body. # 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 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 13 forward forward ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 backward backward ADV RB _ 13 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 12 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:_ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 26 forward forward ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 34 advmod _ _ 34 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **move** | present | each chameleon eye | | | eye's own | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory | | 2 | **look** | can | eye | | | | | forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme | | 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | both eyes *not said here* | a insect | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | present | both eyes | | | | | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **shoot out** | present | eye's tongue | | | | | than eye's body | vn throw-17.1-1 «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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:12`. **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 ×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. 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